The right to integrity

Title: The right to bodily and mental integrity in the era of biomedicine and neurotechnologies – an integrative bioethical analysis
Principal Investigator: dr Joanna Różyńska
Funding: National Science Centre, SONATA BIS 13
Project no: 2023/50/E/HS1/00486
Duration: 01.2025-01.2029

Research team: 

  • dr Joanna Różyńska – PI
  • dr Anna Alichniewicz (Medical University in Łodzi) – Investigator
  • Post-doc Position [competition for the position will be announced soon]
  • PhD-Stipend [competition is open – see below]

About the project: The project concerns the right to bodily and mental integrity in the era of dynamic development of biomedical sciences and neurotechnology. Its aim is to examine the content, moral justification, strength and scope of the right to bodily integrity and the right to mental integrity, and to determine whether it is possible to develop an integrated, conceptually coherent, ethically adequate and practically applicable concept of the right to psycho-physical integrity. The project includes conceptual and normative analyses, as well as analyses of the testimonies of the lived experience of people affected by various physical illnesses or mental disorders. It uses primarily methods of philosophical analysis, as well as, secondarily, methods of legal science. The project focuses on the moral right to integrity of the person, not on the legal right.

Abstract for the general public

Key words: right to integrity, bodily integrity, mental integrity, bioethics, neuroethics, human rights

NEWS: Competition for a Post-Doc position

We are looking for candidates interested in modern biomedicine and neurotechnology, and the ethical and legal limits of interfering with human mental integrity. Candidates should meet the requirements and expectations described in the announcement. We offer a job in an interdisciplinary and dynamic team, support for professional development, and attractive salary and employment conditions.

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The competition for the PhD scholarship

Publications

Conference presentations

  • Planned – Alichniewicz, A. (2025). Reclaiming integrity – the experience of intersexuality in the perspective of binary sex/ gender normativity. The XVth Conference of the Spanish Society for Phenomenology on Normality, normativity, Life-world, November 12-14, Palma De Mallorca, Spain.