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20Book Review:Just Doctoring: Medical Ethics in the Liberal State Troyen Brennan (review)Ethics 103 (4): 832-. 1993.
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16Physicians have long tinkered with ways to "improve" the human brain, but as our understanding of that organ's inner workings quickly grows, artificial enhancement is becoming more feasible. Military research is at the forefront of this work, much of it focused on drugs. The goal is to produce a better soldier, but the emerging techniques could just as easily be applied to any individual. The military wants to juice up personnel's brains because the human being is the weakest instrument of warfa…Read more
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18Goodbye to All That The End of Moderate Protectionism in Human Subjects ResearchHastings Center Report 31 (3): 9-17. 2001.Federal policies on human subjects research have performed a near‐about face. In the 1970s, policies were motivated chiefly by a belief that subjects needed protection from the harms and risks of research. Now the driving concern is that patients, and the populations they represent, need access to the benefits of research.
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8The body politic: the battle over science in AmericaBellevue Literary Press. 2011.In her foreword to Science Next, Elizabeth Edwards wrote of science as a tool for social progress: "Innovation is not simply the abstract victory of knowledge [or] the research that gave me years to live; the next science can advance human flourishing and serve the common good. That's the kind of world I want to leave for my children, and for yours." With these words, she joined a tradition that goes back to America's founders, who saw America itself as a "great experiment." Yet while no one can…Read more
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90The Triumph of Autonomy in Bioethics and Commercialism in American HealthcareCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 16 (4): 415. 2007.Justifying his proposal for “health savings accounts,” which would allow individuals to set aside tax-free dollars against future healthcare needs, President Bush has said that “Health savings accounts all aim at empowering people to make decisions for themselves.” Who could disagree with such a sentiment? Although bioethicists may be among those who express skepticism that personal health savings accounts will be part of the needed “fix” of our healthcare financing system, self determination ha…Read more
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Bioethics progressingIn Jonathan D. Moreno & Sam Berger (eds.), Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics, Mit Press. pp. 1. 2010.
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20In the wake of terror: medicine and morality in a time of crisis (edited book)MIT Press. 2003.Timely and provocative essays on bioethical questions brought to the forefront by the bioterrorist threat.
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43Revising the History of Cold War Research EthicsKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 6 (3): 223-237. 1996.: President Clinton's charge to the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments included the identification of ethical and legal standards for evaluating government-sponsored radiation experiments conducted during the Cold War. In this paper, we review the traditional account of the history of American research ethics, and then highlight and explain the significance of a number of the Committee's historical findings as they relate to this account. These findings include both the national d…Read more
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Frederic Rogers Kellogg, "The Formative Essays of Justice Holmes" (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 21 (1): 147. 1985.
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8Discourse in the social sciences: strategies for translating models of mental illnessGreenwood Press. 1982.The authors consider the nature of explanatory models in the social sciences in order to suggest ways in which conceptual systems differ. They suggest that, in many cases, theorists, researchers and clinicians can utilize insights from rival models in building their own models, without sacrificing the integrity of their own work.
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20The Future of “Culture”Philosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 4 493-496. 1988.
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46Biotechnology and the new right: Neoconservatism's red menaceAmerican Journal of Bioethics 7 (10). 2007.Although the neoconservative movement has come to dominate American conservatism, this movement has its origins in the old Marxist Left. Communists in their younger days, as the founders of neoconservatism, inverted Marxist doctrine by arguing that moral values and not economic forces were the primary movers of history. Yet the neoconservative critique of biotechnology still borrows heavily from Karl Marx and owes more to the German philosopher Martin Heidegger than to the Scottish philosopher a…Read more
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10Review of Francois Ansermet and Pierre Magistretti. Biology of Freedom: Neural Plasticity, Experience, and the Unconscious, trans. Susan Fairfield. 1 (review)American Journal of Bioethics 8 (5): 36-37. 2008.This Article does not have an abstract
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77Human Experiments and National Security: The Need to Clarify PolicyCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 12 (2): 192-195. 2003.On September 4, 2001, press reports indicated that the Defense Intelligence Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense planned to reproduce a strain of anthrax virus suspected of being held in Russian laboratories. According to the same reports, the Central Intelligence Agency, under the auspices of Project Clear Vision, is engaged in building replicas of bomblets believed to have been developed by the former Soviet Union. These small bombs were designed to disperse biological agents, including an…Read more
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IntroductionIn Jonathan D. Moreno & Sam Berger (eds.), Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics, Mit Press. 2010.
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20A response to commentators on "ethics of research involving mandatory drug testing of high school athletes in oregon"American Journal of Bioethics 4 (1). 2004.There is consensus that children have questionable decisional capacity and, therefore, in general a parent or a guardian must give permission to enroll a child in a research study. Moreover, freedom from duress and coercion, the cardinal rule in research involving adults, is even more important for children. This principle is embodied prominently in the Nuremberg Code and is embodied in various federal human research protection regulations. In a program named "SATURN", each school in the Oregon …Read more
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34The natural history of vulnerabilityAmerican Journal of Bioethics 4 (3). 2004.This Article does not have an abstract
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25Call me doctor? Confessions of a hospital philosopherJournal of Medical Humanities 12 (4): 183-196. 1991.Accustomed as many of us have become in the era of clinical bioethics to the idea of a “hospital philosopher”, on reflection the historical novelty of the role is astonishing, as are its ambiguities. As a result of considering my own experience I found myself writing this miniature intellectual autobiography. In the course of this essay I raise two specific questions: what can the Western philosophical tradition contribute to the clinical setting; and (a question that is rarely asked), what are …Read more
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17The Dewey-Morris Debate in RetrospectTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 19 (1). 1983.