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It is unlikely that traditional methods such as moral education or social reform alone can bring this about swiftly enough to avert looming disaster, which would undermine the conditions for worthwhile life on earth forever. Persson and Savulescu maintain that it is likely that we need to explore the use of new technologies of biomedicine to change the bases of human moral motivation. 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However, the economic vitality of wealthy cities is marred by persistent and pervasive inequality―and deeply entrenched anti-urban policies and politics limit the options to address it. Structural racism, suburban subsidies, regional government fragmentation, the hostility of state legislatures, and federal policy all contribute to an unequal status quo that underfunds cities while preventing them from pursuing fairer outcomes. ![]() Free Download Kathleen M. Brown, "Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition " English | ISBN: 1512823279 | 2023 | 456 pages | PDF | 7 MB Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the human body was universal and faced with the growing racism of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science, abolitionists in North America and Britain focused on undoing slavery's harm to the bodies of the enslaved. Their pragmatic focus on restoring the bodily integrity and wellbeing of enslaved people threw up many unexpected challenges. This book explores those challenges. ![]() Free Download Katherine M. Johnson, "Undoing Motherhood: Collaborative Reproduction and the Deinstitutionalization of U.S. Maternity " English | ISBN: 1978808674 | 2023 | 204 pages | PDF | 1120 KB In 1978 the world's first "test-tube baby" was born from in vitro fertilization (IVF), effectively ushering in a paradigm shift for infertility treatment that relied on partially disembodied human reproduction. 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