John H. Evans (1) (1965–)
Autor von Playing God?: Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate (Morality and Society Series)
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John H. Evans is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He has held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study and Yale, Edinburgh, and Muenster University. He is the author of two books on bioethics, religion, and genetics, as well as many articles about mehr anzeigen science, religion, and public controversies. weniger anzeigen
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The author has only enough content here for a journal article. To plump it into a full book, he recounts in excruciating details the full interview records of the limited number of subjects upon which his argument is based. Whereas a better writer would choose illustrative exemplars, Evans subjects us to the retelling of how every participant responded to every question of the formal interview. He should have been reminded that the plural of anecdote is not "data." Most readers can stop after chapter 3. The final two thirds of the book is redundant and not very interesting.
I am surprised this manuscript was accepted for publication by Oxford; that press is usually more demanding than this.… (mehr)