This best selling anthology of readings with case studies provides insightful and comprehensive treatment of ethical issues in biomedicine. Appropriate for courses taught in philosophy departments, bioethics programs, as well as schools of medicine and nursing, the collection coverss such provocative topics as bioomedical enhancement, clinical trials in developing countries, animal research, ph…
Contents in this book are: 1. The study of human development 2. Beginnings (reproduction, heredity, and prenatal development) 3. Birth and infancy: the first two years 4. Early childhood 5. Middle childhood 6. Adolescence 7. Early, Middle, and Late adulthood 8. The and of life
This book introduction reviews how different disciplines (such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, and history) approach the study of adolescence, it does not provide detailed examinations of particular theories or research methods
How to Think About Weird Things helps readers apply solid principles of critical thinking to a vast array of claims about the paranormal, the supernatural, the mysterious, and the mystifying. Throughout the book, the autors provide step-by-step explanations on ow to sort out reasons, evaluate evidence, and tell when a claim (no matter how strange) is likely to be true. The overall emphasis in t…
Visual images dominate our lives-from politics, to entertainment, to advertising, Seeing Is Believing presents the fundamentals of visual communication and develops students'ability to interpret and create visual communication-their"visual literacy"