#governance

Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo – 2/4

Event: Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo. Date: 2012 06 04 Time: 47 min. Place: Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, Milano, Italia. Language: Italiano. url Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/43660433 Report: Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo. Seminario sul libro “Geni a nudo” (Codice Edizioni, 2012) di Helga Nowotny e Giuseppe Testa. Parte 2 di 4 Gianluca Bocchi, Michele Di Francesco, Giuseppe ... Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo – 2/4

Gianluca Bocchi
Giuseppe O. Longo
Michele Di Francesco
Sebastiano Maffettone

Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo – 1/4

Event: Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo. Date: 2012 06 04 Time: 41 min. Place: Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, Milano, Italia. Language: Italiano. url Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/43657997 Report: Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo. Seminario sul libro “Geni a nudo” (Codice Edizioni, 2012) di Helga Nowotny e Giuseppe Testa. Parte 1 di 4 Piero Bassetti, Giuseppe Testa, Margherita Fronte ... Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo – 1/4

Giuseppe Testa
Margherita Fronte
Piero Bassetti

Who’s Responsible?

Cristina Grasseni and The Bassetti Foundation at EASA The 2012 European Association of Social Anthropologists conference (EASA) takes place at Université Paris Nanterre in July of this year, and long time collaborator Cristina Grasseni will participate on a panel on behalf of the Bassetti Foundation, as part of an event entitled “Who’s Responsible?”. The panel ... Who’s Responsible?

Jonathan Hankins
Redazione FGB

Architecture and public science communication

The role of aesthetics and design in science and technology museum. by Patricia Ríos Cabello (PhD Candidate. Humanistic Studies. Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Ciudad de México) There are several reasons ranging from the people and experts involved in the design process of a science and technology museum, to the design proposal ... Architecture and public science communication

Patricia Ríos Cabello

‘It feels like the right thing to do’: ethical perspectives of open science

by Ann Grand. Open science, an approach in which the entirety of an investigation – questions, raw data, methodologies, results, models, published outputs and more – is made available online, is a practice followed by a growing number of projects. Developed partly as a practical means to support multi-site and multi-national collaborations, it also embodies ... ‘It feels like the right thing to do’: ethical perspectives of open science

Ann Grand

PCST 2012 – Una intervista a Massimiano Bucchi

Il 20 aprile 2012, a Firenze, si è svolto il seminario organizzato dalla Fondazione Bassetti nell’ambito del Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference (PCST2012). Al convegno internazionale hanno partecipato scienziati, operatori di istituzioni scientifiche, ricercatori e giornalisti. Pubblichiamo una intervista di Angela Simone a Massimiano Bucchi (Professore di Sociologia della Scienza e Comunicazione, Scienza ... PCST 2012 – Una intervista a Massimiano Bucchi

Angela Simone

Architectures for Life with 23andMe, a Report – part 3

(…continues from the previous entry). During the afternoon panel Sharon Terry of the Genetic Alliance explained her interest in creating partnerships between genetic databases in order to use the massive number of participants and wealth of genetic materials available but currently divided between different databases. She talked about the need to move the information about ... Architectures for Life with 23andMe, a Report – part 3

Jonathan Hankins

Architectures for Life with 23andMe, a Report – part 2

(…continues from the previous entry). On the following day the Harvard STS program hosted a workshop entitled Architectures for Life to continue the debate. Guests and speakers included many world leaders in the field of genetics including George Church of the Harvard and Wyss Institute, who took part in the opening panel of the day ... Architectures for Life with 23andMe, a Report – part 2

Jonathan Hankins

Architectures for Life with 23andMe, a Report – part 1

On the 17th of April I attended a lecture given by Anne Wojcicki, CEO of direct to consumer genetics company 23andMe. The event which was entitled “Deleterious Me: Whole Genome Sequencing, 23andMe, and the Crowd-Sourced Health Care Revolution” was part of the Science and Democracy lecture series, organized by Sheila Jasanoff at the John F ... Architectures for Life with 23andMe, a Report – part 1

Jonathan Hankins

Layers of Uncertainty

On Monday March 5th I attended the third Science Technology Policy Crossroads symposium at the Harvard University Science Centre. The symposium was entitled ‘Layers of Uncertainty: Conversations on the role of uncertainty in science and technology policy’, details are available from their website linked above. The key note speech was delivered by Rear Admiral Ali ... Layers of Uncertainty

Libertà e medicina. Una recensione

Recensione del libro di Gaia Barazzetti: Libertà e medicina. Il principio di autonomia nell’etica biomedica Il concetto di autonomia non è certo un’invenzione recente all’interno del pensiero filosofico. Tuttavia il principio da che da esso si ispira e che vuole proporre una nuova modalità di considerare la relazione terapeutica curante-curato – il principio di autonomia ... Libertà e medicina. Una recensione

Virginia Sanchini

Ilaria Capua: «Fermiamo gli studi sul virus letale»

Ilaria Capua è una delle menti più brillanti della virologia mondiale. Autrice di oltre 300 pubblicazioni scientifiche, dirige il Dipartimento di scienze biomediche comparate all’Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (Legnaro, Padova), ed è stata in passato al centro di una dura controversia che ha determinato un profondo cambiamento nel modo in cui informazioni sui virus ... Ilaria Capua: «Fermiamo gli studi sul virus letale»

Margherita Fronte