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  • 1
    Book
    Book
    New York :Columbia Univ. Press,
    UID:
    almahu_BV011910716
    Format: 268 S. : graph. Darst.
    ISBN: 0-231-10848-6
    Series Statement: Between men, between women
    Content: Gay Science is the first comprehensive examination of the ethical questions surrounding sexual orientation research. Bioethicist Timothy Murphy presents the views of many gay men and women who detect ominous motives behind this research. If a genetic marker were discovered for homosexual tendencies, would genetic screening be used to further discriminate against gay people? If a method for changing sexual orientation were developed, would it be forced upon gay adults or children whose parents suspected they might grow up to be gay? Given the potential for its misuse, is sexual orientation research fundamentally unethical? Murphy acknowledges that much of sexual orientation research to date has been bad science, questionable in its motives and methodologically unsound. He examines the social and historical conditions, from the 1880s to the present, that spawned this research and reviews the findings that have often perpetuated confusion about homosexuality. He assesses five major studies on sexual orientation undertaken in the 1990s, from neuroanatomist Simon LeVay's study of certain brain structures in gay men to the work of psychologist Joseph Nicolosi. He questions the flawed and simplistic assumptions about sexuality made by much of this research. Murphy argues that a true science of sexual orientation would not be focused exclusively upon homosexuality nor presuppose its pathology.
    Language: English
    Keywords: Homosexualität ; Forschung
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  • 2
    Book
    Book
    New York u.a. :Columbia Univ. Press,
    UID:
    almafu_BV008205849
    Format: VIII, 352 S.
    ISBN: 0-231-07864-1
    Series Statement: Between men, between women
    Language: English
    Subjects: American Studies
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    Keywords: Homosexueller ; Künste ; Aids ; Literatur ; Aids ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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  • 3
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    Book
    Chicago, Ill. [u.a.] :Dearborn,
    UID:
    almahu_BV025409979
    Format: XXVIII, 720 S.
    ISBN: 1-57958-142-0
    Language: English
    Subjects: Sociology
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    Keywords: Bibliografie
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  • 4
    UID:
    gbv_278222013
    Format: 365 S
    Series Statement: Journal of homosexuality 27,3/4
    Language: Undetermined
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  • 5
    Book
    Book
    Berkeley [u.a.] :Univ. of California Press,
    UID:
    almafu_BV010103144
    Format: XI, 178 S.
    ISBN: 0-520-08363-6
    Language: English
    Subjects: Law
    RVK:
    Keywords: Genomprojekt ; Ethik ; Humangenetik ; Rechtsethik ; Genomprojekt ; Rechtsethik ; Humangenetik ; Bioethik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift
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  • 6
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    Book
    Berkeley [u.a.] :Univ. of California Press,
    UID:
    almahu_BV010178953
    Format: VII, 221 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.
    ISBN: 0-520-08636-8
    Language: English
    Subjects: Philosophy
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    Keywords: Aids ; Ethik ; Aids ; Gesundheitspolitik
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  • 7
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    Online Resource
    Cambridge, MA :MIT Press,
    UID:
    almahu_9948323389702882
    Format: xxii, 169 p.
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
    Series Statement: Basic bioethics
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books.
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  • 8
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge, MA :MIT Press,
    UID:
    edocfu_9959242686502883
    Format: 1 online resource (195 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 1-283-62983-6 , 0-262-30582-8 , 9786613942289
    Series Statement: Basic bioethics
    Content: Parents routinely turn to prenatal testing to screen for genetic or chromosomal disorders or to learn their child's sex. What if they could use similar prenatal interventions to learn (or change) their child's sexual orientation? Bioethicists have debated the moral implications of this still-hypothetical possibility for several decades. Some commentators fear that any scientific efforts to understand the origins of homosexuality could mean the end of gay and lesbian people, if parents shy away from having homosexual children. Others defend parents' rights to choose the traits of their children in general and see no reason to treat sexual orientation differently. In this book, Timothy Murphy traces the controversy over prenatal selection of sexual orientation, offering a critical review of the literature and presenting his own argument in favor of parents' reproductive liberty. Arguing against commentators who want to restrict the scientific study of sexual orientation or technologies that emerge from that study, Murphy proposes a defense of parents' right to choose. This, he argues, is the only view that helps protect children from hurtful family environments, that is consistent with the increasing powers of prenatal interventions, and that respects human futures as something other than accidents of the genetic lottery.
    Note: Description based upon print version of record. , The controversy -- The controversy goes mainstream -- A genetic study raises the stake -- Book reports, mostly -- In defense of trait selection -- More debate -- Beyond rights -- Not a few last words. , English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-262-01805-5
    Language: English
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  • 9
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Berkeley ; : University of California Press,
    UID:
    edoccha_9958070929802883
    Format: 1 online resource (vii, 221 p. ) , ill. ;
    Edition: First edition.
    ISBN: 0-520-91496-1 , 0-585-29946-3
    Content: AIDS strikes most heavily at those already marginalized by conventional society. With no immediate prospect of vaccination or cure, how can liberty, dignity, and reasoned hope be preserved in the shadow of an epidemic? In this humane and graceful book, philosopher Timothy Murphy offers insight into our attempts--popular and academic, American and non-American, scientific and political--to make moral sense of pain. Murphy addresses the complex moral questions raised by AIDS for health-care workers, politicians, policy makers, and even people with AIDS themselves. He ranges widely, analyzing contrasting visions of the origin and the future of the epidemic, the moral and political functions of obituaries, the uncertain value of celebrity involvement in anti-AIDS education, the functional uses of AIDS in the discourse of presidential campaigns, the exclusionary function of HIV testing for immigrants, the priority given to AIDS on the national health agenda, and the hypnotic publicity given to "innocent" victims. Murphy's discussions of the many social and political confusions about AIDS are unified by his attempt to articulate the moral assumptions framing our interpretations of the epidemic. By understanding those assumptions, we will be in a better position to resist self-serving and invidious moralizing, reckless political response, and social censure of the sick and the dying.
    Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Front matter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , PART ONE. The Meaning of AIDS -- , PART TWO. HIV Testing -- , PART THREE. AIDS Politics -- , Afterword -- , Notes -- , Index , English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-520-08636-8
    Language: English
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  • 10
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Berkeley ; : University of California Press,
    UID:
    edocfu_9958070929802883
    Format: 1 online resource (vii, 221 p. ) , ill. ;
    Edition: First edition.
    ISBN: 0-520-91496-1 , 0-585-29946-3
    Content: AIDS strikes most heavily at those already marginalized by conventional society. With no immediate prospect of vaccination or cure, how can liberty, dignity, and reasoned hope be preserved in the shadow of an epidemic? In this humane and graceful book, philosopher Timothy Murphy offers insight into our attempts--popular and academic, American and non-American, scientific and political--to make moral sense of pain. Murphy addresses the complex moral questions raised by AIDS for health-care workers, politicians, policy makers, and even people with AIDS themselves. He ranges widely, analyzing contrasting visions of the origin and the future of the epidemic, the moral and political functions of obituaries, the uncertain value of celebrity involvement in anti-AIDS education, the functional uses of AIDS in the discourse of presidential campaigns, the exclusionary function of HIV testing for immigrants, the priority given to AIDS on the national health agenda, and the hypnotic publicity given to "innocent" victims. Murphy's discussions of the many social and political confusions about AIDS are unified by his attempt to articulate the moral assumptions framing our interpretations of the epidemic. By understanding those assumptions, we will be in a better position to resist self-serving and invidious moralizing, reckless political response, and social censure of the sick and the dying.
    Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Front matter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , PART ONE. The Meaning of AIDS -- , PART TWO. HIV Testing -- , PART THREE. AIDS Politics -- , Afterword -- , Notes -- , Index , English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0-520-08636-8
    Language: English
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