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56Breaking bad and philosophy (edited book)Open Court. 2012.Breaking Bad, hailed by Stephen King, Chuck Klosterman, and many others as the best of all TV dramas, tells the story of a man whose life changes because of the medical death sentence of an advanced cancer diagnosis. The show depicts his metamorphosis from inoffensive chemistry teacher to feared drug lord and remorseless killer. Driven at first by the desire to save his family from destitution, he risks losing his family altogether because of his new life of crime. In defiance of the tradition t…Read more
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1Principals, agents, and the intersection between scientists and policy-makers: reflections on the H5N1 controversyFrontiers in Public Health 2 109. 2014.
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60On genies and bottles: Scientists' moral responsibility and dangerous technology r&dScience and Engineering Ethics 16 (1): 119-133. 2010.The age-old maxim of scientists whose work has resulted in deadly or dangerous technologies is: scientists are not to blame, but rather technologists and politicians must be morally culpable for the uses of science. As new technologies threaten not just populations but species and biospheres, scientists should reassess their moral culpability when researching fields whose impact may be catastrophic. Looking at real-world examples such as smallpox research and the Australian “mousepox trick”, and…Read more
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20Copyright Genes, EmbryosIn Arthur L. Caplan & Robert Arp (eds.), Contemporary debates in bioethics, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 25--152. 2014.
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1Human Research Ethics Committees in Technical UniversitiesJournal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics 9 (3): 67-73. 2014.Human research ethics has developed in both theory and practice mostly from experiences in medical research. Human participants, however, are used in a much broader range of research than ethics committees oversee, including both basic and applied research at technical universities. Although mandated in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, non-medical research involving humans need not receive ethics review in much of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Our survey o…Read more
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31John Searle's Ideas About Social Reality: Extensions, Criticisms, and ReconstructionsWiley-Blackwell. 2003.John R. Searle’s 1995 publication The Construction of Social Reality is the foundation of this collection of scholarly papers examining Searle's philosophical theories. Searle’s book sets out to reconstruct the ontology of the social sciences through an analysis of linguistic practices in the context of his celebrated work on intentionality. His book provided a stimulating account of institutional facts such as money and marriage and how they are created and replicated in everyday social life. T…Read more
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10Gaius Baltar and the Transhuman TemptationIn Jason T. Eberl (ed.), Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 241--252. 2008.
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34Science and ethics: can science help us make wise moral judgments? (edited book)Prometheus Books. 2007.This volume presents a unique collection of authors who generally maintain that science can help us make wise choices and that an increase in scientific knowledge can help modify our ethical values and bring new ethical principles into social awareness.
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6Reply to SungIn Arthur L. Caplan & Robert Arp (eds.), Contemporary debates in bioethics, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 25--164. 2014.
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118Human Participants in Engineering Research: Notes from a Fledgling Ethics CommitteeScience and Engineering Ethics 21 (4): 1033-1048. 2015.For the past half-century, issues relating to the ethical conduct of human research have focused largely on the domain of medical, and more recently social–psychological research. The modern regime of applied ethics, emerging as it has from the Nuremberg trials and certain other historical antecedents, applies the key principles of: autonomy, respect for persons, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice to human beings who enter trials of experimental drugs and devices :168–175, 2001). Institut…Read more
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