Alice Cavolo

Biographic Data

ID7630496
NAMEAlice Cavolo
GIVEN NAMESAlice
FAMILY NAMECavolo
SIGNATURECAVOLO A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Zurich
ORCID0000-0002-3921-0617
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Parental autonomy and ethical challenges in artificial placenta trials

    Alice Cavolo, Daniel PizzolatoARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2026

    Artificial placentas (APs) are technologies developed to mimic the functioning of the human placenta to support extremely preterm infants in an artificial environment until the lungs are developed enough to support intensive care. AP trials will likely consist of two phases: the delivery into AP, which requires a C-section on the pregnant person, and the AP trial, which only involves the infant. This poses a unique challenge to the principle of r…

  • Fair access challenges in maternal-fetal surgery trials

    Open AccessAlice Cavolo, Daniel Pizzolato et al.ARTICLEResearch Ethics2025

    Maternal fetal surgery (MFS) trials have the potential to substantially increase the survival and quality of life of fetuses with life-threatening conditions, but they also entail relevant and yet overlooked fair access challenges. In this topic piece, we will present the fair access concerns in MFS trials/practice and their ethical ramifications as well as some possible ways to address them. The most obvious challenge is cost. Although the cost …

  • Expanding the ethical debate on human artificial placenta trials

    Open AccessAlice Cavolo, Daniel PizzolatoARTICLEResearch Ethics2025

    Artificial placentas (APs) are technologies that mimic the human placenta to treat extremely preterm infants. Being an invasive and risky technology, it will raise important ethical questions for human trials. Hence, in this Topic Piece we provide a blueprint of further issues to investigate. First, counselling will have the double role of providing trial information as well as (non) treatment counselling. This requires extra training and the dev…

  • Considering the Developing Entity in an Artificial Womb as a Patient

    Open AccessFrédérique Drouin, Alice Cavolo et al.ARTICLEBioethics2025

    Artificial womb (AW) prototypes are currently being developed with the aim of improving the medical care of extremely premature infants. Despite the seemingly imminent reality of partial ectogenesis (i.e., gestation partially outside a human womb), there is persisting debate about the moral status of the fetus transferred in an AW—henceforth, the “developing entity.” For some, AWs are simply another neonatal intensive cares’ technology. Thus, dev…

  • Barriers to and Facilitators of Pediatric Palliative Care in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

    Open AccessYajing Zhong, Chris Gastmans et al.ARTICLEChildren2025

    Our finding that PPC guidelines addressed most barriers/facilitators while HCPs still struggled with implementing PPC indicates that mature PPC guidelines are necessary but not sufficient for PPC practices to improve in these three regions. The wide availability of PPC guidelines and PPC education/training for HCPs and families needs to improve

  • Overcoming (false) dichotomies to address ethical issues of artificial placentas

    Alice CavoloARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2024

    sponsorship: This study was funded by Stehr-Boldt Fellowship Award in Biomedical Ethics (No grant number). (Stehr-Boldt Fellowship Award in Biomedical Ethics)

  • ‘Yes we hear you. Do you hear us?’. A sociopolitical approach to video-based telepsychiatric consultations

    Tijs Vandemeulebroucke, Alice Cavolo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2022

    status: Published

  • Ethics of resuscitation for extremely premature infants

    Alice Cavolo, Bernadette Dierckx De Casterlé et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2021