Written by Ibo van de Poel In 1968 an ad hoc committee of the Harvard Medical School proposed criteria for brain death. Keulartz et al. (2002: 16) describe this introduction of the notion of ‘brain death’ as a redefinition of the notion of death with far-reaching...
Written by: Ibo van de Poel An often discussed example of value change is the change in sexual morality due to the introduction of the birth control pill. This is often seen as a typical example of a value or moral change. For example, van der Burg (2003: 14)...
Created with sustainability squarely in mind, Rotterdam’s Floating Farm sidesteps several environmental issues associated with land-based agriculture by moving its herd of dairy cows off-shore. As its name suggests, the farm is waterborne and floats a few metres off...