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73The Case for Reasonable Accommodation of Conscientious Objections to Declarations of Brain DeathJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 13 (1): 105-115. 2016.Since its inception in 1968, the concept of whole-brain death has been contentious, and four decades on, controversy concerning the validity and coherence of whole-brain death continues unabated. Although whole-brain death is legally recognized and medically entrenched in the United States and elsewhere, there is reasonable disagreement among physicians, philosophers, and the public concerning whether brain death is really equivalent to death as it has been traditionally understood. A handful of…Read more
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77Breeders: A Subclass of Women?International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 7 (2): 248-253. 2014.
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44Framing the Debate: Concussion and Mild Traumatic Brain InjuryNeuroethics 8 (1): 1-4. 2014.Concussion and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury affect millions of people worldwide. mTBI has been called the “signature injury” of the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, affecting thousands of active duty service men and women, and veterans. Sport-related concussion represents a significant public health problem, with elite and professional athletes, and millions of youth and amateur athletes worldwide suffering concussions annually. These brain injuries have received scant attention from neu…Read more
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46The Ethically Dubious Practice of Thwarting the Redemption of the CondemnedAmerican Journal of Bioethics 11 (10). 2011.The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 11, Issue 10, Page 9-10, October 2011
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18Concussion and youth hockey: It’s time to break the cycle.Canadian Medical Association Journal 183 921-924. 2011.Concussion is a common, serious injury in youth ice hockey, affecting up to 25% of players per season by one estimate. • Bodychecking is a major cause of injury and concussion in hockey, yet some Canadian provinces allow players as young as nine years to engage in bodychecking. • Reducing rates of concussion requires eliminating bodychecking for all except elite hockey players aged 16 years and older, as per the recommendations of the Canadian Academy of Sports and Exercise Medicine.
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123Implications of recent neuroscientific findings in patients with disorders of consciousnessNeuroethics 3 (2): 185-196. 2010.A pressing issue in neuroscience is the high rate of misdiagnosis of disorders of consciousness. As new research on patients with disorders of consciousness has revealed surprising and previously unknown cognitive capacities, the need to develop better and more reliable methods of diagnosing these disorders becomes more urgent. So too the need to expand our ethical and social frameworks for thinking about these patients, to accommodate new concerns that will accompany new revelations. A recent s…Read more
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83The Impact of American Tackle Football-Related Concussion in Youth AthletesAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 2 (4): 48-59. 2011.Postmortem research on the brains of American tackle football players has revealed the presence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease caused by repeated head trauma. Repeated concussion is a risk factor for CTE, raising ethical concerns about the long-term effects of concussion on athletes at risk for football-related concussion. Of equal concern is that youth athletes are at increased risk for lasting neurocognitive and developmental deficits that can result in…Read more
L. Syd M Johnson
SUNY Upstate Medical University
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SUNY Upstate Medical UniversityAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
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Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Biomedical Ethics |
Death and Dying |
Neuroethics |
Medical Ethics |
Animal Ethics |
Animal Rights |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Areas of Interest
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