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21Review of David M. Berube, Nano-Hype. The Truth Behind the Nanotechnology Buzz.1 (review)American Journal of Bioethics 7 (8): 54-55. 2007.No abstract
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34The aim of this thesis is to examine the concept of virtue ethics in Stanley Hauerwas's understanding of virtue and delineate how that contributes to his ethical reasoning and his comprehension of medical ethics. The first chapter focuses on the shift that occurred in moral theory under the stance of the Enlightenment that eroded the traditional idea of morality as the formation of the self, allowing space for new concepts that dismissed the importance of the agent in the ethical task of seeking…Read more
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122The hippocratic oath and contemporary medicine: Dialectic between past ideals and present reality?Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 30 (1). 2005.The Hippocratic Oath, the Hippocratic tradition, and Hippocratic ethics are widely invoked in the popular medical culture as conveying a direction to medical practice and the medical profession. This study critically addresses these invocations of Hippocratic guideposts, noting that reliance on the Hippocratic ethos and the Oath requires establishingwhat the Oath meant to its author, its original community of reception, and generally for ancient medicine what relationships contemporary invocatio…Read more
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35Patient education as empowerment and self-rebiasingMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 19 (4): 553-561. 2016.The fiduciary nature of the patient-physician relationship requires clinicians to act in the best interest of their patients. Patients are vulnerable due to their health status and lack of medical knowledge, which makes them dependent on the clinicians’ expertise. Competent patients, however, may reject the recommendations of their physician, either refusing beneficial medical interventions or procedures based on their personal views that do not match the perceived medical indication. In some in…Read more
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54The precautionary principle: A dialectical reconsiderationJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 29 (3). 2004.This essay examines an overlooked element of the precautionary principle: a prudent assessment of the long-range or remote catastrophes possibly associated with technological development must include the catastrophes that may take place because of the absence of such technologies. In short, this brief essay attempts to turn the precautionary principle on its head by arguing that, (1) if the long-term survival of any life form is precarious, and if the survival of the current human population is …Read more
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30Neither convention nor constitution - what the debate on stem cell research tells us about the status of the common european ethicsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 29 (5). 2004.This Article does not have an abstract
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35Review of John Griffiths, Heleen weyers and Maurice Adams, euthanasia and law in europe . Oxford: Hart publishing, 2008 (review)HEC Forum 21 (1): 107-111. 2009.
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89Ethics and Informed Consent of Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) for Patients with Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD)Neuroethics 3 (1): 13-22. 2010.Since the Nuremberg trials (1947–1949), informed consent has become central for ethical practice in patient care and biomedical research. Codes of ethics emanating from the Nuremberg Code (1947) recognize the importance of protecting patients and research subjects from abuses, manipulation and deception. Informed consent empowers individuals to autonomously and voluntarily accept or reject participation in either clinical treatment or research. In some cases, however, the underlying mental or ph…Read more
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The Neurobiology of Social Disruption: International Perspectives of Psychiatry, Pathology and Society (edited book)Potomic Institute Press. forthcoming.
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46Psychopathy, neurotechnologies, and neuroethicsTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 35 (1): 1-6. 2014.In the last decade, a series of acts of violence has increased the interest in understanding what prompts individuals to engage in serial killing, bombing, and other violent acts. The shootings of Columbine, Newtown, and Aurora in the United States, and of Oslo in Norway, 9/11, and the recent bombing during the Boston Marathon have raised questions of how to thwart such tragedies as well as of how to detect and possibly “control” individuals posing a threat to public safety. In addition, the lat…Read more
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96At the Roots of Transhumanism: From the Enlightenment to a Post-Human FutureJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 35 (6): 617-621. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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27Individual Responsibility and Solidarity in European Health Care: Further Down the Road to Two-Tier System of Health CareJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 33 (3): 191-197. 2008.
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17Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Human Dignity and Transhumanism: Do Anthro-Technological Devices Have Moral Status?”American Journal of Bioethics 10 (7). 2010.In this paper, I focus on the concept of human dignity and critically assess whether such a concept, as used in the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, is indeed a useful tool for bioethical debates. However, I consider this concept within the context of the development of emerging technologies, that is, with a particular focus on transhumanism. The question I address is not whether attaching artificial limbs or enhancing particular traits or capacities would dehumanize or undig…Read more
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175Human Dignity and Transhumanism: Do Anthro-Technological Devices Have Moral Status?American Journal of Bioethics 10 (7): 45-52. 2010.In this paper, I focus on the concept of human dignity and critically assess whether such a concept, as used in the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, is indeed a useful tool for bioethical debates. However, I consider this concept within the context of the development of emerging technologies, that is, with a particular focus on transhumanism. The question I address is not whether attaching artificial limbs or enhancing particular traits or capacities would dehumanize or undig…Read more
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17The Politicization of Science and Technology: Its Implications for NanotechnologyJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 34 (4): 658-666. 2006.The development of nanotechnology intensifies challenges to the traditional understanding of how to pursue scientific and technological knowledge. Science can no longer be construed simply as the ideal of the quest for truth . Science has become the source of economic power and political power. In this paper, I argue that nanotechnology is a cardinal exemplar of “this politicization.” At the same time, I assert that this new scientific ethos offers the possibility of a better integration of ethi…Read more
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55Questioning the Moral Enhancement ProjectAmerican Journal of Bioethics 14 (4): 1-3. 2014.No abstract
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