Download or read book Inconceivable Conceptions written by Jane Haynes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is over two decades since the first test-tube baby was born. During this period a new belief that all infertile women can now have babies has become widely accepted; indeed, infertile couples may feel great pressure to seek a medical solution. However, the psychological and social effects of the changing experiences of infertility remain confusing, both for those who experience infertility and for wider society. In this book, a distinguished range of contributors, including novelist Hilary Mantel and Germaine Greer, examine the experience of infertility from both male and female perspectives, the psychological aspects of infertility diagnosis and treatment, and the often radical and unexpected effects on kinship. Drawing from a wide range of theoretical backgrounds including Jungian, analytical, and compelling personal reflections, this book aims to unravel the implications of advancing reproductive technology for our understanding of ourselves and our families.
Download or read book Inconceivable Conceptions written by Jane Haynes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is over two decades since the first test-tube baby was born. During this period a new belief that all infertile women can now have babies has become widely accepted; indeed, infertile couples may feel great pressure to seek a medical solution. However, the psychological and social effects of the changing experiences of infertility remain confusing, both for those who experience infertility and for wider society. In this book, a distinguished range of contributors, including novelist Hilary Mantel and Germaine Greer, examine the experience of infertility from both male and female perspectives, the psychological aspects of infertility diagnosis and treatment, and the often radical and unexpected effects on kinship. Drawing from a wide range of theoretical backgrounds including Jungian, analytical, and compelling personal reflections, this book aims to unravel the implications of advancing reproductive technology for our understanding of ourselves and our families.
Download or read book The North American Review written by Jared Sparks and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.
Download or read book The Real Metaphysical Club written by Frank X. Ryan and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full account of the Metaphysical Club, featuring the members’ philosophical writings and four critical essays. The Metaphysical Club, a gathering of intellectuals in the 1870s, is widely recognized as the crucible where pragmatism, America’s distinctively original philosophy, was refined and proclaimed. Louis Menand’s bestseller about the group was a dramatic publishing success. However, only three actual members—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Charles S. Peirce, and William James—appear in the book, alongside other thinkers who were never in the Club. The Real Metaphysical Club tells the full story of how this influential group shifted the course of philosophy in America. In addition to pioneering pragmatism, the group explored radical empiricism and idealism, and formulated personalism and process philosophy, equally important developments. This volume contains the important writings dating from 1870 to 1885 by the real members of the Metaphysical Club. The first section centers on pragmatism and science; the second part collects writings of the lawyers; and the third part covers idealist and personalist philosophers. Many of these writings have never been reprinted before, and nothing like this impressive collection has ever been attempted. A general introduction provides a narrative history, and the editors’ three introductions to the volume’s sections vividly bring to life the intense meetings, sustained debates, and pioneering thought of the Metaphysical Club. “The Real Metaphysical Club includes some very important thinkers that don’t always make it into anthologies of American philosophy. The period is also important. 1870 to 1885 is critical to the development of classical American philosophy. It precedes it and sets its direction. The book accomplishes its goal of giving the reader a sense of the period by arranging the works in a very interesting way. The readings and introduction are very readable and would be helpful to both graduate and undergraduate students as well as general readers interested in American Thought.” — James M. McLachlan, Western Carolina University
Download or read book Inconceivable written by Ben Elton and published by Delta. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy desperately wants a baby. Sam is determined to write a hit movie. The problem is that both their efforts seem to be unfruitful. And given that the average IVF cycle has about a one in five chance of going into full production, Lucy's chances of getting what she wants are considerably better than Sam's. What Sam and Lucy are about to go through is absolutely inconceivable. The question is, can their love survive? Inconcievable confirms Ben Elton as one of Britain's most significant, entertaining and provocative writers.
Download or read book The Gentleman s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The religion of philosophy or The unification of knowledge written by Raymond St. James Perrin and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Religion of Philosophy written by Raymond St. James Perrin and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is well known that religion, as well as philosophy, depends upon language for the expression of its truths. This seems a simple proposition, but what are its consequences? If language is the sole medium of development of the higher thoughts and feelings, in its genesis may we not hope to discover the deepest truths of life and mind? Before the complex symbols which we call words came into use, and hence before the mind acquired the faculty of forming thoughts or extended comparisons, activities or motions were the only medium of expression between sentient beings. Language is the development of these expressive actions, and so highly complex has it become, so far removed from its rude beginnings, that it seems another order of creation, a system of miraculous origin. But when we remember that intelligence is a concomitant development with language, that thought or spirit is but a building up of words into ideas, and that these words are merely condensed memories, common experiences which have become current from tongue to tongue, is it not evident that there is no impenetrable mystery in speech, and that its product, mind, is a synthesis of simple and familiar truths? Again, when we retrace sensibility or feeling, from which language has been gradually evolved, to its beginnings in organic life, we find no absolute demarcations; we find that all life, whether mental or physical, is interdependent"--Introduction.
Download or read book Typical Modern Conceptions of God written by Joseph Alexander Leighton and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trusting and its Tribulations written by Vigdis Broch-Due and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its immense significance and ubiquity in our everyday lives, the complex workings of trust are poorly understood and theorized. This volume explores trust and mistrust amidst locally situated scenes of sociality and intimacy. Because intimacy has often been taken for granted as the foundation of trust relations, the ethnographies presented here challenge us to think about dangerous intimacies, marked by mistrust, as well as forms of trust that cohere through non-intimate forms of sociality.
Download or read book Typical Modern Conceptions of God Or The Absolute of German Romantic Idealism and of English Evolutionary Agnosticism written by Joseph Alexander Leighton and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Candid Examination of Theism written by George John Romanes and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Babies the Hard Way written by Caroline Gallup and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2007-04-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far would you go to have a baby? Making Babies the Hard Way is a frank account of one couple's discovery that they cannot have children of their own, and their ensuing struggle through four years of fertility treatment. One in six couples worldwide seek assistance to conceive and 80 per cent of couples undergoing fertility treatment are currently unsuccessful. Writing with humour and honesty, Caroline Gallup describes the social, emotional, spiritual and physical impact of infertility on her and her husband, Bruce, including feelings of bereavement for the absent child, the unavoidable sense of inadequacy and the day-to-day difficulties of financial pressure. As well as telling her own moving story, she also offers information and guidance for others who are infertile, or who are considering or undergoing treatment. This courageous and poignant book will be of interest to couples who cannot conceive and those who are undergoing treatment, as well as their families and friends.
Download or read book Familiar Science Studies written by Richard Anthony Proctor and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pennsylvania School Journal written by Thomas Henry Burrowes and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Having an Own Child written by Karin Lesnik-Oberstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are ideas of genetics, 'blood', the family, and relatedness created and consumed? This is the first book ever to consider in depth why people want children, and specifically why people want children produced by reproductive technologies (such as IVF, ICSI etc). As the book demonstrates, even books ostensibly devoted to the topic of why people want children and the reasons for using reproductive technologies tend to start with the assumption that this is either simply a biological drive to reproduce, or a socially instilled desire. This book uses psychoanalysis not to provide an answer in its own right, but as an analytic tool to probe more deeply the problems of these assumptions. The idea that reproductive technologies simply supply an 'own' child is questioned in this volume in terms of asking how and why reproductive technologies are seen to create this 'ownness'. Given that it is the idea of an 'own' child that underpins and justifies the whole use of reproductive technologies, this book is a crucial and wholly original intervention in this complex and highly topical area.
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Society of Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
