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103You cannot have your normal functioning cake and eat it tooJournal of Medical Ethics 39 (12): 748-751. 2013.Does biomedical enhancement challenge justice in health care? This paper argues that health care justice based on the concept of normal functioning is inadequate if enhancements are widespread. Two different interpretations of normal functioning are distinguished: the “species typical” vs. the “normal cooperator” account, showing that each version of the theory fails to account for certain egalitarian intuitions about help and assistance owed to people with health needs, where enhancements are w…Read more
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41Normal Functioning and Public ReasonCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 22 (2): 136-145. 2013.
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112Technological unemployment and human disenhancementEthics and Information Technology 17 (3): 201-210. 2015.This paper discusses the concept of “human disenhancement”, i.e. the worsening of human individual abilities and expectations through technology. The goal is provoking ethical reflection on technological innovation outside the biomedical realm, in particular the substitution of human work with computer-driven automation. According to some widely accepted economic theories, automatization and computerization are responsible for the disappearance of many middle-class jobs. I argue that, if that is…Read more
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52Prenatal Equality of OpportunityJournal of Applied Philosophy 32 (1): 35-49. 2014.In this article, we defend a normative theory of prenatal equality of opportunity, based on a critical revision of Rawls's principle of fair equality of opportunity . We argue that if natural endowments are defined as biological properties possessed at birth and the distribution of natural endowments is seen as beyond the scope of justice, Rawls's FEO allows for inequalities that undermine the social conditions of a property-owning democracy. We show this by considering the foetal programming of…Read more
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93On the Very Idea of Genetic JusticeCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 21 (1): 64-77. 2012.Innovations in science and technology are often the source of public concern, but few have generated debates as intense and at the same time with such a popular fascination as those surrounding genetic technologies. Unequal access to preimplantation diagnosis could give some individuals the opportunity to select children with more advantageous predispositions.
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62Germ-line Enhancements and Rough EqualityEthical Perspectives 19 (1): 55-82. 2012.Enhancements of the human germ-line introduce further inequalities in the competition for scarce goods, such as income and desirable social positions. Social inequalities, in turn, amplify the range of genetic inequalities that access to germ-line enhancements may produce. From an egalitarian point of view, inequalities can be arranged to the benefit of the worst-off group (for instance, through general taxation), but the possibility of an indefinite growth of social and genetic inequality raise…Read more
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17Una teoria della giustizia, geneticamente modificataPhilosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche 14 1. 2010.
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39Food Labels, Genetic Information, and the Right Not to KnowKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 24 (4): 323-344. 2014.This paper explores the analogy between food label information and genetic information, in order to defend the right not to know judgmental nutritional information, such as the one conveyed by traffic light labels and other, more aggressive, recent proposals. Traffic light labeling judges the nutritional quality of food by means of colored flags on the front pack . It involves a simplification of the link between food quality and health outcomes. Unlike GDAs ,1 it does not present the consumer w…Read more
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