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... historical methodology history of technology technological determinism technophobia ...

... the ongoing disenfranchisement of Indigenous Peoples in pursuit of a falsely purported borderless communications network. communication technology Indigenous technological governance data sovereignty self-determination Kurdish peoples ...

... the quandary of determining how one should live in relation to the tools of medicine as one grows old. medical technologies implantable cardiac defibrillator kidney dialysis liver transplantation Medicare eligibility ...

... This chapter shows how evidence from clinical trials emerges, how those findings determine insurance reimbursement patterns and then treatment standards, and how those organize the work of doctors. It ends with a look at the specter that hangs over these engines of innovation and evidence...

... introduces the field of ethical choices that infuses the operation of this chain. Such ethical choices determine the goals of clinical research, which therapies are considered appropriate, and how doctors and patients respond. Bioethics medical technologies aging population medical anthropology...

... available to patients, and then are deemed to be wanted and necessary. The chapter introduces the field of ethical choices that infuses the operation of this chain. Such ethical choices determine the goals of clinical research, which therapies are considered appropriate, and how doctors and patients respond...

... Chapter 3 explores the complex interactions of technology, culture, and taste that have turned bluefin tuna, an apex predator of the oceans, into a highly valued and endangered commodity. It starts by plunging into a pen of farmed southern bluefin tuna and then follows Croatian and Italian...

... The predicament of twenty-first-century medicine is emblematic of other trends in American society. How we shape the values and directions of the health care delivery enterprise will determine and reveal the kind of society we create in the coming years. Because the trends that have brought us...

... This chapter demonstrates that the long tradition linking technology, elite subjects, and nation building in India is currently being reimagined through a lionization of private individual achievement. Indian coders are heirs to a technocratic discourse that puts them at the vanguard of national...

... During the postgenomic era, genomes have become a shared platform for biological research across many fields. Postgenomics is reshaping debates over genetic determinism, reductionism, the role of the social and the environmental in human health and disease, and even the notion of the genome...

... network. communication technology Indigenous technological governance data sovereignty self-determination Kurdish peoples This chapter argues that the behavior of Anglo settler states and Indigenous Peoples within a logic of sovereignty is discordant with prevailing international relations...

... large here, and each patient’s story illustrates the quandary of determining how one should live in relation to the tools of medicine as one grows old. medical technologies implantable cardiac defibrillator kidney dialysis liver transplantation Medicare eligibility This chapter...

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... of the present can free us from supposed fatalities and create space for taking charge of historical possibilities. historical determinism history of the future social transformation emancipation ...

... this notion has served to surreptitiously recuperate three axioms of vulgar Marxism: (i) technico-economic determinism; (ii) teleology; and (iii) historical inevitability. This paradox of a Marxist specter haunting globalization is then analyzed in terms of its concrete effects, which include encouraging...

... This chapter shows how evidence from clinical trials emerges, how those findings determine insurance reimbursement patterns and then treatment standards, and how those organize the work of doctors. It ends with a look at the specter that hangs over these engines of innovation and evidence: the fact...

... and technologies of colonial sugar capital and postcolonial tourist capital. Cliff suggests that the revival of precolonial history and its cultural traditions can stimulate revolutionary consciousness and facilitate the Jamaican people’s emergence as an autonomous subject. The chapter suggests that Cliff’s...