Описание: Writing Gaia tells the story of the scientific collaboration between James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis through an annotated record of their four-decade correspondence. It shows how their partnership proved decisive for the effective development and dissemination of the Gaia hypothesis, work that has transformed contemporary conceptions of nature.
Название: Medical Proofs, Social Experiments ISBN: 1138260444 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138260443 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Clinical trials have become key technologies for decision making in the contemporary world. Their results shape medical practice and determine priorities across health care systems, but the work that goes into producing credible data is often hidden. Medical Proofs, Social Experiments draws upon detailed case studies to argue that to understand their value, we need to pay more attention to the contexts for these modern medical experiments, recovering the diverse ways in which they involve doctors, patients and the public, the local practices that contribute to their completion, and the complex negotiation of their results in professional and statutory institutions. Presenting research from the UK, USA, Sweden and The Netherlands, the ethnographic perspective adopted by the authors provides a space to explore the investments of different state, market, professional and other actors in particular forms of evaluation, and the ways in which trial methodologies may be re-designed or re-imagined to satisfy social and political expectations. As such, this volume will be of interest to those working in the fields of science and technology studies, the sociology and anthropology of medicine and researchers of policy and organisation in health care.
Автор: Northcott, Michael S Название: God and Gaia ISBN: 0367627752 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367627751 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 19906.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock.This book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of the environmental humanities, history, cultural and religious studies.
Автор: Tyrrell Toby Название: On Gaia ISBN: 0691121583 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691121581 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5544.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
A critical examination of James Lovelock's controversial Gaia hypothesis
One of the enduring questions about our planet is how it has remained continuously habitable over vast stretches of geological time despite the fact that its atmosphere and climate are potentially unstable. James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis posits that life itself has intervened in the regulation of the planetary environment in order to keep it stable and favorable for life. First proposed in the 1970s, Lovelock's hypothesis remains highly controversial and continues to provoke fierce debate. On Gaia undertakes the first in-depth investigation of the arguments put forward by Lovelock and others--and concludes that the evidence doesn't stack up in support of Gaia.
Toby Tyrrell draws on the latest findings in fields as diverse as climate science, oceanography, atmospheric science, geology, ecology, and evolutionary biology. He takes readers to obscure corners of the natural world, from southern Africa where ancient rocks reveal that icebergs were once present near the equator, to mimics of cleaner fish on Indonesian reefs, to blind fish deep in Mexican caves. Tyrrell weaves these and many other intriguing observations into a comprehensive analysis of the major assertions and lines of argument underpinning Gaia, and finds that it is not a credible picture of how life and Earth interact.
On Gaia reflects on the scientific evidence indicating that life and environment mutually affect each other, and proposes that feedbacks on Earth do not provide robust protection against the environment becoming uninhabitable--or against poor stewardship by us.
-- "GeoQ"
Автор: Northcott, Michael S Название: God and gaia ISBN: 0367627744 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367627744 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5358.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock.This book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of the environmental humanities, history, cultural and religious studies.
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