Iñigo De Miguel Beriain
Biographic Data
| ID | 4491779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iñigo De Miguel Beriain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iñigo De Miguel |
| FAMILY NAME | Beriain |
| SIGNATURE | BERIAIN I M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Basque Country |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2650-5280 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Is more data always better? On alternative policies to mitigate bias in Artificial Intelligence health systems
The development and implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) health systems represent a great power that comes with great responsibility. Their capacity to improve and transform healthcare involves inevitable risks. A major risk in this regard is the propagation of bias throughout the life cycle of the AI system, leading to harmful or discriminatory outcomes. This paper argues that the European medical device regulations may prove inadequat…
Why whole body gestational donation must be rejected
Anna Smajdor’s proposal of whole body gestational donation (WBGD) states that female patients diagnosed as brain-dead should be considered for use as gestational donors. In this response, Smajdor’s proposal is rejected on four different accounts: (a) the debated acceptability of surrogacy despite women's autonomy, (b) the harm to dead women ́s interests, (c) the interests of the descendants, and (d) the symbolic value of the body and interests of…
Germline Gene Editing
Human germline gene editing constitutes an extremely promising technology; at the same time, however, it raises remarkable ethical, legal, and social issues. Although many of these issues have been largely explored by the academic literature, there are gender issues embedded in the process that have not received the attention they deserve. This paper examines ways in which this new tool necessarily affects males and females differently—both in re…
The Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of Pandemics
Mandatory vaccination and the ‘seat belt analogy’ argument
The seat belt analogy argument is aimed at furthering the success of coercive vaccination efforts on the basis that the latter is similar to compulsory use of seat belts. However, this article demonstrated that this argument does not work so well in practice due to several reasons. The possibility of saving resources in health care does not usually apply in our societies, and the paternalist mentality that contributed to the implementation of sea…
Priorización de recursos sanitarios en contextos de escasez. Informe Sespas 2022
La pandemia de COVID-19 ha supuesto un desafío tanto clínico como jurídico y bioético. Se desarrollan estos tres pilares fundamentales en el abordaje de la priorización de recursos sanitarios en pandemia: criterios clínicos, marco legal correspondiente y principios éticos aplicables. Inicialmente se aplicaron criterios clínicos para identificar a los pacientes con mejor pronóstico de supervivencia, combinando una evaluación clínica y el uso de va…
Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of Pandemics
Bioethical Concerns During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Objectives: Each new wave of the COVID-19 pandemic invites the possible obligation to prioritize individuals' access to vital resources, and thereby leads to unresolved and important bioethical concerns. Governments have to make decisions to protect access to the health system with equity. The prioritization criteria during a pandemic are both a clinical and legal-administrative decision with ethical repercussion. We aim to analyse the prioritiza…
La confiscación de órganos a la luz del derecho constitucional a la protección de la salud
En este trabajo analizamos los argumentos a favor y en contra del que hemos denominado modelo de obtención automática en relación con los órganos de fallecidos. Para ello aportamos datos empíricos que permiten valorar su potencial impacto en las cifras de donación y en la opinión pública. Específicamente, por un lado, examinamos las razones que lo respaldan, haciendo especial referencia a aquellas relativas a la utilidad y la justicia. Por otro l…
Should we have a right to refuse diagnostics and treatment planning by artificial intelligence
Immunity passports, fundamental rights and public health hazards
In their recent article, Brown et al analyse several ethical aspects around immunity passports and put forward some recommendations for implementing them. Although they offer a comprehensive perspective, they overlook two essential aspects. First, while the authors consider the possibility that immunological passports may appear to discriminate against those who do not possess them, the opposite viewpoint of immune people is underdeveloped. We ar…
Machine learning in the EU health care context
Diagnosis and clinical decision-making based on Machine Learning technologies are showing significant advances that may change the functioning of our health care systems. They promise more effective and efficient healthcare at a lower cost. Even though evidence suggests that all these promises have yet to be demonstrated in clinical practice, it is undeniable that these technologies are already re-signifying the relationships on the health care l…
Gene editing and disabled people
Modificar o no modificar el genoma de nuestra descendencia? Algunos comentarios a raíz de la Declaración del Comité de Bioética de España sobre la edición genómica en humanos
La modificación genética de la línea germinal humana presenta grandes problemas de carácter ético y jurídico. El Comité de Bioética de España ha publicado una Declaración ofreciendo una respuesta a estos retos. Este artículo analiza críticamente su postura, subrayando la escasa consistencia de cualquier argumento que pretenda censurar cualquier forma de mejora en la salud humana. Con tal fin, se exponen cuestiones como la relación entre dignidad …
Existe un derecho a la identidad genética
Existe un derecho a poseer una identidad genética propia? La respuesta a esta pregunta ha sido, tradicionalmente, afirmativa. El presente texto trata de demostrar que esta conclusión sólo es correcta cuando hablamos de seres humanos adultos. Sin embargo, en el caso de los clones, no es posible hablar de este tipo de derecho, sino de un derecho a no vivir. Esto significa que las leyes deben incluir el reconocimiento de ese derecho, si no quieren q…
Existe un derecho a la identidad genética
Existe un derecho a poseer una identidad genética propia? La respuesta a esta pregunta ha sido, tradicionalmente, afirmativa. El presente texto trata de demostrar que esta conclusión sólo es correcta cuando hablamos de seres humanos adultos. Sin embargo, en el caso de los clones, no es posible hablar de este tipo de derecho, sino de un derecho a no vivir. Esto significa que las leyes deben incluir el reconocimiento de ese derecho, si no quieren q…
Existe un derecho a la identidad genética
Existe un derecho a poseer una identidad genética propia? La respuesta a esta pregunta ha sido, tradicionalmente, afirmativa. El presente texto trata de demostrar que esta conclusión sólo es correcta cuando hablamos de seres humanos adultos. Sin embargo, en el caso de los clones, no es posible hablar de este tipo de derecho, sino de un derecho a no vivir. Esto significa que las leyes deben incluir el reconocimiento de ese derecho, si no quieren q…
Modificar o no modificar el genoma de nuestra descendencia? Algunos comentarios a raíz de la Declaración del Comité de Bioética de España sobre la edición genómica en humanos
La modificación genética de la línea germinal humana presenta grandes problemas de carácter ético y jurídico. El Comité de Bioética de España ha publicado una Declaración ofreciendo una respuesta a estos retos. Este artículo analiza críticamente su postura, subrayando la escasa consistencia de cualquier argumento que pretenda censurar cualquier forma de mejora en la salud humana. Con tal fin, se exponen cuestiones como la relación entre dignidad …
Should we have a right to refuse diagnostics and treatment planning by artificial intelligence
Immunity passports, fundamental rights and public health hazards
In their recent article, Brown et al analyse several ethical aspects around immunity passports and put forward some recommendations for implementing them. Although they offer a comprehensive perspective, they overlook two essential aspects. First, while the authors consider the possibility that immunological passports may appear to discriminate against those who do not possess them, the opposite viewpoint of immune people is underdeveloped. We ar…
Machine learning in the EU health care context
Diagnosis and clinical decision-making based on Machine Learning technologies are showing significant advances that may change the functioning of our health care systems. They promise more effective and efficient healthcare at a lower cost. Even though evidence suggests that all these promises have yet to be demonstrated in clinical practice, it is undeniable that these technologies are already re-signifying the relationships on the health care l…
Gene editing and disabled people
Bioethical Concerns During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Objectives: Each new wave of the COVID-19 pandemic invites the possible obligation to prioritize individuals' access to vital resources, and thereby leads to unresolved and important bioethical concerns. Governments have to make decisions to protect access to the health system with equity. The prioritization criteria during a pandemic are both a clinical and legal-administrative decision with ethical repercussion. We aim to analyse the prioritiza…
La confiscación de órganos a la luz del derecho constitucional a la protección de la salud
En este trabajo analizamos los argumentos a favor y en contra del que hemos denominado modelo de obtención automática en relación con los órganos de fallecidos. Para ello aportamos datos empíricos que permiten valorar su potencial impacto en las cifras de donación y en la opinión pública. Específicamente, por un lado, examinamos las razones que lo respaldan, haciendo especial referencia a aquellas relativas a la utilidad y la justicia. Por otro l…
The Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of Pandemics
Mandatory vaccination and the ‘seat belt analogy’ argument
The seat belt analogy argument is aimed at furthering the success of coercive vaccination efforts on the basis that the latter is similar to compulsory use of seat belts. However, this article demonstrated that this argument does not work so well in practice due to several reasons. The possibility of saving resources in health care does not usually apply in our societies, and the paternalist mentality that contributed to the implementation of sea…
Priorización de recursos sanitarios en contextos de escasez. Informe Sespas 2022
La pandemia de COVID-19 ha supuesto un desafío tanto clínico como jurídico y bioético. Se desarrollan estos tres pilares fundamentales en el abordaje de la priorización de recursos sanitarios en pandemia: criterios clínicos, marco legal correspondiente y principios éticos aplicables. Inicialmente se aplicaron criterios clínicos para identificar a los pacientes con mejor pronóstico de supervivencia, combinando una evaluación clínica y el uso de va…
Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of Pandemics
Why whole body gestational donation must be rejected
Anna Smajdor’s proposal of whole body gestational donation (WBGD) states that female patients diagnosed as brain-dead should be considered for use as gestational donors. In this response, Smajdor’s proposal is rejected on four different accounts: (a) the debated acceptability of surrogacy despite women's autonomy, (b) the harm to dead women ́s interests, (c) the interests of the descendants, and (d) the symbolic value of the body and interests of…
Germline Gene Editing
Human germline gene editing constitutes an extremely promising technology; at the same time, however, it raises remarkable ethical, legal, and social issues. Although many of these issues have been largely explored by the academic literature, there are gender issues embedded in the process that have not received the attention they deserve. This paper examines ways in which this new tool necessarily affects males and females differently—both in re…
Is more data always better? On alternative policies to mitigate bias in Artificial Intelligence health systems
The development and implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) health systems represent a great power that comes with great responsibility. Their capacity to improve and transform healthcare involves inevitable risks. A major risk in this regard is the propagation of bias throughout the life cycle of the AI system, leading to harmful or discriminatory outcomes. This paper argues that the European medical device regulations may prove inadequat…
Political science (12 works) · Law (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Health care (4 works) · Obligation (4 works) · Pandemic (4 works)