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Social Economy as the Means to Help Achieve the Targets of Sustainable Development Goal 14
(MDPI, 2020-06-02)
There are practical challenges for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. In a number of policies, social economy (SE) entities can play a central role in terms ...
Reframing the timeless debate about the legal implications of transsexuality. Special reference to the situation of minors after Spanish Constitutional Court judgment 99/2019 of 18 July 2019
(Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, 2021-06-01)
By virtue of the existing laws and regulations in Spain (i.e., Law 3/2007, of 15 March, regulating the register rectification of the entry related to a person's sex) any person of Spanish nationality, of legal age and with ...
An EU comparative analysis of the regulation of clinical trials supervisory bodies in the aftermath of Regulation 536/2014
(Kluwer Law International BV, The Netherlands, 2020-06)
The new EU regulation on clinical trials is intended to promote a greater level of harmonization of European Union rules in this area. However, it does not elaborate a common normative framework regarding the functioning ...
Mandatory vaccination and the ‘seat belt analogy’ argument: a critical analysis in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic
(Springer, 2022)
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 ...
Machine learning in the EU health care context: exploring the ethical, legal and social issues
(Taylor and Francis, 2020-07-14)
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 ...
Safety of Germline Genome Editing for Genetically Related ‘‘Future’’ Children as Perceived
(Mary Ann Liebert, 2019-11)
The social acceptability of germline genome editing (GGE) depends on its perceived safety, as well as respect for reproductive autonomy. However, it is doubtful that prospective parents sufficiently understand the risks ...
Immunity Passports, Fundamental Rights and Public Health Hazards: a Reply to Brown et al
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2020-10)
In their recent article, Brownet alanalyse several ethical aspects around immunity passports and put forward some recommendations for implementing them. Although they offer a comprehensive perspective, they overlook two ...
Should we have a right to refuse diagnostics and treatment planning by artificial intelligence?
(Springer, 2020-01-20)
Should we be allowed to refuse any involvement of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in diagnosis and treatment planning? This is the relevant question posed by Ploug and Holm in a recent article in Medicine, Health ...
What can we expect from the EU legal framework in a pandemic outbreak?
(University of Trento, 2020-06)
The arrival of a new form of coronavirus at the end of 2019 and its subsequent expansion to
multiple countries has already caused severe consequences whose final extent we are
unfortunately still far from seeing. In our ...
The Geneva Statement on Heritable Human Genome Editing: A Criticism
(Elsevier, 2020-12-01)