Books by "Joan C. Williams"
4 books found
The compiler states that "The National Intelligencer & Washington Advertiser is hereafter the Daily National Intelligencer." According to "Newspapers in Microform" (Washington D.C. : Library of Congress, 1984) the Daily National Intelligencer had nothing to do with "The National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser." The newspaper that succeeded the "National Intelligencer & Washington Advertiser" was the "National Intelligencer" distinct from the "Daily National Intelligencer," another newspaper. Of course, as newspapers go, the "National Intelligencer" may have adopted the word "Daily" for a while. To make matters more confusing, the District of Columbia had 2 papers named the "National Intelligencer" along with the "Daily" paper.
The compiler states that "The National Intelligencer & Washington Advertiser is hereafter the Daily National Intelligencer." According to "Newspapers in Microform" (Washington D.C. : Library of Congress, 1984) the Daily National Intelligencer had nothing to do with "The National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser." The newspaper that succeeded the "National Intelligencer & Washington Advertiser" was the "National Intelligencer" distinct from the "Daily National Intelligencer," another newspaper. Of course, as newspapers go, the "National Intelligencer" may have adopted the word "Daily" for a while. To make matters more confusing, the District of Columbia had 2 papers named the "National Intelligencer" along with the "Daily" paper.
Are selfishness and individuality—rather than kindness and cooperation—basic to biological nature? Does a "selfish gene" create universal sexual conflict? In The Genial Gene, Joan Roughgarden forcefully rejects these and other ideas that have come to dominate the study of animal evolution. Building on her brilliant and innovative book Evolution's Rainbow, in which she challenged accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation, Roughgarden upends the notion of the selfish gene and the theory of sexual selection and develops a compelling and controversial alternative theory called social selection. This scientifically rigorous, model-based challenge to an important tenet of neo-Darwinian theory emphasizes cooperation, elucidates the factors that contribute to evolutionary success in a gene pool or animal social system, and vigorously demonstrates that to identify Darwinism with selfishness and individuality misrepresents the facts of life as we now know them.
Human Cloning in the Media
by Joan Haran, Jenny Kitzinger, Maureen McNeil, Kate O'Riordan
2007 · Routledge
This book provides an intensive exploration of recent popular representations of human cloning, genetics and the concerns which they generate and mobilise. It is a timely contribution to current debates about the public communication of science and about the cultural and political stakes in those debates. Taking the UK as its main case study, with cross-cultural comparisons with the USA and South Korea, the book explores the proposition that genomics is ‘the publicly mediated science par excellence’, through detailed reference to the rhetoric and images around human reproductive and therapeutic cloning which have proliferated in the wake of the ‘completion’ of the Human Genome Project (2000). The book offers a set of distinctive analyses of media and cultural texts – including press and television news, Hollywood and independent film drama, documentaries, art exhibits and websites – and in dialogue with the producers and consumers of these texts. From these investigations, key issues are foregrounded: the image of the scientist, scientific expertise and institutions; the governance of science; the representation of women’s bodies as the subjects and objects of biotechnology; and the constitution of publics, both as objects of media debate, and as their intended audience. This examination demonstrates the importance of mediation, media institutions, and media texts in the production of scientific knowledge. Countering models that see ‘the media’ as simply a channel through which scientific knowledge passes, this book will emphasise the importance of communications technologies in the production of modern scientific knowledge and their particular significance in contemporary genomics. It will argue that human genomic science – and cloning as its current iconic manifestation – has to be understood as a complex cultural production.