Università Roma Tre

BIOETHICS AND BIO-LAW
Course in detail
The volume Il dominio delle biotecnologie. L'opportunità e i limiti dell'intervento del diritto, in the first part, offers to the reader the arguments and reflections on the ethical and legal issues raised by the rapid development of science and biotechnologies. The question on the opportunity and limits of the intervention of law is the main question discussed, in the framework of legislation and jurisprudence in Italy, as well as in Europe and Nord-America.
The second part deals with the problems of the therapeutic relationship between the physician and the patient with specific attention to the end of life issues, palliative care, therapeutic obstinacy, living will. Besides the cultural debate on the possibility to intervene on life, the main focus will be on the paths of jurisprudence in this last decade on the relevance of informed consent of the patient in the health treatment, and the analysis of the Italian Law n. 219/2017 on Informed consent and advance care directives.
The volume Il progetto filiazione nell'era tecnologica analysis the main ethical and legal issues raised by the medically assisted procreation. Technologies and procreation, pulling away from the natural path, raise a broad cultural debate, on the relationship between sexual difference and the family and the way to understand parenthood and filiation.

Educational goal
The course aims at:
a) acquiring knowledge on ethical and legal problems raised by the increasing development of science and technology; b) acquiring competences on the main theories in the pluralistic discussion (libertarianism, utilitarianism, pragmatism, personalism); c) taking into account jurisprudence and norms that discipline these issues.

Books adopted
- d'Avack L., Il dominio delle biotecnologie. L'opportunità e i limiti dell'intervento del diritto, Giappichelli, Torino, 2018.
- d'Avack L., Il progetto filiazione nell'era tecnologica. Percorsi etici e giuridici, III ed., Giappichelli, Torino 2016.