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Book presentation on re-inventing the indvidual in the molecular age

Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 19:00
Deutsches Hygienemuseum
Naked Genes - Re-inventing the Individual in the Molecular Age

The advances in the life sciences are a new challenge for today's societies: They pose fundamental questions on what our future could be like and on the present. What is life? What is natural? What is meant by society, what by individual? Who will take decisions on effective mechanisms regulating law and ethics with regard to biomedicine and biotechnology. Is the individual of tomorrow invented today?

Helga Nowotny, an authority in the field of social studies of science, and Giuseppe Testa, who has worked at Dresden MPI-CBG for several years, published their rather provocative views on these questions and topics in 2009 in the renowned edition unseld of the German publishing house Suhrkamp Verlag.

Prof. Dr. Helga Nowotny, Vienna, President of the European Research Council, Professor em. of Social Studies of Science at ETH Zurich

Dr. Giuseppe Testa, Milan, Epigenetics Research Group Leader at the European Institute of Oncology (IEO)

host: Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarke, Institute of Protestant Theology, Dresden University of Technology

admission: 3 Euros

This book presentation is a collaboration of the Hygienemuseum Dresden with MPI-CBG and Suhrkamp Verlag.