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 (Bond University, Queensland) 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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Peter (University of Oxford) Harrison
The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science
Peter Harrison provides an account of the religious foundations of scientific knowledge. He shows how the approaches to the study of nature that emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were directly informed by theological discussions about the Fall of Man and the extent to which the mind and the senses had been damaged by that primeval event.
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