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23Defining Disease in the Context of OverdiagnosisMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy: A European Journal 20 (2): 269-280. 2017.Recently, concerns have been raised about the phenomenon of 'overdiagnosis', the diagnosis of a condition that is not causing harm, and will not come to cause harm. Along with practical, ethical, and scientific questions, overdiagnosis raises questions about our concept of disease. In this paper, we analyse overdiagnosis as an epistemic problem and show how it challenges many existing accounts of disease. In particular, it raises questions about conceptual links drawn between disease and dysfunc…Read more
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22What Feminist Bioethics Can Bring to Synthetic BiologyInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 16 (2): 46-63. 2023.Synthetic biology (synbio) involves designing and creating new living systems to serve human ends, using techniques including molecular biology, genomics, and engineering. Existing bioethical analyses of synbio focus largely on balancing benefits against harms, the dual-use dilemma, and metaphysical questions about creating and commercializing synthetic organisms. We argue that these approaches fail to consider key feminist concerns. We ground our normative claims in two case studies, focusing o…Read more
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22Responding to unethical research: the importance of transparencyJournal of Medical Ethics 46 (10): 691-692. 2020.We thank Goldstein and Peterson, Caplan, and Bramstedt for engaging with our paper on the ethics of publishing and using Chinese transplant research that involves organs procured from executed prisoners.1–4 In that paper, we examine consequentialist and deontological arguments for and against using data from unethical research. Goldstein and Peterson question the relationship between the social and scientific value of the research and the decision to publish the results. They argue that the fail…Read more
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21Reports of new healthcare AI interventions should include systematic ethical evaluationsBioethics 36 (6): 728-730. 2022.Bioethics, Volume 36, Issue 6, Page 728-730, July 2022.
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20Activism and Bioethics: Taking a Stand on Things That MatterHastings Center Report 51 (4): 32-33. 2021.The question of whether activism should be overtly embraced as part of the bioethicist's role deserves serious consideration. Like others, we agree that bioethics is inescapably partisan; bioethical deliberation is based on trying to determine morally relevant features of situations and morally justifiable outcomes. Where disagreement arises is over the degree to which bioethicists should be activists. Meyers argues for a somewhat circumscribed role, limited to action on ethically concerning ins…Read more
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19Editors’ IntroductionInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 5 (2): 1-10. 2012.
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19Conflicts of interest in divisions of general practiceJournal of Medical Ethics 32 (12): 715-717. 2006.Community-based healthcare organisations manage competing, and often conflicting, priorities. These conflicts can arise from the multiple roles these organisations take up, and from the diverse range of stakeholders to whom they must be responsive. Often such conflicts may be titled conflicts of interest; however, what precisely constitutes such conflicts and what should be done about them is not always clear. Clarity about the duties owed by organisations and the roles they assume can help iden…Read more
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15Letter to the Editor: New Study Raises Questions about Effectiveness of Nicotine Replacement TherapyPublic Health Ethics 9 (2): 229-230. 2016.
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15When is sex-specific research appropriate?International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 1 (2): 36-57. 2008.Inclusion in research is a question of both scientific validity of research results and just distribution of the benefits of medical research within a community. Therefore, inappropriate exclusions from research can be regulated as a matter of science or a matter of ethics. In this paper we examine the definitions of appropriate/fair inclusion in the Australian and U.S. regulatory systems and discuss the processes for interpreting and implementing these normative standards. In the second part of…Read more
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14The Ethics of Surgical Research and InnovationIn Tomas Zima & David N. Weisstub (eds.), Medical Research Ethics: Challenges in the 21st Century, Springer Verlag. pp. 217-232. 2022.Surgical advances can provide great benefits to patients but can come at a cost. The successes are often matched by failures that cause harm to patients. The risks of surgery create a strong ethical imperative for research to establish the safety and efficacy of new treatments. Surgical research is, however, challenging for a number of reasons including the lack of a clear boundary between variations in practice, innovation and research, its irreversible nature, the difficulty of performing plac…Read more
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10Warum die Bioethik ein Konzept von Vulnerabilität benötigtIn Nikola Biller-Andorno, Settimio Monteverde, Tanja Krones & Tobias Eichinger (eds.), Medizinethik, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 189-219. 2021.Wendy Rogers ist Professorin für klinische Ethik und Catriona Mackenzie ist Professorin für Philosophie. Beide lehren an der Macquarie University in Sydney, Australien. Susan Dodds ist Professorin für Philosophie an der La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australien. Alle drei befassen sich seit Jahren intensiv mit feministischer Theorie, angewandter und biomedizinischer Ethik sowie mit Moralphilosophie.
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9Ethics, Pandemic Planning and CommunicationsMonash Bioethics Review 25 (4): 9-18. 2006.In this article we examine the role and ethics of communications in planning for an influenza pandemic. We argue that ethical communication must not only he effective, so that pandemic plans can be successfully implemented, communications should also take specific account of the needs of the disadvantaged, so that they are not further disenfranchised. This will require particular attention to the role of the mainstream media which may disadvantage the vulnerable through misrepresentation and exc…Read more
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7Cost-Related Non-Adherence to Prescribed Medicines: What Are Physicians’ Moral Duties?American Journal of Bioethics 1-12. forthcoming.As the price of pharmaceuticals and biologicals rises so does the number of patients who cannot afford them. In this article, we argue that physicians have a moral duty to help patients access affordable medicines. We offer three grounds to support our argument: (i) the aim of prescribing is to improve health and well-being which can only be realized with secure access to treatment; (ii) there is no morally significant difference between medicines being unavailable and medicines being unaffordab…Read more
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6Scientists’ Views on the Ethics, Promises and Practices of Synthetic Biology: A Qualitative Study of Australian Scientific PracticeScience and Engineering Ethics 29 (6): 1-20. 2023.Synthetic biology is a broad term covering multiple scientific methodologies, technologies, and practices. Pairing biology with engineering, synbio seeks to design and build biological systems, either through improving living cells by adding in new functions, or creating new structures by combining natural and synthetic components. As with all new technologies, synthetic biology raises a number of ethical considerations. In order to understand what these issues might be, and how they relate to t…Read more
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1Gender inequalities in health research : An australian perspectiveIn Michael D. A. Freeman (ed.), Law and Bioethics / Edited by Michael Freeman, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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Applied Ethics |
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Applied Ethics |