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The book is an introduction to nanomedicine informed by a
philosophical reflection about the domain and recent developments.
It is an overview of the field, sketching out the main areas of
current investment and research. The authors present some
case-studies illustrating the different areas of research
(nanopharmacy, theranostics and patient monitoring) as well as
reflecting on the risks that accompany it, such as unanticipated
impacts on human health and environmental toxicity. This
introduction to a fast-growing field in modern medical research is
of great interest to researchers working in many disciplines as
well as the general public. In addition to an overview of the work
currently ongoing, the authors critically assess these projects
from an ethical and philosophical perspective. Key Features
Provides an overview of nanomedicine Employs a reflective and
coherent critical evaluation of the benefits and risks of
nanomedicine Written in an accessible manner intended for a wide
audience Related Titles Hehenberger, M. Nanomedicine: Science,
Business, and impact (ISBN 978-9-8146-1376-7). Beg, S., et al.
Nanomedicine for the treatment of Disease: From Concept to
Application (ISBN 978-1-7746-3443-1) Brenner, S. The Clinical
Nanomedicine Handbook (ISBN 978-1-1380-7578-8)
Bringing together leading scholars in the fields of criminology,
international law, philosophy and architectural history and theory,
this book examines the interrelationships between architecture and
justice, highlighting the provocative and curiously ambiguous
juncture between the two. Illustrated by a range of disparate and
diverse case studies, it draws out the formal language of justice,
and extends the effects that architecture has on both the place of,
and the individuals subject to, justice. With its
multi-disciplinary perspective, the study serves as a platform on
which to debate the relationships between the ceremonial,
legalistic, administrative and penal aspects of justice, and the
spaces that constitute their settings. The structure of the book
develops from the particular to the universal, from local
situations to the larger city, and thereby examines the role that
architecture and urban space play in the deliberations of justice.
At the same time, contributors to the volume remind us of the
potential impact the built environment can have in undermining the
proper juridical processes of a socio-political system. Hence, the
book provides both wise counsel and warnings of the role of
public/civic space in affirming our sense of a just or unjust
society.
The book is an introduction to nanomedicine informed by a
philosophical reflection about the domain and recent developments.
It is an overview of the field, sketching out the main areas of
current investment and research. The authors present some
case-studies illustrating the different areas of research
(nanopharmacy, theranostics and patient monitoring) as well as
reflecting on the risks that accompany it, such as unanticipated
impacts on human health and environmental toxicity. This
introduction to a fast-growing field in modern medical research is
of great interest to researchers working in many disciplines as
well as the general public. In addition to an overview of the work
currently ongoing, the authors critically assess these projects
from an ethical and philosophical perspective. Key Features
Provides an overview of nanomedicine Employs a reflective and
coherent critical evaluation of the benefits and risks of
nanomedicine Written in an accessible manner intended for a wide
audience Related Titles Hehenberger, M. Nanomedicine: Science,
Business, and impact (ISBN 978-9-8146-1376-7). Beg, S., et al.
Nanomedicine for the treatment of Disease: From Concept to
Application (ISBN 978-1-7746-3443-1) Brenner, S. The Clinical
Nanomedicine Handbook (ISBN 978-1-1380-7578-8)
Introduced in 1894 as a treatment for a deadly childhood disease,
the diphtheria serum stands as a milestone in pharmaceutical
history. Diphtheria Serum as a Technological Object: A
Philosophical Analysis of Serotherapy in France 1894-1900 considers
the production and use of this serum in France, analyzing the drug
in terms of a technological object. To do this, Jonathan Simon
draws on the philosophy of technology, exploring the application of
this approach to medical drugs and suggesting how such an analysis
can in turn contribute to this domain of philosophy. Starting with
the manufacture of the serum from horses' blood, Simon then
considers the processes involved in transforming the blood serum
into a legal medical drug and establishing its efficacy as a
treatment against diphtheria. The book looks at the place the drug
assumed in French society at the time, as well as the legal and
political implications of its manufacture and use. All these
elements are deployed to characterize a specifically French serum,
as the author argues that the constitution of the drug in its full
sense is not only technical but also social, political, and legal.
Considering the serum as technological object facilitates a
philosophical reflection on the nature of medical drugs in general
by means of a thorough analysis of this particular historical
example. The insights offered in this book will be of interest to
students and scholars working on the philosophy of technology,
particularly the medical sciences, as well as to historians of
medicine, particularly those interested in the history of pharmacy.
Michel Foucault's involvement with politics, both as an individual
and a writer, has been much commented upon but until now has not
been systematically reviewed. This is the first major introductory
study of Michel Foucault as a political thinker. Jonathon Simons
explores the importance of the political in all areas of Foucault's
work and life, including important material only recently made
available and the implications of various revelations about his
private life. Simons relates Foucault's work both to contemporary
political thinkers such as Michael Walzer, Charles Taylor and
Jurgen Habermas, and to those challenging conventional political
categories, especially people who write on feminist and gay theory,
such as Judith Butler. Students of Foucault and of political and
social theory, as well as those working in lesbian and gay theory,
and feminist studies, will find this book essential.
What do you associate with chemistry? Explosions, innovative
materials, plastics, pollution? The public's confused and
contradictory conception of chemistry as basic science, industrial
producer and polluter contributes to what we present in this book
as chemistry's image as an impure science. Historically, chemistry
has always been viewed as impure both in terms of its academic
status and its role in transforming modern society. While exploring
the history of this science we argue for a characteristic
philosophical approach that distinguishes chemistry from physics.
This reflection leads us to a philosophical stance that we
characterise as operational realism. In this new expanded edition
we delve deeper into the questions of properties and potentials
that are so important for this philosophy that is based on the
manipulation of matter rather than the construction of theories.
This book explores the history of pharmacy in France and its
relationship to the discipline of chemistry as it emerged at the
beginning of the nineteenth century. It argues that an appreciation
of the history of pharmacy is essential to a full understanding of
the constitution of modern science, in particular the discipline of
chemistry. As such, it provides a novel interpretation of the
chemical revolution (c.1770-1789) that will, no doubt, generate
much debate on the place of the chemical arts in this story, a
question that has hitherto lacked sufficient scholarly reflection.
Furthermore, the book situates this analysis within the broader
context of the French Revolution, arguing that an intimate and
direct link can be drawn between the political upheavals and our
vision of the chemical revolution. The story of the chemical
revolution has usually been told by focusing on the small group of
French chemists who championed Lavoisier's oxygen theory, or else
his opponents. Such a perspective emphasises competing theories and
interpretations of critical experiments, but neglects the
challenging issue of who could be understood as practising
chemistry in the eighteenth century. In contrast, this study traces
the tradition of pharmacy as a professional pursuit that relied on
chemical techniques to prepare medicines, and shows how one of the
central elements of the chemical revolution was the more or less
conscious disassociation of the new chemistry from this ancient
chemical art.
Michel Foucault's involvement with politics, both as an individual and a writer, has been much commented upon but until now has not been systematically reviewed. This is the first major introductory study of Michel Foucault as a political thinker. Jonathon Simons explores the importance of the political in all areas of Foucault's work and life, including important material only recently made available and the implications of various revelations about his private life. Simons relates Foucault's work both to contemporary political thinkers such as Michael Walzer, Charles Taylor and Jurgen Habermas, and to those challenging conventional political categories, especially people who write on feminist and gay theory, such as Judith Butler. Students of Foucault and of political and social theory, as well as those working in lesbian and gay theory, and feminist studies, will find this book essential. eBook available with sample pages: 0203005147
This book explores the history of pharmacy in France and its
relationship to the discipline of chemistry as it emerged at the
beginning of the nineteenth century. It argues that an appreciation
of the history of pharmacy is essential to a full understanding of
the constitution of modern science, in particular the discipline of
chemistry. As such, it provides a novel interpretation of the
chemical revolution (c.1770-1789) that will, no doubt, generate
much debate on the place of the chemical arts in this story, a
question that has hitherto lacked sufficient scholarly reflection.
Furthermore, the book situates this analysis within the broader
context of the French Revolution, arguing that an intimate and
direct link can be drawn between the political upheavals and our
vision of the chemical revolution. The story of the chemical
revolution has usually been told by focusing on the small group of
French chemists who championed Lavoisier's oxygen theory, or else
his opponents. Such a perspective emphasises competing theories and
interpretations of critical experiments, but neglects the
challenging issue of who could be understood as practising
chemistry in the eighteenth century. In contrast, this study traces
the tradition of pharmacy as a professional pursuit that relied on
chemical techniques to prepare medicines, and shows how one of the
central elements of the chemical revolution was the more or less
conscious disassociation of the new chemistry from this ancient
chemical art.
aA lively, smart, combative collection, brimful of ideas and
insights, this book takes on athe war on crimea and shows how
America might move beyond it.a
--David Garland, author of "The Culture of Control"
aThis brave book challenges us, urgently, to rethink crime and
punishment for the 21st century. It is not by accident that the US
became the worldas largest incarcerator in just thirty-five years.
After the War on Crime exposes how structural inequalities based on
race and class and written into our laws, institutions and everyday
practices have blackened our jails and prisons and reproduced
segregated communities inside and out.a
--Susan Tucker, Director, The After Prison Initiative, Open Society
Institute
Since the 1970s, Americans have witnessed a Pyrrhic war on
crime, with sobering numbers at once chilling and cautionary. Our
imprisoned population has increased five-fold, with a commensurate
spike in fiscal costs that many now see as unsupportable into the
future. As American society confronts a multitude of new challenges
ranging from terrorism to the disappearance of middle-class jobs to
global warming, the war on crime may be up for reconsideration for
the first time in a generation or more. Relatively low crime rates
indicate that the public mood may be swinging towards declaring
victory and moving on.
However, to declare that the war is over is dangerous and
inaccurate, and After the War on Crime reveals that the impact of
this war reaches far beyond statistics; simply moving on is
impossible. The war has been most devastating to those affected by
increased rates and longer terms of incarceration, but its reach
has also reshaped a sweeping range of socialinstitutions, including
law enforcement, politics, schooling, healthcare, and social
welfare. The war has also profoundly altered conceptions of race
and community.
It is time to consider the tasks reconstruction must tackle. To
do so requires first a critical assessment of how this war has
remade our society, and then creative thinking about how
government, foundations, communities, and activists should respond.
After the War on Crime accelerates this reassessment with original
essays by a diverse, interdisciplinary group of scholars as well as
policy professionals and community activists. The volumeas
immediate goal is to spark a fresh conversation about the war on
crime and its consequences; its long-term aspiration is to develop
a clear understanding of how we got here and of where we should
go.
Bringing together leading scholars in the fields of criminology,
international law, philosophy and architectural history and theory,
this book examines the interrelationships between architecture and
justice, highlighting the provocative and curiously ambiguous
juncture between the two. Illustrated by a range of disparate and
diverse case studies, it draws out the formal language of justice,
and extends the effects that architecture has on both the place of,
and the individuals subject to, justice. With its
multi-disciplinary perspective, the study serves as a platform on
which to debate the relationships between the ceremonial,
legalistic, administrative and penal aspects of justice, and the
spaces that constitute their settings. The structure of the book
develops from the particular to the universal, from local
situations to the larger city, and thereby examines the role that
architecture and urban space play in the deliberations of justice.
At the same time, contributors to the volume remind us of the
potential impact the built environment can have in undermining the
proper juridical processes of a socio-political system. Hence, the
book provides both wise counsel and warnings of the role of
public/civic space in affirming our sense of a just or unjust
society.
The famous and influential study of politics in action at all
levels in the creation and expansion of the Tennessee Valley
Authority -- with all its land use, agricultural, political and
human effects. Landmark application of political and social theory
coupled with prodigious research and insightful analysis made this
a legendary work. Newly republished in print and digital formats in
the Classics of the Social Sciences Series from Quid Pro Books,
this acclaimed book is presented to a new generation of social
scientists and historians with a new Foreword by Berkeley law
professor Jonathan Simon. All formats include embedded page numbers
from prior editions for continuity of reference and citation. This
edition is reproduced in modern format with hyperaccurate
proofreading of text and notes, and properly formatted tables.
This powerful book reveals how modern strategies of
punishment--and, by all accounts, their failure--relate to
political and economic transformations in society at large.
Jonathan Simon uses the practice of parole in California as a
window to the changing historical understanding of what a
corrections system does and how it works. Because California is
representative of policies and practices on a national level, Simon
explicitly presents his findings within a national framework.
When parole first emerged as a corrections strategy in the
nineteenth century, work was supposed to keep ex-prisoners out of
trouble. This strategy foundered in the changing economy after
World War II. What followed was a rehabilitative strategy, where
the clinical expertise of the parole agent replaced the discipline
of the industrial labor market in defining and controlling criminal
deviance. Today, Simon argues, as drastic changes in the economy
have virtually locked out an entire class, rehabilitation has given
way to mere management. The effect is isolation of the offender,
either in jail or in an underclass community; the result is an
escalating cycle of imprisonment, destabilization, and insecurity.
No significant improvement in the current penal crisis can be
expected until we better understand the relationship between
punishment and social order, a relationship which this book
explores in theoretical, historical, and practical detail.
This authoritative guide introduces the key figures in contemporary
critical theory for the beginning student. The critical theory
covered in the volume includes: semiotics and discourse analysis;
structuralism and post-structuralism; ideology critique;
deconstruction; feminism; queer theory; psychoanalysis;
postcolonialism; postmodernism; and the descendents of Frankfurt
School Critical Theory. There are individual chapters on: Lacan;
Althusser; Barthes; Derrida; Levinas; Kristeva; Irigaray; Cixous;
Foucault; Lyotard; Deleuze; Baudrillard; and Guattari; Bourdieu;
Habermas; Jameson; and Said. Each chapter provides biographical
information and details about the thinker's intellectual context,
an explanation of key concepts, an outline of the major angles of
the theorist's work, an indication of ways in which their theory
has been applied and suggestions for further reading. This text is
designed as a companion to "From Kant to Levi-Strauss: The
Background to Contemporary Critical Theory", which is also edited
by Jon Simons and published by Edinburgh University Press.
In these 15 taster essays you will discover the key concepts and
critical approaches of the theorists who have had the most
significant impact on the humanities since 1990. On completing each
chapter, you will find suggestions for further reading so that you
can find out more and start applying the ideas in question. In
addition to chapters on individuals such as Badiou, Ranciere and
Spivak, there are chapters on Laclau and Mouffe, and a chapter on
Green critical theorists. Key Features *Written by experienced
lecturers including John Armitage (Northumbria University), Paul
Hegarty (University College Cork), David Huddart (Chinese
University of Hong Kong), Simon Tormey (The University of Sydney),
Samuel A. Chambers (Johns Hopkins University) *Sets each theorist
in their biographical and intellectual context *The only book to
offer chapter-length introductions to such a range of contemporary
theorists making it the first place to look for an informed
overview and evaluation *Jon Simons has edited two other popular
guides to critical theory: From Kant to Levi-Strauss: The
Background to Contemporary Critical Theory and Contemporary
Critical Theorists: From Lacan to Said.
The path away from America's prison crisis may lead through the
jail. While there may be many positive aspects of jails as sites of
confinement, especially when compared with the prisons of mass
incarceration, Irwin's analysis pointed to features that could make
the new jail-based version of mass incarceration even worse. The
local nature and relative obscurity of jails means that the level
of legal review and due process obtainable in prisons through the
persistent efforts of civil rights lawyers may be even harder to
maintain in jails. The historic focus of jails on what Irwin called
"rabble management" threatens to undermine the opportunity
presented by the present prison crisis to rethink America's
overreliance on confinement of all kinds (whether prisons, jails,
or immigration detention centers). If so, it is vital that those of
us committed to reversing the destructive effects of mass
incarceration on American democracy and social equality expand our
concern and our research from prisons to the jails that may replace
them. The re-publication of John Irwin's The Jail: Managing the
Underclass in American Society is a most timely aid to that
mission. --From the foreword by Jonathan Simon
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This authoritative guide introduces the key figures in contemporary
critical theory for the beginning student. The critical theory
covered in the volume includes: semiotics and discourse analysis;
structuralism and post-structuralism; ideology critique;
deconstruction; feminism; queer theory; psychoanalysis;
postcolonialism; postmodernism; and the descendents of Frankfurt
School Critical Theory. There are individual chapters on: Lacan;
Althusser; Barthes; Derrida; Levinas; Kristeva; Irigaray; Cixous;
Foucault; Lyotard; Deleuze; Baudrillard; and Guattari; Bourdieu;
Habermas; Jameson; and Said. Each chapter provides biographical
information and details about the thinker's intellectual context,
an explanation of key concepts, an outline of the major angles of
the theorist's work, an indication of ways in which their theory
has been applied and suggestions for further reading. This text is
designed as a companion to From Kant to Levi-Strauss: The
Background to Contemporary Critical Theory, which is also edited by
Jon Simons and published by Edinburgh University Press.
For much of the twentieth century, industrialized nations addressed
social problems, such as workers' compensation benefits and social
welfare programs, in terms of spreading risk. But in recent years a
new approach has emerged: using risk both as a way to conceive of
and address social problems and as an incentive to reduce
individual claims on collective resources.
"Embracing Risk" explores this new approach from a variety of
perspectives. The first part of the book focuses on the interplay
between risk and insurance in various historical and social
contexts. The second part examines how risk is used to govern
fields outside the realm of insurance, from extreme sports to
policing, mental health institutions, and international law.
Offering an original approach to risk, insurance, and
responsibility, the provocative and wide-ranging essays in
"Embracing Risk" demonstrate that risk has moved well beyond its
origins in the insurance trade to become a central organizing
principle of social and cultural life.
Malcolm Feeley, one of the founding giants of the law and society
field, is also one of its most exciting, diverse, and contemporary
scholars. His works have examined criminal courts, prison reform,
the legal profession, legal professionalism, and a variety of other
important topics of enduring theoretical interest with a keen eye
for the practical implications. In this volume, The Legal Process
and the Promise of Justice, an eminent group of contemporary law
and society scholars offer fresh and original analyzes of his work.
They asses the legacy of Feeley's theoretical innovations, put his
findings to the test of time, and provide provocative historical
and international perspectives for his insights. This collection of
original essays not only draws attention to Professor Feeley's
seminal writings but also to the theories and ideas of others who,
inspired by Feeley, have explored how courts and the legal process
really work to provide a promise of justice.
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