Neil Stephens: 2 books
Legalising Mitochondrial Donation
Enacting Ethical Futures in UK Biomedical Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
In 2015 the UK became the first country in the world to legalise mitochondrial donation, a controversial germ line reproductive technology to prevent the transmission of mitochondrial disease. Dimond and Stephens track the intense period of scientific and ethical review, public consultation and parliamentary...
Embodying Brazil
An ethnography of diasporic capoeira
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
The practice of capoeira, the Brazilian dance-fight-game, has grown rapidly in recent years. It has become a popular leisure activity in many cultures, as well as a career for Brazilians in countries across the world including the US, the UK, Canada and Australia. This original ethnographic study...