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Cristiane Avancini Alves

  • Bioethics

    Sterilizing incompetent drug-addicted women

    By Cristiane Avancini Alves A court in Brazil recently held that the mother of a drug-addicted adult woman (who is pregnant and who already has three children) may seek the court’s authorization for the tubal…

    Sterilizing incompetent drug-addicted women

  • Bioethics

    End of life, language, and the press

    By Cristiane Avancini Alves In my previous post, I mentioned that Brazil does not have a specific law about advance directives. Nevertheless, a recent Resolution of the Federal Board of Medicine addresses this subject. It…

    End of life, language, and the press

  • Bioethics

    “Biotestament? Facebook can help you”

    By Cristiane Avancini Alves The question reproduced in the title was posed – last year – by the Italian newspaper “Corriere della Sera“, which described how an Italian association created an application in the social…

    “Biotestament? Facebook can help you”