Article 18: Rights Concerning Parental Responsibility

Genetic Testing for Familial Breast Cancer—Ethical Questions Concerning Individual Rights and Social Responsibility

The provision of genetic tests for familial breast cancer can have several problematic consequences. In the first part of my presentation I will briefly summarise the aspects which are of ethical relevance. In the second part I will develop a framework of principles for ethical evaluation. In the third part I will discuss some of the major aspects, problems and questions which are within this e...

Genetic decision-making: parental responsibility.

Individual rights and collective responsibility: the rights–egalitarian solution

The problem of distributing a given amount of a divisible good among a set of agents which may have individual entitlements is considered here. A solution to this problem, called the Rights–Egalitarian Solution is proposed. This allocation rule divides equally among the agents the difference between the aggregate entitlements and the amount of the good available. A relevant feature of the analy...

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The coral reefs of Pirangi beach have suffered the impact of anthropic actions, mainly those related to tourism. To evaluate these effects, algal samples were collected at nine stations, distributed along the reef fringe. The macrobenthic community (algae/coral) was identified through photographic methods. A total of thirty species of algae, five species of coral, and one species of mollusk wer...

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The effect of an L-amino acid oxidase isolated from Bothrops pirajai snake venom (BpirLAAO-I) was investigated on infection of Toxoplasma gondii in human foreskin fibroblasts (HFF). The cytotoxic activity of BpirLAAO-I on HFF cells showed a dose-dependent toxicity with median cytotoxic dose (TD50) of 11.8 μg/mL. BpirLAAO-I induced considerable dose-dependent decrease in the T. gondii infection ...