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List of works by Sigrid Sterckx

"I prefer a child with …": designer babies, another controversial patent in the arena of direct-to-consumer genomics

scientific article published on 3 October 2013

"Trust is not something you can reclaim easily": patenting in the field of direct-to-consumer genetic testing

scientific article published on 22 November 2012

"You hoped we would sleep walk into accepting the collection of our data": controversies surrounding the UK care.data scheme and their wider relevance for biomedical research

scientific article published on 18 August 2015

'Capacity for Discernment' and Euthanasia on Minors in Belgium

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Access to human tissues for research and product development: From EU regulation to alarming legal developments in Belgium

scientific article published on 7 April 2015

Anonymity and live-donor transplantation: an ELPAT view

scientific article published on February 2013

Are natural products and medical diagnostic tests still eligible for patents in the USA?

scientific article published on 01 September 2012

Biodiversity under the law: protection or propertisation?

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Can drug patents be morally justified?

scientific article published in January 2005

Citizen science or scientific citizenship? Disentangling the uses of public engagement rhetoric in national research initiatives

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Coercion, incarceration, and chemical castration: an argument from autonomy.

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Continuous deep sedation at the end of life and the 'natural death' hypothesis

scientific article published on January 17, 2011

Continuous sedation until death: the everyday moral reasoning of physicians, nurses and family caregivers in the UK, The Netherlands and Belgium

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Controversies surrounding continuous deep sedation at the end of life: the parliamentary and societal debates in France

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Current controversies in prenatal diagnosis 4: does industry‐sponsorship accelerate or hinder the pace of research?

scientific article published on February 16, 2011

Dealing With Public Solicitation of Organs From Living Donors--An ELPAT View

scientific article published on 12 March 2015

Does European patent law unfairly discriminate against medical devices as compared with pharmaceuticals?

scientific article published on 20 April 2015

Euthanasia and assisted suicide in the context of psychiatric disorders: sharing experiences from the Low Countries

scientific article published on 31 August 2020

Factors that facilitate or constrain the use of continuous sedation at the end of life by physicians and nurses in Belgium: results from a focus group study

scientific article published on 14 August 2012

Forensic practitioners’ expectations and moral views regarding neurobiological interventions in offenders with mental disorders

Genuine participation in participant-centred research initiatives: the rhetoric and the potential reality.

scientific article published on 24 October 2017

Governing the postmortem procurement of human body material for research

scientific article published in March 2015

How defining clinical practices may influence their evaluation: the case of continuous sedation at the end of life

scientific article published on 29 December 2015

Is continuous sedation at the end of life an ethically preferable alternative to physician-assisted suicide?

scientific article published in June 2011

Is there a moral obligation to conceive children under the best possible conditions? A preliminary framework for identifying the preconception responsibilities of potential parents

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Living Organ Procurement from the Mentally Incompetent: The Need for More Appropriate Guidelines

scientific article published on July 5, 2012

May the blessed man win: a critique of the categorical preference for natural talent over doping as proper origins of athletic ability

scientific article published on 5 July 2014

New classification of ELPAT for living organ donation

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

On Defining Moral Enhancement: A Clarificatory Taxonomy

article published in 2014

Palliative Sedation in Flemish Palliative Care Units

Patenting Foundational Technologies: Lessons From CRISPR and Other Core Biotechnologies

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Patenting Foundational Technologies: Recent Developments in the CRISPR Patent Struggle

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Patenting and licensing of university research: promoting innovation or undermining academic values?

scientific article published on 19 September 2009

Patenting medical diagnosis methods in Europe: Stanford University and time-lapse microscopy

scientific article published on 18 November 2016

Patenting time-lapse microscopy: the European story

scientific article published on 28 September 2013

Patents and access to drugs in developing countries: an ethical analysis

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Pediatric priority in kidney allocation: challenging its acceptability

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Psychiatric patients requesting euthanasia: Guidelines for sound clinical and ethical decision making

scientific article published on 09 April 2019

Raising the Barriers to Access to Medicines in the Developing World - The Relentless Push for Data Exclusivity

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Re: A response to Willis et al

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Remote digital monitoring of medication intake: methodological, medical, ethical and legal reflections

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Response to Open Peer Commentaries on "Patenting Foundational Technologies: Lessons From CRISPR and Other Core Biotechnologies"

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Response: Stanford University's patent on embryo selection should be excluded under European patent law.

scientific article published on 20 November 2013

Seymour et al. Palliative sedation: Improvement of guidelines necessary, but not sufficient: A reply

scientific article published in May 2015

Should minors be considered as potential living liver donors?

scientific article published on 9 April 2013

Similar or the Same? Why Biosimilars are not the Solution

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Similarities and differences between continuous sedation until death and euthanasia - professional caregivers' attitudes and experiences: a focus group study

scientific article published on 26 October 2012

Something more is necessary: are genes and genetic diagnostic tests statutory subject matter for US patents?

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

The New Belgian Law on Biobanks: Some Comments from an Ethical Perspective

scientific article published on September 1, 2011

The Relevance of Directive 2010/53/EU for Living Organ Donation Practice: An ELPAT View

scientific article published on 8 April 2015

The UK National Health Service's 'innovation agenda': lessons on commercialisation and trust

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The active recruitment of health workers: a commentary

scientific article published on January 24, 2013

The challenges of the expanded availability of genomic information: an agenda-setting paper

scientific article published on 26 September 2017

The ethical and clinical importance of measuring consciousness in continuously sedated patients.

scientific article published on January 2014

The ethical desirability of moral bioenhancement: a review of reasons

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The language of sedation in end-of-life care: The ethical reasoning of care providers in three countries

scientific article published on 10 November 2014

The perspectives of clinical staff and bereaved informal care-givers on the use of continuous sedation until death for cancer patients: The study protocol of the UNBIASED study

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Time-lapse microscopy patent upheld in Europe: response to Pearce

scientific article published on 16 November 2016

Transparency, consent and trust in the use of customers' data by an online genetic testing company: an Exploratory survey among 23andMe users

scientific article published on 15 May 2020

Using continuous sedation until death for cancer patients: a qualitative interview study of physicians' and nurses' practice in three European countries

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Using mentally incompetent adults as living organ donors: widely diverging regulations in Europe

scientific article published in December 2012

Why Jecker's capabilities approach to age-based rationing is incapable of containing health care costs

scientific article published in January 2013