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| Prof. Herbert Gottweis |
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Department of Political Science, University of Vienna
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MEETING
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January 2009 |
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Herbert Gottweis is professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna. He also directs the Life Science Governance Institute in Vienna, an interdisciplinary research institute that studies the interface between life sciences and governance. Before moving to Vienna, he was a researcher at MIT and Harvard, and taught at the University of Salzburg, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and at Cornell University. He was the coordinator of the PAGANINI ('Participatory Governance and Institutional Innovation') project (2004-2007) funded under the 6th EU Framework program and he is a partner on other EU projects, including REMEDiE (Regenerative medicine in Europe: emerging needs and challenges in a global context) and BBMRI (Biobanking and biomolecular research resources infrastructure) a coordination of biobank projects. Recent publications include Gottweis Herbert, Salter Brian & Waldby Catherine (2009): The Global Politics of Stem Cell Research: Regenerative Medicine in Transformation, London: Palgrave, 2009; and Gottweis Herbert & Petersen Alan (eds., 2008): Biobanks: Comparative Governance. London: Routledge
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The Politics of Regenerative Medicine: Challenges Ahead
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The field of regenerative medicine is not only very important as a scientific-technological process, but is also highly contentious and opens up new issues of political controversy and debate. At the same time, the politics of regenerative medicine in the 21st century is influenced by the emergence of new forms and new forums of political expression and protest. The presentation will focus on these emerging forms of politics and their implications for regenerative medicine. Contemporary societies are characterised by the post-hierarchical, namely a breakdown of stable systems of orientation, the rise of a culture of uncertainty, and the development of new, experimental platforms for political expression, such as YouTube or Web 2.0. Their impact on the way regenerative medicine is perceived, understood and regulated will be discussed together with the implications for the future of regenerative medicine.
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