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16IntroductionJournal of Medical Ethics 39 (5): 323-323. 2013.In light of controversy surrounding the initial online publication of Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva's article on ‘After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?’ in the Journal of Medical Ethics,1 …
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15Surveillance and control of asymptomatic carriers of drug‐resistant bacteriaBioethics 33 (7): 766-775. 2019.Drug‐resistant bacterial infections constitute a major threat to global public health. Several key bacteria that are becoming increasingly resistant are among those that are ubiquitously carried by human beings and usually cause no symptoms (i.e. individuals are asymptomatic carriers) until and/or unless a precipitating event leads to symptomatic infection (and thus disease). Carriers of drug‐resistant bacteria can also transmit resistant pathogens to others, thus putting the latter at risk of r…Read more
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12¿ El aborto para la prevención de las imperfecciones humanas? Aborto eugenésico, incertidumbres Morales Y consecuencias socialesDaimon: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 31 115-130. 2004.
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12Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health (edited book)Springer. 2020.This Open Access volume provides in-depth analysis of the wide range of ethical issues associated with drug-resistant infectious diseases. Antimicrobial resistance is widely recognized to be one of the greatest threats to global public health in coming decades; and it has thus become a major topic of discussion among leading bioethicists and scholars from related disciplines including economics, epidemiology, law, and political theory. Topics covered in this volume include responsible use of ant…Read more
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11Pathologies of power: Health, human rights, and the new war on the poor – by Paul farmerDeveloping World Bioethics 7 (2). 2007.
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11Ethical issues surrounding controlled human infection challenge studies in endemic low‐and middle‐income countriesBioethics 34 (8): 797-808. 2020.Controlled human infection challenge studies (CHIs) involve intentionally exposing research participants to, and/or thereby infecting them with, micro‐organisms. There have been increased calls for more CHIs to be conducted in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) where many relevant diseases are endemic. This article is based on a research project that identified and analyzed ethical and regulatory issues related to endemic LMIC CHIs via (a) a review of relevant literature and (b) qualitativ…Read more
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10Ethics, Economics, and Aids in Africa (review)Developing World Bioethics 4 (1): 96-105. 2004.AIDS in the Twenty‐First Century: Disease and Globalization, by Tony Barnett and Alan Whiteside. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. 416 pp. US$19.95 (paperback) The Moral Economy of AIDS in South Africa, by Nicoli Nattrass. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2004. 222 pp. US$30.00 (paperback)
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6On the dual uses of science and ethics: principles, practices, and prospects (edited book)ANU E Press. 2013.Claims about the transformations enabled by modern science and medicine have been accompanied by an unsettling question in recent years: might the knowledge being produced undermine--rather than further--human and animal well being? On the Dual Uses of Science and Ethics examines the potential for the skills, know-how, information, and techniques associated with modern biology to serve contrasting ends. In recognition of the moral ambiguity of science and technology, each chapter considers steps…Read more
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6Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor – By Paul Farmer (review)Developing World Bioethics 7 (2): 114-116. 2007.
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6TB Matters MoreIn Michael Boylan (ed.), International Public Health Policy and Ethics, Springer Verlag. pp. 251-265. 2023.Tuberculosis (TB) is theTuberculosis (TB) second leading infectious cause of mortality worldwide and arguably the most important neglected topic in bioethics. This chapter: (1) explains the ethical importance of TB, (2) documents its neglect in bioethics discourse, (3) maps the terrain of ethical issues associated with TBTuberculosis (TB), and (4) advocates a moderate pluralistic approach to ethical issues associated with TB.
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6Health RightsRoutledge. 2010.Health Rights is a multidisciplinary collection of seminal papers examining ethical, legal, and empirical questions regarding the human right to health or health care. The volume discusses what obligations health rights entail for governments and other actors; how they relate to and potentially conflict with other rights and values; and how cultural diversity bears on the formulation and implementation of health rights.
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6Infectious DiseaseIn Helga Kuhse & Peter Singer (eds.), A Companion to Bioethics, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: The Ethical Importance of Infectious Disease The Global Infectious Disease Status Quo: AIDS and TB Drug Resistance Limiting Liberty in Contexts of Contagion Improving Global Health References Further reading.
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6Emergency Ethics: Volume IRoutledge. 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, demonstrate the normative implications of emergencies and provide multi-disciplinary perspectives on the ethics of emergency res…Read more
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Global Health JusticeIn Michael Boylan (ed.), The Morality and Global Justice Reader, Westview Press. pp. 211. 2011.
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Neugenics: Genetically Informed Reproductive Decision MakingDissertation, University of California, San Diego. 2001.People are worried that advances in genetics will lead to a revival of eugenics. Such worries are often associated with eugenic practices carried out early in the 20th century---the forcible sterilization of feebleminded persons in the United States and the Nazi program of Racial Hygiene. A "new eugenics" involving prenatal genetic testing and the selective abortion of fetuses diagnosed with severe genetic disorders might, nonetheless, be acceptable. In chapter one I examine the history of eugen…Read more
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Ethical and Security Aspects of Infectious Disease Control: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (edited book)Ashgate. 2012.
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Value Theory |
Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |