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14Public Goods and Fair Prices: Balancing Technological Innovation with Social Well‐BeingHastings Center Report 26 (2): 5-11. 1996.A recent controversy concerning the pricing of drugs and other technological innovations funded by public dollars raised profound moral and social questions, questions the bioethics community has long overlooked.
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11Taking Issue: Pluralism and Casuistry in BioethicsGeorgetown University Press. 2003."When it comes to morality as it is practiced in medicine, Brody makes clear that the ethical issues are never as simple as black and white - that there are myriad factors and fine nuances that can and should challenge decision making as it is commonly practiced in difficult medical cases. In this collection, delving thoughtfully and systematically into methodology, research ethics, clinical ethics, and Jewish medical ethics, he tackles thorny life-and-death questions head-on and fearlessly. He …Read more
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7Moral rules and particular circumstancesPrentice-Hall. 1970.Morality based upon categorical imperatives. On a supposed right to tell lies from benevolent motives, by I. Kant.--Utilitarian morality, by H. Sidgwick.--What makes right acts right? by Sir D. Ross.--Utilitarianism, universalisation, and our duty to be just, by J. Harrison.--Extreme and restricted utilitarianism, by J. J. C. Smart.--What if everyone did that? by C. Strang.--Toward a credible form of utilitarianism, by R. B. Brandt.
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Limiting life-prolonging medical treatment: A comparative analysis of the President's Commission and the New York State Task ForceIn Ruth Ellen Bulger, Elizabeth Meyer Bobby & Harvey V. Fineberg (eds.), Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine, National Academy Press. pp. 307--34. 1995.
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51Innovation in Human Research Protection: The AbioCor Artificial Heart TrialAmerican Journal of Bioethics 6 (5). 2006.Human clinical research has become a huge economic enterprise (Morin et al. 2002; Noah 2002). Because the human subject at the center can be so easily marginalized, many commentators recommend spec...
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56Intellectual property and biotechnology: The U.s. Internal experience--part IIKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 16 (2): 105-128. 2006.: Continuing the discussion begun in the March 2006 issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, this paper further documents the failure of the United States to adequately consider possible modifications in the traditional robust system of intellectual property rights as applied to biotechnology. It discusses concrete suggestions for alternative disclosure requirements, for exemptions for research tools, and for improved access to clinical advances. In each of these cases, the modification…Read more
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94Redistribution Without EgalitarianismSocial Philosophy and Policy 1 (1): 71. 1983.I will, in this paper, set out the philosophical foundations and the basic structure of a new theory of justice. I will argue that both these foundations and the theory which is based upon them are intuitively attractive and theoretically sound. Finally, I will argue that both are supported by the fact that they lead to attractive implications such as the following: One can justify at least some governmental redistributive programs which presuppose that those receiving the wealth have a right to…Read more
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75Pharmacogenetics: Ethical issues and policy optionsKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 12 (1): 1-15. 2002.: Pharmacogenetics offers the prospect of an era of safer and more effective drugs, as well as more individualized use of drug therapies. Before the benefits of pharmacogenetics can be realized, the ethical issues that arise in research and clinical application of pharmacogenetic technologies must be addressed. The ethical issues raised by pharmacogenetics can be addressed under six headings: regulatory oversight, confidentiality and privacy, informed consent, availability of drugs, access, and …Read more
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19Philosophical reflections on clinical trials in developing countriesIn Rosamond Rhodes, Margaret P. Battin & Anita Silvers (eds.), Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care, Oup Usa. pp. 197. 2002.
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29Ethical Issues in Drug Testing, Approval and Pricing: The Clot-Dissolving DrugsBioethics 12 (1): 79-81. 1998.
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6One. The Theory of Identity for Enduring ObjectsIn Graeme Forbes (ed.), Identity and Essence, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-23. 1981.
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109The ethics of biomedical research: an international perspectiveOxford University Press. 1998.A broad critical review of national policies on biomedical research - human, epidemiologic, clinical trials, genetic, reproductive, etc.
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34Special Ethical Issues in the Management of PVS PatientsJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 20 (1-2): 104-115. 1992.
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17Madrid and the Spanish Economy: 1560-1850Univ of California Press. 1983.A social study of "An essay concerning human understanding." Includes bibliographical references and index.
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37Justice and competitive marketsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 12 (1): 37-50. 1987.This essay challenges the view that the provision of health care must take place within a competitive-free system. The author argues that, presuming that there is a requirement to meet the demands of those who cannot pay for health care, a competitive market provides a good way to deal with injustices within the health care system. The author concludes that the demands for justice are best met when indigent individuals use some portion of the funds they receive from the government to purchase on…Read more
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687Conflicts among Multinational Ethical and Scientific Standards for Clinical Trials of Therapeutic InterventionsJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 40 (1): 99-121. 2012.There has been a growing concern over establishing norms that ensure the ethically acceptable and scientifically sound conduct of clinical trials. Among the leading norms internationally are the World Medical Association's Declaration of Helsinki, guidelines by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences, the International Conference on Harmonization's standards for industry, and the CONSORT group's reporting norms, in addition to the influential U.S. Federal Common Rule, Foo…Read more
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103Intuitions and Objective Moral KnowledgeThe Monist 62 (4): 446-456. 1979.Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of philosophical discussion about such concrete moral issues as just war, distribution of food aid, euthanasia, reverse discrimination, etc. Much of this discussion implicitly assumes that there are true and false positions on these issues, valid or invalid arguments for these positions, etc. Recent years have not witnessed, however, a proliferation of philosophical defenses of these assumptions. With the decline of metaethical discussions, these assum…Read more
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2Readings in the Philosophy of Religion an Analytic Approach /Edited by Baruch A. Brody. --. --Prentice-Hall, [] 1974. 1974.
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25The use of halakhic material in discussions of medical ethicsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 8 (3): 317-328. 1983.In this paper questions are raised about the use of Halakhic material discussions of medical ethics. Three ways in which one might use Halakhic material in such discussions are distinguishes: (a) as a source for ideas about medical ethics which can be defended independently of their origin; (b) as a basis for mandating certain forms of behaviour for members of the Jewish faith; (c) as the basis for claims about the Jewish view on disputed topics in medical ethics. The first two raise no methodic…Read more
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2Hume, Reid, and Kant on causalityIn Stephen Francis Barker & Tom L. Beauchamp (eds.), Thomas Reid: Critical Interpretations, University City Science Center. pp. 3-8. 1976.
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67Traditional knowledge and intellectual propertyKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 20 (3): 231-249. 2010.In a recent article (Brody 2010), I analyzed the debates surrounding charges of biopiracy, that is, charges that developed countries use biotechnology patents to expropriate the biological/genetic heritage of less developed countries. Such charges often are accompanied by the additional charge that biotechnology patents are used to expropriate the traditional knowledge about the use of these resources possessed by indigenous communities in less developed countries. It is this second charge that …Read more
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