Peter Harrison
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Peter Harrison
The Protection of Traditional Knowledge at the Frontiers of Drug Discovery
This book concerns the often fractious interface between drug discovery and commercialisation, environmental degradation, the biodiversity crisis, the exploitation of Indigenous peoples and the destruction of their culture, the right to health, inequalities of power, and the ability of the law to protect knowledge.
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Peter Harrison
Narratives of Secularization
It is increasingly clear that histories of secularization are not simply dispassionate descriptions of the decline of religious belief and practice in the West.
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Peter Harrison
The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion
In recent years, the relations between science and religion have been the object of renewed attention. Developments in physics, biology and the neurosciences have reinvigorated discussions about the nature of life and ultimate reality.
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Peter Harrison
The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science
Peter Harrison examines the role played by the Bible in the emergence of natural science. He shows how both the contents of the Bible, and more particularly the way it was interpreted, had a profound influence on conceptions of nature from the third century to the seventeenth.
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