Mit Press imprint: 940 books
by Jennifer Burwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
How highly abstract quantum concepts were represented in language, and how these concepts were later taken up by philosophers, literary critics, and new-age gurus.
The principles of quantum physics—and the strange phenomena they describe—are represented most precisely in highly abstract...
Synthetic Biology and Morality
Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
A range of views on the morality of synthetic biology and its place in public policy and political discourse.
Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behavior. The...
Why Are We Waiting?
The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
An urgent case for climate change action that forcefully sets out, in economic, ethical, and political terms, the dangers of delay and the benefits of action.
The risks of climate change are potentially immense. The benefits of taking action are also clear: we can see that economic development,...
Humanity Enhanced
Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
An argument that modern liberal democracies should tolerate human enhancement technologies, answering key objections by critics of these practices.
Emerging biotechnologies that manipulate human genetic material have drawn a chorus of objections from politicians, pundits, and scholars. In Humanity...
by Sandra C. Greer
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
A guide to the everyday decisions about right and wrong faced by physical scientists and research engineers.
This book offers the first comprehensive guide to ethics for physical scientists and engineers who conduct research. Written by a distinguished professor of chemistry and chemical engineering,...
Undone Science
Social Movements, Mobilized Publics, and Industrial Transitions
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
A theoretical integration of science and technology studies and social movement studies that finds both common ground and “undone” research.
As the fields of social movement studies (SMS) and science and technology studies (STS) have diversified in topical focus, they have moved closer...
by Charles Kooperberg, James Y. Dai, Li Hsu
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Diverse methodological and statistical approaches for investigating the role of gene-environment interactions in a range of complex diseases and traits.
Findings from the Human Genome Project and from Genome-Wide Association (GWA) studies indicate that many diseases and traits manifest a more...
Genetic Influences on Addiction
An Intermediate Phenotype Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
A comprehensive review of research examining intermediary mechanisms to understand the link between genetic variation and addiction liability.
Although there is scientific consensus that genetic factors play a substantial role in an individual's vulnerability to drug or alcohol addiction, specific...
by Todd E. Feinberg, MD, Jon M. Mallatt
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Demystifying consciousness: how subjective experience can be explained by natural brain and evolutionary processes.
Consciousness is often considered a mystery. How can the seemingly immaterial experience of consciousness be explained by the material neurons of the brain? There seems to be...
Beyond Red and Blue
How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Why Americans do not divide neatly into red and blue or right and left but form coalitions across party lines on hot-button issues ranging from immigration to same-sex marriage.
On any given night cable TV news will tell us how polarized American politics is: Republicans are from Mars, Democrats...
Between Preservation and Exploitation
Transnational Advocacy Networks and Conservation in Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
A study of biodiversity governance analyzes the factors that determine the effectiveness of transnational advocacy networks and the importance of justice claims to conservation.
In the late 2000s, ordinary citizens in Jamaica and Mexico demanded that government put a stop to lucrative but environmentally...
Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care
An Interdisciplinary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care, including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality, and therapeutic boundaries.
This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient...
Climate of Capitulation
An Insider's Account of State Power in a Coal Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
How power is wielded in environmental policy making at the state level, and how to redress the ingrained favoritism toward coal and electric utilities.
The United States has pledged to the world community a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 26–28 percent below 2005 levels in 2025....
by Alan A. Stone
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
Essays on small art films and big-budget blockbusters, including Antonia's Line, American Beauty, Schindler's List, and The Passion of the Christ, that view films as life lessons, enlarging our sense of human possibilities.
For Alan Stone, a one-time Freudian analyst and former president of...