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Am I My Genes? - Robert L. Klitzman - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Am I My Genes? - Robert L. Klitzman - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Genetic testing is rapidly spreading; every year dozens of new tests are developed which analyze our genetically inherited predisposition toward certain diseases. Companies have sprung up which will provide inexpensive online testing of your genetic profile via a simple cheek swab. This testing is also moving from analyzing a small portion of DNA to a person''s entire genome. On the plus side, genetics is rapidly enhancing our understanding and treatment of disease, such as Huntington''s, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, breast cancer, and Alzheimer''s. Testing of infants and pregnant mothers can detect disorders early, and the manipulation of genes in stem cells is helping to provide new treatments. Drugs are developed that are personalized for a specific individual''s genetic profile. Genetics will likely be for the 21st century medicine what antibiotics was for the 20th. For all the inevitable progress however, this knowledge presents ever new dilemmas for patients. Countless people wrestle with fear and apprehension about whether to get tested, and if so, what they should do with the information. In this volume, the psychiatrist Robert Klitzman explores how individuals confront these complex issues in their daily lives. He has interviewed a wide range of people who are at risk for various genetic diseases, and the volume collects and reflects on their experiences grappling with quandaries like: whether to get tested; to whom to disclose their genetic risks (spouses, parents, employers); what treatments to pursue; whether to have children knowing that genetic diseases may be inherited; and whether or not our destiny is ultimately what is in our genes. These are difficult, complicated ethical and sometimes metaphysical questions that are also embedded in intricate social contexts -- the family, the clinic, and the world at large. Klitzman''s gripping presentation of the human face of these new technologies is important, useful, and ultimately compelling, since these patients are pioneers in whose path most of us will eventually follow."Genetics is increasingly important in science and society - from solving crime, to extending our lives. Klitzman''s book is an extraordinary exploration of this world, probing the many roles and implications of genetics in our lives today. With great intelligence and humanity, he recounts fascinating stories of how a wide range of women and men and their families face diseases from breast cancer to brain disorders, and confront issues that are among the most fundamental of our time. Filled with astonishing insights, this riveting book is vital reading for us all." - Paula Zahn"Am I My Genes? focuses on some of the most critical ethical and medical issues of our time. Psychiatrist Robert Klitzman lucidly discusses the moral and psychological complexities that come in the wake of genetic testing---the possibilities, which are enormous; the anxieties and misunderstandings; the social, legal, and financial issues----and gives the reader insight into what we know and what we don''t know. Am I My Genes is an important book for anyone who has the genes for pathology, which is all of us, and I recommend it highly." - Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and author of An Unquiet Mind"With his graceful prose and vivid examples, Robert Klitzman follows several dozen genetic ''pioneers''-people at risk of breast cancer, Huntington''s and alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency-through their struggles to understand what genetics means for them and their families. Am I My Genes? is an illuminating voyage through the medical, familial and existential quandaries faced by those of us at genetic risk. Read the story of the woman who felt it necessary to steal pages from her medical record, and you will never look upon abstract debates over genetic discrimination the same way." - Thomas H. Murray, Ph.D. President and CEO, The Hastings Center"In a book that is at once scholarly, comprehensive, and accessible, Dr. Klitzman brings his wisdom to the major issues that confront sufferers from disorders with a strong genetic underpinning. Klitzman and the men and women he interviews address the predicaments and moral dilemmas facing patients and families in an age of personalized medicine: whether to test, whom to tell, and how to integrate awareness of disease into the sense of self." - Peter D. Kramer, author of Against Depression and Listening to Prozac"Blending compassion and good science, Robert Klitzman proposes new guidelines for the morally complex questions of how we understand our genetics, and what we choose to do with the destiny they imply. His sensitive, humanist approach converts information into knowledge." - Andrew Solomon, author of Noonday Demon

DKK 270.00
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Beyond the Tyranny of Testing - Kenneth J. (senior Research Professor Gergen - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Beyond the Tyranny of Testing - Kenneth J. (senior Research Professor Gergen - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Measurement-based assessment has dominated our educational systems at the expense of the learning and the well-being of students and teachers. In this book, Gergen and Gill propose a radical alternative to this broken system, which is based instead on an inspirational conception of schools as sites of collective meaning-making and a relational orientation to evaluation. The authors acknowledge that it is within the process of relating that the world comes to be meaningful for us, and equally, learning and well-being are embedded in relational process, which testing and grades undermine. Providing detailed illustrations using cases from pioneering schools around the globe at both the primary and secondary level, this book demonstrates how a relational orientation to evaluation in education can enhance learning processes, foster students'' engagement, vitalize relationships, and elevate the evaluation of teaching and the school as a whole. Featuring collaborative learning, dialogic pedagogy, and flexible curricula, relational evaluation truly speaks to the demands of a rapidly changing world.

DKK 344.00
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From Farm to Table - Alan Kelly - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

From Farm to Table - Alan Kelly - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The consumption of dairy products, made from the milk of cows, sheep, goats and buffalo, among other mammalian species, is almost as old as human civilization, with evidence of these products stretching back many millenia. The production of different kinds of dairy products originated as different ways to preserve the valuable nutritional goodness of milk components (lactose, fat, protein, vitamins and minerals) and make the milk safe for consumption, using basic principles like fermentation, heating, separation, dehydration, acidification, smoking and salting, which are the keys to producing products like cheese, butter and yogurt. Many dairy products today are still produced using the same basic principles, and in this book an introduction to the origins, constituents and properties of milk is given, alongside an outline of the ways in which dairy products are made including the development of advanced products like infant formula and formulated nutritional products. The text introduces, at an introductory level, the chemistry and microbiology of milk, as well as the principles of the main processes used like spray-drying, fermentation and pasteurization, to underpin understanding of how the properties of the main dairy products emerge. The book, which finishes with a discussion of the challenges and threats facing dairy today, is designed to be accessible to a wide range of non-specialist readers who may have an interest in milk and dairy products and want to learn more about this fascinating and ancient branch of the science of food.

DKK 291.00
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Ancestry Reimagined - Kostas (professor Kampourakis - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Ancestry Reimagined - Kostas (professor Kampourakis - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Recent social and political psychological research indicates that increased access to ancestry testing has strengthened the notion of genetic essentialism among some groups, or the idea that our biology ties us to particular ethnic identities. This can boost a sense of cultural pride and prosocial behaviors among communities that are perceived to be similar. In the worst-case scenarios, however, this phenomenon can contribute to deeper social woes like misinformation, anti-science agendas, and even social hatred among those who believe in racial superiority. Using research from both the social sciences and the genetics literature as support, Ancestry Reimagined establishes realistic expectations about what we can learn from our DNA as a foundation for examining the psychological impact of ancestry testing, including the differences between how this information is perceived versus its reality. With this book, Dr. Kampourakis flexes his muscles as an esteemed interdisciplinary science educator and author to challenge these traditional social constructs, using the current genetic testing science as a myth busting tool.Kampourakis argues that DNA ancestry testing cannot reveal a person''s true ethnic identity because ethnic groups are socially and culturally constructed. In 10 accessible chapters, he explains the assumptions underlying the scientific study of ancestry, and the resulting paradoxes that are often overlooked. What the study of human DNA mostly shows is that human DNA variation is continuous, and it is not possible to clearly delimit ethnic groups based on DNA data. As a result, we all are members of a huge, extended family, and not of genetically distinct ethnic groups. What ancestry tests can provide are probabilistic estimations of similarities between the test-takers and particular reference populations. This does not devalue the results of these tests, however, because they can indeed provide some valuable information to people who may not know much about their ancestors. In fact, what the tests are very good at doing is finding close relatives, and this is perhaps why the whole enterprise should be rebranded as family, not ancestry, testing. Ultimately, this book reveals that genetic essentialism, biological ethnic identities, racial superiority, and similar social constructs are scientifically unsupported.

DKK 316.00
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Data Analysis for Chemistry - D. Brynn Hibbert - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Data Analysis for Chemistry - D. Brynn Hibbert - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Chemical data analysis, with aspects of metrology in chemistry and chemometrics, is an evolving discipline where new and better ways of doing things are constantly being developed. This book makes data analysis simple by demystifying the language and whenever possible giving unambiguous ways of doing things. Based on author D. Brynn Hibberts lectures on data analysis to undergraduates and graduate students, Data Analysis for Chemistry covers topics including measurements, means and confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, and calibration models. The end result is a compromise between recipes of how to perform different aspects of data analysis, and basic information on the background principles behind the recipes to be performed. An entry level book targeted at learning and teaching undergraduate data analysis, Data Analysis for Chemistry makes it easy for readers to find the information they are seeking to perform the data analysis they think they need.

DKK 289.00
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Governing Through Crime - Johnathan Simon - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Governing Through Crime - Johnathan Simon - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Across America today, gated communities sprawl out from urban centers, employers enforce mandatory drug testing, and schools screen students with metal detectors. Social problems ranging from welfare dependency to educational inequality have been reconceptualized as crimes, with an attendant focus on assigning fault and imposing consequences. Even before the recent terrorist attacks, non-citizen residents had become subject to an increasingly harsh regime of detention and deportation, and prospective employees subjected to background checks. How and when did our everyday world become dominated by fear, every citizen treated as a potential criminal? In this startlingly original work, Jonathan Simon traces this pattern back to the collapse of the New Deal approach to governing during the 1960s when declining confidence in expert-guided government policies sent political leaders searching for new models of governance. The War on Crime offered a ready solution to their problem: politicians set agendas by drawing analogies to crime and redefined the ideal citizen as a crime victim, one whose vulnerabilities opened the door to overweening government intervention. By the 1980s, this transformation of the core powers of government had spilled over into the institutions that govern daily life. Soon our schools, our families, our workplaces, and our residential communities were being governed through crime. This powerful work concludes with a call for passive citizens to become engaged partners in the management of risk and the treatment of social ills. Only by coming together to produce security, can we free ourselves from a logic of domination by others, and from the fear that currently rules our everyday life.

DKK 306.00
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Five Miles Away, A World Apart - One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America - Bog af James E. (Distinguished Pr

Five Miles Away, A World Apart - One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America - Bog af James E. (Distinguished Pr

James Ryan traces the fortunes of two schools in Richmond, Virginia¿one suburban, relatively affluent, and mostly white, and the other urban, relatively poor, and mostly black. Drawing on compelling interviews with students, teachers, and principals, including one who has been a principal at both schools, Ryan explains how certain policies¿school finance, school choice, and standardized testing¿not only fail to bridge the performance gap between students at urbanand suburban schools but actually..

DKK 381.95
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