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Jane Sandall
Professor of Social Science and Women's Health
Women’s Health Academic Centre, King's College, London
North Wing, St. Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH
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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jane_Sandall/
King’s Improvement Science
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Subject: [MEDSOCNEWS] FW: Public event at the British Library: ‘Beyond Nature versus Nurture’.
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Public event at the British Library: ‘Beyond Nature versus Nurture’.
Our speakers are Professors George Davy Smith and Nikolas Rose and the evening will chaired by Professor Jane Elliott. Details of the event are as follows:
The ‘nature versus nurture’ debate between scientists, philosophers and social scientists seems to have existed for almost as long as the disciplines themselves. In recent years, however, the growing field of epigenetics has re-written our scientific understanding of how changes in the expression of the DNA in our cells can determine how we develop and function.
Epigenetics has demonstrated how our genes respond dynamically to environmental factors such as nutrition, toxins and hormones to change the way our cells behave. Through epigenetics, we are gaining a clearer picture of how our social world gets under our skin to influence gene expression in ways that could have lasting affects for us and our descendants.
This public event will bring together social scientists and scientists to discuss how the nature verses nurture debate has been revolutionised and to debate the moral, ethical and social consequences of the growing understanding of how nurture affects nature. Our speakers are Professor George Davey-Smith, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Bristol, and Nikolas Rose, Professor of Sociology and Head of Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at King’s College, London.
Booking can be found here: http://www.bl.uk/whatson/events/event156379.html
Robert Davies
Engagement Support Officer, Social Sciences
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
+44 (0)207 412 7318 twitter: @BLRobertDavies
http://www.bl.uk/socialsciences
our blog: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/socialscience/
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