The first part of the thesis is a critical analysis of the proceedings of the conferences "Towards a Theoretical Biology" founded by the Rockefeller Foundation and leaded by Conrad H. Waddington. The second part is an epistemological and sociological analysis of a technique called Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS), analysis carried out in few laboratories through interviews and observations. It follow a social and ethical critic of the so called "genetic medicine", who should benefit of the GWAS technique.

La diversità biologica / D'Abramo, Flavio. - (2012 Jun 18).

La diversità biologica.

D'ABRAMO, FLAVIO
18/06/2012

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The first part of the thesis is a critical analysis of the proceedings of the conferences "Towards a Theoretical Biology" founded by the Rockefeller Foundation and leaded by Conrad H. Waddington. The second part is an epistemological and sociological analysis of a technique called Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS), analysis carried out in few laboratories through interviews and observations. It follow a social and ethical critic of the so called "genetic medicine", who should benefit of the GWAS technique.
18-giu-2012
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