Lucia Galvagni
Lucia Galvagni is researcher at the Center for Religious Studies of the Bruno Kessler Foundation. She studied Philosophy at the Catholic University in Milan, obtained a PhD in Bioethics at the Medical Faculty of the University of Genova (Italy) and a MA in Ethics, Healthcare and Institutions at the Catholic University of Lille (France). Her main research interests are bioethics, clinical ethics and philosophy of medicine, ethics and genetics, narrative ethics and narrative medicine.
She is member of the Healthcare Ethics Committees of the Azienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari, the local healthcare agency of the Autonomous Province of Trento, and of the Commission on Research with Animals at the University of Trento.
She taught Bioethics at the University of Pavia (Faculty of Biology and Course on Biotechnology) and at the University of Trento (Course of Biomolecular Sciences and Technologies; Faculty of Philosophy, with J.-F. Malherbe). She is an affiliate of the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics and has been a visiting reserchers of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
Author's articles
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March 11, 2024Mission for health: promoting health in different contexts around the worldA summary of the proceedings and a video interview with the speaker of the "Global Faith-Based Healthcare Systems" conference, which starts with a metaphor about redwood trees to talk about how health is promoted within the various socio-cultural contexts. -
May 2, 2022Bioethics: end-of-life scenarios and choicesThe ISR researcher continues her reflection about the delicate yet necessary issue of the end of life -
March 17, 2022Care, justice and relational autonomy: how to rethink the ethics of health careThe various forms of polarization of the ethical and bioethical debate