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15Fuga de cerebros y biografías low cost: nueva etapa en la precarización de la juventudRecerca.Revista de Pensament I Anàlisi 16 13-33. 2015.La normalización de la precariedad entre las personas jóvenes está entrando en lo que parece una nueva fase. De la mano de, entre otros factores, los discursos empresariales y la teoría del capital humano, estamos asistiendo a una vuelta de tuerca en la presión sobre la juventud: ya no basta con la búsqueda «activa» de empleo, ahora hay que invertir en uno mismo como «empresario de sí mismo» y, en esta lógica, si es preciso hay que optar por la «movilidad internacional». Presentamos una revisión…Read more
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74Do Publics Share Experts’ Concerns about Brain–Computer Interfaces? A Trinational Survey on the Ethics of Neural TechnologyScience, Technology, and Human Values 2019 (6): 1242-1270. 2019.Since the 1960s, scientists, engineers, and healthcare professionals have developed brain–computer interface (BCI) technologies, connecting the user’s brain activity to communication or motor devices. This new technology has also captured the imagination of publics, industry, and ethicists. Academic ethics has highlighted the ethical challenges of BCIs, although these conclusions often rely on speculative or conceptual methods rather than empirical evidence or public engagement. From a social sc…Read more
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26Examining Public Trust in Categorical versus Comprehensive Triage CriteriaAmerican Journal of Bioethics 20 (7): 106-109. 2020.Volume 20, Issue 7, July 2020, Page 106-109.
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732The Death Debates: A Call for Public DeliberationHastings Center Report 43 (5): 34-35. 2013.In this issue of the Report, James L. Bernat proposes an innovative and sophisticated distinction to justify the introduction of permanent cessation as a valid substitute standard for irreversible cessation in death determination. He differentiates two approaches to conceptualizing and determining death: the biological concept and the prevailing medical practice standard. While irreversibility is required by the biological concept, the weaker criterion of permanence, he claims, has always suffic…Read more
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32The Dead Donor Rule as Policy IndoctrinationHastings Center Report 48 (S4): 39-42. 2018.Since the 1960s, organ procurement policies have relied on the boundary of death—advertised as though it were a factual, value‐free, and unobjectionable event—to foster organ donation while minimizing controversy. Death determination, however, involves both discoveries of facts and events and decisions about their meaning (whether the facts and events are relevant to establish a vital status), the latter being subjected to legitimate disagreements requiring deliberation. By revisiting the histor…Read more
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64Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Donation After Circulatory Death: Burying the Dead Donor Rule”American Journal of Bioethics 11 (8). 2011.The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 11, Issue 8, Page W4-W6, August 2011
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82One or two types of death? Attitudes of health professionals towards brain death and donation after circulatory death in three countriesMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 16 (3): 457-467. 2013.This study examined health professionals’ (HPs) experience, beliefs and attitudes towards brain death (BD) and two types of donation after circulatory death (DCD)—controlled and uncontrolled DCD. Five hundred and eighty-seven HPs likely to be involved in the process of organ procurement were interviewed in 14 hospitals with transplant programs in France, Spain and the US. Three potential donation scenarios—BD, uncontrolled DCD and controlled DCD—were presented to study subjects during individual…Read more
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30Ni vivo ni muerto, sino todo lo contrario. Reflexiones sobre la muerte cerebralArbor 189 (763). 2013.
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63“Nudging” Deceased Donation Through an Opt-Out System: A Libertarian Approach or Manipulation?American Journal of Bioethics 16 (11): 25-28. 2016.Nudges involve designing social “choice contexts” to promote what “experts” regard as beneficial for individuals and the society, by making the “right” choices easier. The most common form of nudge...
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37How Can You Be Transparent About Labeling the Living as Dead?American Journal of Bioethics 17 (5): 24-25. 2017.
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29Ethical Issues in Pediatric Organ Transplantation (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2016.This book offers a theoretical and practical overview of the specific ethical and legal issues in pediatric organ transplantation. Written by a team of leading experts, Ethical Issues in Pediatric Organ Transplantation addresses those difficult ethical questions concerning clinical, organizational, legal and policy issues including donor, recipient and allocation issues. Challenging topics, including children as donors, donation after cardiac death, misattributed paternity, familial conflicts of…Read more
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24Dying and multiplying lifeHastings Center Report 44 (5). 2014.It was only after James P. Lovette's death, in 2006, that I discovered that the twenty‐four‐year‐old colleague and friend with whom I had spent so many afternoons debating issues in organ transplantation had been the first successful child heart transplantee in the world and one of the longest‐living survivors of a second transplant. During the years we met, he never even hinted at the fact that three different hearts had beaten in his chest. The revelation that his life had been an almost unint…Read more
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100Donation After Circulatory Death: Burying the Dead Donor RuleAmerican Journal of Bioethics 11 (8): 36-43. 2011.Despite continuing controversies regarding the vital status of both brain-dead donors and individuals who undergo donation after circulatory death (DCD), respecting the dead donor rule (DDR) remains the standard moral framework for organ procurement. The DDR increases organ supply without jeopardizing trust in transplantation systems, reassuring society that donors will not experience harm during organ procurement. While the assumption that individuals cannot be harmed once they are dead is reas…Read more
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33Casting Light and Doubt on Uncontrolled DCDD ProtocolsHastings Center Report 43 (1): 27-30. 2013.The ever‐increasing demand for organs led Spain, France, and other European countries to promote uncontrolled donation after circulatory determination of death (uDCDD). For the same reason, New York City has recently developed its own uDCDD protocol, which differs from European programs in some key ways. The New York protocol incorporates a series of technical and management improvements that address some practical problems identified in response to European uDCDD protocols. However, the more fu…Read more
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39A Review of: “Timothy F. Murphy. 2004. Case Studies in Biomedical Research Ethics”: Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 368 pp. $29.00, paperback (review)American Journal of Bioethics 5 (2): 64-66. 2005.
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26A Review of: “Timothy F. Murphy. 2004. Case Studies in Biomedical Research Ethics”: Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. 368 pp. $29.00, paperback (review)American Journal of Bioethics 5 (2): 64-66. 2005.
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14Advance directives and the family: French and American perspectivesClinical Ethics 2 (3): 139-145. 2007.Several studies have explored differences between North American and European doctor patient relationships. They have focused primarily on differences in philosophical traditions and historic and socioeconomic factors between these two regions that might lead to differences in behaviour, as well as divergent concepts in and justifications of medical practice. However, few empirical intercultural studies have been carried out to identify in practice these cultural differences. This lack of standa…Read more
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3Fuga de cerebros y biografías low cost: nueva etapa en la precarización de la juventudRecerca.Revista de Pensament I Anàlisi 16 13-33. 2015.La normalización de la precariedad entre las personas jóvenes está entrando en lo que parece una nueva fase. De la mano de, entre otros factores, los discursos empresariales y la teoría del capital humano, estamos asistiendo a una vuelta de tuerca en la presión sobre la juventud: ya no basta con la búsqueda «activa» de empleo, ahora hay que invertir en uno mismo como «empresario de sí mismo» y, en esta lógica, si es preciso hay que optar por la «movilidad internacional». Presentamos una revisión…Read more
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15Precariedad en la era del trabajo digitalRecerca.Revista de Pensament I Anàlisi 24 (1): 1-13. 2019.Texto introductorio y de presentación del número monográfico.
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4Las "cárceles del capital humano": trabajo y vidas precarias en la juventud universitariaRecerca.Revista de Pensament I Anàlisi 20 59-78. 2017.En los últimos treinta años se ha transitado desde una concepción del capital humano como una macromagnitud económica a una idea de capital humano corporeizada en el individuo. Hemos asistido a una progresiva infiltración de dicha ideología del capital humano también en la vida de la juventud precaria. Nos centramos aquí en los jóvenes universitarios, para quienes el capital humano, ya de forma hegemónica, dirige y marca sus recorridos laborales y vitales. El análisis de los discursos de estos j…Read more
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19Las "cárceles del capital humano": trabajo y vidas precarias en la juventud universitariaRecerca.Revista de Pensament I Anàlisi 20 59-78. 2017.En los últimos treinta años se ha transitado desde una concepción del capital humano como una macromagnitud económica a una idea de capital humano corporeizada en el individuo. Hemos asistido a una progresiva infiltración de dicha ideología del capital humano también en la vida de la juventud precaria. Nos centramos aquí en los jóvenes universitarios, para quienes el capital humano, ya de forma hegemónica, dirige y marca sus recorridos laborales y vitales. El análisis de los discursos de estos j…Read more
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8El uso del dispositivo en el estudio de los discursos gerencialesQuaderns de Filosofia 8 (2): 91. 2021.Resumen: En el marco del estudio de los discursos gerenciales, se destacan en el presente texto algunas de las aportaciones de Medina-Vicent, especialmente el análisis de los procesos de individualización y despolitización de mensajes que entroncarían con las reivindicaciones del feminismo. En este contexto, se propone la incorporación del concepto foucaultiano de dispositivo para el estudio de los elementos que contribuyen a la difusión de los discursos gerenciales. Este concepto podría ser de …Read more
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124Development of a Knockout Competition in Basketball: A Study of the Spanish Copa del ReyFrontiers in Psychology 10. 2019.
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62Advance directives and the family: French and American perspectivesClinical Ethics 2 (3): 139-145. 2007.Several studies have explored differences between North American and European doctor patient relationships. They have focused primarily on differences in philosophical traditions and historic and socioeconomic factors between these two regions that might lead to differences in behaviour, as well as divergent concepts in and justifications of medical practice. However, few empirical intercultural studies have been carried out to identify in practice these cultural differences. This lack of standa…Read more
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21Paternity testing requested by private parties in Italy: some ethical considerationsJournal of Medical Ethics 34 (10): 735-737. 2008.In Italy, judicial and extrajudicial requests for paternity testing have increased in recent years. A retrospective analysis of such private extrajudicial requests received by the legal medicine unit of the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health of Padua University was conducted to identify problem areas most helpful in determining whether to accept private parties’ requests for paternity testing. Such testing is most delicate when a presumptive father may be seeking to disown pa…Read more
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9Reseña del libro de Vicent A. Querol Vicente, Las generaciones que llegaron tarde. Análisis de las prácticas sociales de los mayores en el ciberespacioRecerca.Revista de Pensament I Anàlisi 13 (13): 191-194. 2013.El libro Las generaciones que llegaron tarde presenta los resultados de un trabajo sobre los usos, las estrategias y las percepciones de las generaciones mayores en relación a las tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación. Las apropiaciones de los y las mayores en los ámbitos laboral, relacional y familiar, así como en el ocio, son objeto de análisis a partir de entrevistas en profundidad. Entre los principales resultados destaca el que, a pesar de la gran capacidad de adaptación de las…Read more
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23Uncontrolled DCD: When Should We Stop Trying to Save the Patient and Focus on Saving the Organs?Hastings Center Report 48 (S4): 33-35. 2018.Uncontrolled donation after circulatory death, which occurs when an individual has experienced unexpected cardiac arrest, usually not in a hospital, generates both excitement and concern. On the one hand, uDCD programs have the capacity to significantly increase organ donation rates, with good transplant outcomes—mainly for kidneys, but also for livers and lungs. On the other hand, uDCD raises a number of ethical challenges. In this essay, we focus on an issue that is central to all uDCD protoco…Read more