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    Etica alle frontiere della biomedicina: per una cittadinanza consapevole (edited book)
    with Giovanni Boniolo
    Mondadori università. 2014.
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    Etica alle frontiere della biomedicina: per una cittadinanza consapevole (edited book)
    with Giovanni Boniolo
    Mondadori università. 2014.
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    Genetic Enhancement in Sports: The Role of Reason and Private Rationalities in the Public Arena
    Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 20 (2): 248-257. 2011.
    Reviews of philosophical books run the risk of being either excessively and unconstructively critical or superficially praiseworthy. To avoid both these risks, we test the approach outlined by Häyry in his book Rationality and the Genetic Challenge: Making People Better? by applying it to an eighth genetic challenge, namely, a variation of the genetic enhancement challenge discussed by Häyry as it applies to sports. We assess whether genetic enhancement in sports should be conceived as an eighth…Read more
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    What Autonomy for Telecare? An Externalist Approach
    with Luca Chiapperino, Marco Annoni, and Giuseppe Schiavone
    American Journal of Bioethics 12 (9): 55-57. 2012.
    The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 12, Issue 9, Page 55-57, September 2012
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    What mechanisms can’t do: Explanatory frameworks and the function of the p53 gene in molecular oncology
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 44 (3): 374-384. 2013.
    What has been called the new mechanistic philosophy conceives of mechanisms as the main providers of biological explanation. We draw on the characterization of the p53 gene in molecular oncology, to show that explaining a biological phenomenon implies instead a dynamic interaction between the mechanistic level—rendered at the appropriate degree of ontological resolution—and far more general explanatory tools that perform a fundamental epistemic role in the provision of biological explanations. W…Read more
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    This paper explores the epistemology of extrapolation from model organisms to humans in molecular medicine. We take into account two common views on the issue, the homology view and the disanalogy view. In response to both interpretations, we argue that the foundational basis of extrapolations cannot simply be provided by homology and that relevant disanalogies can, thanks to the techniques of molecular biology, be experimentally controlled and exploited to allow useful and reliable extrapolatio…Read more
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    Caster Semenya: sport, categories and the creative role of ethics
    Journal of Medical Ethics 36 (6): 378-379. 2010.
    Caster Semenya, a South African 18-year-old, won the 800-metre track running title at the Berlin World Athletics Championships in 2009. Only 3 h later, her gender was being harshly contested. The investigation of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) was neither discreet nor respectful of her privacy. Caster's case has implications for the ethics of sports and debates about gender and enhancement, and for the philosophical debate about the nature of categories and the cla…Read more