In this PhD thesis I investigate the right of self-determination meant as individual right to decide about our own life or health. More precisely, the research examines how biotechnologies influence the concept of self-determination in legal theory and practice. My attention will be focused both on beginning-of-life issues and end-of-life issues. Among the first ones, I deepen the questions about preimplantation genetic diagnosis, wrongful life actions and embryonic stem cell sampling. Among the second ones, the study takes into account the questions about the right to refuse medical treatments and advance health care directives, with specific references to the Welby case and the Englaro case. The former deals with self-determination of co...
Le questioni bioetiche sollevano per il giurista problemi che rimettono in forse il ruolo e la tenut...
Il lavoro si sofferma sulle dichiarazioni anticipate di trattamento nel sistema giuridico italiano, ...
The A. correlates informed consent and living will with the principle of respect for a person receiv...
The enquiry focuses on the problem of the self-determination of the human person, in the bio-legal c...
The paper, considering that, in recent years, the concept of dignity is opposed to that of life and ...
[Biolaw & Literature. The case of Ulysses and his living will] In this paper, I will reflect on adva...
The unceasing change that science and technology have imposed on civil society brings into question ...
This paper challenges the argument for assuming that one single principle could provide acceptable s...
This writing refers to self-determination as a fashionable category now circulating about the decisi...
L'articolo ricostruisce come il diritto/principio di autodeterminazione sia stato definito e utilizz...
[Abstract] The author asserts the right of renouncing one’s life by choice. This option is not an u...
The essay focuses on the different legislative rules which allow seriously ill patients to legally r...
The thesis addresses from the perspective of public law the issue of ethically sensitive decisions t...
The A. correlates informed consent and living will with the principle of respect for a person receiv...
The essay gives a sharp outline of the recent Italian law ruling body donation to science after deat...
Le questioni bioetiche sollevano per il giurista problemi che rimettono in forse il ruolo e la tenut...
Il lavoro si sofferma sulle dichiarazioni anticipate di trattamento nel sistema giuridico italiano, ...
The A. correlates informed consent and living will with the principle of respect for a person receiv...
The enquiry focuses on the problem of the self-determination of the human person, in the bio-legal c...
The paper, considering that, in recent years, the concept of dignity is opposed to that of life and ...
[Biolaw & Literature. The case of Ulysses and his living will] In this paper, I will reflect on adva...
The unceasing change that science and technology have imposed on civil society brings into question ...
This paper challenges the argument for assuming that one single principle could provide acceptable s...
This writing refers to self-determination as a fashionable category now circulating about the decisi...
L'articolo ricostruisce come il diritto/principio di autodeterminazione sia stato definito e utilizz...
[Abstract] The author asserts the right of renouncing one’s life by choice. This option is not an u...
The essay focuses on the different legislative rules which allow seriously ill patients to legally r...
The thesis addresses from the perspective of public law the issue of ethically sensitive decisions t...
The A. correlates informed consent and living will with the principle of respect for a person receiv...
The essay gives a sharp outline of the recent Italian law ruling body donation to science after deat...
Le questioni bioetiche sollevano per il giurista problemi che rimettono in forse il ruolo e la tenut...
Il lavoro si sofferma sulle dichiarazioni anticipate di trattamento nel sistema giuridico italiano, ...
The A. correlates informed consent and living will with the principle of respect for a person receiv...