Technoscience and life sciences
NIH program explores the use of genomic sequencing in newborn healthcare
The US National Institutes of Health has announced that it will spend $25 million over five years to support a program looking into the medical and ethical repercussions of sequencing the DNA of babies. The awards will fund studies on the potential for genome and exome sequencing to expand and improve newborn health care. Genomic ... NIH program explores the use of genomic sequencing in newborn healthcare
2013 1min
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Winter School on the Anticipatory Governance of Emerging Technologies
The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University (CNS-ASU) will hold its Second Annual Winter School on the Anticipatory Governance of Emerging Technologies on January 3-10, 2014, at Saguaro Lake Ranch in Mesa, AZ. The CNS-ASU Winter School is designed to give an introduction to and practical experience with the methods and theory ... Winter School on the Anticipatory Governance of Emerging Technologies
2013 1min
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Developing a Framework for Responsible Innovation
Last month Jack Stilgoe, Richard Owen and Phil Macnaghten published an open access article in the Research Policy journal that is available through the Science Direct website entitled ‘Developing a Framework for Responsible Innovation’. Readers will probably know Stilgoe from various references made on this site including his ‘Year (and a bit) in responsible Innovation’ ... Developing a Framework for Responsible Innovation
2013 7min
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World Economic Forum Global Information Technology Report
The World Economic Forum recently released its Global Information Technology Report 2013. The report has a Network Readiness Index that aims to measure how prepared countries are to adopt and make the most of new technology. Factors such as investment in broadband and other telecommunications fields obviously enter, but so does the quality of the ... World Economic Forum Global Information Technology Report
2013 2min
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Pastor Adam Mabry in Conversation
Many of the debates surrounding the issues that we address at the Bassetti Foundation could relate in some way to a lack of absolutism. An individual must make moral and ethical decisions without a black and white idea of right and wrong (in the biblical sense). Conversations surrounding this idea led me to take up ... Pastor Adam Mabry in Conversation
2013 18min
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Sustainable Medicine: Two Models of Health Care
Lecture at Università Cattolica in Milan, organised by the Giannino Bassetti Foundation – 21 February 2005 Nothing is so common these days, and actually for many years now, than talk of the need for health care reform. There is hardly a country in the world where one can not find such a discussion, and often ... Sustainable Medicine: Two Models of Health Care
2008 18min
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