CIACCIA R.

The question on the moral admissibility of a medical practice implemented with morally questionable methods, in relation to the goodness of the purpose, has arisen again in times of Covid, drawing attention to various ethical issues, including those relating to physical and emotional proximity to hospitalized people by family members.

The end of life continues to be at the center of a lively debate that involves complex and heterogeneous ethical issues (palliative care, pain therapy, the freedom to refuse treatment, therapeutic obstinacy, advance treatment provisions) and that, today, are polarized on access to the request to end one's existence affected by an illness with a...

After years of debates, the Chamber of Deputies approved in Italy the possibility of accepting, under certain conditions, to assisted suicide. The issue of physician-assisted suicide is considered among the most controversial of the current bioethical debates in our Country. Efforts are needed to overcome ideological extremisms, to welcome the...