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What can the neural activity in our brain cortex, or our reaction to a Caravaggio painting, reveal about the deep seat of guilt? How can reading Heidegger, or conducting experiments on rats, help us to cope with anxiety in the face of the world's economic crisis? This title takes you on a journey through our everyday lives and common feelings.
A propos de l'auteur
Giovanni Frazzetto was born and grew up on the east coast of Sicily. In 1995, after high school, he moved to the UK to study science at University College London and in 2002 he received a PhD in molecular biology from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg. After a brief spell at the Department of Biology of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, he returned to Heidelberg in 2003 where he began writing on societal and cultural aspects of science, publishing in journals such as EMBOreports and Nature. In 2007 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is a founding member and Advisory Expert of the European Neuroscience & Society Network, a five year programme involving leading neuroscientists and social scientists from eleven European countries in collaborative research and debate on salient societal issues. For his transdisciplinary efforts he was awarded the 2008 John Kendrew Young Scientist Award. He now lives and works between London and Berlin.
