Being Me: What it Means to be Human
Author:   Pete Moore
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:  

9780470850886


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   17 October 2003
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Pete Moore
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 14.70cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.488kg
ISBN:  

9780470850886


ISBN 10:   0470850884
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   17 October 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. An embodied being. 2. A conscious being. 3. A genetic being. 4. A historic being. 5. A related being. 6. A material being. 7. A spiritual being. 8. A sexual being. 9. A social being. 10. Free to be me. Bibliography. Index.

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...a whirlwind tour through the sheer variety of human pre-occupations...Moore, a medical journalist, engagingly recounts 'real-life' stories... (Independent, 30 December 2003) ...should be read by everyone working in and around science... (Focus, February 2004) ... stretches the boundaries of self-definition and re-introduces the idea of humans as holistic beings... (The Science Reporter, December 2003)


"""...a whirlwind tour through the sheer variety of human pre-occupations...Moore, a medical journalist, engagingly recounts 'real-life' stories..."" (Independent, 30 December 2003) ??should be read by everyone working in and around science?? (Focus, February 2004) ?? stretches the boundaries of self-definition and re-introduces the idea of humans as holistic beings?? (The Science Reporter, December 2003)"


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Dr Pete Moore is a medical journalist and Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Bristol. He is Chairman of the Medical Journalists Association and winner of numerous awards for his journalism, including the MJA Tony Thistlethwaite Award for his most recent book, Blood and Justice. He is an official rapporteur at Windsor Castle and private meetings at the House of Lords. He has a PhD in physiology and has held a range of post-doctoral research fellowships with The Wellcome Trust and British Heart Foundation. He also lectures in ethics.

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