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Ten years of science in society, 2001-2011
Published the Observa decennial book

To celebrate its first tenth anniversary, Observa has published Ten Years of Science in Society, a special book in Italian and English. With texts and images the book illustrates key Observa activities, events and publications during the past ten years.

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NEWS
Health, food and innovation
Observa among the partners of the new European project INPROFOOD ...>
Public Understanding of Science
Vote the most influential papers ...>
PCST 2012: more than 500 proposals submitted
Florence, 18th – 20th April, 2012 ...>
PUBLICATIONS CONTRIBUTIONS
Dynamics of Disaster and The Culture of Science
Two new publications by B. Allen and M. Bauer from Observa scientific committee
Science, religion and politics: Robert K. Merton
The new edition of a classic book in sociology of science
The Nano-world to Come. Toward the Nanotechnological Society
by Federico Neresini, 200 pages
The role of social research in genomics
By Maud Radstake and Bernhard Wieser, with Esther Thole

Although a little over ten years ago the concept of genomics itself was hardly known outside the molecular biologists’ circle, these days it has become routine for a whole contingent of researchers from various backgrounds. In various countries, investment in research into the ‘social’ implications of this new technology followed in the slipstream of large-scale public investment in genomics. This social research around the life sciences has become known
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