Daniela Cutas

BA in Philosophy, MA in Health Care Ethics and Law, MA in Government and Institutional Development, PhD in Political Science.

Research interests: the ethics of reproduction and reproductive technologies, the ethics of immortality, morality policy.

Publications
Journal articles

* Bortolotti, L., Cutas, D., Reproductive and parental autonomy: an argument for compulsory parental education, Reproductive Biomedicine Online 2009; 19; 1: 5-14
* Cutas, D., Sex is overrated. On the right to reproduce, Human Fertility 2009; 12; 1: 45-52
* Cutas, D., Life extension, overpopulation and the right to life, Journal of Medical Ethics 2008; 34; e7
* Cutas D., Immortal Fetuses, Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics 2008; 17; 3
* Cutas, D., On a Romanian attempt to legislate on human medically assisted reproduction, Bioethics 2008; 22; 1: 56-63
* Cutas, D., Postmenopausal motherhood: immoral, illegal? A case study, Bioethics 2007; 21; 8: 458-463
* Cutas, D., Looking for a Meaning of Dignity in the Bioethics Convention and the Cloning Protocol, Health Care Analysis. An International Journal of Health Care Philosophy and Policy 2005; 13; 4: 303-313
* Cutas, D., Reglementarea reproducerii asistate în România. O analiză critică a legii 217/2003. Bucureşti: Politeia-SNSPA, 2005 (policy paper)

Chapters in books

* Cutas, D., Munthe, C., Legal imperialism in the regulation of stem cell research and therapy: the problem of extraterritorial jurisdiction, in B. Capps and A. Campbell (eds), Bioethics and the Global Politics of Stem Cell Science: Medical Applications in a Pluralistic World. World Scientific and Imperial College Press: Singapore and London, 2009 (forthcoming)
* Cutas, D., Harris, J., The ethics of ageing, immortality and genetics, in R. Ashcroft et al., Principles of Health Care Ethics. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2007
* Cutas, D., Harris, J., Le clonage humain est-il un mal?, in D. Müller and H. Poltiers (eds.), Un homme nouveau par le clonage reproductif? Fantasmes, raisons, défis. Genève: Labor & Fides, 2005
* Cutas, D., Au generaţiile viitoare dreptul la o societate non-discriminatorie?, in J. Rüsen, H.-K. Keul, A.-P. Iliescu (eds.), Drepturile omului la intâlnirea dintre culturi. Piteşti: Paralela 45, 2004

Book reviews

* Cutas, D., ‘ Illegal Beings. Human Cloning and the Law, authored by Kerry Lynn Macintosh, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005’, Journal of Medical Ethics 2008; 34: 510
* Cutas, D., ‘Whose Body is it Anyway? Justice and the Integrity of the Person, authored by Cécile Fabre, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006’, Medical Law Review 2007; 15; 3: 392-399
* Cutas, D., ‘John M. Harris, Clone, gene şi nemurire, authored by John Harris, Bucureşti: Curtea Veche, 2003’, Romanian Journal of Society and Politics 2003; 3; 2: 236-238

In progress

* Cutas, D., Bortolotti, L., Ethical regulation of parenting (submitted)
* Chan, S., Cutas, D., Against Conservationism

Books

* Cutas, D., GenEtica Reproducerii. Politici ale moralităţii şi moralitatea politicilor [The GenEthics of Reproduction. Policies of morality and the morality of policies]. Bucureşti: Ideea Europeană, 2007

Recent and upcoming talks

 * The ethics of the compulsory treatment of pregnant women, at the seminar “Pregnancy and substance abuse from a system perspective”, organized by the Nordens Välfärdcenter (The Nordic Welfare Centre), November 4-5, 2009, Malmö, Sweden
• Ethics in infertility treatment, at the “Defining patient subgroups to personalize infertility” conference, organized by the Serono Symposia International, September 11-12, 2009, Stockholm, Sweden

* Sex is overrated: On the right to reproduce,
- Filosofidagarna [national philosophy conference], June 12-13, 2009, Lund, Sweden
- Research Seminar Series, Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, University of Manchester, May 14, 2009, Manchester, UK
- Normative Ethics Seminar, University of Copenhagen, September 30, 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark
* Overpopulation and the ethics of life extension, at the Research Seminar in Practical Philosophy, University of Uppsala, November 28, 2008, Uppsala, Sweden
* Saving endangered species: who owes a duty to whom and why? (with Dr. Sarah Chan, CSEP, University of Manchester) and On protecting and enhancing procreative autonomy, at “The 9th World Congress of Bioethics”, organized by the University of Rijeka – School of Medicine and the Croatian Society of Clinical Bioethics (with the participation of the International Association of Bioethics), September 3 – 8, 2008, Rijeka, Croatia
* Respecting people’s right to reproduce: Compulsory parenting education, Filosofiska Föreningen, University of Gothenburg, December 11, 2007, Gothenburg, Sweden
* Towards ethical (regulations of) natural and artificial parenthood, at the conference “Philosophy and the Family”, organized by the Society of Applied Philosophy, June 29 – July 1st, 2007, Birmingham, UK
* Eggs for later (lecture) and The ethics of freezing eggs (discussion), at the BICA (British Infertility Counselling Association) study day “Is there a crisis in fertility?”, May 18, 2007, London, UK
* Enhancing women’s reproductive abilities: three issues, at the second workshop of the ENHANCE project, “Enhancing Physical Capacities: Ethics, Regulation and European Policy”, organized by the Stockholm Bioethics Centre, Stockholm University, March 29-30, 2007, Stockholm, Sweden
* Post-menopausal motherhood: immoral, illegal?, at the 8th World Congress of Bioethics, organized by the Chinese Society of Medical Ethics and the Chinese Medical Association (with the participation of the International Association of Bioethics), August 6-9, 2006, Beijing, China