Life sciences raise crucial issues for society in the new century. Control of the living world opens vast new horizons for healthcare, reproduction and nutrition, and life sciences play a growing role in the global economy. Yet questions and concerns abound, making new calls on individual and collective responsibilities.
  From October 22 to November 29, 2002: The Innermost Brain
Recent developments in cognitive sciences and neurosciences concern self-awareness, thought, memory, wishes and desires. As with other fields of science and thought in the past, the challenge is to understand the brain, its capacity to adapt and its disorders. The brain is now seen in the context of a sensory, affective and cultural environment, and not only in terms of inner experience.
Yet what do we actually know today about the relationship between the brain and our inner world?
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Cycles: Health issues (in French)
How to live with health problems at work and at home?
Doctors, scientists, healthcare professionals, administrators and users answer very direct questions...
Following a series dedicated to Cancer (February 2002), this autumn we are offering two new series, the first on degenerative nervous disorders, and the second on addiction.

November 21 - December 19:
Risk-taking and addiction
How neuro-biologists and psycho-analysts explain addictions How different drugs affect the brain The treatment and assistance available
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 To November 7:
Degenerative nervous disorders
Initial signs, then the development of clinical symptoms by stages, with often disabling effects, make these diseases a special challenge for sufferers and the people around them..
When and how to get a diagnosis How the diagnosis is carried out What parts of the nervous system are affected What treatments exist? How to help sufferers and their families
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Cancer: where we are
Lectures organized in conjunction with the Cité de la Santé.
In partnership with the National Institute for Medical Research (INSERM), Assistance Publique, Paris Hospitals and Viva magazine.
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The Living World and Industry
The biotechnology revolution has increasingly broad implications: gene therapy, cloning, transgenic animals, GMOs... Have these made the living world a target for industry?
The series covers the historical background as well as recent developments.
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Series: On stem cells
Specialists from varied horizons review the current state of knowledge, offering audiences the information they need - and opening up avenues of reflection to better understand the issues raised by new developments in life sciences and medicine.
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  Debates: new developments in biomedicine: Ethics and challenges for society (in French)
Biologists, physicians, legal experts, philosophers, sociologists and decision-makers, and public health specialists discuss the ethical, legal and political issues that new developments in biology and medicine pose for human society. Debates are then opened up to the floor.
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