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Neoliberal Religion: Faith and Power in the Twenty-First Century (2022)
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Guest, M. (2022). Neoliberal Religion: Faith and Power in the Twenty-First Century. Bloomsbury

This book explores neoliberalism as an account of contemporary society and considers what this means for our understanding of religion. Neoliberalism is a perspective grounded in free market economics and distinguished by a celebration of competition... Read More about Neoliberal Religion: Faith and Power in the Twenty-First Century.

Victoria Welby (2023)
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Thomas, E. (2023). Victoria Welby. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009345897

In 1880s Britain, Victoria Welby (1837–1912) began creating a rich, wide-ranging metaphysical system. At its heart lies Motion, 'the great fact, the supreme category'. Drawing extensively on archive materials, this Element offers the first study of W... Read More about Victoria Welby.

Identifying Future-Proof Science (2022)
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Vickers, P. (in press). Identifying Future-Proof Science. Oxford University Press

First book to directly engage with the question of how to identify future-proof science Takes a transdisciplinary approach in its combination of historical, philosophical, and sociological methods Offers a companion to Alexander Bird's Knowing Scienc... Read More about Identifying Future-Proof Science.

Medical Law and Ethics (2020)
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Pattinson, S. D. (2020). Medical Law and Ethics. (6th ed.). Sweet and Maxwell

Measuring difference, numbering normal: Setting the standards for disability in the interwar period (2020)
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McGuire, C. (2020). Measuring difference, numbering normal: Setting the standards for disability in the interwar period. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526143167

Measuring difference, numbering normal provides a detailed study of the technological construction of disability by examining how the audiometer and spirometer were used to create numerical proxies for invisible and inarticulable experiences. Measure... Read More about Measuring difference, numbering normal: Setting the standards for disability in the interwar period.

Nature the Artful Modeler: Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World, and How We Can Arrange It Better. The 2017 Carus Lectures (2019)
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Cartwright, N. (2019). Nature the Artful Modeler: Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World, and How We Can Arrange It Better. The 2017 Carus Lectures. Open Court

How fixed are the happenings in Nature and how are they fixed? These lectures address what our scientific successes at predicting and manipulating the world around us suggest in answer. One--very orthodox--account teaches that the sciences offer gene... Read More about Nature the Artful Modeler: Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World, and How We Can Arrange It Better. The 2017 Carus Lectures.