{"product_id":"the-moral-authority-of-nature-9780226136813","title":"The Moral Authority of Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor thousands of years  people have used nature to justify their political  moral  and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today  as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human cloning testify.  The Moral Authority of Nature offers a wide-ranging account of how people have used nature to think about what counts as good  beautiful  just  or valuable. The eighteen essays cover a diverse array of topics  including the connection of cosmic and human orders in ancient Greece  medieval notions of sexual disorder  early modern contexts for categorizing individuals and judging acts as \"against nature \" race and the origin of humans  ecological economics  and radical feminism. The essays also range widely in time and place  from archaic Greece to early twentieth-century China  medieval Europe to contemporary America.  Scholars from a wide variety of fields will welcome The Moral Authority of Nature  which provides the first sustained historical survey of its topic.  Contributors: Danielle Allen  Joan Cadden  Lorraine Daston  Fa-ti Fan  Eckhardt Fuchs  Valentin Groebner  Abigail J. Lustig  Gregg Mitman  Michelle Murphy  Katharine Park  Matt Price  Robert N. Proctor  Helmut Puff  Robert J. Richards  Londa Schiebinger  Laura Slatkin  Julia Adeney Thomas  Fernando Vidal\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45953193934901,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226136817","price":34.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226136813.jpg?v=1788181316","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-moral-authority-of-nature-9780226136813","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}