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3741Public Misunderstanding of Science? Reframing the Problem of Vaccine HesitancyPerspectives on Science 24 (5): 552-581. 2016.The public rejection of scientific claims is widely recognized by scientific and governmental institutions to be threatening to modern democratic societies. Intense conflict between science and the public over diverse health and environmental issues have invited speculation by concerned officials regarding both the source of and the solution to the problem of public resistance towards scientific and policy positions on such hot-button issues as global warming, genetically modified crops, environ…Read more
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21MA Thesis. Biomedical ethics does not lend itself to easy categorisation as either a 'theoretical' or a 'practical' enterprise because inquiry into the quandaries of morality requires both situational and 'translocal' perspectives. These types of investigation bring into question the legitimacy of the theory/practice divide that has dominated intellectual thought since antiquity. This division hinders the development of bioethics by fostering internal dispute within the discipline regarding appr…Read more
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88From Popperian science to normal science. Commentary on Sestini (2009) 'Epistemology and ethics of evidence‐based medicine'Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 16 (2): 306-309. 2010.
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40A Response to Sestini's (2011) ResponseJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 17 (5): 1004-1005. 2011.
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262HealthIn [REFERENCE] Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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52Placebo orthodoxy and the double standard of care in multinational clinical researchTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 36 (1): 7-23. 2015.It has been almost 20 years since the field of bioethics was galvanized by a controversial series of multinational AZT trials employing placebo controls on pregnant HIV-positive women in the developing world even though a standard of care existed in the sponsor countries. The trove of ethical investigations that followed was thoughtful and challenging, yet an important and problematic methodological assumption was left unexplored. In this article, I revisit the famous “double standard of care” c…Read more
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347Diversity in Epistemic Communities: A Response to CloughSocial Epistemology Review and Reply Collective Vol. 3, No. 5. 2014.In Clough’s reply paper to me (http://wp.me/p1Bfg0-1aN), she laments how feminist calls for diversity within scientific communities are inadvertently sidelined by our shared feminist empiricist prescriptions. She offers a novel justification for diversity within epistemic communities and challenges me to accept this addendum to my prior prescriptions for biomedical research communities (Goldenberg 2013) on the grounds that they are consistent with the epistemic commitments that I already endorse…Read more
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658Perspectives on Evidence-Based Healthcare for WomenJournal of Women's Health 19 (7): 1235-1238. 2010.We live in an age of evidence-based healthcare, where the concept of evidence has been avidly and often uncritically embraced as a symbol of legitimacy, truth, and justice. By letting the evidence dictate healthcare decision making from the bedside to the policy level, the normative claims that inform decision making appear to be negotiated fairly—without subjectivity, prejudice, or bias. Thus, the term ‘‘evidence-based’’ is typically read in the health sciences as the empirically adequate stand…Read more
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2491Working for the Cure: Challenging Pink Ribbon Activism [Book Chapter]In Roma Harris, Nadine Wathen & Sally Wyatt (eds.), [Book] Configuring Health Consumers: Health Work and the Imperative of Personal Responsibility. Eds. R. Harris, N. Wathen, S. Wyatt. Amsterdam: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.In accordance with the critical women’s health literature recounting the ways that women are encouraged to submit themselves to various sorts of health “imperatives”, I investigate the messages tacitly conveyed to women in “campaigns for the cure” and breast cancer awareness efforts, which, I argue, overemphasizes a “positive attitude”, healthy lifestyle, and cure rather than prevention of this life-threatening disease. I challenge that the message of hope pervading breast cancer discourse silen…Read more
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