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14Copyright 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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23John 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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27Science 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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112Human 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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Synthetic Biology and IP: How Do Definitions of “Products of Nature” Affect their Implications for Health?In Iñigo de Miguel Beriain Carlos María Romeo Casabona (ed.), Synbio and Human Health, . pp. 45-53. 2014.Currently, under the law of intellectual property, IP owners may exclude from use or production substances and processes that we would ordinarily consider to be products of nature. This has helped companies monopolize disease genes, and thus diagnostic testing for those diseases, and “biosimilar” products, pharmaceutical materials that mimic biological materials. Extending the current paradigm to the world of synthetic biology and nanotechnology will create further injustices in the delivery of …Read more
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41Let’s Get Small: An Introduction to Transitional Issues in Nanotech and Intellectual Property (review)NanoEthics 3 (2): 157-166. 2009.Much of the discussion regarding nanotechnology centers around perceived and prosphesied harms and risks. While there are real risks that could emerge from futuristic nanotechnology, there are other current risks involved with its development, not involving physical harms, that could prevent its full promise from being realized. Transitional forms of the technology, involving “microfab,” or localized, sometimes desk-top, manufacture, pose a good opportunity for case study. How can we develop leg…Read more
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