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535The Revisability of Moral conceptsAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 1 (4): 32-34. 2010.
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574Free will from the neurophilosophical perspectiveAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 1 (1): 49-51. 2010.
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15The human microbiome: ethical, legal and social concerns (edited book)Oxford university press. 2013.Human microbiome research has revealed that legions of bacteria, viruses, and fungi live on our skin and within the cavities of our bodies. New knowledge from these recent studies shows that humans are superorganisms and that the microbiome is indispensible to our lives and our health. This volume explores some of the science on the human microbiome and considers the ethical, legal, and social concerns that are raised by this research.
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683Reconsidering the Impact of Affective ForecastingCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 18 (2): 166. 2009.
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24Review of David H. Brendel, Healing Psychiatry - Bridging the Science/Humanism Divide (review)American Journal of Bioethics 7 (11): 52-53. 2007.No abstract
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67Neuroethics and the Scientific Revision of Common SenseSpringer, Studies in Brain and Mind, Vol. 11. 2016.Neuroethics is an emerging interdisciplinary field with unsettled boundaries. Many of the ethical issues within the purview of neuroethics could be described as resulting from the clash between the scientific perspective on concepts such as free will, personal identity, consciousness, etc., and the putatively commonsense conceptions of those terms. The assumption that undergirds the framing of the conflict between these two approaches is that advances in neuroscience, psychiatry, and psychology …Read more
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59The medical record as legal document: When can the patient dictate the content? An ethics case from the Department of NeurologyClinical Ethics 9 (1): 53-56. 2014.Confidentiality of health information is increasingly relevant in the era of electronic medical records. We discuss the case of a hospitalized patient who requested a neurology consultation for an episode he described as an “LSD-like” flashback. The patient expressed concern that the episode was a residual effect of past drug use, but subsequently requested that his drug use not be documented. Involved in a custody battle, he feared that if his records were released to the court he could lose cu…Read more
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11Privacy, Confidentiality, and New Ways of Knowing More in The Human Microbiome: Ethical, Legal, and Social ConcernsIn Rosamond Rhodes, Nada Gligorov & Abraham Paul Schwab (eds.), the human microbiome: ethical, legal and social concerns, Oxford University Press. 2013.
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46Seeking more than health: Using medicine for enhancementFilozofija I Društvo 23 (2): 79-90. 2012.The purpose of this essay is to examine some of the ethical concerns raised regarding the use of neuroenhancers. Authors such as Fukuyama and Sandel argue that medical intervention should be limited to treatment of disease, and that enhancement should be outside of the scope of medicine. This commentary will examine the distinction between treatment and enhancement. I shall conclude that it is not a well-drawn distinction and should not be used to provide guidance with regards to the use of psyc…Read more
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29The Applicability of Psychological and Moral Distinctions in an Emerging Neuroscientific FrameworkAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 7 (4): 191-192. 2016.
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