Profane Nations

Eugenics--sacred and profane.

t begins innocuously enough. A six-month-old baby, once thriving and cheerful, begins reacting differently to normal sounds such as clapping hands or closing doors. Her parents ice that her limbs twitch and her muscles are not developing properly. She has trouble swallowing and shows signs of mental retardation. What they can’t see is her compromised brain tissue, which began degenerating when ...

Sacred and Profane

To utilize the notion of a sacred and a profane is to suggest an explanation and ordering of the world encountered that looks back to the Judeo-Christian traditions often claimed as the foundations of Western society. The term " sacred and profane " , bound together often as a figure of speech, suggests the defining differences between a number of oppositions: good and evil, Godly and Godless o...

Nurses' work: the sacred and the profane.

Let's read! We will often find out this sentence everywhere. When still being a kid, mom used to order us to always read, so did the teacher. Some books are fully read in a week and we need the obligation to support reading. What about now? Do you still love reading? Is reading only for you who have obligation? Absolutely not! We here offer you a new book enPDFd nurses work the sacred and the p...

Sacred Grounds and Profane Plantations: The Spiritual Landscapes of Barbados

The Sacred and the Profane: biotechnology, rationality and public debate

This paper explores the forms of argumentation employed by participants in a recent public engagement processes in the UK around new technologies for organ transplantation, with specific reference to xenotransplantation and stem cell research. Two forms of reasoning recur throughout participants’ deliberations that challenge specialist framing of this issue. Firstly, an often scatological humou...