CURRICULUM VITAE Francesca Minerva, Ph.D. University of Melbourne Faculty of Arts, the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) Old Quad Building, room 123, Telephone 03 834-49951 (office) e-mail: francesca.minerva@unimelb.edu.au AREAS OF SPECIALISATION Medical Ethics, Bioethics, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Law. CURRENT POSITION McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at CAPPE (Centre of Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics), SHAPS the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, Melbourne University, Australia CAPPE Melbourne Deputy Director Lecturer in Bioethics, University of Melbourne EDUCATION Ph.D., Law and New Technologies, subject Bioethics, CIRSFID, Faculty of Law, University of Bologna, 9 June 2010 Thesis: E possibile giustificare moralmente l obiezione di coscienza in campo medico? (Can conscientious objection in medicine be morally justified?) Supervisors: Professor Sergio Bartolommei (University of Pisa) Professor Carlo Flamigni (University of Bologna) Recognised Ph.D. student at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics (from October 2008 to June 2009) Laurea Magistrale (equivalent to Bachelor plus Master degree) in Philosophy, University of Pisa, Academic year 2004-2005 Summa cum laude Thesis: Il contributo della chiesa Valdese al dibattito bioetico tra bioetica laica e bioetica cattolica [The contribution of the Waldensian church to the current debate on bioethics between the secular and the catholic approaches] Supervisors: Professor Sergio Bartolommei (Univesità di Pisa)
Professor Adriano Fabris (Università di Pisa) Professor Sergio Rostagno (Università Valdese di Roma) SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS Scholarly Books Francesca Minerva, L obiezione di coscienza come problema morale e biopolitico [Conscientious objection as a moral and bio-political problem] Casa Editrice Le Lettere, Florence, forthcoming in 2014 and accepted for publication in March 2013. Francesca Minerva and Alberto Giubilini (eds.), The History of Bioethics in Italy, Springer, (commissioned and under preparation) Refereed Journal Articles 1) Francesca Minerva, Why Publishing Pseudonymously Can Protect Academic Freedom, Bioethics, 2014; 28(4);178 180 2) Francesca Minerva, Conscientious Objection in Italy, Journal of Medical Ethics, (accepted for publication on 14/11/2013 and forthcoming) 3) Francesca Minerva, New Threats to Academic Freedom, Bioethics,(2014): 28(4); 157 162 4) Francesca Minerva, Alberto Giubilini (equal contribution) Il dibattito sull aborto post-nascita: una sfida per il presente e il futuro [the debate on after-birth abortion: a challenge for the current and future debate in bioethics], 2013(4), 687-697. 5) Francesca Minerva and Alberto Giubilini (equal contribution), Some Clarification On The Moral Status Of Newborns, Journal of Medical Ethics, 2013;39:264 265 6) Francesca Minerva and Alberto Giubilini (equal contribution), Reasons and Freedom, The Hastings Centre Report, 2013; 43(1):4-5. doi: 10.1002/hast.120. 7) Francesca Minerva and Alberto Giubilini (equal contribution), Defending After- Birth Abortion, Monash Bioethics Review, (2012) 30 (2): 48-60 8) Francesca Minerva, Medicalisation, Biomedicalisation And Pharmaceutisation From A Sociological and From a Bioethical Perspective, Salute e Società, Issue III, 2012, ISSN 1723-9427 9) Francesca Minerva, Neuroetica, A Look At The Development Of The Italian Debate On Neuroethics, Neuroethics, (2012), doi: 10.1007/s12152-012-9160-x (book review) 10) Francesca Minerva and Alberto Giubilini (equal contribution) After-birth Abortion. Why Should the Baby Live?, Journal of Medical Ethics 2013;39:261 263 (published online first in 2012)
11) Francesca Minerva, Riflessioni A Margine Della Nota Del CNB In Merito All obiezione Di Coscienza Del Farmacista, [Considerations about the note of the CNB about conscientious objection among pharmacists], Bioetica, Rivista Interdisciplinare, n.2, 2011, pp. 257-274. 12) Francesca Minerva, Obiezione Di Coscienza in Ambito Medico. I Limiti di Un Approccio Moderato [Conscientious Objection In The Medical Field, The Limits Of The Moderate Approach], in Notizie di Politeia, Atti del Convegno Obiezione di coscienza, Prospettive a confronto (Milan, 27-28 May 2009), Edizioni Politeia, anno XXVII, n.101, 2011, Milan, March 2011, pp. 118-125. 13) Francesca Minerva, Come Intendere Il Diritto Di Aborto? Riflessioni Sul Caso Di Careggi [How Should We Understand The Right To Abortion? Reflections On The Careggi Hospital Case ], in Bioetica, Rivista interdisciplinare, anno XV, n. 2, 2007, pp. 77 83 14) Francesca Minerva, Bioetica Valdese E Laicità [Waldensian Bioethics And Secularism], in Quaderni del CIRSDIG, working paper n. 25, p.67-72, 2007 PAPERS AND BOOKS IN PREPARATION OR UNDER REVIEW (AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST) Francesca Minerva Conscientious objection and complicity in wrongdoing, a new approach to an old problem (submitted to Ethical Theory and Moral Practice) Francesca Minerva, Anders Sandberg Cryonics as an alternative to abortion (to be submitted to the American Journal of Bioethics, prospective submission date end of May 2014) Francesca Minerva, Enhancing Human Capacities, a book review, (invited and to be published in the Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics) Francesca Minerva Aesthetic surgery on children, is it ever permissible? (to be submitted to the Hastings Center Report, prospective submission date end of Jul 2014) Francesca Minerva Lookism, the invisible discrimination (to be submitted to Bioethics, prospective submission date end of August 2014) Francesca Minerva, Lachlan de Crespigny, Andrew Watkins, Anne O Rourke, Dominic Wilkinson, Survey on the attitude of Victorian health care practitioners toward abortion (the project and the questionnaire are available) WORK IN PROGRESS Francesca Minerva, Anders Sandberg The Moral Status Of The Cryo-Suspended: Legal And Moral Aspects Of Cryonics In Comparison With Euthanasia
Francesca Minerva Philosophy And Private Affairs: A Study Of Complicity In Wrongdoing in Extramarital Relationships Francesca Minerva, Eduard Verhagen Handicap and Happiness: a meta-analysis of wellbeing levels of handicapped people and their primary carers OTHER PUBLICATIONS/BLOG POSTS 1) Francesca Minerva and Alberto Giubilini (equal contribution) Bioethics and the new media http://dissertationreviews.org/ 2) Francesca Minerva and Alberto Giubilini (equal contribution), An open letter from Giubilini and Minerva, the BMJ Group Blog: http://blogs.bmj.com/medicalethics/2012/03/02/an-open-letter-from-giubilini-and-minerva/ 3) Francesca Minerva, Conscientious objection in the medical context: should doctors be allowed to refuse to perform any activity they consider unethical?, in Res Publica, (forthcoming in Volume XX) 4) Francesca Minerva, Le obiezioni di coscienza sono tutte uguali? [Are all Conscientious Objections the same?], in Il Grandevetro, Ed. il Grandevetro, Fucecchio (FI) N.94, maggio-luglio 2010 Posts in Practical Ethics, Ethics in the News (University of Oxford) http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/ 1) December 5, 2011 The subtle line between conscientious objection and sabotage 2) July 19, 2011 What is the point of being a doctor when conscience overrules professional duties? 3) February 21, 2011 61-year-old woman gives birth to her own grandchild, and so what? 4) October 11, 2010 Should I love you as you are? 5) October 1, 2010 Why aren t you a vegetarian? 6) August 26, 2010 Broken hearts and obsession, why giving up on your ex mate is so hard as overcoming drug addiction 7) July 2, 2010 Motherhood and the ticking clock 8) June 18, 2010 Goodbye to Josè Saramago, genius, novelist and (sometimes) a bioethicist 9) May 1, 2010 Oklahoma pro-life measures: preventing abortions and promoting sadism
10) November 30, 2009 News from the future: you will have in vitro meat hamburgers within five years 11) September 9, 2009 The ideal man is a rich housewife 12) July 15, 2009 Arificial sperm: a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle? 13) Published June 19, 2009 Happiness is love, full stop? 14) May 25, 2009 facial transplantation and identity 15) April 8, 2009 An earthquake in the theodicy doctrine 16) March 9, 2009 The weight of conscience 17) February 15, 2009 In search of lost heterosexuality 18) January 20, 2009 What if oestradiol could really affect the relationships of highly attractive women? 19) December 17, 2008 Non possumus? 20) November 19, 2008 The reason why it s time to be silent about the Englaro Case 21) November 11, 2008 Much ado about nothing 22) October 13, 2008 The voluntary termination of pregnancy: a snapshot of the Italian situation OTHER I am editing for the Journal Bioetica, Rivista Interdiciplinare a special issue of the review on the report Fetal Awareness Review of Research and Recommendations for Practice published by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in March 2010. The issue will be published in 2014. ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES University of Melbourne Organisation of the CAPPE Melbourne seminars series (weekly seminars, from March 2013) Blind reviewer for the Journal of Medical Ethics, Bioethics and the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Member of the University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee (from 2011)
University of Pisa 2007-2010, Collaboration with Professor Sergio Bartolommei for the organization of interdisciplinary lectures on bioethics for the faculties of philosophy, biology, engineering and agriculture University of Bologna November 2006 June 2007, live translation (from English to Italian) of the seminars of Professor Joan Tronto at the University of Bologna 2007-2009, Evaluation of written and oral examinations of the students of Philosophy of law, University of Bologna Support to the translation and editing activities for the books C. Faralli, G. Finocchiaro (a cura di): Diritto e nuove tecnologie, BOLOGNA, Gedit, 2007 and C. Faralli (a cura di): M.Nussbaum, Le nuove frontiere della giustizia, BOLOGNA, Il Mulino, 2007 2007-2009, Administrative support for the management of the PhD in Law and new technologies, bioethics and its website Research Presentations I have given research presentations on topics in philosophy and Bioethics at Oxford University (Applied Ethics Graduate Discussion Group), University of Bologna ( seminari specialistici per il dottorato in diritto e nuove tecnologie, indirizzo bioetica ) and University of Pisa GRANTS AND AWARDS McKenzie post-doctoral fellowship, University of Melbourne, 15 th Of June 2011-14 th of June 2014 University Research Committee (URC) Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa (declined) Incentive of Ph.D. scholarship (50% plus) for the months spent in Oxford as a visiting student Marco Polo Programme fund, October 2008 March 2009 University Of Bologna scholarship, PhD programme, 2007 2010 (about 36.000 euros) University of Pisa scholarship, from 2002 to 2006 (full funding including free accommodation, university fees, free meals and other expenses related to studies as books, laptop etc.)
CONFERENCES AND TALKS 27) Abstract accepted at the AAPAE Conference - 'Conscience, Leadership, and the Problem of Dirty Hands', 22-24 June 2014, University of Notre Dame, Australia 26) Abstract accepted at the Appearance Matters conference, 1-2 July 2014, Bristol, UK. 25) Abstract accepted at the 12th World Congress Of Bioethics 2014 June 25-28, New Mexico City 24) Invited speaker, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Department of Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Beauty, Lookism and Ethics, (13 th of January 2014) 23) Invited speaker, Bioethics Institute Ghent, Beauty between aesthetic enhancement and lookism, (10 th of Janury 2014) 22) Invited speaker at the Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, Aesthetic surgery for children, is it morally permissible?, Brisbane (7-12 July 2013) 21) Invited speaker at the seminar Seminario di riflessione sulle questioni della procreazione a partire da un recente articolo pubblicatp in Australia da due giovani ricercatori italiani, CIRB Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca Bioetica, University of Naples, 17 th January 2013 20) Invited speaker at the conference Ha senso parlare di aborto post-nascita? Incontro riflessivo su una proposta che fa discutere, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna (Forli ), 15 th January 2013 (h 17.45-20.00) 19) Invited speaker at the conference Aborto post-natale: il dibattito bioetico odierno, CESEP Centro di studi di etica pubblica, Universita Vita-Salute San Raffaele, faculty of Philosophy, Milan 15 th January 2013 (h. 10.30-13.00) 18) Invited speaker at the conference Che rilevanza morale ha la nascita al tempo delle terapie intensive neonatali? Incontro riflessivo e ragionato sull aborto postnascita, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Turin, 11th January 2013 17) Invited speaker at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas Sydney, A foetus is not a person 28 September-1 October 2012 16) Invited speaker at CAPPE seminar, University of Melbourne, Rethinking priorities between therapy and enhancement, 18 April 2012 15) Invited speaker, James Martin Advanced Research Seminars, Oxford University, Human enhancement and allocation of public health resources, 24 January 2012 14) Invited speaker at Lund University, Faculty of Philosophy, Human enhancement and allocation of public resources, 14 December 2011
13) Invited speaker at CAPPE seminar, University of Melbourne, Conscientious objection in the medical context: how can we solve conflicts of values between patients and doctors?, 26 October 2011 12) Invited speaker at the Annual Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, University of Otago, Dunedin, July 3-8 July 2011 11) Invited speaker at the Conference Fecondazione assistita e diagnosi preimpianto ( In Vitro Fertilization and Pre-implantation diagnosis ), organised by Politeia and Consulta di Bioetica Milan, 4th May 2011 10) Invited speaker for the St Cross Special Ethics Seminars Oxford, Conscientious objection in medicine, what is wrong with a moderate approach?, 18 November 2010 9) Invited speaker at the III Colloquium on Ethics and Applied Ethics - Posthuman Bioethics (Federal University of Santa Maria (Brazil), 16-18 November 2010 (video-conference) 8) Invited speaker at the Conference Dove va la bioetica italiana? Milan, 11-12 November 2010 7) Invited speaker at the Conference Dopo Eluana. Quale eredità per la bioetica italiana (Milan, 13 October 2010) 6) Invited at the Platform for Secularism in Politics (EPPSP) European Parliament on Conscientious Objection in Medicine, Brussels, 15 September 2010 5) Invited speaker at the Conference Obiezione di coscienza, Prospettive a confronto, Milan, 27-28 May 2009 4) Member of the Scientific board of the Conference (included contributions to collective presentations) Dove va la Bioetica italiana, Milan, 13-14 November 2009 3) Member of the Scientific board of the Conference (included contribution to collective presentations) Le sfide della neonatologia alla bioetica e alla società: le buone ragioni della Carta di Firenze, Firenze, 30-31 October 2008. (The challenges of neonathology to bioethics and society: the good reasons of the Florence Document) 2) Invited speaker at the Public debate Aborto e obiezione di coscienza, la 194 ha davvero bisogno di un tagliando?, Pisa, 15 September 2008 1) Invited speaker at the Third National Seminary of Sociology of Law, A Waldensian approach to bioethics (Capraia Isle, 1 8 September 2007) TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2014 Coordinator of the subject Issues in Bioethics for Masters students, Semester I, (with Dr Alberto Giubilini) (a plan of the lectures is available upon request).
2013 Coordinator of the subject Issues in Bioethics for Masters students, Semester I, 2013 (with Prof Chris Cordner) (a plan of the lectures is available upon request). Guest lecturer, Universita La Sapienza (Rome), Master in Etica Pratica e Bioetica, Department of Philosophy, seminar on nascita e terapie intensive neonatali, 16 January 2013 Guest lecturer, University of Pisa, seminar on after birth abortion, 14 December 2012 Guest lecturer, University of Turin, Bioethics subject, seminar on after birth abortion and the argument from potentiality, 11 December 2012 Guest lecturer, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Applied Ethics Centre, seminar on after birth-abortion and academic freedom, 7 January 2013 Guest lecturer for the subject Medical Ethics (department of Law) with Prof Julian Savulescu, September 2013 Guest lecturer for the subject Medical Ethics (department of Law) with Prof Julian Savulescu, September 2012 Guest lecturer for the subject Medical Ethics (department of Law) with Prof Julian Savulescu, September 2011 Collaboration with Professor Sergio Bartolommei for the organization of interdisciplinary lectures on bioethics for the faculties of philosophy, biology, engineering and agriculture, 2007-2010. The collaborations included several talks as guest lecturer Guest lecturer at the University of Turin, in collaboration with Professor Maurizio Mori, Professor of Bioethics at the Faculty of Philosophy (2007-2010) Evaluation of written and oral examinations of the students of Philosophy of law, University of Bologna, Faculty of Law (2007-2010) Tutor in philosophy and history for Camplus Alma Mater, Bologna, 2007 2008 OTHER EXPERIENCE ONLINE WRITING ON ETHICS I write for the well-regarded weblog on philosophical ethics: practicalethicsnews.com (which discusses the ethical issues behind breaking news stories. My blog posts can be found here: http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/author/francesca-minerva/ ACTIVITIES WITH CONSULTA DI BIOETICA Co-founder and member of the managing board of the Italian association of Bioethics Consulta di Bioetica of Pisa coordinated by Professor Sergio Bartolommei (Consulta di Bioetica sezone di Pisa)
Member of the managing board of the national administrative board of Consulta di bioetica Onlus (co-ordinated by Professor Maurizio Mori) Co-Manager and Co-administrator of the website of the Consulta di Bioetica Support activities for the conferences organized by Consulta di Bioetica Onlus Press release management and administrative support for the Bioethics Committee of Pisa (Consulta di Bioetica sezione di Pisa) MEDIA APRIL 2014 I was featured in The Times Higher Education lift-out magazine Pursuit as one of the three most promising young academics at the University of Melbourne https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/profiles/dr-francesca-minerva/ MARCH 2012- After the publication of the paper after-birth abortion, why should the baby live? I was asked to be interviewed by many radios, TV programs and newspapers all over the world. See for instance, among many: The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2012/feb/29/infanticiderepellent-killing-newborns The Age: http://www.smh.com.au/national/abortion-paper-led-to-death-threats-20120301-1u60a.html The Telegraph http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/killing-newborns-ethicallly-permissible-saysaustralian-philosopher-francesca-minerva/story-e6freuy9-1226287046257 REFEREES Prof Peter Singer, Princeton University and University of Melbourne, psinger@princeton.edu Prof Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford University, julian.savulescu@philosophy.ox.ac.uk Prof Eduard Verhagen, MD JD, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics University of Groningen Chair of the Beatrix Chilren's Hospital, University Medical Center Groningen Tel secr.: 050-3612470, email: a.a.e.verhagen@umcg.nl A/Prof Neil Levy, The Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, Oxford University, neil.levy@philosophy.ox.ac.uk