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Governing molecules : the discursive politics of genetic engineering in Europe and the United States
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ISBN: 0262274140 0585076111 9780262274142 9780585076119 0262071894 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. London MIT Press

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Scientists, investors, policymakers, the media, and the general public have all displayed continuing interest in the commercial promise and the potential dangers of genetic engineering. In this book, Herbert Gottweis explains how genetic engineering became so controversial - a technology that some seek to promote by any means and others want to block entirely. Beginning with a clear exposition of poststructuralist theory and of its implications for research methodology, Gottweis takes a novel approach to political analysis, emphasizing the role of narratives in the development of policy.

Selling the air : a critique of the policy of commercial broadcasting in the United States
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ISBN: 0226777227 0226777219 9786613097651 0226777294 1283097656 9780226777290 9780226777214 9780226777221 9781283097659 6613097659 Year: 1996 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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In this interdisciplinary study of the laws and policies associated with commercial radio and television, Thomas Streeter reverses the usual take on broadcasting and markets by showing that government regulation creates rather than intervenes in the market. Analyzing the processes by which commercial media are organized, Streeter asks how it is possible to take the practice of broadcasting-the reproduction of disembodied sounds and pictures for dissemination to vast unseen audiences-and constitute it as something that can be bought, owned, and sold. With an impressive command of broadcast history, as well as critical and cultural studies of the media, Streeter shows that liberal marketplace principles-ideas of individuality, property, public interest, and markets-have come into contradiction with themselves. Commercial broadcasting is dependent on government privileges, and Streeter provides a searching critique of the political choices of corporate liberalism that shape our landscape of cultural property and electronic intangibles.


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Vers une politique ferroviaire européenne? : L'Europe à toute vapeur?
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ISBN: 9782296040397 229604039X Year: 2007 Publisher: Paris Harmattan


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L'évolution du droit des transports ferroviaires en Europe.
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ISBN: 9782731406504 Year: 2008 Publisher: Aix-en-Provence Presses universitaires d'Aix-Marseille

Der Bau der ersten Eisenbahnen in Preussen : eine Untersuchung der rechtlichen Grundlagen und der bei der Grundung und dem Grunderwerb aufgetretenen Rechtsprobleme
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ISBN: 3428091280 9783428091287 Year: 1998 Volume: 13 Publisher: Berlin Duncker und Humblot

Eisenbahnen und Staat im Zeitalter der Industrialisierung : die Eisenbahnpolitik der deutschen Staaten im Vergleich
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ISBN: 3515067493 Year: 1996 Publisher: Stuttgart : Franz Steiner,

Regulatory Reform of Railways in Russia

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In this report, some of the world's leading experts in rail regulation examine the restructuring of the sector, focusing on tariff reform and the introduction of competition in one of the world's largest rail networks.

Black lung : anatomy of a public health disaster
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ISBN: 0801431867 132252307X 0801471559 0801482860 0801471540 9780801471551 9780801431869 9780801482861 Year: 2014 Publisher: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press,

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In the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how, for decades after methods of prevention were known, hundreds of thousands of American miners suffered and died from black lung, a respiratory illness caused by the inhalation of coal mine dust. The combined failure of government, medicine, and industry to halt the spread of this disease-and even to acknowledge its existence-resulted in a national tragedy, the effects of which are still being felt.The book begins in the late nineteenth century, when the disorders brought on by exposure to coal mine dust were first identified as components of a debilitating and distinctive illness. For several decades thereafter, coal miners' dust disease was accepted, in both lay and professional circles, as a major industrial disease. Derickson describes how after the turn of the century medical professionals and industry representatives worked to discredit and supplant knowledge about black lung, with such success that this disease ceased to be recognized. Many authorities maintained that breathing coal mine dust was actually beneficial to health.Derickson shows that activists ultimately forced society to overcome its complacency about this deadly and preventable disease. He chronicles the growth of an unprecedented movement-from the turn-of-the-century miners' union, to the social medicine activists in the mid-twentieth century, and the black lung insurgents of the late sixties-which eventually won landmark protections and compensation with the enactment of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act in 1969. An extraordinary work of scholarship, Black Lung exposes the enormous human cost of producing the energy source responsible for making the United States the world's preeminent industrial nation.


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Law and English railway capitalism, 1825-1875
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ISBN: 0191682926 9780191682926 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon,

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Professor Kostal's study is the first full-scale examination of the relationship between the English legal system and the world's first industrial economy, focusing primarily on the railway system.

Law and English railway capitalism, 1825-1875
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ISBN: 019825671X Year: 1994 Publisher: Oxford New York Clarendon Press Oxford University Press

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