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Some Comparative Reflections on the Right to Know One’s Origins
2022
The issue focuses on a family law topic, the right to know one’s origins, to examine it in some different cases, as adoption or assisted reproduction, in relation to the right to a private life, to show how “roots and space” can shape the different amplitude of individual rights in different legal systems. Despite the national and international recognition of this fundamental right, important disparities remain in the enforcement of it between international regimes and the national implementations of these regimes, as consequence of the gradual adaptation process of the right to know origins to fit the context of national legal frameworks with diverse local, political and social cultures.
OVERTURE Love Love is a Pink Cake or Queering Chopin in Times of Homophobia
2021
An introduction to the three essays included in this section. The article highlights the right to know whether Chopin was gay and contextualizes this inquiry in a very long and pervasive historiographical tradition, essentially twohundred years long, dedicated to examine Chopin sexual orientation, on the one hand, and on the other the more recent tradition of queering western classical music composers. The main point is not to demonstrate categorically that Chopin was ?gay? (a relative, modern identity marker in any case) but rather to highlight the discourses that have presented him as unequivocally heterosexual.
Whole-genome sequencing for TB source investigations : principles of ethical precision public health
2021
[Background]: Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis allows rapid, accurate inferences about the sources, location and timing of transmission. However, in an era of heightened concern for personal privacy and science distrust, such inferences could result in unintended harm and undermine the public's trust.