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17Weight(s) of complicityJournal of Medical Ethics 45 (1): 69-70. 2019.International non-governmental organisations face a dilemma when deciding whether to intervene in crisis situations where their efforts can be exploited or co-opted by others: intervene and risk becoming complicit with wrongdoing or sit on the sidelines and consign vulnerable people to the ravages of neglect or oppression. In “‘He who helps the guilty, shares the crime’? INGOs, moral narcissism and complicity in wrongdoing,” Buth et al argue that concerns about complicity often stifle ethical de…Read more
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17Embryos, Stem Cells, and the "Strategic" Element of Public Moral ReasoningAmerican Journal of Bioethics 2 (1): 56-57. 2002.
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16Within international development [1], public health [2], and clinical medicine [3]–[5], there is increasing interest in determining whether cash payments or other economic incentives can be used to influence the choices and behavior of individuals and groups in order to promote desired health goals. However, a number of complex issues affect the review and approval by research ethics committees of research studying the effectiveness of using financial incentives to promote desired health goals. …Read more
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15Evaluating Public Health Advertising Campaigns: CPR Advertising Imperils Patient-Centered Decision MakingAmerican Journal of Bioethics 17 (2): 47-48. 2017.
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15Varieties of Community Uncertainty and Clinical EquipoiseKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 33 (1): 1-19. 2023.ABSTRACT:The judgments of conscientious and informed experts play a central role in two elements of clinical equipoise. The first, and most widely discussed, element involves ensuring that no participant in a randomized trial is allocated to a level of treatment that everyone agrees is substandard. The second, and less often discussed, element involves ensuring that trials are likely to generate social value by producing the information necessary to resolve a clinically meaningful uncertainty or…Read more
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14Freedom From Subjection to the Will of Others: Study Payments, Labor, and Moral EqualityAmerican Journal of Bioethics 19 (9): 32-34. 2019.Volume 19, Issue 9, September 2019, Page 32-34.
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13Solitary death and new lifestyles during and after COVID-19: wearable devices and public health ethicsBMC Medical Ethics 22 (1): 1-10. 2021.BackgroundSolitary death (kodokushi) has recently become recognized as a social issue in Japan. The social isolation of older people leads to death without dignity. With the outbreak of COVID-19, efforts to eliminate solitary death need to be adjusted in line with changes in lifestyle and accompanying changes in social structure. Health monitoring services that utilize wearable devices may contribute to this end. Our goals are to outline how wearable devices might be used to (1) detect emergency…Read more
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13The Pluralism of Coherent Approaches to Global HealthHastings Center Report 47 (5): 26-27. 2017.Stakeholders in global health, including governments, international and nongovernmental organizations, and corporations, face complex decisions about how to help improve the lives of those most burdened by sickness and disease while upholding their rights and facilitating the transition to a more just social and political order. In “The Case for Resource-Sensitivity: Why It Is Ethical to Provide Cheaper, Less Effective Treatments in Global Health,” Govind Persad and Ezekiel Emanuel argue that “[…Read more
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12How Should We Model Rare Disease Allocation Decisions?Hastings Center Report 42 (1): 3-3. 2012.When health budgets are insufficient to provide care for all, allocating resources to treat a person with a rare and expensive disorder entails that we cannot treat at least one person with a more common, less expensive disorder. Since any allocation scheme will entail such trade‐offs, how should prudent policy‐makers, concerned about justice and fairness, allocate their community's health resources? In their article in this issue of the Hastings Center Report, Emily Largent and Steven Pearson f…Read more
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11Undue Inducements and Reasonable Risks: Will the Dismal Science Lead to Dismal Research Ethics?1American Journal of Bioethics 5 (5): 29-32. 2005.
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10An Aristotelian conception of practical ethics can be derived from the account of practical reasoning that Aristotle articulates in his Rhetoric and this has important implications for the way we understand the nature and limits of practical ethics. An important feature of this conception of practical ethics is its responsiveness to the complex ways in which agents form and maintain moral commitments, and this has important implications for the debate concerning methods of ethics in applied ethi…Read more
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Offshoring Science: The Promise and Perils of the Globalization of Clinical TrialsIRB: Ethics & Human Research 33 (1): 18-20. 2011.Research ethics is often said to have been born of scandal. Whether or not this is true of the field in general, it does seem to be the case for much of the literature on the ethics of international research. But in When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects, the anthropologist Adriana Petryna sets out to portray not scandal, but the routine offshoring of clinical trials. Through gripping interviews and detailed case studies, she follows the lifecycle of in…Read more
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Virtue, Wisdom, and the Art of Ruling in PlatoDissertation, University of Virginia. 1999.This dissertation explores Plato's conception of the nature and value of wisdom and its relationship to the ethical virtues. It is argued that throughout what are referred to as Plato's early and middle dialogues, wisdom is identified with the political art and that, as such, those, dialogues consistently treat moral knowledge as a kind of craft knowledge. When this conception of wisdom is combined with the Socratic doctrine of the unity of the virtues, however, it raises serious problems for So…Read more
Areas of Specialization
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Misc |
Value Theory |
Biomedical Ethics |
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Value Theory |
Biomedical Ethics |
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |