{"title":"Max Charlesworth","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"life-among-the-scientists-book-max-charlesworth-9780195549997","title":"Life Among the Scientists","description":"This book provides a fascinating study of a community of scientists at the prestigious Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Science in Melbourne, Australia. These scientists are mainly concerned with investigating the immune system, which enables us to cope with the many bacteria and viruses that invade our bodies. The Hall Institute scientists are part of a distinctive subculture, with its own myths and rites of passage, which can be investigated in much the same way as anthropologists investigate 'primitive' cultures. The volume shows how scientific programs and methods are shaped by cultural factors, including social, political, and economic constraints, and by the Institute's setting and the ethos of the new biology. The emphasis is on how science is actually done in concrete situations as distinct from what scientists say they do, and what philosophers and historians and sociologists of science theorize about what they do. Life Among the Scientists will be of great interest to scientists, students of the philosophy, history, and sociology of science, anthropologists and social scientists, and the general reader who wants to know what the scientific life is really like.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50345548841233,"sku":"CIN0195549996G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0195549996.jpg?v=1751323276"},{"product_id":"religious-inventions-book-max-charlesworth-9780521599276","title":"Religious Inventions","description":"Many scholars assume that all genuine religions are basically similar and that it is possible to define the sphere of religion in terms of the 'sacred' or the 'holy'. In this book, Max Charlesworth argues that we must take the diversity of religions as a primary fact. Any religion is an active response to a revelation of the divine, and human beings receive these revelations, interpret them and develop them in a variety of ways. To illustrate his thesis, he considers a number of examples of the 'invention' of religion, ranging from Australian Aboriginal religions to the Rhineland mystical movement associated with Meister Eckhart in the early fourteenth century, from the seventeenth-century sects like the Muggletonians, to Roman Catholic attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to construct a theological account of doctrinal development and also to formulate a Christian ethic.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50351233990929,"sku":"CIN052159927XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52151382114577,"sku":"NLS9780521599276","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/052159927X.jpg?v=1750943282"},{"product_id":"bioethics-in-a-liberal-society-book-max-charlesworth-9780521449526","title":"Bioethics in a Liberal Society","description":"This readable and balanced book is an original discussion of contemporary issues in bioethics. Max Charlesworth argues that as there can be no public consensus on a set of core values--liberal societies accept a variety of religious, nonreligious, political and moral stances, there should be a plurality of ethical stances as well. On this basis he discusses issues such as the ending of human life, new reproductive technologies and the ethical distribution of limited healthcare resources, particularly hospital care.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52152832360721,"sku":"NLS9780521449526","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780521449526.jpg?v=1757618010"},{"product_id":"religious-inventions-book-max-charlesworth-9780521590761","title":"Religious Inventions","description":"Many scholars assume that all genuine religions are basically similar and that it is possible to define the sphere of religion in terms of the 'sacred' or the 'holy'. In this book, Max Charlesworth argues that we must take the diversity of religions as a primary fact. Any religion is an active response to a revelation of the divine, and human beings receive these revelations, interpret them and develop them in a variety of ways. To illustrate his thesis, he considers a number of examples of the 'invention' of religion, ranging from Australian Aboriginal religions to the Rhineland mystical movement associated with Meister Eckhart in the early fourteenth century, from the seventeenth-century sects like the Muggletonians, to Roman Catholic attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to construct a theological account of doctrinal development and also to formulate a Christian ethic.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52337217536273,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52337217732881,"sku":"NLS9780521590761","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780521590761.jpg?v=1758165933"},{"product_id":"philosophy-of-religion-the-historic-approaches-book-max-charlesworth-9781349002030","title":"Philosophy of Religion: The Historic Approaches","description":"Substantially revised and expanded, this is a new edition of a core text for undergraduates, students, and all those interested in philosophy and religion.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52588676972817,"sku":"NLS9781349002030","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781349002030.jpg?v=1761058548"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-max-charlesworth.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}