Arianna Manzini
I am a Wellcome Trust-funded PhD student at the Oxford Department of Psychiatry. My PhD project is an empirical bioethics study of young people’s moral attitudes towards advances in autism genomics. Since twin studies in 1980s autism spectrum disorder has been considered as a highly heritable condition, and thanks to recent improvements in sequencing technologies scientists have made progress in the understanding of its underpinning genetic mechanisms. The increasing interest of genetic research in autism has caused a range of ethical concerns, primarily due to the profound disagreement on whether autism should be conceptualised as a disorder, a disability, or a difference. The ethical implications of advances in autism genomics have been generally discussed with autistic people, their family members, and their caregivers. Less attention has been paid to the general population’s attitudes towards advances in autism genomics, and the younger generations, who are the most likely to be faced with the ethical implications of the most recent findings in autism genomics, have been completely excluded from this debate. Therefore, my research aims at investigating the moral attitudes that young people hold towards advances in autism genomics.
I hold an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele (Milan, 2014), an MA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of Health from University College London (2015), and an Erasmus Mundus MSc in Bioethics from KU Leuven (2016).
Supervisors: Professor Ilina Singh and Professor Nina Hallowell
I hold an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele (Milan, 2014), an MA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of Health from University College London (2015), and an Erasmus Mundus MSc in Bioethics from KU Leuven (2016).
Supervisors: Professor Ilina Singh and Professor Nina Hallowell
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