To mark the occasion of the lOOth anniversary of Schering research two events took place: a) a Workshop on Bioscience; =: Society, which was held November 24-30, 1990 in Berlin. The goal of the workshop was: Do current and anticipated developments in bioscience require a new covenant between science and society? The results have been published as the first volume of a newly created "Schering Foundation Workshop" series* by John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chich ester, England (D.J. Roy, E.W. Wynne, and R.W. Old, eds. (1991), Bio science; =: Society, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons); b) a Round Table...