Routledge: London & New York, 2004 £ 16.99 paperback The world around us has been shaped by science and man’s relationship to it, and in recent years sociologists have been increasingly preoccupied with the latter. In Science in Society, Massimiano Bucchi provides a brief and approachable introduction to this sociological issue. Without assuming any scientific…
The European Commission, under the auspices of the Greek Presidency and the Hellenic Centre for Infectious Diseases Control, organised the international conference “Scientific Advice, Crisis Management and Media”, held in Athens 9-10 June. The targeted audience consisted of scientists, journalists, policy makers and citizens’ representatives. The goals were, first, to identify the right practices in…
The European Commission, under the auspices of the Greek Presidency and the Hellenic Centre for Infectious Diseases Control, organised the international conference “Scientific Advice, Crisis Management and Media”, held in Athens 9-10 June. The targeted audience consisted of scientists, journalists, policy makers and citizens’ representatives. The goals were, first, to identify the right practices in…
Italians are getting more and more skeptical towards GMOs (68% of respondents considers them unsafe, compared to 49% in 2001), but more than one out of two (57%) believes that research on agricultural biotechnologies should be continued. Lack of confidence is growing towards GM food: two italians out of three (68% compared to 49% in…
One Italian in two (47%) thinks it right to allow the use of artificial insemination techniques, also by unmarried heterosexual couples, provided external donors are not used (34% would also allow this type of solution for couples). 37% think it right to use the technology to allow single women to have children, and 16% would…
Se la natura finisce al servizio dell’industria La Repubblica, 11th March 2002 By Franco Prattico Bucchi, dell’università di Trento, per “Il Mulino” La scienza e la società secondo il sociologo L’Adige, 24th August 2002 by Cristina Orsatti
One Italian in two (47%) thinks it right to allow the use of artificial insemination techniques, also by unmarried heterosexual couples, provided external donors are not used (34% would also allow this type of solution for couples). 37% think it right to use the technology to allow single women to have children, and 16% would…
On Tuesday 22nd October a public meeting on ‘Agro-food experiments and citizens participation” was held in Casalino, Novara, Italy. The meeting was attended by approximately sixty people: citizens, experts, journalists, members of farmers associations, representatives of the local and regional governments and of the environmental agency. It was indeed a very interesting meeting, for at…