Attività e Progetti

In the past century, nearly all of the biological sciences have been directly affected by discoveries and developments in genetics, a fast-evolving subject with important theoretical dimensions. In this rich and accessible book, Paul Griffiths and Karola Stotz show how the concept of the gene...

Sex/Gender presents a relatively new way to think about how biological difference can be produced over time in response to different environmental and social experiences. This book gives a clearly written explanation of the biological and cultural underpinnings of gender. Anne Fausto-Sterling...

Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality-of course, policy should be based on the facts. But are the methods that policy makers rely on to gather and analyze...

Cet ouvrage s’inscrit dans le fil du travail collectif entrepris en 1995, l’ Histoire de la pensée médicale en Occident (trois volumes sous la direction de Mirko D. Grmek, Seuil, 1995, 1997, 1999). Il rend compte du déploiement des recherches pluridisciplinaires et transdisciplinaires de la...

Siamo abituati a pensare al cancro come ad un fenomeno biologico complesso ed enigmatico, ma poche volte abbiamo pensato che la ricerca sperimentale in quest'ambito potesse offrire spunti anche per la riflessione filosofica. Eppure un confronto interessante, tra posizioni epistemologiche...