This second edition of Postcolonial Ecocriticism, a book foundational for its field, has been
updated to consider recent developments in the area such as environmental humanities and …

This book is intended to be a theoretical contribution to the sociology of the body and the
rapidly expanding field of 'body studies'. In what follows I examine the changing status of the …

This book critically compares conflicting perspectives and overlapping themes within the
study of disability and illness across recent decades. With fresh interpretation of traditional …

Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life synthesizes and extends the disparate
strands of scholarship on Foucault's notions of governmentality and biopower and grounds …

After the atomic bombing at the end of World War II, anxieties about survival in the nuclear
age led scientists to begin stockpiling and freezing hundreds of thousands of blood samples …

Plant genome editing has the potential to become another chapter in the intractable debate
that has dogged agricultural biotechnology. In 2016, 107 Nobel Laureates accused …

Although the 'inherited susceptibility'genes BRCA 1 and 2 are only thought to be involved in
approximately 5–10 per cent of all cases of breast cancer, risk assessment and genetic …

Impairment has a ubiquitous and troublesome position within disability studies. The absence
of an effective theoretical understanding of impairment has been a major problem for the …

While medical research continues to investigate the genetic basis of cancer, and
personalised prevention gains momentum, little research has been conducted with the …

The introduction of mass screening programmes in the UK has been controversial. It is
instructive to examine medical conditions for which screening has been actively considered …