Naked Genes (MIT Press): Reinventing the Human in the Molecular Age

by Helga Nowotny, Giuseppe Testa, Mitch Cohen (Translator)

The interaction between new forms of biological life and new forms of social life in modern democracies.

154 pages, Paperback

First published February 4, 2011

About the author

Helga Nowotny is President and a founding member of the ERC, the European Research Council. She is Professor emerita of Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich. In 2007 she was elected ERC Vice President and in March 2010 succeeded Fotis Kafatos as President of the ERC. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University, NY. and a doctorate in jurisprudence from the University of Vienna.
Her current host institution is the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF). Helga Nowotny is a member of the University Council of the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich and member of many other international Advisory Boards and selection committees.