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28Infection Control Measures and Debts of GratitudeAmerican Journal of Bioethics 15 (4): 55-57. 2015.
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28Public health, ethical behavior and reciprocityAmerican Journal of Bioethics 8 (5). 2008.This Article does not have an abstract
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26Criminal Law, Philosophy and Public Health Practice (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2013.The goal of improving public health involves the use of different tools, with the law being one way to influence the activities of institutions and individuals. Of the regulatory mechanisms afforded by law to achieve this end, criminal law remains a perennial mechanism to delimit the scope of individual and group conduct. However, criminal law may promote or hinder public health goals, and its use raises a number of complex questions that merit exploration. This examination of the interface betw…Read more
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31Legal Frameworks for Addressing the Well-Being of Terminally Ill ChildrenAmerican Journal of Bioethics 5 (1): 74-76. 2005.No abstract
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51Is Antimicrobial Resistance a Slowly Emerging Disaster?Public Health Ethics 8 (3): 255-265. 2015.The problem of antimicrobial resistance is so dire that people are predicting that the era of antibiotics may be coming to an end, ushering in a ‘post-antibiotic’ era. A comprehensive policy response is therefore urgently needed. A part of this response will require framing the problem in such a way that adequately reflects its nature as well as encompassing an approach that has the best prospect of success. This paper considers framing the problem as a slowly emerging disaster, including its po…Read more
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52Introduction to The Olivieri symposiumJournal of Medical Ethics 30 (1): 1-7. 2004.Adrian Viens, Guest Editor of this Olivieri symposium, and Julian Savulescu, the Editor of JME, set the scene for the symposium."In failing...[her] when she needed them most, it is now clear that some members of the University’s Faculty of Medicine heard her muffled cries of academic freedom from the back room, yet their response was to serve another round of drinks and turn the music up louder. With the bombshell revelations in the...affair, the plug may have been pulled on this business sponso…Read more
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75Emergency Ethics (edited book)Ashgate. 2012.Emergencies are extreme events which threaten to cause massive disruption to society and negatively affect the physical and psychological well-being of its members. They raise important practical and theoretical questions about how we should treat each other in times of "crisis". The articles selected for this volume focus on the nature and significance of emergencies; ethical issues in emergency public policy and law; war, terrorism and supreme emergencies; and public health and humanitarian em…Read more
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1Peter Baumann and Monika Betzler, eds., Practical Conflicts: New Philosophical Essays Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 25 (3): 159-161. 2005.
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25Justifying the Initiation and Continued Provision of Public Health Interventions in Humanitarian SettingsPublic Health Ethics 7 (3): 314-317. 2014.Médecins Sans Frontières is not morally required to continue providing the same therapeutic and preventative interventions for lead poisoning in Nigeria in the face of conditions that negatively impact on the achievement of their objectives. Nevertheless, Médecins Sans Frontières may have reasons to revise their objectives and adopt different interventions or methods
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62The Cambridge textbook of bioethics (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2008.Medicine and health care generate many bioethical problems and dilemmas that are of great academic, professional and public interest. This comprehensive resource is designed as a succinct yet authoritative text and reference for clinicians, bioethicists, and advanced students seeking a better understanding of ethics problems in the clinical setting. Each chapter illustrates an ethical problem that might be encountered in everyday practice; defines the concepts at issue; examines their implicatio…Read more
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31Prudential motives and reciprocal altruismAmerican Journal of Bioethics 4 (4). 2004.This Article does not have an abstract
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14Coroners and the Obligation to Protect Public Health: The Case of the Failed UK vCJD StudyPublic Health 125 (4): 234-7. 2011.The Health Protection Agency has recently attempted to create a postmortem tissue archive to determine the prevalence of abnormal prion protein. The success of this archive was prevented because the Health Protection Agency could not convince coroners to support the study’s methodology and participate on that basis. The findings of this paper detail and support the view that the Coroners’ Society of England and Wales’s refusal to participate was misguided and failed to appreciate that coroners h…Read more
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25Towards a reasons-based pragmatic ethical frameworkAmerican Journal of Bioethics 8 (4). 2008.Brendel and Miller (2008) take the most distinctive commitment in their pragmatic approach to be treating ethical principles as having a hypothetical status. I am sympathetic to a pragmatic approac...
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Mark C. Murphy, Natural Law in Jurisprudence and Politics Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 27 (3): 206-208. 2007.
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25Interdependence, Human Rights and Global Health LawHealth Care Analysis 23 (4): 401-417. 2015.The connection between health and human rights continues to play a prominent role within global health law. In particular, a number of theorists rely on the claim that there is a relation of interdependence between health and human rights. The nature and extent of this relation, however, is rarely defined, developed or defended in a conceptually robust way. This paper seeks to explore the source, scope and strength of this putative relation and what role it might play in developing a global heal…Read more
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