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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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73Turning residual human biological materials into research collections: playing with consentJournal of Medical Ethics 38 (6): 351-355. 2012.This article focuses on three scenarios in which residual biological materials are turned into research collections during the procedure of procuring these materials for diagnostic, therapeutic or other non-research purposes. These three scenarios differ from each other primarily because they employ different models of consent: (a) precautionary consent, which may be secured during the collecting procedure; (b) the presumed consent model, which may be applied during the collection of materials; …Read more
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43Dynamic Consent: a potential solution to some of the challenges of modern biomedical researchBMC Medical Ethics 18 (1): 4. 2017.BackgroundInnovations in technology have contributed to rapid changes in the way that modern biomedical research is carried out. Researchers are increasingly required to endorse adaptive and flexible approaches to accommodate these innovations and comply with ethical, legal and regulatory requirements. This paper explores how Dynamic Consent may provide solutions to address challenges encountered when researchers invite individuals to participate in research and follow them up over time in a con…Read more
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46Discovering misattributed paternity in genetic counselling: different ethical perspectives in two countriesJournal of Medical Ethics 40 (3): 177-181. 2014.Misattributed paternity or ‘false’ paternity is when a man is wrongly thought, by himself and possibly by others, to be the biological father of a child. Nowadays, because of the progression of genetics and genomics the possibility of finding misattributed paternity during familial genetic testing has increased. In contrast to other medical information, which pertains primarily to individuals, information obtained by genetic testing and/or pedigree analysis necessarily has implications for other…Read more
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Procurement, storage and transfer of tissues and cells for non-clinical purposes in a legal and ethical perspective (Fourth International Workshop, Padova)In Katharina Beier, Nils Hoppe, Christian Lenk & Silvia Schnorrer (eds.), The ethical and legal regulation of human tissue and biobank research in Europe: proceedings of the Tiss.EU project, Universit Atsverlag G Ottingen. 2011.
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12Understanding social oocyte freezing in Italy: a scoping survey on university female students’ awareness and attitudesLife Sciences, Society and Policy 15 (1): 1-14. 2019.In Western countries, a social trend toward delaying childbearing has been observed in women of reproductive age for the last two decades. This delay is due to different factors related to lifestyle, such as the development of a professional career or the absence of the right partner. As a consequence, women who defer childbearing may find themselves affected by age-related infertility when they decide to conceive. Fertility preservation techniques are, therefore, proposed as a solution for thes…Read more
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10Young people’s awareness on biobanking and DNA profiling: results of a questionnaire administered to Italian university studentsLife Sciences, Society and Policy 13 (1): 1-12. 2017.Current policy approaches to social and ethical issues surrounding biobanks manifest lack of public information given by researchers and government, despite the evidence that Italian citizens are well informed about technical and other public perspectives of biotechnologies. For this reason, the focus of our survey was to interview our University’s students on these aspects. The sample consisted of Padua University students, who were administered a questionnaire comprising eight questions coveri…Read more
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42Biobanks for non-clinical purposes and the new law on forensic biobanks: does the Italian context protect the rights of minors?Journal of Medical Ethics 36 (12): 775-778. 2010.Biobanks are an important resource for medical research. Genetic research on biological material from minors can yield valuable information that can improve our understanding of genetic–environmental interactions and the genesis and development of early onset genetic disorders. The major ethical concerns relating to biobanks concern consent, privacy, confidentiality, commercialisation, and the right to know or not to know. However, research on paediatric data raises specific governance and ethic…Read more
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45Retaining the Genetic Profile of Innocent People: A Difficult Balance Between Respecting the Individual's Privacy and Public SecuritySynesis: A Journal of Science, Technology, Ethics, and Policy 4 (1). 2013.
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108Biobanking research on oncological residual material: a framework between the rights of the individual and the interest of society (review)BMC Medical Ethics 14 (1): 17. 2013.The tissue biobanking of specific biological residual materials, which constitutes a useful resource for medical/scientific research, has raised some ethical issues, such as the need to define which kind of consent is applicable for biological residual materials biobanks
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51Jan Tolleneer, Sigrid Sterckx, and Pieter Bonte (eds): Athletic enhancement, human nature and ethics: threats and opportunities of doping technologiesTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 35 (3): 249-250. 2014.The book collects contributions of different authors with diverging points of views, but it keeps a balance between acceptance and complete rejection of doping technologies, providing a rich analysis of one of the most controversial aspects of sports. The strength of the book lies in the variety of questions addressed under different ethics perspectives that affect the ethical evaluation of the phenomenon.Pieter Bonte and co-authors well identified the problem, putting the following question at …Read more
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39Norbert Konrad, Birgit Völlm and, David N. Weisstub : Ethical issues in prison psychiatry: Springer, International Library of Ethics, Law and New Medicine, vol. 46, 2013, 434 pp, ISBN: 978-94-007-0085-7Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 36 (3): 247-248. 2015.
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28Hospitalized hunger-striking prisoners: the role of ethics consultationsMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 19 (4): 623-628. 2016.We refer to hospitalized convicted hunger strikers in Padua Hospital who decided to fast for specific reasons, often demanding, to be heard by the judge, to complain about the existing custodial situation or to claim unjust treatment. The medical ethics of hunger strikers are debated because the use of force feeding by physicians is widely condemned as unethical, but courts, in Italy, sometimes order to transfer the convicted person to hospital and oblige healthcare practitioners to perform forc…Read more
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