Download or read book Bio objects New Conjugations of the Living written by Sakari Tamminen and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid advances in the life sciences have led to a radical transformation in thinking about what life is: we now compose living beings as synthetic life, from the ground up. Life has been multiplied and fragmented in molecular and database form and can be embodied in anything from engineered organisms through organs grown outside the body to bioprinted materials. Such new forms of life disrupt social relationships, challenge boundaries between culturally defined categories, pose new questions for governance, and reshape relations between living and ethics. Building on their earlier work with bio-objects, the authors suggest that this concept can aid greatly in mapping out and analysing the empirical spheres in which new conjugations of life are being re-articulated. The paper contextualises the concept further via an examination of literature about life, and it systematically identifies key epistemic platforms through which bio-objects are brought to life today.
Download or read book Advanced Bioceramics written by M. Enamul Hoque and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Bioceramics: Properties, Processing, and Applications describes development of bioceramics and biocomposites, which are used in various biomedical applications including bone tissue repair, remodelling and regeneration. It covers the fundamental aspects of materials science and bioengineering, clinical performance in a variety of applications, ISO/ASTM specifications, and opportunities and challenges. Offers a comprehensive view of properties and processing of bioceramics Highlights applications in dentistry, orthopaedic and maxillofacial implants, and regenerative and tissue engineering Covers ISO/ASTM specifications such as processing, clinical applications, recycling/reuse and disposal standards Explores health, environmental and ethical issues With contributions from eminent editors and recognized authors around the world, this book should serve as an important reference for academics, scientists, researchers, students and practitioners in materials science and biomedical engineering. It is to assist in the design of novel, targeted and personalised bioceramic-based solutions to advanced healthcare.
Download or read book Bio Objects written by Niki Vermeulen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasing knowledge of the biological is fundamentally transforming what life itself means and where its boundaries lie. New developments in the biosciences - especially through the molecularisation of life - are (re)shaping healthcare and other aspects of our society. This cutting edge volume studies contemporary bio-objects, or the categories, materialities and processes that are central to the configuring of 'life' today, as they emerge, stabilize and circulate through society. Examining a variety of bio-objects in contexts beyond the laboratory, Bio-Objects: Life in the 21st Century explores new ways of thinking about how novel bio-objects enter contemporary life, analysing the manner in which, among others, the boundaries between human and animal, organic and non-organic, and being 'alive' and the suspension of living, are questioned, destabilised and in some cases re-established. Thematically organised around questions of changing boundaries; the governance and regulation of bio-objects; and changing social, economic and political relations, this book presents rich new case studies from Europe that will be of interest to scholars of science and technology studies, social theory, sociology and law.
Download or read book Concepts of Biology written by Samantha Fowler and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black & white print. Concepts of Biology is designed for the typical introductory biology course for nonmajors, covering standard scope and sequence requirements. The text includes interesting applications and conveys the major themes of biology, with content that is meaningful and easy to understand. The book is designed to demonstrate biology concepts and to promote scientific literacy.
Download or read book Navigating Digital Health Landscapes written by Anna Lydia Svalastog and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating Digital Health Landscapes explores how users navigate the internet when searching for health information. It is the first book to conceptualise the internet as a landscape and the ways in which people navigate this digital world, including the complex entanglements between on and offline domains. It does so through a range of disciplinary perspectives from expert contributors across STS (science and technology studies), social anthropology, biomedicine, ethics and law, linguistics, social policy and computer scientists working in more technical aspects of tracking and visualising data and information on the internet. The book provides a unique and valuable contribution for those wishing to understand how digital technologies are affecting the design, implementation and use of digital systems to manage health information in different contexts.
Download or read book The Explosion of Life Forms written by and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the essential characteristics of living beings is the explosion of variety in their forms that is intrinsically linked to the diversity of the environments they have adapted to. This book, the result of collaboration between international specialists, analyzes the multiplicity of these morphologies. It explores the origin of forms, their role in defining living things, and the relationship between form and function. It exposes the role of genes and epigenetics and examines the forms of bacteria, protists and plants. The Explosion of Life Forms also studies the memory of animals and their sensory processes, the forms of robots (built in the image of living things), and medical technologies aimed at restoring damaged living forms. Finally, this work questions a common principle of construction in the diversity of forms, as well as the idea of an abandonment of the form, a possible hidden defect of some modern philosophies.
Download or read book Living Forms written by Bruce Haley and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Romantic poets’ and essayists’ fascination with the human form.
Download or read book Biology written by Melissa Landon and published by Encyclopaedia Britannica. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of living matter is an important part of biology. Being able to recognize living matter and differentiate it from nonliving matter is a key component of the science curriculum. This volume is a straightforward, comprehensive guide to the study of living matter: what it s composed of, how it reproduces, how it reacts to the environment around it, and how it evolves. Readers will enjoy the bright photos and engaging information while learning an important part of the study of biology."
Download or read book Games of Life written by Iva Šmídová and published by Masarykova univerzita. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kniha se zabývá současnou reprodukční medicínou v České republice. Vychází přitom z analýzy instituce biomedicíny jako konkrétního projevu normalizace moderní společnosti v rámci současného přístupu ke zdraví a nemoci. Zaměřuje se na tři specifické oblasti reprodukční medicíny: porody, asistovanou reprodukci a manipulaci s DNA a embryi. Autorky chtějí zaplnit mezeru v kritické reflexi těchto témat v českém kontextu a otevřít o nich debatu. Zaměřují se na témata každodenní praxe reprodukční medicíny a snaží se odpovídat i na obecnější otázky: Jak jsou udržovány hranice mezi normalitou/legitimitou a abnormalitou/nelegitimitou v rámci tří konkrétních polí reprodukční medicíny? Jakým způsobem je ustavována důvěra v systém moderní reprodukční medicíny? A jak do tohoto procesu vstupují kategorie genderu, statusu, etnicity?
Download or read book An Introduction to Biology written by Alfred Charles Kinsey and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Form and Object written by Tristan Garcia and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposedly derivative nature of objects to put forward a new theory of ontology that gives us deep insights into the world and our place
Download or read book Information Organization of the Universe and Living Things written by Alain Cardon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universe is considered an expansive informational field subjected to a general organizational law. The organization of the deployment results in the emergence of an autonomous organization of spatial and material elements endowed with permanence, which are generated on an informational substratum where an organizational law is exercised at all scales. The initial action of a generating informational element produces a quantity of basic informational elements that multiply to form other informational elements that will either be neutral, constituting the basic spatial elements, or active, forming quantum elements. The neutral basic elements will form the space by a continuous aggregation and will represent the substrate of the informational links, allowing the active informational elements to communicate, in order to aggregate and organize themselves. Every active element is immersed in an informational envelope, allowing it to continue its organization through constructive communications. The organizational law engages the active quantum elements to aggregate and produce new and more complex quantum elements, then molecular elements, massive elements, suns and planets. Gravity will then be the force of attraction exerted by the informational envelopes of the aggregates depending on their mass, to develop them by acquisition of new aggregates. The organizational communication of the informational envelopes of all of the physical material elements on Earth will enable the organization of living things, with reproduction managed by communications between the informational envelopes of the elements, realizing a continuous and powerful evolution.
Download or read book Assertion Reason Question Bank in Biology for AIIMS written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assertion-Reason Questions are the most tedious part in the AIIMS examination. They require not only understanding the statements but also the correct and accurate conceptual reasoning. Assertion-Reason Question Bank in Biology for AIIMS provides a comprehensive set of questionnaires to supplement learning from the NCERT textbooks. The book contains, in all, 2000+ questions with 95% + explanations. This book is devised for students to overcome the difficulty faced by them in attempting Assertion and Reason questions. It will help them to refine their concepts and emerge out successful in various competitive medical entrance examinations. This entire book comprises of chapter-wise questions according to the NCERT curriculum. At the end of every chapter, detailed solutions have been provided to help students with self-assessment. The uniqueness of this book lies in the new set of questions providing coverage of the entire NCERT syllabus.
Download or read book The Nazis written by George Bruce and published by Hamlyn (UK). This book was released on 1872 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Progress in Theoretical Biology written by Robert J. Rosen and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progress in Theoretical Biology, Volume 6 covers the theoretical analysis of biological phenomena. The book discusses the potentials in chemical systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium, particularly the reduction of reaction-diffusion systems to catastrophe theory; and a form of logic suited for biology. The text describes the order-disorder transitions in polyelectrolytes and the chaos in systems in population biology. An artificial cognitive-plus-motivational system and pattern generation in networks are also encompassed. Biophysicists and physiologists will find the book invaluable.
