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66Minding Rights: Mapping Ethical and Legal Foundations of ‘Neurorights’Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 32 (4): 461-481. 2023.The rise of neurotechnologies, especially in combination with artificial intelligence (AI)-based methods for brain data analytics, has given rise to concerns around the protection of mental privacy, mental integrity and cognitive liberty – often framed as “neurorights” in ethical, legal, and policy discussions. Several states are now looking at including neurorights into their constitutional legal frameworks, and international institutions and organizations, such as UNESCO and the Council of Eur…Read more
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12IntroductionSwitzerland lacks specific legal regulation of assistance in suicide. The practice has, however, developed since the 1980s as a consequence of a gap in the Swiss Criminal Code and is performed by private right-to-die organisations. Traditionally, assistance in suicide is considered contrary to the philosophy of palliative care. Nonetheless, Swiss palliative care physicians regularly receive patient requests for suicide assistance. Their attitudes towards the legal regulations of this…Read more
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Human rights and the moral obligation to alleviate sufferingIn Ronald Michael Green & Nathan J. Palpant (eds.), Suffering and Bioethics, Oup Usa. 2014.
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20Global Bioethics in the Post-Coronavirus Era: A Discussion with Roberto AndornoConatus 7 (1): 185-200. 2022.A discussion with Roberto Andorno about global bioethics and biolaw, the Coronavirus pandemic, and its impact on human dignity and rights. Can we foresee the emerging new profile of global bioethics and biolaw in the post-Coronavirus era? How significant are they going to be in the future, after the enormous pressure that the Coronavirus pandemic has exercised on key political, legal, and ethical values? Must the voice of bioethicists -compared to the ‘hard’ scientific data- be louder in the fut…Read more
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94Towards a Governance Framework for Brain DataNeuroethics 15 (2): 1-14. 2022.The increasing availability of brain data within and outside the biomedical field, combined with the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to brain data analysis, poses a challenge for ethics and governance. We identify distinctive ethical implications of brain data acquisition and processing, and outline a multi-level governance framework. This framework is aimed at maximizing the benefits of facilitated brain data collection and further processing for science and medicine whilst minimizi…Read more
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51La dignidad humana como principio biojurídico y como estándar moral de la relación médico-pacienteArbor 195 (792): 501. 2019.El artículo destaca la importancia de distinguir entre dos roles diversos que la noción de dignidad humana juega en bioética: uno, como principio de orden jurídico-político, y otro, como estándar moral del trato debido al paciente. Cuando la dignidad es entendida en el primer sentido, nos encontramos con un concepto muy general, que cumple un rol fundacional y de orientación de las normas relacionadas con las prácticas biomédicas. En cambio, cuando es utilizada en el segundo sentido, intenta cap…Read more
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Chapter 2 Do Our Moral Judgements Need to Be Guided by Principles?In Marta Soniewicka (ed.), The Ethics of Reproductive Genetics - Between Utility, Principles, and Virtues, Springer Verlag. 2018.
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1A Human Rights Approach to BioethicsIn José-Antonio Seoane & Pedro Serna (eds.), Bioethical Decision Making and Argumentation, Springer Verlag. 2016.
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95Towards new human rights in the age of neuroscience and neurotechnologyLife Sciences, Society and Policy 13 (1): 1-27. 2017.Rapid advancements in human neuroscience and neurotechnology open unprecedented possibilities for accessing, collecting, sharing and manipulating information from the human brain. Such applications raise important challenges to human rights principles that need to be addressed to prevent unintended consequences. This paper assesses the implications of emerging neurotechnology applications in the context of the human rights framework and suggests that existing human rights may not be sufficient t…Read more
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56The dual role of human dignity in bioethicsMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 16 (4): 967-973. 2013.This paper argues that some of the misunderstandings surrounding the meaning and function of the concept of human dignity in bioethics arise from a lack of distinction between two different roles that this notion plays: one as an overarching policy principle, and the other as a moral standard of patient care. While the former is a very general concept which fulfils a foundational and a guiding role of the normative framework governing biomedical issues, the latter reflects a much more concrete a…Read more
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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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2The paradoxical notion of human dignityRivista Internazionale di Filosofia Del Diritto 78 (2): 151-168. 2001.
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Regulatory discrepancies between the Council of Europe and the EU regarding biomedical researchIn André den Exter (ed.), Human rights and biomedicine, Maklu. 2010.
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10International Policy and a Universal Conception of Human DignityIn Stephen Dilley & Nathan J. Palpant (eds.), Human Dignity in Bioethics: From Worldviews to the Public Square, Routledge. pp. 13--127. 2012.
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15The right not to know does not apply to HIV testingJournal of Medical Ethics 42 (2): 104-105. 2016.
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42Do Our Moral Judgments Need to Be Guided by Principles?Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 21 (4): 457-465. 2012.
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University of ZürichResearcher
Zürich, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Philosophy of Law |