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Biographies

Dr. Eric M. Meslin is Director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, Professor of Medicine, and of Medical and Molecular Genetics in the Indiana University School of Medicine, and Professor of Philosophy in the School of Liberal Arts. He is also Assistant Dean for Bioethics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Meslin received his B.A. in Philosophy from York University (T...

The many lives of Charles Darwin: early biographies and the definitive evolutionist.

This article focuses on the early book-length biographies of Darwin published from his death in 1882 up to 1900. By making 1900 the cutoff point I can examine the biographies produced when the iconic figure was not yet set in stone, and before the rediscovery of Mendel's work in the early twentieth century and the anniversary celebrations of 1909 changed the way in which Darwin was regarded. Da...

A thousand lives: telling stories with computer games

Computer games are becoming the default entertainment medium of the XXI century. Fueled by an expanding market which is close to the gross income of Hollywood blockbusters, and ubiquitous in our technological world, via the mobile phone, the game console, or the PC, computer games are also reshaping the ways we understand the old art of narration. In this paper I will present an approach to pos...

Writing the Lives of Women: Recent Biographies of Eighteenth-Century Women Writers

The Political Biographies of Social Workers: A Qualitative Study of the Political Lives of Social Workers

This paper will explore the political biographies of social workers in a neoliberal era. The findings are based on a research project for a successfully completed professional doctorate in social work. The methodology deployed for the research is a combination of constructivist grounded theory and biographical inquiry. The paper will present findings from 14 biographical interviews and will foc...