Felicitas Holzer

Biographic Data

ID4808848
NAMEFelicitas Holzer
GIVEN NAMESFelicitas
FAMILY NAMEHolzer
SIGNATUREHOLZER F
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Zurich
ORCID0000-0002-3674-0241
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • An International Delphi Study on the Challenges of Self-Experimentation for Medical Research Ethics

    Open AccessTania Manríquez Roa, Felicitas Holzer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2026

    Self-experimentation is a research practice that might advance scientific progress and benefit populations worldwide. However, it also carries risks, both in terms of potential harm to researchers and the possibility of undermining research. This study seeks to explore expert perspectives on self-experimentation, examining its potential benefits and risks, identifying areas of consensus and divergence, and highlighting key themes to inform debate…

  • The role of social justice in triage revisited

    Open AccessFelicitas Holzer, Nikola Biller-Andorno et al.ARTICLEMedicine Health Care and Philosophy2025

    Saving as many lives as possible while ensuring equity for vulnerable groups through access to triage resources has been the dominant position since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. However, the exact relationship between the principles of social justice and efficiency remains a controversial and unresolved issue. In this paper, we aim to systematically distinguish between different models of this relationship and show that conceptuali…

  • Exploitation and Unjust Structures

    Open AccessFelicitas HolzerARTICLEPhilosophy & Social Criticism2025References: 37

    Applied philosophers have often defined ‘exploitation’ as a narrow, transaction-specific concept, ignoring its broader social or structural context. On this view, structural injustices are treated as irrelevant to explaining why exploitation is morally wrongful. This paper argues that this approach overlooks how background injustices frequently enable and shape exploitative transactions, making it easier for one party to take unfair advantage of …

  • Proportionality and Mexico's pandemic management during the Covid‐19 crisis

    Open AccessFelicitas Holzer, Ivette M Ortiz Alcántara et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2024

    Mexico's pandemic management and the absence of measures have been harshly criticized as being disproportionate. This paper examines whether the proportionality principle was properly applied to Mexico's COVID‐19 response and outlines three reasons against such an endeavor, namely (i) the content of “proportionate measures” remained insufficiently well defined, (ii) there were yet fundamental rights conflicts to resolve, and (iii) the situation w…

  • ‘VaxTax’

    Open AccessFederico Germani, Felicitas Holzer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2023

    Equal access to vaccines has been one of the key ethical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most scholars consider the massive purchase and hoarding of vaccines by high-income countries, especially at the beginning of the pandemic, to be unjust towards the vulnerable living in low-income countries. A recent proposal by Andreas Albertsen of a vaccine tax has been put forward to remedy this problem. Under such a scheme, high-income countries …

  • Charity or empowerment? The role of Covax for low and middle‐income countries

    Open AccessFelicitas Holzer, Tania Manríquez Roa et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2023

    What has the past reaction to the COVID‐19 pandemic taught us? We have seen that many low and middle‐income countries (LMICs) still lack access to vaccines, and it seems little progress has been made in the last few months and year. This article discusses whether the current strategies, most notably, vaccine donations by the international community and the COVID‐19 global access facility COVAX, offer meaningful solutions to tackle the problem. At…

  • Propuesta para la elaboración de un protocolo de triaje en el contexto de la pandemia de Covid-19

    Open AccessEduardo Rivera López, Federico German Abal et al.ARTICLERevista de Bioética y Derecho2020References: 1

    Este documento ofrece una propuesta desde la perspectiva de la bioética para la elaboración de un protocolo de triaje en el contexto de la pandemia de COVID-19. Dicha propuesta incluye recomendaciones sobre las normas procedimentales y normas sustantivas que deben regir la asignación y reasignación de recursos terapéuticos en condiciones de escasez extrema

  • Rawls and Social Value in Research

    Open AccessFelicitas Holzer, Felicitas Sofia HolzerARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2019

    The writer responds to the article “The Social Value Requirement in Research: From the Transactional to the Basic Structure Model of Stakeholder Obligations,” by Danielle M. Wenner, in the January‐February 2019 issue of the Hastings Center Report

  • Support for Full Disclosure Up Front

    Open AccessFelicitas Holzer, Ignacio MastroleoARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2015

    A commentary on “Models of Consent to Return of Incidental Findings in Genomic Research,” by Paul S. Appelbaum, Erik Parens, Cameron R. Waldman, Robert Klitzman, Abby Fyer, Josue Martinez, W. Nicholson Price II, and Wendy K. Chung, in the July‐August 2014 issue