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47Dealing Drugs with the BushCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 13 (3): 241-244. 2004.The past year in bioethics in Australia has been relatively predictable. We continue to struggle with rising healthcare costs, though thankfully not on par with numerous other countries due to a relatively positive economic outlook. We are still fighting difficulties associated with higher medical indemnity costs, which have again caused many physicians to leave private practice, particularly in high-risk and specialty practice areas. In response, the federal government delayed the imposition of…Read more
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92The Overlooked Role of Cases in Casual Attribution in MedicinePhilosophy of Science 81 (5): 999-1011. 2014.Although cases are central to the epistemic practices utilized within clinical medicine, they appear to be limited in their ability to provide evidence about causal relations because they provide detailed accounts of particular patients without explicit filtering of those attributes most likely to be relevant for explaining the phenomena observed. This paper uses a series of recent case reports to explore the role of cases in casual attribution in medical diagnosis. It is argued that cases are b…Read more
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28No Real Categories, Only Chimeras and Illusions: The Interplay between Morality and Science in Debates over Embryonic ChimerasAmerican Journal of Bioethics 3 (3): 31-33. 2003.No abstract
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30Historiographic reflections on model organisms: Or how the mureaucracy may be limiting our understanding of contemporary genetics and genomicsHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 32 (1). 2010.
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31Mixing Metaphors in Umbilical Cord Blood TransplantationAmerican Journal of Bioethics 6 (6): 58-59. 2006.No abstract
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32Angela N.H. Creager, The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930–1965. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002 (review)Metascience 12 (3): 341-344. 2003.
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71The scope of public discourse surrounding proposition 71: Looking beyond the moral status of the embryoJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 3 (1-2): 109-119. 2006.Human embryonic stem cell research has generated considerable discussion and debate in bioethics. Bioethical discourse tends to focus on the moral status of the embryo as the central issue, however, and it is unclear how much this reflects broader community values and beliefs related to stem cell research. This paper presents the results of a study which aims to identify and classify the issues and arguments that have arisen in public discourse associated with one prominent policy episode in the…Read more
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7Angela N.H. Creager, The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930–1965. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002 (review)Metascience 12 (3): 341-344. 2003.
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48Marvelling at the Marvel: The Supposed Conversion of A. D. Darbishire to MendelismJournal of the History of Biology 33 (2). 2000.The so-called "biometric-Mendelian controversy" has received much attention from science studies scholars. This paper focuses on one scientist involved in this debate, Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire, who performed a series of hybridization experiments with mice beginning in 1901. Previous historical work on Darbishire's experiments and his later attempt to reconcile Mendelian and biometric views describe Darbishire as eventually being "converted" to Mendelism. I provide a new analysis of this epis…Read more
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University of AdelaideDepartment of Historical and Classical Studies
Department of PhilosophyProfessor
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Philosophy of Biology |