Technologies of Life and Death

Uses insights of deconstructive philosophy (Derrida) to look closely at issues of technologically mediated life and death.

The proceedings of a colloquium at Brunel, the University of West London, at which British, American, Canadian, and Australian scholars and practitioners of spe

Are you alive? Most people believe that some law defines our status as living (or not) for all purposes. But Foley shows that “not being dead” isn’t neces

Dan Brock explores the moral issues raised by new ideals of shared decision making between physicians and patients.

This volume meets the increasing interest in a range of philosophical issues connected with the nature and significance of life and death, and the ethics of kil

You might be standing by the bedside of an ill or dying family member, facing agonizing moral and medical choices. Or you may be struggling with a disability, a

Some 20 years after writing The Technological Society, Jacques Ellul realized how the totalistic dimensions of our modern technological milieu required an addit

'Science, Technology, and Society' offers approximately 150 articles written by major scholars and experts from academic and scientific institutions worldwide.

This volume focuses on the intersection of religion and media in China, bringing interdisciplinary approaches to bear on the role of religion in the lives of in

This is a breakthrough work expanding the debate of the dilemmas of life and death in contemporary American society by carrying it beyond the insights of Wester