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Toward a Politics of (In)Fertility: Reproductive Debility in Africa
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa has some of the highest estimated rates of infertility or involuntary childlessness in the world, leading epidemiologists to refer to parts of the region as the “infertility belt.” The medicalization of infertility and the situating of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) as the treatment for infertility have siphoned ...
Tessa Moll
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Zbawieni przez miłość Baranka (Ap 1,5b-6)
Verbum Vitae, 2002 L'Apocalypse de saint Jean est, injustement, identifiée une catastrophe; lorsqu'on pense l'apocalypse, on commence penser la destruction definitive du monde.
Wojciech Popielewski
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The Anthropocene and the End of Nuclear Disaster: Normalizing the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents. I argue that tropes surrounding the Anthropocene can depict certain events as apocalyptic calamities while also portraying other events as mere “
Maxime Polleri
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Riches, Poverty, and the Faithful: Perspectives on Wealth in the Second Temple Period and the Apocalypse of John [PDF]
, 2010 The present study considers the degree to which John’s portrayal of the faithful Christian community in the Apocalypse is informed by Jewish apocalyptic traditions related to wealth in the Second Temple period. Previous studies have attributed the author’
Mathews, Mark Dewayne +1 more
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
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Apocalypse Then, Now-and Future?
Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University, 2020 Since The Limits to Growth study in 1972 scores of studies have concluded that, without a dramatic reduction in human numbers and per-capita consumption and thus ecosystem destruction, and absent concomitant transformation of technological, economic, political, and value systems, widespread collapse of Earth’s socioecological systems will commence and ...
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Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.Wheat in North America harbours a diverse insect community (565 morphospecies were identified in this study), and pests represented <7% of specimens collected. Regenerative wheat management promoted insect diversity without increasing pest populations.
Daniel Pecenka +3 more
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Journal for Religion, Film and Media, 2019 In the context of the ecological crisis, tales of the apocalypse have become a regular feature of the contemporary cultural imaginary, be it in popular feature films, non-fictional texts, or dystopian novels.
Stephanie, Bender
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Artificial Intelligence and Nursing: Freedom From the Mundane or Subservience to a New Nobility
Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim To explore the notion of post‐humanism and the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on society, nursing and healthcare. Design Discursive paper. Methods Critical reflection on concepts relating to post‐humanism and the impact of AI, sourced from contemporary and established literature. Data Sources Information was drawn from a wide range
David A. Richards
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