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30 December 2008

A. Mauron: “Epistemological relativism and religious dogma: two strange bedfellows in the struggle against freedom…” (EN, IT)
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29 December 2008

Giulio Cossu: “Clinical Translation of Stem Cell Research: perspectives and problems” (EN, IT)
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29 December 2008

Eric Racine: “Neuroethics: tackling the ethical and social challenges of the neuroscience revolution�? (EN, IT)
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29 December 2008

Martin Perl: “The Consequences Of Basic Research in S&T and Proposals For Restrictions on Basic Research” (EN, IT)
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29 December 2008

Andrea Boggio: “Freedom of Research around the Globe: A Preliminary Study” (EN, IT)
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14 February 2006

Antonino Forabosco: “The new “latinorum�? for media against the biomedical science”
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14 February 2006

Imma Subirats: “Open Acces Archiving”
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14 February 2006

Mª Jesús Montero: “Investigación, democracia y libertad: el caso de Andalucía”
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12 February 2006

Michael Gazzaniga: The Ethical Brain

Research and Self Determination Index

The Research and Self-Determination Index measures the degree of freedom to investigate human biology and to exercise self-determination with regard to our bodies.
Expanding medical knowledge through research, enhancing patients’ well-being through medical treatment, and securing the best available treatment are universal aspirations shared by researchers, health care professionals and patients around the globe.
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Abortion

Abortion and contraception allow women to express their freedom of reproduction by exercising their right of self-determination over their bodies.
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Assisted reproduction

Access to assisted reproduction concerns our ability to expand our freedom of reproduction by offering us the opportunity to have children notwithstanding infertility.
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End of Life

End of life decisions concern our ability to make choices concerning the end of our lives and take of the form of refusal of life sustaining treatment, being help in committing suicide, choosing euthanasia, and make choices that must be upheld even when the person becomes unconscious.
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GM Crops

GM crops have contributed significantly to modern agriculture. Plant breeding using genetic modification techniques has led to improving crops in more targeted ways than classical breeding techniques.
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Research with embryo

Research with embryos and pre-embryos as well as therapeutic cloning concerns scientists’ freedom to investigate human biology as well as patients’ freedom to access regenerative medicine treatments that may be developed as a result of research with human embryonic stem cells.
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Right to science

The human right to science is recognized in Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 15(b) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
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A. Mauron: “Epistemological relativism and religious dogma: two strange bedfellows in the struggle against freedom…” (EN, IT)

Giulio Cossu: “Clinical Translation of Stem Cell Research: perspectives and problems” (EN, IT)

Eric Racine: “Neuroethics: tackling the ethical and social challenges of the neuroscience revolution�? (EN, IT)

Martin Perl: “The Consequences Of Basic Research in S&T and Proposals For Restrictions on Basic Research” (EN, IT)

Andrea Boggio: “Freedom of Research around the Globe: A Preliminary Study” (EN, IT)

Antonino Forabosco: “The new “latinorum�? for media against the biomedical science”

Imma Subirats: “Open Acces Archiving”

Mª Jesús Montero: “Investigación, democracia y libertad: el caso de Andalucía”

Michael Gazzaniga: The Ethical Brain

Contacts

FROM THE BODY TO THE BODY POLITIC