Proposal of a working group on "Biology and Society"




BIOLOGY AND SOCIETY

The minimal knowledge of biology for the European citizen

 


I. HEALTH

1.1. Hygiene

1.2. Infectious diseases and their therapies

1.3. Nutrition, sport and heart attacks

1.4. Drug effects and damages

1.5. Cancers and therapies

1.6. Ageing

1.7. Allergies and auto-immune diseases

1.8. Sex and pregnancy

 

II. AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT

2.1. Earth pollution: examples, treatments, control of pollution: legal aspects

2.2. Protection of nature: national park, reserve, biodiversity interest, economic development and protection, purposes and problems, legal aspects, water: control quality and use, hunt and fishing control

2.3. Food production: animal and plant selection, genetically modified organisms and the danger for the ecosystems, animal welfare, legal aspects

 

III. BIOETHICS

3.1. Cloning of living organisms from bacteria to human being, interests and problems

3.2. Genetic analysis of individuals: interests and limits, fatherhood search, susceptibility to disease and its use by insurance companies and the medical world, criminal biology

3.3. Gene therapies and genomic modification of individuals

3.4. Death definition, organ donors, euthanasia, end-life therapies: pain treatment, etc., treatment of insanity

3.5. Animal treatments

 

IV. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

4.1. Economical and social importance of biotechnologies

4.2. Basic research: control of research subjects and of developed technologies (veterinary control), intellectual property and patent, funding, purposes ...

 

CONCLUSION

The human uses of the upcoming developments of biology will play a major role in the modelling of the society.




Contact: Dominique Dunon or Charles Susanne