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31Mapping Bioethics in Latin America: History, Theoretical Models, and Scientific OutputJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 16 (3): 323-331. 2019.Objective: To present a narrative review of the history of bioethics in Latin America and of scientific output in this interdisciplinary field. Methods: This was a mixed-methods study. Results: A total of 1458 records were retrieved, of which 1167 met the inclusion criteria. According to the Web of Science classification, the predominant topics of study were medical ethics, social sciences and medicine, and environmental and public health topics. Four themes of bioethics output in the Latin Amer…Read more
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19Children of Capital: Eugenics in the World of Private BiotechnologyEthics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine 6 (3-4): 285-297. 2015.
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30Mind Wars: Brain Science and the MilitaryMonash Bioethics Review 31 (2): 83-99. 2013.This article is based on a public lecture hosted by the Monash University Centre for Human Bioethics in Melbourne, Australia on 11 April 2013. The lecture recording was transcribed by Vicky Ryan; and, the original transcript has been edited — for clarity and brevity — by Vicky Ryan, Michael Selgelid and Jonathan Moreno.
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21From Patient to Cause CélèbreClassic Cases in Medical EthicsFrom Patient to Cause Celebre (review)Hastings Center Report 21 (5): 42. 1991.Book reviewed in this article: Classic Cases in Medical Ethics. By Gregory Pence.
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28From Frankenstein to Hawking: Which is the Real Face of Science?American Journal of Bioethics 18 (5): 5-5. 2018.
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10Policy & Politics: The End of the Great Bioethics CompromiseHastings Center Report 35 (1): 14. 2005.
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22Perspective: "Of Uncertain Viability": The New Federal Rules for Fetal and Neonatal ResearchHastings Center Report 32 (5): 47. 2002.
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14A Hinckley PrimerThe Insanity Defense and the Trial of John W. Hinckley, JrHastings Center Report 15 (1): 45. 1985.Book reviewed in this article: The Insanity Defense and the Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. By Lincoln Caplan.
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19History, Morals, and MedicinePerspectives in Biology and Medicine 60 (1): 60-73. 2017.When asked why he turned from philosophy to the history of ideas, Isaiah Berlin said that he was worried that if he stayed in philosophy he wouldn't know any more at the end of his life than he had at the beginning. Mark Lilla makes the point in a somewhat more constructive way: "His [Berlin's] instinct told him that you learn more about an idea as an idea when you know something about its genesis and understand why certain people found it compelling and were spurred to action by it".It took me …Read more
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13Charles F. Howlett, "Troubled Philosopher: John Dewey and the Struggle for World Peace" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 19 (1): 129. 1981.
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49Acid Brothers: Henry Beecher, Timothy Leary, and the psychedelic of the centuryPerspectives in Biology and Medicine 59 (1): 107-121. 2016.Henry Knowles Beecher, an icon of human research ethics, and Timothy Francis Leary, a guru of the counterculture, are bound together in history by the synthetic hallucinogen lysergic acid diethylamide. Beecher was a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who received five battle stars, was inducted into the Legion of Merit, held the first endowed chair in his discipline, wrote at least three path-breaking papers, and is honored by two prestigious ethics awards in his name. Leary was a West Point dropout w…Read more
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29Bioethics and BioterrorismIn Bonnie Steinbock (ed.), The Oxford handbook of bioethics, Oxford University Press. 2007.The term ‘bioterrorism’ seems to have become a kind of shorthand for sowing terror through the use of other ‘unconventional’ weapons, especially chemical, nuclear, and radiological weapons, or ‘dirty bombs’. The ethical problems associated with these other threats are closely associated with those raised by biological agents. Therefore, this article necessarily refers to these related potential terrorist technologies, all of them made more available to militant organizations through the spread o…Read more
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32Research with captive populationsIn Ezekiel J. Emanuel (ed.), The Oxford textbook of clinical research ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 461--474. 2008.
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5Secret State Experiments and Medical EthicsIn Arthur W. Galston & Christiana Z. Peppard (eds.), Expanding horizons in bioethics, Springer. pp. 59--69. 2005.
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22Guest Editorial: National Security in the Era of NeuroscienceSynesis: A Journal of Science, Technology, Ethics, and Policy 2 (2). 2011.
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13Pragmatists and pluralists: An american way of metaphysicsMetaphilosophy 16 (2‐3): 178-190. 1985.
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AfterwordIn Jonathan D. Moreno & Sam Berger (eds.), Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics, Mit Press. 2010.
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Pt. VIII. Public and global health. The implications of public health for bioethics / Jeffrey Kahn and Anna Mastroianni ; Global health / Ruth Macklin ; Bioethics and bioterrorism (review)In Bonnie Steinbock (ed.), The Oxford handbook of bioethics, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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34Taking stem cells seriouslyAmerican Journal of Bioethics 6 (5). 2006.This Article does not have an abstract
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11Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics (edited book)MIT Press. 2010.Leading scholars debate politically progressive perspectives on bioethics and the implications for society, politics, and science in the twenty-first century.
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4A Hinckley PrimerHastings Center Report 15 (1): 45-46. 1985.Book reviewed in this article: The Insanity Defense and the Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. By Lincoln Caplan.