Paolo Maugeri

• PhD
• Group Leader at IEO - Istituto Europeo di Oncologia

Decisions as to whether (not) to have children are amongst those choices that mostly impact on the lives of individuals facing them. Becoming parents, indeed, involves a relevant emotional and psychological investment that maybe only few other life experiences demand. In this chapter we shall provide a tool for orienting around the most relevant e...

https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138852914 "After the young South African athlete Caster Semenya won the 800m title at the 2009 World Championships she was obliged to undergo gender testing and was temporarily withdrawn from international competition. The way that this controversy unfolded represents a rich and multi-layered example of the c...

I risultati della ricerca biomedica stanno cambiando radicalmente il volto diagnostico e terapeutico della medicina, ma stanno anche aprendo nuove questioni etiche sulle quali il cittadino deve essere informato per poter partecipare in modo consapevole alle decisioni che lo riguardano. L'utilizzo di staminali embrionali umane, la sperimentazione su...

Prendendo come spunto alcuni aspetti della Legge 40/2004 in materia di procreazione medicalmente assistita e il suo tortuoso iter legislativo e giudiziario, in questo articolo sosteniamo come la delega democratica e gli strumenti classici di partecipazione diretta della popolazione si mostrino inadatti a trattare delicati temi bioetici. Di assoluta...

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 (cancer, in our case) implies instead a dynamic interaction between the mechanistic level-rendered at the...

"“Telecare, Surveillance and theWelfare State” addresses ethical issues arising from the use of sensors and other medical technologies for home care. Sorell and Draper (2012) maintain that a technology is “Orwellian” only insofar as it is controlled by a policing authority. Since no such external agency is in place, they claim to have successfully...

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 wonder or...

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...

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 impli...