Maurizio Mori
Biographic Data
| ID | 3666855 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maurizio Mori |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maurizio |
| FAMILY NAME | Mori |
| SIGNATURE | MORI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0600-6708 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ethicists, doctors and triage decisions
We report here an emerging dispute in Italy concerning triage criteria for critically ill covid-19 patients, and how best to support doctors having to make difficult decisions in a context of insufficient life saving resources. The dispute we present is particularly significant as it juxtaposes two opposite views of who should make triage decisions, and how doctors should best be supported. There are both empirical and normative questions at stak…
A desteologização da bioética e o nascimento da ética como nova instituição específica
A desteologização da bioética é uma das maiores transformações do imaginário social já ocorridas, análoga à ocorrida com o Romantismo. A interdisciplinaridade é seu maior efeito em nível institucional. A demanda por justificativas racionais é seu efeito em nível metodológico. Em um nível mais profundo, seu efeito é sobre seu próprio objeto de reflexão: a vida humana, que passa a ser percebida de uma maneira radicalmente nova
The morality of assisted reproduction and genetic manipulation
The author analyzes the pros and cons of various forms of assisted reproduction, including the use of so-called 'genetic manipulation'. He shows how in ethics the only arguments with any chance of reaching a consensus (or at least an agreement) are those of the rational type, based on universally acceptable ethical principles or corroborated by empirical facts and real life experience (as the starting point for identifying problems requiring anal…
Italy
Italy
Mori gives an overview of biomedical ethics in Italy in one of four Hastings Center Report country reports. Public policy on issues like in vitro fertilization, sterilization and abortion, passive euthanasia, and organ transplantation reflects the declining influence of the Catholic Church and the increasing cultural pluralism of Italian society. The government has appointed advisory bodies on reproductive technologies and AIDS to study the issue…
The philosophical basis of medical ethics
Italy
Most of the recent public and scholarly interest in Italy concerning\nbioethical issues has centered on abortion, general reform of the health care\nsystem, and deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. Medical decisions are\nthought to concern technical rather than moral issues, and are generally left\nto physicians. Although ethics is a formal part of the medical curriculum\nonly in Catholic universities, physicians have recently shown more o…
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Italy
Most of the recent public and scholarly interest in Italy concerning\nbioethical issues has centered on abortion, general reform of the health care\nsystem, and deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill. Medical decisions are\nthought to concern technical rather than moral issues, and are generally left\nto physicians. Although ethics is a formal part of the medical curriculum\nonly in Catholic universities, physicians have recently shown more o…
Italy
Mori gives an overview of biomedical ethics in Italy in one of four Hastings Center Report country reports. Public policy on issues like in vitro fertilization, sterilization and abortion, passive euthanasia, and organ transplantation reflects the declining influence of the Catholic Church and the increasing cultural pluralism of Italian society. The government has appointed advisory bodies on reproductive technologies and AIDS to study the issue…
The philosophical basis of medical ethics
Italy
The morality of assisted reproduction and genetic manipulation
The author analyzes the pros and cons of various forms of assisted reproduction, including the use of so-called 'genetic manipulation'. He shows how in ethics the only arguments with any chance of reaching a consensus (or at least an agreement) are those of the rational type, based on universally acceptable ethical principles or corroborated by empirical facts and real life experience (as the starting point for identifying problems requiring anal…
A desteologização da bioética e o nascimento da ética como nova instituição específica
A desteologização da bioética é uma das maiores transformações do imaginário social já ocorridas, análoga à ocorrida com o Romantismo. A interdisciplinaridade é seu maior efeito em nível institucional. A demanda por justificativas racionais é seu efeito em nível metodológico. Em um nível mais profundo, seu efeito é sobre seu próprio objeto de reflexão: a vida humana, que passa a ser percebida de uma maneira radicalmente nova
Ethicists, doctors and triage decisions
We report here an emerging dispute in Italy concerning triage criteria for critically ill covid-19 patients, and how best to support doctors having to make difficult decisions in a context of insufficient life saving resources. The dispute we present is particularly significant as it juxtaposes two opposite views of who should make triage decisions, and how doctors should best be supported. There are both empirical and normative questions at stak…
Sociology (4 works) · Abortion (3 works) · Ethics in medical practice (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)