Controversy, Control, and Cosmetics in Early Modern Italy

Controversy, Control, and Cosmetics in Early Modern Italy

—In a society that damned women for both plainness and adornment, wearing makeup became a defiant act of survival.—   “Everyone hates to see make-up on his wife,” declares the character Lionardo in the Renaissance treatise On the Family (1433), “but...
The Asilomar Conference

The Asilomar Conference

—Controversies and interests in a key episode in the history of biology and genetic engineering.—   With the beginning of the 1970s, molecular biology entered a new stage with DNA recombination techniques and, therefore, the emergence of genetic...