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    The internal morality of medicine: An evolutionary perspective
    with Howard Brody
    Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 26 (6). 2001.
    A basic question of medical ethics is whether the norms governing medical practice should be understood as the application of principles and rules of the common morality to medicine or whether some of these norms are internal or proper to medicine. In this article we describe and defend an evolutionary perspective on the internal morality of medicine that is defined in terms of the goals of clinical medicine and a set of duties that constrain medical practice in pursuit of these goals. This pers…Read more
  •  7
    Do Moral Experts Exist?
    Hastings Center Report 14 (4): 50-50. 1984.
  •  6
    The case for a Code of Ethics for Bioethicists: Some Reasons for Skepticism
    American Journal of Bioethics 5 (5): 50-52. 2005.
    1. The opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the National Institutes of Health, the Public Health Service, or the Department of Health and Human Services
  •  5
    Money and Distorted Ethical Judgments about Research: Ethical Assessment of the TeGenero TGN1412 Trial (review)
    with Ezekiel J. Emanuel
    American Journal of Bioethics 7 (2): 76-81. 2007.
    The recent TeGenero phase I trial of a novel monoclonal antibody in healthy volunteers produced a drastic inflammatory reaction in participants receiving the experimental agent. Commentators on the ethics of the research have focused considerable attention on the role of financial considerations: the for-profit status of the biotechnology company and Contract Research Organization responsible respectively for sponsoring and conducting the trial and the amount of monetary compensation to particip…Read more
  •  1
    A Response to Commentators on "Sham Surgery: An Ethical Analysis"
    American Journal of Bioethics 3 (4): 36-36. 2003.
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    Rethinking the Ethics of Vital Organ Donations
    with Robert D. Truog
    Hastings Center Report 38 (6): 38-46. 2008.
    Accepted medical practice already violates the dead donor rule. Explicitly jettisoning the rule—allowing vital organs to be extracted, under certain conditions, from living patients—is a radical change only at the conceptual level. But it would expand the pools of eligible organ donors.
  •  9
    By Author BAGHERI, Alireza. Criticism of “Brain
    with Tom L. Beauchamp, Howard Brody, Alexander S. Curtis, Martina Darragh, Patricia Milmoe, Ronald M. U. S. Green, Sharona Hoffman, Edmund G. Howe, and Jeffrey P. Kahn
    Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 13 (4): 407-09. 2003.
  •  3
    In the research ethics literature, there is strong disagreement about the ethical acceptability of placebo-controlled trials, particularly when a tested therapy aims to alleviate a condition for which standard treatment exists. Recently, this disagreement has given rise to debate over the moral appropriateness of the principle of clinical equipoise for medical research. Underlying these debates are two fundamentally different visions of the moral obligations that investigators owe their subjects…Read more
  • Psychiatric research
    with Don Rosenstein
    In Sidney Bloch & Stephen A. Green (eds.), Psychiatric ethics, Oxford University Press. 1981.
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    The ethics of peer review in bioethics
    with David Wendler
    Journal of Medical Ethics 40 (10): 697-701. 2014.
    A good deal has been written on the ethics of peer review, especially in the scientific and medical literatures. In contrast, we are unaware of any articles on the ethics of peer review in bioethics. Recognising this gap, we evaluate the extant proposals regarding ethical standards for peer review in general and consider how they apply to bioethics. We argue that scholars have an obligation to perform peer review based on the extent to which they personally benefit from the peer review process. …Read more