Suchergebnisse

Twin Studies: Illustrious and Ignoble -- Separated by Design: Policy and People -- Inside the Twin Study: How Did It Work? -- Familiar Strangers: Twin Brothers with Twin Sisters -- Kathy and Betsy: "The Biggest Thing in My Life" -- Media Inquiry: Sixty Minutes -- Anne and Susan: Dancing Solo -- Melanie and Ellen: Identical, but Not the Same -- Doug & Howard: Parallel Lives -- Identical Triplets: Three Versions of the Same Song -- Sharon: Twinless Again -- In Search of the Findings: Unpublished or Unavailable? -- The Book That Never Was: Yale University Press -- Justin: Not Just a Doppelgänger? -- Paula and Elyse: Artists From Afar -- Paula and Marjorie: Opportunities Lost -- Michele and Allison: Fraternal, Almost Identical -- Letters of Protest: Oscars and Emmys -- Professional Standards: Codes of Conduct, Legalities and Moralitie -- Controversies: Over or Unfinished?

"As long as she can remember, Leah Dieterich has had the mysterious feeling that she's been searching for a twin--that she belongs as one of an intimate pair. It begins with friends, dance partners, and her own reflection in the mirror as she studies ballet growing up; continues with physical and emotional attractions to girlfriends in college; and leads her, finally, to Eric, whom she moves across the country for and marries. But her steadfast, monogamous relationship leaves her with questions she can't answer about her sexuality and her identity, so she and her husband decide to try an open marriage. How does a young couple make room for their individual desires, their evolving selfhoods, and their artistic ambitions while building a life together? Can they pursue other sexual partners, even live in separate cities, and keep their original passionate bond alive? Vanishing Twins looks for answers in psychology, science, pop culture, art, architecture, Greek mythology, dance, and language to create a lucid, suspenseful portrait of a woman testing the limits and fluidities of love"--

Introduction : from the sciences of meat to critical animal studies -- Undomesticating the ethical -- Towards a critical bioethics -- Thinking across species in the ethics of "enhancement" -- Animal biotechnology and regulation -- Biopower and the biotechnological framing of the animal body -- Capitalizing on the molecular animal : beyond limits? -- Mobilizing the promise of sustainability -- Searching for the 'win-win'? Animal genomics and 'welfare' -- Conclusion : from the 'livestock' 'revolution' to a revolution in human-animal relations