At the end of life
Horizons is embracing impermanence and the inevitability of death. But when exactly does life end? How does our society deal with dying and death? And how much self-determination is there in a living will?
The only certainty in life is that everybody has to die. For decades we had banished death from our daily lives, but today it is making something of a comeback. And because of the possibilities offered by modern medicine and our increased life expectancy, we are asked to make the most personal of all decisions towards the end of our lives: whether to continue treatment or let go? The latest edition of Horizons focuses on current end-of-life research. One of the questions addressed in this field of study is: when exactly does life end? Drawing a clear line between life and death is more difficult than one might think.
Horizons also gives a face to researchers who have fled politically unstable countries or war and are now trying to find their feet in Europe. Universities and research funders would like to offer them an opportunity to put their abilities to good use. The results are mixed, as the stories of researchers living in exile in Switzerland show.
Other topics in this issue include the consequences of digital populism for democracy, the possibilities of ensuring safe treatments for children and pregnant women who are neglected by clinical studies, and new ways of fighting Zika, dengue and other viruses that are transmitted by mosquitos.
Further articles detail the evolution of cooperation and new ways of binding CO2. In addition, bioethicist Effy Vayena tells us how she came to have such sensitive research topics, and the migration expert Dominik Hangartner offers an insight into his research on politically controversial themes.
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- Research for peace
- Water bargaining
- Start-ups in business heaven
- The tourism of the future
- Peer Review: Evaluating the evaluation
- How the cash flows
- AI, the new research partner
- The limits of brain research
- Science in the parliament
- Cinema, fact and fiction
- Patient Data
- Better cities
- A transition in publishing
- Sports in the Lab
- In virtual space
- Diversity in the academy
- Lessons from the pandemic
- A smart future for food
- Getting creative against climate change
- Belief in science
- Beware of poison! How we deal with the chemicals in the world
- Taking a fresh look at school
- Researchers in crisis zones
- Rationalising emotion
- Large-scale research: from atomic bombs to citizen science
- Switzerland’s wild-west underground
- The impotence of experts
- The other side of video gaming
- Horizonte: Wissenschaft vor Gericht
- Horizons: Whose economy?
- Horizons: Science ex machina
- At the end of life
- Horizons: Researching fairness
- Open up, science!
- Weapons: making, selling and using them
- Research rises in the East
- Horizons: Men, women and all the others
- Horizons: New paths for science
- Horizons: Humanities 2.0: a digital odyssey
- Horizons: Researchers in Politics !?!
- Horizons: The boundaries of science
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