The second issue of 2022 of the Journal Medicine & Ethics is published

This issue contains six articles and a review that show a diversity of topics especially Bioethics at the end of life, as well as different reflections on the pandemic.

Some of the articles that this number contains are: Ethical dilemmas of non-invasive prenatal genetic diagnosis using cell-free fetal DNA technology: an assessment of the first ten years since its introduction into medical practice. The Global Ethics of AI in COVID-19 Recovery: Narrative Review and Ethical Analysis of the Personalist Social Contract of AI-Driven Optimization of Public Health Efficacy and Social Equity. Personhood and comma: a reversible proposal.

We successfully carried out the General Academy of Professors and Researches of the Faculty of Bioethics

On March 30, the general academy of professors and researchers of the Faculty of Bioethics was held, whose objective is to integrate all its members through the exchange of ideas and perspectives on the present and future of bioethics, in addition discuss the article "Bioethics needs bayonets" by PhD Henk ten Have, who is also a professor of the Master in Global Bioethics and associate researcher of our Faculty.

Doctor Alberto García was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Bioethics of the Pontifical Ateneo Regina Apostolorum

Dr. Alberto García Gómez, associate professor, and researcher of our Faculty has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Bioethics of the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical Athenaeum (UPRA), in Rome, Italy. In addition, on March 29, 2022 in the City of Rome (Italy), Dr. García Gómez was decorated with the Order of the Colombian Congress with the rank of Knight. This distinction was given to him in the Special Ceremony by the Ambassador of Colombia to the Holy See Jorge Mario Eastman Robledo.

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From Editorial number 2, Vol. 33 (2022)

It contains six articles and a review, they show us the diversity of topics, from bioethics at the end of life, to different reflections on the pandemic.

The first article, by Pasquale Gallo- "Ethical dilemmas of non-invasive prenatal genetic diagnosis, using cell-free fetal DNA technology: an assessment of the first ten years, since its introduction in medical practice" is a review study of articles published since 2010 on prenatal diagnosis and the techniques used. The author focuses his gaze on the ethical issues arising from recent techniques, among which cell-free fetal DNA screening stands out, which is a non-invasive technique.

The proposal to avoid slipping the use of these techniques to the detriment of the woman and the embryo is to carry them out, according to the author, through the bioethical principles of defense of physical life, the therapeutic principle and the principles of sociability and subsidiarity.

CONBIOETHICS RESOURCES: March Catalog 2022

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SABINA GIROTTO

What I am doing as a Bioethicist that I would like to share?

1. How have your studies in bioethics complemented your professional and personal life?

My studies in bioethics have complemented both my professional and my personal life wonderfully. Professionally, this master gave me the opportunity to consolidate and increase my previous education, and this did not go unnoticed around me! During the master and after it, I had the opportunity to write some papers, to give lectures, to be consulted by some associations working in the field of health. Personally, the master opened my mind since I could increase my knowledge, exchanging my experience with classmates all over the world, learning different methods of inquiry and new approaches to life and ethics.

2. Are you currently working on a project related to bioethics?

Yes, I am working in some project. Primarily, I am a part-time university lecturer at the Higher Institutes of Religious Sciences "Giovanni Paolo I" (Treviso and Belluno, Italy) where I teach a course in Global Bioethics.

3. Have you given a presentation or conference in relation to bioethical issues?

Yes, in this period I have given some conferences in relation to bioethical issues, especially for a pro-life association in order to present major ethical issues arising at the beginning of life (Uniti per la Vita- UPV). Second, in May I will participate to an interreligious conference on organ donation, promoted by the Italian Association of Organs Donors (AIDO), which aims to sensitize on the subject of solidarity trough postmortem organ donation.

4. Do you have any publication in bioethics/ethics?

Yes, I published a paper in an Italian journal ("Etica per le professioni"): S. GIROTTO, Il Covid-19 nel contesto della salute globale, Etica per le professioni, 2020 (1), pp. 7-16.

5. Do you belong or are you a member of any association/committee related to bioethics/ethics? Which one? Since when?

Yes, I belong to "Lanza Foundation", an important Centre of ethics in Padova.

6. Do you recommend the postgraduate program you were part of? What was your experience?

Yes, I absolutely recommend it. On an academic ground, as far as I know, it is the only existing international Master on Global Bioethics, and one of the few Masters in global bioethics with a so complete and broad view, including courses on the most important disciplines relating to bioethics and global bioethics. Moreover, the daily exchange with classmates living in other parts of the world has allowed me to strike up new bonds on a personal and professional ground, letting me know different ethical and cultural approaches. Thus, you both study and concretely experience a global approach to bioethics.

This has been amazing!

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