Workshop: Historical and Social Perspectives on the Life Sciences Concerning Life and Death: Naples, Italy, June 23-30, 2019

该奖项为国际研讨会提供部分支持;它为来自美国的10名个人提供资金，参加将于2019年6月在意大利那不勒斯动物站举行的国际住宅合作研讨会。研讨会的主题是“生与死”，所有与会者将深入讨论主题的六个方面，从近代早期关于生物的早期概念到世界各地试图探索当代科学和技术极限的最新研究计划。参加研讨会的教师总数限制为10人，学生参与者限制为25人;资助金将支持4名教师和6名来自美国学术机构的研究生或博士后研究员。研讨会的主题是“生与死”，与欧洲传统思想家对生命体的功能和目的提出的基本问题相结合。它是生物学史上的一个重要课题，与社会学、技术学、伦理学等学科的相关问题紧密相连。讲习班的目的之一是使与会者熟悉不同的科学思维模式，无论是在历史上还是在不同的文化和地理区域。这一主题的额外重要性来自于这样一个事实，即今天的生物学家和社会科学家正在仔细探索生与死之间的模糊界限，这种界限不仅表现在人体中，如医院的情况、疾病的过程、死亡的定义、衰老和法医病理学，而且表现在细胞水平上，如细胞再生、干细胞生理学和癌症研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award provides partial support for an international workshop; it provides funds for ten individuals from the US to participate in an international residential collaborative workshop that is to be held in Naples Zoological Station, Italy, in June 2019. The workshop theme is "Life and Death," and all participants are expected to discuss in depth six aspects of the theme, moving from early notions about living beings in the Early Modern period to the latest research programs around the world that are attempting to probe the limits of contemporary science and technology. The total number of faculty at the workshop is limited to ten and student participants to twenty-five; the grant will support four faculty members and six graduate students or post-doctoral fellows from US academic institutions.The workshop theme, "Life and Death," engages with the way that thinkers in the European tradition have asked fundamental questions about the function and purpose of the living body. It is an important topic in the history of biology, and it connects closely with related issues in sociology, technology, and ethics. One aim of the workshop is to familiarize participants with different modes of scientific thought, both across historical time and in different cultures and geographical regions. Additional importance to the theme derives from the fact that biologists and social scientists today are carefully exploring the ambiguous boundary between life and death as expressed not only in the human body, as in hospital situations, the course of diseases, the definition of death, ageing, and forensic pathology, but also on the cellular level, in cell rejuvenation, stem cell physiology, and cancer research, as well as in changing cultural ideas about theology and the question of an afterlife.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.