O autismo esta em questao, hoje mais do que nunca. Tudo o que tinha sido pensado previamente esta sendo submetido a uma critica radical. Clama-se que houve erro, denuncia-se o engano, visa-se uma reviravolta. A ideia de uma causalidade psiquica e posta em duvida: invocam-se doravante as bases geneticas do autismo, separando-as da producao psiquica. Estas e outras interrogacoes, a luz das pesquisas geneticas de ultima geracao, fazem deste instigante volume de Francois Ansermet e Ariane Giacobino uma obra unica e crucial para os envolvidos no tema, da academia as familias. De forma simples e...

Advances in assisted reproductive technology are producing a new world whose boundaries and implications have yet to be fully explored and understood. New advances are announced and hit the headlines with dizzying regularity, triggering the hopes and aspirations of some, and the fears of others. What is possible? What are the implications? What should be permissible? Who should decide?

Medically assisted reproductive techniques were developed to treat sterility and infertility. However, in parallel this has created a demand for applications outside the fields for which these...

This is the first retrospective on French-born, New York-based artist Prune Nourry (born 1985), who uses sculpture, installation, performance and video, while also collaborating with researchers and scientists, to address bioethical issues such as gender selection, artificial procreation and genetic engineering. Her critically acclaimed triptych on gender selection started in India with the projects Holy Daughters (2009) and Holy River (2011). The third part, Terracotta Daughters, a life-size army Prune made in Xi'an, China, travelled the world in 2014 before being buried...