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Sexual Chemistry A History of the Contraceptive Pill
ISBN: PB: 9780300167917, Yale University Press, October 2010
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
Heralded as the catalyst of the sexual revolution and the solution to global overpopulation, the contraceptive pill was one of the twentieth century's most important inventions. It has not only transformed the lives of millions of women but has also...
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£18,99
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Contested Reproduction Genetic Technologies, Religion, and Public Debate
ISBN: HB: 9780226222653, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables, 3 line illus.
Scientific breakthroughs have led us to a point where soon we will be able to make specific choices about the genetic makeup of our offspring. In fact, this reality has arrived – and it is only a matter of time before the technology becomes widesprea...
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£47,00
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Atmosphere of Heaven The Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes an His Sons of Genius
ISBN: PB: 9780300168914, Yale University Press, August 2010
296 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
At the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, founded in the closing years of the eighteenth century, dramatic experiments with gases precipitated not only a revolution in scientific medicine but also in the history of ideas. Guided by the energy of maver...
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£15,00
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Research Findings in the Economics of Aging
ISBN: HB: 9780226903064, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010
504 pp., 23x15 cm, 126 tables, 106 line illus.
The baby boom generation's entry into old age has led to an unprecedented increase in the elderly population. The social and economic effects of this shift are significant, and in "Research Findings in the Economics of Aging", a group of leading rese...
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£100,00
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Woman Who Walked into the Sea Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease
ISBN: PB: 9780300158618, Yale University Press, January 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This title presents a groundbreaking medical and social history of a devastating hereditary neurological disorder once demonized as "the witchcraft disease". When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made...
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£19,00
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