This school is co-organised by UNISER and FISV (Italian Federation of Life Sciences) held in beautiful Pistoia, in Tuscany, and has the goal of introducing biomedical students and post-docs to the concepts of ethics, epistemology, methodology, and philosophy of science, through an intensive high-level training. In addition to participating in the first school dedicated to why and how humanities matter for life sciences, participants will have the great opportunity not only to meet some of the major scholars in the field but also to interact with them on a daily basis, during dedicated discussion sessions. Participants will be also encouraged to discuss case studies that they might have encountered during their professional experience. At the end of the school participants will have gained an in-depth knowledge of the nature of their scientific work and of the methodology that defines it, as well as of its limits.
Faculty Giovanni Boniolo University of Ferrara Raffaella Campaner University of Bologna
Adriano Fabris University of Pisa
Donald Gillies University College London
Marco Crescenzi Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome
Giovanna Serino Sapienza University of Rome
Jos van der Meer Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Paolo Vineis Imperial College London
Web site www.hls-pistoia.org