Dr alberto giubilini biography
Dr Alberto Giubilini
Alberto Giubilini (PhD 2010, University of Milan) is a philosopher and Senior Research Fellow at the Uehiro Oxford Institute. He works mostly in public health ethics and medical ethics (particularly conscientious objection in healthcare). He is project manager for the Oxford team of the EU funded CAVAA project, investigating ethical implications of AI awareness. He has a co-authored book on Rethinking Conscientious Objection in Health Care (Oxford University Press 2025), one on The Ethics of Vaccination (Palgrave MacMillan 2019), and, in Italian, La Morale al Tempo della Bioetica (Morality in the Time of Bioethics) (Le Lettere 2011).
Forthcoming publications (in print):
- BOOK: Giubilini, Schuklenk, Minerva, Savulescu, Rethinking Conscientious Objection in Health Care, Oxford University Press, 2025. Digital version available Open Access here
- JOURNAL ARTICLE: It is not about AI, it is about humans. Responsibility gaps and medical AI, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, forthcoming
- JOURNAL ARTICLE: What in the world is global health? A conceptual analysis, Developing World Bioethics, forthcoming
- CHAPTER: Should religion be permitted a seat at the table of bioethics? The case of abortion. In Smith, K. (ed.). Bioethics and Religion. Exploring the Intersection. Springer 2025
- CHAPTER Moral and political obligations in a pandemic. In Klosko, G. (ed). Oxford Handbook of Political Obligations, Oxford University Press, 2025
Mr. Alberto Giubilini
Alberto Giubilini received his master's degree in Mechanical Engineering applied to the Food Industry from the University of Parma, Italy. He carried out his PhD in Materials Science at the University of Parma, under the supervision of Prof. Federica Bondioli, investigating the fabrication and the characterization of bio-based and biodegradable polymer composites. During his doctoral experience, he collaborated with "MATPlast" research group at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and he was twice a PhD visiting student at Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland, in the "Cellulose & Wood Materials" research group, headed by Dr. Gustav Nyström. Here, under the supervision of Dr. Gilberto Siqueira he studied new processes and applications of cellulose-based composites in polyhydroxyalkanoate matrix, with specific interest for 3D printing.His main research interests are polymer composite materials from renewable resources with focus on cellulose nanomaterials, 3D printing, biomedical application, food packaging application, composite processing technologies and relationship between structure and mechanical behavior.
Opinion-EditorialPremeditated Murder of Newborn Babies Justified As Morally Equivalent to Abortion
By Congressman Chris Smith .
Late last month, two bioethicists—Dr. Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva—published an outrageous “paper” in the Journal of Medical Ethics justifying the deliberate, premeditated murder of newborn babies during the first days and weeks after birth.
Giubilini and Minerva wrote “when circumstances occur after birth that would have justified abortion, what we call after-birth abortion should be permissible.”
If a newly born child poses an economic burden on a family, or is disabled, or is unwanted, that child can be murdered in cold blood because the baby lacks intrinsic value, and according to Giubilini and Minerva, is not a person.
Giubilini and Minerva wrote, “actual people’s well-being could be threatened by a newborn even if healthy child requiring energy, money and care which the family might happen to be in short supply of.” As any parents—especially moms—will tell you, children in general and newborns in particular require enormous energy, money and boatloads of love. If any of these are lacking or pose what Giubilini and Minerva called a “threat,” does that justify a death sentence?
Are the lives of newborn babies so cheap? Are babies so expendable?
The murder of newly born children is further justified by Giubilini and Minerva because newborn infants, like their slightly younger sisters and brothers in the womb, “cannot have formed any aim that she is prevented from accomplishing.”
In other words, no dreams, no plans for the future, no “aims” that can be discerned, recognized or understood by adults, no life.
This preposterous, arbitrary and evil prerequisite for the attainment of legal perso