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4Accommodating Conscientious Objection in Medicine—Private Ideological Convictions Must Not Trump Professional ObligationsJournal of Clinical Ethics 27 (3): 227-232. 2016.The opinion of the American Medical Association (AMA) Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA) on the accommodation of conscientious objectors among medical doctors aims to balance fairly patients’ rights of access to care and accommodating doctors’ deeply held personal beliefs. Like similar documents, it fails. Patients will not find it persuasive, and neither should they. The lines drawn aim at a reasonable compromise between positions that are not amenable to compromise. They are also l…Read more
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7Counting the costs of the global north's COVID‐19 policies: Lives vs life yearsDeveloping World Bioethics 22 (4): 183-184. 2022.
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18The ‘Ethical’ COVID-19 Vaccine is the One that Preserves Lives: Religious and Moral Beliefs on the COVID-19 VaccinePublic Health Ethics 14 (3): 242-255. 2021.Although the COVID-19 pandemic is a serious public health and economic emergency, and although effective vaccines are the best weapon we have against it, there are groups and individuals who oppose certain kinds of vaccines because of personal moral or religious reasons. The most widely discussed case has been that of certain religious groups that oppose research on COVID-19 vaccines that use cell lines linked to abortions and that object to receiving those vaccine because of their moral opposit…Read more
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6Ethical Progress on the Abortion Care Frontiers on the African ContinentDeveloping World Bioethics 22 (3): 125-125. 2022.Developing World Bioethics, Volume 22, Issue 3, Page 125-125, September 2022.
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Justice and Health Care: Comparative Perspectives edited by Andrew Grubb and Maxwell J. Mehlman (review)Bioethics 11 83-84. 1997.
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17Argumenta ad passiones: Canada debates access thresholds to MAiDBioethics 36 (6): 611-612. 2022.Bioethics, Volume 36, Issue 6, Page 611-612, July 2022.
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16Medical assistance in dying: Squabbles over the meaning of ‘irremediable’Bioethics 36 (1): 1-2. 2021.Bioethics, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 1-2, January 2022.
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22Vaccine nationalism – at this point in the COVID-19 pandemic: UnjustifiableDeveloping World Bioethics 21 (3): 99-99. 2021.
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219Principlist Pandemics: On Fraud Ethical Guidelines and the Importance of TransparencyIn Michael Boylan (ed.), Ethical Public Health Policy Within Pandemics: Theory and Practice in Ethical Pandemic Administration, Springer. pp. 131-148. 2022.The COVID-19 pandemic has coincided with the proliferation of ethical guidance documents to assist public health authorities, health care providers, practitioners and staff with responding to ethical challenges posed by the pandemic. Like ethical guidelines relating to infectious disease that have preceded them, what unites many COVID-19 guidance documents is their dependency on an under-developed approach to bioethical principlism, a normative framework that attempts to guide actions based on a…Read more
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12Vaccine nationalism – at this point in the COVID‐19 pandemic: UnjustifiableDeveloping World Bioethics 21 (3): 99-99. 2021.Developing World Bioethics, Volume 21, Issue 3, Page 99-99, September 2021.
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31Social determinants of health and slippery slopes in assisted dying debates: lessons from CanadaJournal of Medical Ethics 47 (10): 662-669. 2021.The question of whether problems with the social determinants of health that might impact decision-making justify denying eligibility for assisted dying has recently come to the fore in debates about the legalisation of assisted dying. For example, it was central to critiques of the 2021 amendments made to Canada’s assisted dying law. The question of whether changes to a country’s assisted dying legislation lead to descents down slippery slopes has also come to the fore—as it does any time a jur…Read more
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12Vaccine nationalism – at this point in the COVID‐19 pandemic: UnjustifiableDeveloping World Bioethics 21 (3): 99-99. 2021.Developing World Bioethics, Volume 21, Issue 3, Page 99-99, September 2021.
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17From the chimera research frontiers: Ethics of monkey–human embryosBioethics 35 (5): 391-391. 2021.
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24Religion at Work in Bioethics and Biopolicy: Christian Bioethicists, Secular Language, Suspicious OrthodoxyJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 46 (2): 169-187. 2021.The proper role, if any, for religion-based arguments is a live and sometimes heated issue within the field of bioethics. The issue attracts heat primarily because bioethical analyses influence the outcomes of controversial court cases and help shape legislation in sensitive biopolicy areas. A problem for religious bioethicists who seek to influence biopolicy is that there is now widespread academic and public acceptance, at least within liberal democracies, that the state should not base its po…Read more
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19The COVID‐19 pandemic and what bioethics can and should contribute to health policy developmentBioethics 35 (3): 227-228. 2021.
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14Access to mental health care – a profound ethical problem in the global southDeveloping World Bioethics 20 (4): 174-174. 2020.
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454Bioethics met its COVID‐19 Waterloo: The doctor knows best againBioethics 35 (1): 3-5. 2020.The late Robert Veatch, one of the United States’ founders of bioethics, never tired of reminding us that the paradigm-shifting contribution that bioethics made to patient care was to liberate patients out of the hands of doctors, who were traditionally seen to know best, even when they decidedly did not know best. It seems to us that with the advent of COVID-19, health policy has come full-circle on this. COVID-19 gave rise to a large number of purportedly “ethical” guidance documents aiming to…Read more
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4Professionalism and the Ethics of Conscientious Objection Accommodation in MedicineIn David Boonin, Katrina L. Sifferd, Tyler K. Fagan, Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Michael Huemer, Daniel Wodak, Derk Pereboom, Stephen J. Morse, Sarah Tyson, Mark Zelcer, Garrett VanPelt, Devin Casey, Philip E. Devine, David K. Chan, Maarten Boudry, Christopher Freiman, Hrishikesh Joshi, Shelley Wilcox, Jason Brennan, Eric Wiland, Ryan Muldoon, Mark Alfano, Philip Robichaud, Kevin Timpe, David Livingstone Smith, Francis J. Beckwith, Dan Hooley, Russell Blackford, John Corvino, Corey McCall, Dan Demetriou, Ajume Wingo, Michael Shermer, Ole Martin Moen, Aksel Braanen Sterri, Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, Jeppe von Platz, John Thrasher, Mary Hawkesworth, William MacAskill, Daniel Halliday, Janine O’Flynn, Yoaav Isaacs, Jason Iuliano, Claire Pickard, Arvin M. Gouw, Tina Rulli, Justin Caouette, Allen Habib, Brian D. Earp, Andrew Vierra, Subrena E. Smith, Danielle M. Wenner, Lisa Diependaele, Sigrid Sterckx, G. Owen Schaefer, Markus K. Labude, Harisan Unais Nasir, Udo Schuklenk, Benjamin Zolf & Woolwine (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy, Springer Verlag. pp. 609-621. 2018.Some health-care professionals refuse to perform certain services because doing so would violate their conscientiously held beliefs. Arguments for and against their accommodation claims continue both in the public square and in the courts, as well as in bioethics. This chapter introduces this debate by discussing jurisdictions in which accommodation is granted. We offer evidence of the detrimental effects it has on access to health-care services. An overview of influential ethical arguments for …Read more
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48What healthcare professionals owe us: why their duty to treat during a pandemic is contingent on personal protective equipment (PPE)Journal of Medical Ethics 46 (7): 432-435. 2020.Healthcare professionals’ capacity to protect themselves, while caring for infected patients during an infectious disease pandemic, depends on their ability to practise universal precautions. In turn, universal precautions rely on the availability of personal protective equipment (PPE). During the SARS-CoV2 outbreak many healthcare workers across the globe have been reluctant to provide patient care because crucial PPE components are in short supply. The lack of such equipment during the pandemi…Read more