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Papers by Mariachiara Tallacchini
Revista de derecho y genoma humano = Law and the human genome review / Cátedra de Derecho y Genoma Humano/Fundación BBV-Diputación Foral de Bizkaia
This article starts with the fact that science, the marketplace and the law adopt a particular vi... more This article starts with the fact that science, the marketplace and the law adopt a particular vision in regards to the human biological resources that reduce them to a concept of mere biological information. The object of such vision is to make such resources available to science. Mariachiari Tallacchini has undertaken an exhaustive analysis on the existence or not of the right to property on the human biological resources, their use and the consent of the subject in order for its use.
Science and engineering ethics, Jan 7, 2015
The different and seemingly unrelated practices of Information and Communication Technologies (IC... more The different and seemingly unrelated practices of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) used to collect and share personal and scientific data within networked communities, and the organized storage of human genetic samples and information-namely biobanking-have merged with another recent epistemic and social phenomenon, namely scientists and citizens collaborating as "peers" in creating knowledge (or peer-production of knowledge). These different dimensions can be found in joint initiatives where scientists-and-citizens use genetic information and ICT as powerful ways to gain more control over their health and the environment. While this kind of initiative usually takes place only after rights have been infringed (or are put at risk)-as the two cases presented in the paper show-collaborative scientists-and-citizens' knowledge should be institutionally allowed to complement and corroborate official knowledge-supporting policies.
Il ruolo trainante che la scienza è venuta assumendo rispetto allo sviluppo economico e sociale h... more Il ruolo trainante che la scienza è venuta assumendo rispetto allo sviluppo economico e sociale ha fatto sì che politica e diritto, da un lato abbiano dovuto dedicare un'attenzione particolare alla regolazione della tecnoscienza (termine che denota la connessione pressoché inestricabile tra scienza e tecnologia) e delle sue applicazioni, dall'altro siano stati pervasi e colonizzati dal sapere scientifico, capillarmente presente nella vita stessa delle istituzioni. I diversi poteri dello Stato, gli organi di governo, il potere legislativo e il potere giudiziario, direttamente coinvolti in scelte dipendenti da conoscenza scientifico-tecniche, si sono dovuti dotare di strutture di consulenza specialistica (commissioni e comitati di esperti, consulenti tecnici, periti), tali da poter fornire loro le competenze necessarie. Al tempo stesso, gli ordinamenti giuridici, a livello nazionale e sovranazionale, hanno intrapreso una capillare attività di regolamentazione nei confronti delle attività e dei prodotti della tecnoscienza.
INDICE Presentazione della ricerca…………………………………………………….. 5 Introduzione……………………………………………………………………... more INDICE Presentazione della ricerca…………………………………………………….. 5 Introduzione…………………………………………………………………….. 7 Parte I. Libertà religiosa e prescrizioni alimentari Antonio G. Chizzoniti, La tutela della diversità: cibo, diritto e religione. 19 Laura De Gregorio, Alimentazione e religione: la prospettiva cristiano-cattolica………………………………………………………………………… 47 Lorenzo Ascanio, Le regole alimentari nel diritto musulmano…………… 63 Stefania Dazzetti, Le regole alimentari nella tradizione ebraica………… 87 Maria Rosaria Piccinni, Il rapporto tra alimentazione e religione nella tradizione cristiano-ortodossa…………………………………………… 111 Tiziano Rimoldi, Gli avventisti del 7° giorno: la Chiesa della Health Reform……………………………………………………………………………. 123 Fernando Leonini, La certificazione del rispetto delle regole alimentari confessionali: norme statuali e libertà religiosa……………………………. 143 Anna Gianfreda, La tutela delle prescrizioni alimentari religiose nella normativa del Regno Unito……………………………………………………. 155 Stella Coglievina, La tutela delle diversità alimentari religiose in Spagna……………………………………………………………………………. 193 Parte II. Macellazione rituale e benessere animale: prospettive di tutela. Diego Fonda, Dolore, perdita di coscienza e benessere animale nella macellazione convenzionale e rituale………………………………………… 225 Franco Pezza e Paola Fossati, Le macellazioni rituali nella storia normativa………………………………………………………………………….. 245 Paola Fossati, La macellazione rituale, questione etica nella normativa… 261 Rossella Bottoni, La macellazione rituale nell'Unione europea e nei paesi membri: profili giuridici…………………………………………………. 273 Mariachiara Tallacchini, Dignità, etica science-based, democrazia: la tutela animale nella società europea della conoscenza…………………….. 297 Introduction………………………………………………………………………… i Authors and Abstracts…………………………………………………..………… iii PARTE I Libertà religiosa e prescrizioni alimentari ANTONIO G. CHIZZONITI La tutela della diversità: cibo, diritto e religione SOMMARIO: 1. Cibo e religione: un rapporto inscindibile. 2. Le regole alimentari religiose. 3. L'impatto delle prescrizioni alimentari di origine religiosa sulle società civili. 4. Libertà religiosa e relazioni dello Stato con le confessioni religiose nell'ordinamento italiano: una rapida sintesi. 5. Prescrizioni alimentari e tutela della libertà religiosa nell'ordinamento italiano. 5.1. I primi interventi: le disposizioni sulla macellazione rituale. 5.2. La legislazione pattizia. 5.3. Le garanzie nelle strutture obbliganti e nei luoghi di studio e di lavoro. 5.4. Protezione degli animali e prescrizioni alimentari religiose: brevi notazioni. 6. Alcune considerazioni conclusive di forma e sostanza. 18 Prima fra tutte la Convenzione europea per la salvaguardia dei diritti dell'uomo (CEDU) il cui art. 9 garantisce la libertà di pensiero, coscienza e religione; la libertà religiosa è sancita anche, tra gli altri, dalla Dichiarazione universale ONU sui Diritti dell'Uomo (art. 18), dal Patto internazionale sui diritti civili e politici del 1966 (art. 18). Per una rassegna degli atti internazionali in materia di libertà religiosa si v. il codice curato da M. SCALABRINO, International Code on Religious Freedom, Leuven, Peeters, 2003. 19 Come noto, l'art. 19 Cost. stabilisce che tutti hanno il diritto di professare liberamente il proprio credo, in forma individuale o associata, e di esercitare il culto in pubblico e in privato, "purché non si tratti di riti contrari al buon costume". Con questa formulazione il costituente ha voluto offrire una garanzia estremamente ampia a tale diritto, espungendo dal testo dell'art. 19 qualsiasi residuo della legislazione dell'epoca fascista (che prevedeva, all'art. 1 della legge n. 1159 del 1929, oltre al limite del buon costume, quello dell'ordine pubblico e la possibilità di operare una verifica dei principi confessionali rispetto a tali limiti): sulla questione mi permetto di rinviare a A.G. CHIZZONITI, Multiculturalismo, libertà religiosa e norme penali, in AA.VV., Religione e religioni: prospettive di tutela, tutela delle libertà, a cura di G. DE FRANCESCO, C. PIEMONTESE E E. VENAFRO, Torino, Giappichelli, , 2007, p. 34 ss. 5 Cfr. M. JONES, Il pranzo della festa. Una storia dell'alimentazione in undici banchetti, Milano, Garzanti 2009; J-P. POULAIN, Alimentazione, cultura e società, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008. 6 Cfr. M. MONTANARI, Il cibo come cultura, Bari, Laterza 2008; M. MONTANARI, La fame e l'abbondanza. Storia dell'alimentazione in Europa, Bari, Laterza 2008. 7 Si rinvia alla bibliografia indicata nelle note n. 6 e n. 7. 8 Cfr. M. SALANI, cit.
La progressiva, a volte eccessiva, tecnologizzazione delle pratiche di cura e di ricerca non ha r... more La progressiva, a volte eccessiva, tecnologizzazione delle pratiche di cura e di ricerca non ha ridotto quel margine di incertezza, probabilmente insuperabile, che attraversa e agisce la cura di un essere umano, incertezza epistemologica così come derivante dalla pluralità delle prospettive e degli interessi in gioco. Ogni azione di cura è un'a-zione complessa, dove continue variazioni e valutazioni intessono scelte che devono essere giustificabili, condivisibili, innanzitutto nel rispetto dei valori e delle esigenze del soggetto malato, ed eque rispetto alle aspettative di accesso ai servizi e al grado di salute conseguito. È come se si desse un'interessante compenetrazione fra il dinamico equilibrio di valori, conoscenze, competenze, cui dovrebbe tendere la pratica clinica, come la salute di ognuno, per realizzarsi. La medicina sembra proprio essere un sistema complesso, per propria natura com-porta "profonde incertezze e una pluralità di prospettive legittime" 1...
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Epidemiologia e prevenzione
Science and law can be seen as the main creators of orders and rules in knowledge-based societies... more Science and law can be seen as the main creators of orders and rules in knowledge-based societies. These relations are particularly delicate in domains where scientific uncertainty and probabilistic causality are more frequently involved, such as environment and health. The decision of the Court of Florence (Tuscany Region, Northern Italy) (Second Criminal Division, 3217/2010, 17th May 2010) - here analysed - deals with the uncertain correlations between PM10 and health. The criminal law case involved some public officers in Tuscany, indicted for having failed to adopt the adequate measures to keep PM10 levels within the limits set by European Directive 2008/50/EC on air quality. In arguing that accusations were ill-founded, the Court, while invoking the validity of science, deliberately chose the scientific evidence relevant to drawing specific legal consequences. Meteorological phenomena are considered as the single determinant of high levels of PM10; their uncertainty is framed a...
Revista de derecho y genoma humano = Law and the human genome review / Cátedra de Derecho y Genoma Humano/Fundación BBV-Diputación Foral de Bizkaia
The legal interpretations that both patent offices and courts in the US and in Europe have applie... more The legal interpretations that both patent offices and courts in the US and in Europe have applied to biotechnological inventions seem to go back an forth in defining to what extent DNA sequences can be patented. This process has given rise to the creation of different thresholds of bioartificiality, and to the blurring of boundaries between what can and cannot be patented. The different legal rules established in both systems during the last decade have been also oscillating between increased international harmonization and concern for the internal regulatory framework.
Xenotransplantation, 2001
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2014
ABSTRACT In information and communication technology (ICT) trust has been considered as a crucial... more ABSTRACT In information and communication technology (ICT) trust has been considered as a crucial component of digital interactions. Trust has been dissected in a variety of potential meanings and dimensions and through the merging of trust in humans and trust in machines. In this paper, we investigate the role and the aggregation of trust in social networks and blogs and how it relates to knowledge production, and its connections to concepts such as reputation and sustainability in the European context. Moreover, we discuss knowledge production in information and communication technology and its relationship to user trust. We develop a view on the co-production of knowledge and trust and propose a policy management framework to support the users in their trusted use of social networks and blogs. This is presented based on an e-health use case analysis considering web based reputation and developing a new reputation scheme.
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 2014
Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation, 2009
This article reviews recent literature on regulatory issues of xenotransplantation, focusing prim... more This article reviews recent literature on regulatory issues of xenotransplantation, focusing primarily on current progress with transplantation of pancreatic islets for diabetic patients. The need for a global system that connects the national and international regulatory levels within a coherent framework is emphasized. Recent progress in preclinical xenotransplantation of pancreatic islets has enhanced the hopes of providing patients with safe and effective treatments from animal cells and tissues in the near future. At the same time the increasing number of clinical trials proposed and sometimes authorized calls for attention from regulatory authorities. Although the main regulatory aspects of xenotransplantation have been identified since the early 1990s, regulatory problems connected to the promising scientific data published in the field of pancreatic islets still require attention. In fact most normative issues, such as criteria for patients' enrollment in clinical trials and the management of safety measures have been primarily explored in relation to solid organ transplantation. Also the issue of animal rights has become more compelling in relation to the treatment of nonhuman primates in preclinical trials. In these rapidly evolving conditions the establishment of agreed guidelines at both the national and international levels remains the most urgent goal to be achieved.
Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation, 2008
The complex and global health issues surrounding xenotransplantation require all regulatory aspec... more The complex and global health issues surrounding xenotransplantation require all regulatory aspects to be thought of within a coherent framework. This article reviews recent literature on normative issues of xenotransplantation, giving particular attention to contributions focusing on the relationships among ethical, legal and social factors within the context of global changes and challenges. Although the main regulatory issues (i.e. informed consent, criteria for patient enrollment in clinical trials, the rights and obligations of third parties, the ethical management of safety measures, and use of animals) remain central to the xenotransplantation literature, new ways of addressing these topics and relatively new regulatory issues are emerging. Inadequacies or weaknesses in national and international regulation of xenotransplantation interact and affect each other in terms of both ethics and safety. Confronted with the worldwide scale of research, the main focus of regulatory issues in xenotransplantation is shifting toward the multifaceted issues of locality and globality.
Epidemiologia e prevenzione
In the last decade three different phenomena have merged: the widespread use of ICT devices to co... more In the last decade three different phenomena have merged: the widespread use of ICT devices to collect and potentially share personal and scientific data, and to build networked communities; biobanking for genomics, namely the organized storage of human biological samples and information; and the collaboration between scientists and citizens in creating knowledge, namely peer-production of knowledge, for shared social goals. These different forms of knowledge, technical tools, and skills have merged in community based scientific and social, as well as legal, initiatives, where scientists and citizens use genetic information and ICT as powerful ways to gain more control over their health and the environment. These activities can no longer be simply qualified as epidemiological research and surveillance. Instead, they can be framed as new forms of citizens' participatory "veillance:" an attitude of cognitive proactive alertness towards the protection of common goods. Thi...
Xenotransplantation, 1999
The Journal of Immunology, 2013
Acellular materials of xenogenic origin are used worldwide as xenografts, and phase I trials of v... more Acellular materials of xenogenic origin are used worldwide as xenografts, and phase I trials of viable pig pancreatic islets are currently being performed. However, limited information is available on transmission of porcine endogenous retrovirus (PERV) after xenotransplantation and on the long-term immune response of recipients to xenoantigens. We analyzed the blood of burn patients who had received living pig-skin dressings for up to 8 wk for the presence of PERV as well as for the level and nature of their long term (maximum, 34 y) immune response against pig Ags. Although no evidence of PERV genomic material or anti-PERV Ab response was found, we observed a moderate increase in anti-αGal Abs and a high and sustained anti-non-αGal IgG response in those patients. Abs against the nonhuman sialic acid Neu5Gc constituted the anti-non-αGal response with the recognition pattern on a sialoglycan array differing from that of burn patients treated without pig skin. These data suggest that anti-Neu5Gc Abs represent a barrier for long-term acceptance of porcine xenografts. Because anti-Neu5Gc Abs can promote chronic inflammation, the long-term safety of living and acellular pig tissue implants in recipients warrants further evaluation.
Health Care Analysis, 2002
The legal view of science has changed throughtime, moving from a positivist and noncriticalpositi... more The legal view of science has changed throughtime, moving from a positivist and noncriticalposition of law towards science to a criticalview of science – providing the potential formore objective knowledge, but value-laden aswell – and of the role of society. This paperexplores some judicial cases that illustratethese attitudes, suggesting that reference toscience (particularly to EBM) can be rigorouslyand equitably made when it serves the cause oftransparency and democratisation both inscience and in law.
Minerva, 2009
The institutionalization of ethics and the direct influence of politics on how ethics bodies fram... more The institutionalization of ethics and the direct influence of politics on how ethics bodies frame their opinions have been widely recognized and explored in the last few years. Less attention has been paid to what kind of normative instrument “ethics” as an institutional phenomenon has become in the State under the rule of law, and which institutional powers it has depended on. This paper analyzes the rise of ethics in the European Union context, where ethics, constructed as an isolated set of values, has been exploited for its symbolic capacity to evoke citizenship, has become quite formalized as to certain features, and has acquired the potential to redefine the traditional divisions of powers in the State under the rule of law.
Xenotransplantation, 2007
Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 2005
The precautionary principle has become, in European regulation of science and technology, a gener... more The precautionary principle has become, in European regulation of science and technology, a general principle for the protection of the health of human beings, animals, plants, and the environment. It requires that '' [w]here there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation''.
Revista de derecho y genoma humano = Law and the human genome review / Cátedra de Derecho y Genoma Humano/Fundación BBV-Diputación Foral de Bizkaia
This article starts with the fact that science, the marketplace and the law adopt a particular vi... more This article starts with the fact that science, the marketplace and the law adopt a particular vision in regards to the human biological resources that reduce them to a concept of mere biological information. The object of such vision is to make such resources available to science. Mariachiari Tallacchini has undertaken an exhaustive analysis on the existence or not of the right to property on the human biological resources, their use and the consent of the subject in order for its use.
Science and engineering ethics, Jan 7, 2015
The different and seemingly unrelated practices of Information and Communication Technologies (IC... more The different and seemingly unrelated practices of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) used to collect and share personal and scientific data within networked communities, and the organized storage of human genetic samples and information-namely biobanking-have merged with another recent epistemic and social phenomenon, namely scientists and citizens collaborating as "peers" in creating knowledge (or peer-production of knowledge). These different dimensions can be found in joint initiatives where scientists-and-citizens use genetic information and ICT as powerful ways to gain more control over their health and the environment. While this kind of initiative usually takes place only after rights have been infringed (or are put at risk)-as the two cases presented in the paper show-collaborative scientists-and-citizens' knowledge should be institutionally allowed to complement and corroborate official knowledge-supporting policies.
Il ruolo trainante che la scienza è venuta assumendo rispetto allo sviluppo economico e sociale h... more Il ruolo trainante che la scienza è venuta assumendo rispetto allo sviluppo economico e sociale ha fatto sì che politica e diritto, da un lato abbiano dovuto dedicare un'attenzione particolare alla regolazione della tecnoscienza (termine che denota la connessione pressoché inestricabile tra scienza e tecnologia) e delle sue applicazioni, dall'altro siano stati pervasi e colonizzati dal sapere scientifico, capillarmente presente nella vita stessa delle istituzioni. I diversi poteri dello Stato, gli organi di governo, il potere legislativo e il potere giudiziario, direttamente coinvolti in scelte dipendenti da conoscenza scientifico-tecniche, si sono dovuti dotare di strutture di consulenza specialistica (commissioni e comitati di esperti, consulenti tecnici, periti), tali da poter fornire loro le competenze necessarie. Al tempo stesso, gli ordinamenti giuridici, a livello nazionale e sovranazionale, hanno intrapreso una capillare attività di regolamentazione nei confronti delle attività e dei prodotti della tecnoscienza.
INDICE Presentazione della ricerca…………………………………………………….. 5 Introduzione……………………………………………………………………... more INDICE Presentazione della ricerca…………………………………………………….. 5 Introduzione…………………………………………………………………….. 7 Parte I. Libertà religiosa e prescrizioni alimentari Antonio G. Chizzoniti, La tutela della diversità: cibo, diritto e religione. 19 Laura De Gregorio, Alimentazione e religione: la prospettiva cristiano-cattolica………………………………………………………………………… 47 Lorenzo Ascanio, Le regole alimentari nel diritto musulmano…………… 63 Stefania Dazzetti, Le regole alimentari nella tradizione ebraica………… 87 Maria Rosaria Piccinni, Il rapporto tra alimentazione e religione nella tradizione cristiano-ortodossa…………………………………………… 111 Tiziano Rimoldi, Gli avventisti del 7° giorno: la Chiesa della Health Reform……………………………………………………………………………. 123 Fernando Leonini, La certificazione del rispetto delle regole alimentari confessionali: norme statuali e libertà religiosa……………………………. 143 Anna Gianfreda, La tutela delle prescrizioni alimentari religiose nella normativa del Regno Unito……………………………………………………. 155 Stella Coglievina, La tutela delle diversità alimentari religiose in Spagna……………………………………………………………………………. 193 Parte II. Macellazione rituale e benessere animale: prospettive di tutela. Diego Fonda, Dolore, perdita di coscienza e benessere animale nella macellazione convenzionale e rituale………………………………………… 225 Franco Pezza e Paola Fossati, Le macellazioni rituali nella storia normativa………………………………………………………………………….. 245 Paola Fossati, La macellazione rituale, questione etica nella normativa… 261 Rossella Bottoni, La macellazione rituale nell'Unione europea e nei paesi membri: profili giuridici…………………………………………………. 273 Mariachiara Tallacchini, Dignità, etica science-based, democrazia: la tutela animale nella società europea della conoscenza…………………….. 297 Introduction………………………………………………………………………… i Authors and Abstracts…………………………………………………..………… iii PARTE I Libertà religiosa e prescrizioni alimentari ANTONIO G. CHIZZONITI La tutela della diversità: cibo, diritto e religione SOMMARIO: 1. Cibo e religione: un rapporto inscindibile. 2. Le regole alimentari religiose. 3. L'impatto delle prescrizioni alimentari di origine religiosa sulle società civili. 4. Libertà religiosa e relazioni dello Stato con le confessioni religiose nell'ordinamento italiano: una rapida sintesi. 5. Prescrizioni alimentari e tutela della libertà religiosa nell'ordinamento italiano. 5.1. I primi interventi: le disposizioni sulla macellazione rituale. 5.2. La legislazione pattizia. 5.3. Le garanzie nelle strutture obbliganti e nei luoghi di studio e di lavoro. 5.4. Protezione degli animali e prescrizioni alimentari religiose: brevi notazioni. 6. Alcune considerazioni conclusive di forma e sostanza. 18 Prima fra tutte la Convenzione europea per la salvaguardia dei diritti dell'uomo (CEDU) il cui art. 9 garantisce la libertà di pensiero, coscienza e religione; la libertà religiosa è sancita anche, tra gli altri, dalla Dichiarazione universale ONU sui Diritti dell'Uomo (art. 18), dal Patto internazionale sui diritti civili e politici del 1966 (art. 18). Per una rassegna degli atti internazionali in materia di libertà religiosa si v. il codice curato da M. SCALABRINO, International Code on Religious Freedom, Leuven, Peeters, 2003. 19 Come noto, l'art. 19 Cost. stabilisce che tutti hanno il diritto di professare liberamente il proprio credo, in forma individuale o associata, e di esercitare il culto in pubblico e in privato, "purché non si tratti di riti contrari al buon costume". Con questa formulazione il costituente ha voluto offrire una garanzia estremamente ampia a tale diritto, espungendo dal testo dell'art. 19 qualsiasi residuo della legislazione dell'epoca fascista (che prevedeva, all'art. 1 della legge n. 1159 del 1929, oltre al limite del buon costume, quello dell'ordine pubblico e la possibilità di operare una verifica dei principi confessionali rispetto a tali limiti): sulla questione mi permetto di rinviare a A.G. CHIZZONITI, Multiculturalismo, libertà religiosa e norme penali, in AA.VV., Religione e religioni: prospettive di tutela, tutela delle libertà, a cura di G. DE FRANCESCO, C. PIEMONTESE E E. VENAFRO, Torino, Giappichelli, , 2007, p. 34 ss. 5 Cfr. M. JONES, Il pranzo della festa. Una storia dell'alimentazione in undici banchetti, Milano, Garzanti 2009; J-P. POULAIN, Alimentazione, cultura e società, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008. 6 Cfr. M. MONTANARI, Il cibo come cultura, Bari, Laterza 2008; M. MONTANARI, La fame e l'abbondanza. Storia dell'alimentazione in Europa, Bari, Laterza 2008. 7 Si rinvia alla bibliografia indicata nelle note n. 6 e n. 7. 8 Cfr. M. SALANI, cit.
La progressiva, a volte eccessiva, tecnologizzazione delle pratiche di cura e di ricerca non ha r... more La progressiva, a volte eccessiva, tecnologizzazione delle pratiche di cura e di ricerca non ha ridotto quel margine di incertezza, probabilmente insuperabile, che attraversa e agisce la cura di un essere umano, incertezza epistemologica così come derivante dalla pluralità delle prospettive e degli interessi in gioco. Ogni azione di cura è un'a-zione complessa, dove continue variazioni e valutazioni intessono scelte che devono essere giustificabili, condivisibili, innanzitutto nel rispetto dei valori e delle esigenze del soggetto malato, ed eque rispetto alle aspettative di accesso ai servizi e al grado di salute conseguito. È come se si desse un'interessante compenetrazione fra il dinamico equilibrio di valori, conoscenze, competenze, cui dovrebbe tendere la pratica clinica, come la salute di ognuno, per realizzarsi. La medicina sembra proprio essere un sistema complesso, per propria natura com-porta "profonde incertezze e una pluralità di prospettive legittime" 1...
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Epidemiologia e prevenzione
Science and law can be seen as the main creators of orders and rules in knowledge-based societies... more Science and law can be seen as the main creators of orders and rules in knowledge-based societies. These relations are particularly delicate in domains where scientific uncertainty and probabilistic causality are more frequently involved, such as environment and health. The decision of the Court of Florence (Tuscany Region, Northern Italy) (Second Criminal Division, 3217/2010, 17th May 2010) - here analysed - deals with the uncertain correlations between PM10 and health. The criminal law case involved some public officers in Tuscany, indicted for having failed to adopt the adequate measures to keep PM10 levels within the limits set by European Directive 2008/50/EC on air quality. In arguing that accusations were ill-founded, the Court, while invoking the validity of science, deliberately chose the scientific evidence relevant to drawing specific legal consequences. Meteorological phenomena are considered as the single determinant of high levels of PM10; their uncertainty is framed a...
Revista de derecho y genoma humano = Law and the human genome review / Cátedra de Derecho y Genoma Humano/Fundación BBV-Diputación Foral de Bizkaia
The legal interpretations that both patent offices and courts in the US and in Europe have applie... more The legal interpretations that both patent offices and courts in the US and in Europe have applied to biotechnological inventions seem to go back an forth in defining to what extent DNA sequences can be patented. This process has given rise to the creation of different thresholds of bioartificiality, and to the blurring of boundaries between what can and cannot be patented. The different legal rules established in both systems during the last decade have been also oscillating between increased international harmonization and concern for the internal regulatory framework.
Xenotransplantation, 2001
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2014
ABSTRACT In information and communication technology (ICT) trust has been considered as a crucial... more ABSTRACT In information and communication technology (ICT) trust has been considered as a crucial component of digital interactions. Trust has been dissected in a variety of potential meanings and dimensions and through the merging of trust in humans and trust in machines. In this paper, we investigate the role and the aggregation of trust in social networks and blogs and how it relates to knowledge production, and its connections to concepts such as reputation and sustainability in the European context. Moreover, we discuss knowledge production in information and communication technology and its relationship to user trust. We develop a view on the co-production of knowledge and trust and propose a policy management framework to support the users in their trusted use of social networks and blogs. This is presented based on an e-health use case analysis considering web based reputation and developing a new reputation scheme.
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 2014
Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation, 2009
This article reviews recent literature on regulatory issues of xenotransplantation, focusing prim... more This article reviews recent literature on regulatory issues of xenotransplantation, focusing primarily on current progress with transplantation of pancreatic islets for diabetic patients. The need for a global system that connects the national and international regulatory levels within a coherent framework is emphasized. Recent progress in preclinical xenotransplantation of pancreatic islets has enhanced the hopes of providing patients with safe and effective treatments from animal cells and tissues in the near future. At the same time the increasing number of clinical trials proposed and sometimes authorized calls for attention from regulatory authorities. Although the main regulatory aspects of xenotransplantation have been identified since the early 1990s, regulatory problems connected to the promising scientific data published in the field of pancreatic islets still require attention. In fact most normative issues, such as criteria for patients' enrollment in clinical trials and the management of safety measures have been primarily explored in relation to solid organ transplantation. Also the issue of animal rights has become more compelling in relation to the treatment of nonhuman primates in preclinical trials. In these rapidly evolving conditions the establishment of agreed guidelines at both the national and international levels remains the most urgent goal to be achieved.
Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation, 2008
The complex and global health issues surrounding xenotransplantation require all regulatory aspec... more The complex and global health issues surrounding xenotransplantation require all regulatory aspects to be thought of within a coherent framework. This article reviews recent literature on normative issues of xenotransplantation, giving particular attention to contributions focusing on the relationships among ethical, legal and social factors within the context of global changes and challenges. Although the main regulatory issues (i.e. informed consent, criteria for patient enrollment in clinical trials, the rights and obligations of third parties, the ethical management of safety measures, and use of animals) remain central to the xenotransplantation literature, new ways of addressing these topics and relatively new regulatory issues are emerging. Inadequacies or weaknesses in national and international regulation of xenotransplantation interact and affect each other in terms of both ethics and safety. Confronted with the worldwide scale of research, the main focus of regulatory issues in xenotransplantation is shifting toward the multifaceted issues of locality and globality.
Epidemiologia e prevenzione
In the last decade three different phenomena have merged: the widespread use of ICT devices to co... more In the last decade three different phenomena have merged: the widespread use of ICT devices to collect and potentially share personal and scientific data, and to build networked communities; biobanking for genomics, namely the organized storage of human biological samples and information; and the collaboration between scientists and citizens in creating knowledge, namely peer-production of knowledge, for shared social goals. These different forms of knowledge, technical tools, and skills have merged in community based scientific and social, as well as legal, initiatives, where scientists and citizens use genetic information and ICT as powerful ways to gain more control over their health and the environment. These activities can no longer be simply qualified as epidemiological research and surveillance. Instead, they can be framed as new forms of citizens' participatory "veillance:" an attitude of cognitive proactive alertness towards the protection of common goods. Thi...
Xenotransplantation, 1999
The Journal of Immunology, 2013
Acellular materials of xenogenic origin are used worldwide as xenografts, and phase I trials of v... more Acellular materials of xenogenic origin are used worldwide as xenografts, and phase I trials of viable pig pancreatic islets are currently being performed. However, limited information is available on transmission of porcine endogenous retrovirus (PERV) after xenotransplantation and on the long-term immune response of recipients to xenoantigens. We analyzed the blood of burn patients who had received living pig-skin dressings for up to 8 wk for the presence of PERV as well as for the level and nature of their long term (maximum, 34 y) immune response against pig Ags. Although no evidence of PERV genomic material or anti-PERV Ab response was found, we observed a moderate increase in anti-αGal Abs and a high and sustained anti-non-αGal IgG response in those patients. Abs against the nonhuman sialic acid Neu5Gc constituted the anti-non-αGal response with the recognition pattern on a sialoglycan array differing from that of burn patients treated without pig skin. These data suggest that anti-Neu5Gc Abs represent a barrier for long-term acceptance of porcine xenografts. Because anti-Neu5Gc Abs can promote chronic inflammation, the long-term safety of living and acellular pig tissue implants in recipients warrants further evaluation.
Health Care Analysis, 2002
The legal view of science has changed throughtime, moving from a positivist and noncriticalpositi... more The legal view of science has changed throughtime, moving from a positivist and noncriticalposition of law towards science to a criticalview of science – providing the potential formore objective knowledge, but value-laden aswell – and of the role of society. This paperexplores some judicial cases that illustratethese attitudes, suggesting that reference toscience (particularly to EBM) can be rigorouslyand equitably made when it serves the cause oftransparency and democratisation both inscience and in law.
Minerva, 2009
The institutionalization of ethics and the direct influence of politics on how ethics bodies fram... more The institutionalization of ethics and the direct influence of politics on how ethics bodies frame their opinions have been widely recognized and explored in the last few years. Less attention has been paid to what kind of normative instrument “ethics” as an institutional phenomenon has become in the State under the rule of law, and which institutional powers it has depended on. This paper analyzes the rise of ethics in the European Union context, where ethics, constructed as an isolated set of values, has been exploited for its symbolic capacity to evoke citizenship, has become quite formalized as to certain features, and has acquired the potential to redefine the traditional divisions of powers in the State under the rule of law.
Xenotransplantation, 2007
Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 2005
The precautionary principle has become, in European regulation of science and technology, a gener... more The precautionary principle has become, in European regulation of science and technology, a general principle for the protection of the health of human beings, animals, plants, and the environment. It requires that '' [w]here there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation''.