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Contact data |
Full Professor
of Bioethics Department of Medicine and Public Health Tel: 02.26412535 Fax: 02.26412535 E-mail: Paolo.Cattorini@uninsubria.it |
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Biography |
Paolo M. Cattorini attended
medical university courses in Pavia where he graduated in 1981 (Thesis
on the Concept of Death) and philosophical University Courses in Milan,
where he graduated in 1984 (Thesis on Karl Jaspers). He worked as a general practitioner in Gallarate. Then he became Director of the School - Department of Medical Humanities of S. Raffaele Hospital in Milan for several years. P.Cattorini has been a member (as ethicist) of several local ethics committees and of the National Committee for the Fight against AIDS from 1987 to 1995. From 1990 to 2001 he has also been a member of the National Committee for Bioethics established by the Italian Government. He was a presenter (theme: Teaching Bioethics) at the 1st Bioethics Symposium organized by the Council of Europe, Dec. 5-7, 1989. For 10 years he coordinated for the International Research Center on Ethical, Legal and Forensic Medical Issues related to Aids, Milan, S.Raffaele Hospital, whose Booklet-Series has reached the 8th issue. Since 1992 has been the University Professor of Bioethics. |
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Qualifications and awards |
Medical doctor; Doctor
in Philosophy; Specialist in Clinical Psychology; Full Professor
of Bioethics. Until April 2002 he was a member of the Editorial Board of Advisors of “Theoretical Medicine. An International Journal for the Philosophy and Methodology of Medical Research Practice”, Kluwer Acad. Pub., Dordrecht-Boston-London. He was a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the “Encyclopedia of Bioethics”(revised Edition by Warren T. Reich), New York, Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1995. Now, he takes part in the Scientific Board of the Journal "Kos. Rivista di medicina, cultura e scienze umane", Milan, S.Raffaele Hospital. |
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Research interests |
His main scientific interests are related to clinical bioethics (end of life decisions, assisted procreation, physician’s covenant), narrative ethics (with specific regard to the narrative foundation of ethical theories and to moral dilemmas in motion pictures), ethics in psychoanalysis, relationship between psychological counselling and ethics consultation. | |
Teaching experience and appointments |
Paolo Cattorini teaches Bioethics in Courses for medical students, physicians, nurses and other health professionals, both undergraduate and graduate level. He is also Professor in several medical graduate schools including Forensic Medicine, Pharmacology, Psychiatry. He is a member of the Scientific and Teaching Committee, and Teacher, International Master in Medical Humanities, University of Insubria - Fondaz. Sasso Corbaro – University of Genova. He also teaches in University Masters courses: Palliative Care, Social Ethics-Economy, Bioethics, and Forensic Criminology, both in Varese and other Italian cities. | |
Representative publications |
He has published more than
200 articles on the following subjects: philosophy of medicine, medical
ethics and bioethics. He was Scientific Secretary of the International
Colloquium "Science and Ethics. Man as primary concern"
April 7-10 1988, Milan, and has edited its Proceedings. BOOKS (selection): - (ed.), IT [Science and Ethics. Man as a primary concern], F. Angeli, Milano 1990 (Proceedings of an International Colloquium) -IT [Under Check. Bioethics at the end of life], Liviana Medicina, Napoli 1993 - IT [Bioethics. Methodology and fundamentals of morally evaluating clinical cases] Milano, Masson, 1996 (2nd Ed. 2000, 3rd 2005) -IT [Bioethica and cinema. Stories of illness and moral dilemmas in the movies] Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2003 ARTICLES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE - Global Report. Bioethics in Italy, in Bulletin of the Park Ridge Center, v.5, n.2, May 1990 - (with M. Reichlin) The physician, the family and the truth, in J. Clinical Ethics, Fall 1992, v.3, n. 3, 219-220 - (with R. Mordacci) A profile of the healthy volunteer, in European Bull. of Drug Research, v.1, suppl. 2, Oct. 1992, 21-24 - (with R. Mordacci), The physician as caregiver and researcher, in Thyroidology Clinical and Experimental, 5, 1993, 73-76 - (with R.Sala) , Telling or not the truth to the patient with malignancies, in Carpi A. et al., Advances in Management of Malignancies, Bios Publ., 1993, pp.295-296 - Quality of life and clinical ethics, in AA.VV., An ethics of life in cultural contex, Proc. of the Meeting of Societas Ethica, Acireale, Agosto 1993, publ. in Utrecht Univ., Netherlands, 14-20 - (with M.Reichlin) Bioethics in Italy 1991-1993, in B.Andrew Lustig, Ed., Regional Developments in Bioethics: 1991-1993, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Printed in the Netherlands, 1993 (Bioethics Yearbook: vol.4), pp.291-299 - Teaching Bioethics to Medical Students: Questions, Comments, Proposals, in G.R.Burgio-J.D.Lantos, Eds., Primum Non Nocere Today. A Symposium on Pediatric Bioethics, Excerpta Medica, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1994, pp.139-156 - (with R. Mordacci), Ethical assessment of gene therapy in human beings: from laboratory to practice, in R. Verna, A. Shamoo (eds.), Biotechnology Today, Ares Serono Symposia, Rome 1994, pp. 269-277 - (with R. Mordacci), Happiness, life and quality of life: a commentary, in L. Nordenfelt (ed.), Concepts and Measurement of Quality of Life in Health Care, Kluwer, Dordrecht 1994 - Assisted reproduction in Italy (In Brief), Hastings Center Report, Nov.-Dec. 1994, pp. 3-4. - (with N. Marchionni) Clinical decision-making and the treat or not to treat dilemma in geriatrics. Ethical implications, (Editorial), in Aging. Clinical and Experimental Research, v.6, n.6, 1994, pp. 391-398 - Compulsory Aids testing. A recent judgement by the Italian Constitutional Court, in Health Care Analysis, 3:2, 1995. - (with R.Mordacci), Gene Therapy in Human Beings. Ethical Aspects, in V.Launis-J.Pietarinen, Eds., Doing the Decent Things with Genes, University of Turku (Finland), Turun yliopisto, 1996, 28-39 - (with M.Reichlin) Introduction and Persistent Vegetative State: A Presumption to Treat, in Theoretical Medicine, Issue on “Decisions of Medicine at the End of Life” edited by P.Cattorini-M-Reichlin, v.18, n.3, Sept. 1997, 217-219, 263-281 - (with R.Mordacci), “The Idea of Physician as a Bioethical Topic”, Medicina nei Secoli, v.10, n.1, 1998, 57-73 - “Application or Interpretation? The Role of Clinical Bioethics between Abstract Principles and Concrete Situations”, in E.Agazzi, Ed., Proceedings of the International Meeting “Interpretation and Sense of Illness”, 21-24 maggio 1998, Milano, Ist. Scient. H S.Raffaele, Analecta Husserliana, LXXII, 2001, 99-115 -“To treat or not to treat? Decisions in neurological terminal diseases: a Mediterranean Perspective”, Proceedings of the International Congress “Palliative care and ethical issues on ALS/MND”, Novara, AISLA, 2002 (.PDF) - “The Desire for Children and the Experience of Illness. A Christian Ethical Perspective, I supplementi di Tumori, v.3, n.3, S171-S175, 2004 |
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Clinical interests |
Clinical bioethics, bedside ethics, end-of-life ethics, narrative ethics, ethics consultation.
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