How Do We Want to Live?

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Gründer, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, is a professor at the Mannheim Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg. He heads the Department of Molecular Neuroimaging at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim. After studying medicine in Cologne and training as a specialist in psychiatry at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Mainz, he followed a research stay in the Department of Radiology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. Mr. Gründer habilitated in Mainz with a topic on the application of nuclear medicine imaging techniques in psychiatric research. From 2004 to 2017, he was Professor of Experimental Neuropsychiatry at RWTH Aachen University and Deputy Director of the Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics at the University Hospital Aachen. His main research interests include the neurobiology of mental disorders as well as molecular and clinical psychopharmacology. He uses functional imaging techniques, in particular positron emission tomography (PET).

• Part 1: How I don't want to live.- 1: Why this book?.- 2: Taking stock: Our world at the beginning of the 21st century.- 3: The answer of modern biomedicine.- 4: Man - an underdeveloped computer?.- Part 2: Why biology is not destiny.- 5: Common diseases of the 21st century.- 6: Health and well-being - what can everyone do?.- 7: Man influences his biology - how world views shape the future.- Part 3: How we want to live in the future: A counter-design to the "divine man" Hararis.- 8: How we live and live.- 9: How we work.- 10: How we live together.- 11: What kind of health care system we want.- 12: How we educate and educate ourselves.- 13: Ways into the future.