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Maria Develaki - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Social and ethical dimension of the natural sciences, complex problems of the age, interdisciplinarity, and the contribution of education
    Science & Education, 2008
    Co-Authors: Maria Develaki
    Abstract:

    In view of the complex problems of this age, the question of the socio-ethical dimension of science acquires particular importance. We approach this matter from a philosophical and sociological standpoint, looking at such focal concerns as the motivation, purposes and methods of scientific activity, the ambivalence of scientific Research and the concomitant risks, and the conflict between Research Freedom and external socio-political intervention. We then point out the impediments to the effectiveness of cross-disciplinary or broader meetings for addressing these complex problems and managing the associated risks, given the difficulty in communication between experts in different fields and non-experts, difficulties that education is challenged to help resolve. We find that the social necessity of informed decision-making on the basis of cross-disciplinary collaboration is reflected in the newer curricula, such as that of Greece, in aims like the acquisition of cross-subject knowledge and skills, and the ability to make decisions on controversial issues involving value conflicts. The interest and the reflections of the science education community in these matters increase its—traditionally limited—contribution to the theoretical debate on education and, by extension, the value of science education in the education system.

  • Social and ethical dimension of the natural sciences, complex problems of the age, interdisciplinarity, and the contribution of education
    Science Education, 2007
    Co-Authors: Maria Develaki
    Abstract:

    In view of the complex problems of this age, the question of the socio-ethical dimension of science acquires particular importance. We approach this matter from a philosophical and sociological standpoint, looking at such focal concerns as the motivation, purposes and methods of scientific activity, the ambivalence of scientific Research and the concomitant risks, and the conflict between Research Freedom and external socio-political intervention.

Francis Collins - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Liberato Cardellini - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Celebration of inorganic lives: Interview with Vincenzo Balzani
    Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2008
    Co-Authors: Liberato Cardellini
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    This interview gives a glimpse on the story of Vincenzo Balzani's scientific life. From the study of photochemical reactions of coordination compounds, to electron transfer processes, to molecular machines. He talks about the social values of teaching and Research work and the need to tell children and citizens why chemistry is so important and useful. He also discusses Research Freedom, ethical problems, and the responsibility of scientists.

Tabitha M. Powledge - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Springtime for fetal tissue Research
    The Hastings Center report, 1991
    Co-Authors: Tabitha M. Powledge
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    Springtime for Fetal Tissue Research? One day soon, Louis W. Sullivan may have to go to court to defend his ban on federal funding of Research that uses fetal tissue. After months of planning and alliance-building, a coalition of groups that want to find treatments for Parkinson's disease is at last preparing to file suit against Sullivan, head of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to Judy Rosner of the United Parkinson Foundation. They want to overturn the ban so that Research into alleviating Parkinson symptoms by transplanting fetal brain cells into the brains of Parkinson's patients can go forward. The lawsuit is just one of an array of tactics designed to force the government to change its mind about the moratorium on Research with fetal tissue, in effect since 1988. Proponents believe grafts of fetal tissues are potentially applicable to an assortment of serious health problems--not just Parkinson's, but diabetes, disorders of the immune system, perhaps even Alzheimer's disease. Opponents like Sullivan say they are worried that federal sponsorship of this Research will encourage abortion. If litigation fails to work, legislation remains a possibility. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) still plans to reintroduce the Research Freedom Act, which would not only overturn the moratorium, but also reduce the Secretary of Health's ability to restrict other federally funded Research. The bill was drawn that way partly to widen its constituency. Waxman's staff is hoping the Research community will see that the moratorium means other kinds of Research are also vulnerable, and lobby for the bill even though they don't care about fetal tissue Research. Waxman, long-time chair of the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment, has a lot of influence on health policy. But it is not clear his power will prevail on this controversial issue. Last fall his bill got as far as approval by the parent Energy and Commerce Committee before dying. Medical groups favor the bill, but are not terribly hopeful. "Henry is a very brave man," says Jim Drake, who lobbies for the American Medical Association. "But the opposition is still going to be there." Subcommittee staff members say they don't even want to guess how well the bill might do in the full House. And then there's the Senate to persuade, to say nothing of the White House, which has opposed it strongly (and which presumably ordered Sullivan) to issue the ban in the first place). The constituency that favors Research with fetal tissue is at present comparatively small, so opposition costs the Bush administration very little. In return, it helps shore up the President's always-shaky relations with conservatives, who are ever doubtful about the depth of his commitment to their agenda. On the other hand, in January Bush chose Bernardine Healy as the new head of the National Institutes of Health. Healy is a Research cardiologist with solid conservative credentials as deputy director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy under Reagan. But she was also on a government advisory committee that unanimously supported fetal tissue Research. Does that mean the President is about to backpedal on this issue as he has on others? Unlikely. Like an often-rejected suitor who remains determined to marry, Bush probably settled for Healy, despite their incompatibilities, because she was the first to say yes. The NIH post, not a very powerful one, has been embarrassingly vacant since August 1989. The Administration's awkward first attempts to fill it drove away several candidates, some of them reportedly annoyed because they had been quizzed about their positions on. …

Ivana Tucak - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • An Analysis of Freedom of Speech
    2011
    Co-Authors: Ivana Tucak
    Abstract:

    Freedom of speech or expression is one of the civil (political) rights, finding its place in each and every charter of rights since it is of extreme importance for every individual respectively but also for the society as a whole. Freedom of speech, like most of the other fundamental human rights, cannot be legally regulated in a precise way and its application in judicial practice implies the judges’ philosophical and theoretical knowledge of law. The goal of this paper is to Research Freedom of speech from the aspect of rights theory.