Our Alumni Sabina Girotto participated on the presentation of Dr. Ten Have´s Book

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The graduate of the Master In Global Bioethics M.S. Online was invited to comment on the publication on global bioethics by the researcher from our School of Bioethics.

On June 22^nd, 2022, the Fondazione Lanza organized a meeting to launch the Italian translation of the book by Dr. Henk Ten Have, a researcher at our Faculty of Bioethics, entitled Global Bioethics: An Introduction, to which Sabina Girotto, a graduate of the second generation of the Master In Global Bioethics M.S. Online to make this presentation.

During the presentation, it was established that the work is an introduction to the global bioethic's field and addresses the problems that require a broader vision of bioethics that not only goes beyond the current emphasis on individual autonomy, that is, that criticizes the social, economic and political context that is causing problems globally.

He also points out that global bioethics is not a finished product that can simply be applied to solve global problems, but rather is the continuous result of interaction and exchange between local practices and global discourse.

It combines recognition of differences and respect for cultural diversity with convergence towards common perspectives and shared values, as well as examining the nature of global problems, as well as the type of responses that are needed to exemplify the essence of global bioethics.

Dr. Henk Ten Have is a Physician and Philosopher from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, later a Junior Research Fellow at the Pathology Laboratory and obtained his MD (1978). He worked as a doctor in the Municipal Health Services of Rotterdam and had found a job in the medical ethics department of the newly created University of Limburg in Maastricht, where he was professor of philosophy (1982-1991).

He served as professor of medical ethics and head of the department of ethics, philosophy and history of medicine at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the Catholic University of Nijmegen. In 2003, he became director of the Division for Ethics in Science and Technology at UNESCO in Paris, France.

In 2010, he was appointed director of the Center for Health Care Ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, in the United States. From 2011 to 2019, he was an adjunct professor at the King Saud bin Abdulaziz University of Health Sciences in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In 2019, he retired to Pittsburgh where he became Professor Emeritus. In 2021, he was appointed research professor at the Universidad Anáhuac México.

We congratulate our graduate Sabina Girotto for participating in the launch of this book that discusses the ethical frameworks that are available for global discourse and shows how these are transformed into mechanisms and practices of global governance.