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48Protecting prisoners’ autonomy with advance directives: ethical dilemmas and policy issuesMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 18 (1): 33-39. 2015.Over the last decade, several European countries and the Council of Europe itself have strongly supported the use of advance directives as a means of protecting patients’ autonomy, and adopted specific norms to regulate this matter. However, it remains unclear under which conditions those regulations should apply to people who are placed in correctional settings. The issue is becoming more significant due to the increasing numbers of inmates of old age or at risk of suffering from mental disorde…Read more
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67The right not to know: an autonomy based approachJournal of Medical Ethics 30 (5): 435-439. 2004.The emerging international biomedical law tends to recognise the right not to know one’s genetic status. However, the basis and conditions for the exercise of this right remain unclear in domestic laws. In addition to this, such a right has been criticised at the theoretical level as being in contradiction with patient’s autonomy, with doctors’ duty to inform patients, and with solidarity with family members. This happens especially when non-disclosure poses a risk of serious harm to the patient…Read more
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32Human dignity and the UNESCO Declaration on the Human GenomeIn Jennifer Gunning & Søren Holm (eds.), Ethics, Law, and Society, Ashgate. pp. 1--73. 2005.
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University of ZürichResearcher
Zürich, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Philosophy of Law |