Bioethics and Law: Between Values and Rules

Back to Government?: The Pluralistic Deficit in the Decisionmaking Processes and Before the Courts, Symposium. University of Trento, Italy, June 11-12, 2004

Bioethics and Law: Between Values and Rules

Back to Government?: The Pluralistic Deficit in the Decisionmaking Processes and Before the Courts, Symposium. University of Trento, Italy, June 11-12, 2004

Legal issues in governing genetic biobanks : the Italian framework as a case study for the implications for citizen’s health through public-private initiatives

Deborah Mascalzoni is funded by RD-Connect under grant agreement number 30544.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Alcune riflessioni su ingranaggi e meccanismi dell’interdisciplinarietà

1. Premessa: che cosa fa una discussant? Una delle prime cose che s’imparano studiando giurisprudenza è l’importanza delle definizioni, giuridiche e non giuridiche. Discussant, ad esempio, è un ruolo che implica un confronto, ma non so se presupponga anche una sorta di «antagonismo» o quantomeno di valutazioni critiche alla relazione che si discute. In questo caso mi troverei in difficoltà, poiché con il prof. Redi (alla cui relazione mi è stato chiesto di fare da discussant), ma anche con gl..

Social egg freezing: a reproductive chance or smoke and mirrors?

Autologous human oocyte cryopreservation allows storing woman’s eggs to be used later by the same donor when therapeutic or elective reasons induce women to post-pone motherhood. In the non-medical motivation, the term ‘social’ freezing is currently used. Shifting the awareness from a medical procedure to social relations, frozen oocytes are becoming polemic bio-objects which pose new questions about timing related to fertility decline and motherhood, and point out the ambiguous interpretation of biology innovations as promoter of new opportunities or new facade of enduring contradictions