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    Critical literatures, and public discourses, on public health policies and practices often present fixated concerns with paternalism. In this paper, rather than focus on the question of whether and why intended instances of paternalistic policy might be justified, we look to the wider, real-world socio-political contexts against which normative evaluations of public health must take place. We explain how evaluative critiques of public health policy and practice must be sensitive to the nuance an…Read more
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    A Pandemic Instrument Can Start Turning Collective Problems into Collective Solutions by Governing the Common-Pool Resource of Antimicrobial Effectiveness
    with Isaac Weldon, Kathy Liddell, Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, Steven J. Hoffman, Timo Minssen, Kevin Outterson, Stephanie Palmer, and Jorge Viñuales
    Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 50 (S2): 17-25. 2022.
    To address the complex challenge of global antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a pandemic treaty should include mechanisms that 1) equitably address the access gap for antimicrobials, diagnostic technologies, and alternative therapies; 2) equitably conserve antimicrobials to sustain effectiveness and access across time and space; 3) equitably finance the investment, discovery, development, and distribution of new technologies; and 4) equitably finance and establish greater upstream and midstream inf…Read more
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    Emergency Ethics: Volume I (edited book)
    Routledge. 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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    The essays selected for this volume focus on issues that arise when attempting to design, review and undertake research involving human participants who are experiencing a private or public emergency. The main themes discussed by the essays are: the distinctive and significant ethical questions as to how research participants can be treated during emergency settings; the ethical challenges raised by emergencies for researchers undertaking research and its effects on the nature of research pursue…Read more
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    Rethinking the Central Role of Equity in the Global Governance of Pandemic Response
    with Oghenowede Eyawo
    Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 17 (4): 549-553. 2020.
    Our initial response to COVID-19 has been plagued by a series of failures—many of which have extended inequity within and across populations, especially in low- and middle-income countries. The global health governance of pandemic preparedness and response needs to move further away from the advocacy of a one-size-fits-all approach that tends to prioritize the interests of high-income countries towards a context-sensitive approach that gives equity a central role in guiding our pandemic prepared…Read more
  •  82
    Solidarity in Global Health Research—Are the Stakes Equal?
    with Amrita Daftary
    American Journal of Bioethics 20 (5): 59-62. 2020.
    Global health is in desperate need of greater solidarity between high-income countries (HICs) and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) as a means to reduce the inequity that pervades all aspect...
  •  154
    Risk Environments and the Ethics of Reducing Drug-Related Harms
    with Tim Rhodes, Magdalena Harris, and C. R. McGowan
    American Journal of Bioethics 17 (12): 46-48. 2017.
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    Prudential motives and reciprocal altruism
    American Journal of Bioethics 4 (4). 2004.
    This Article does not have an abstract
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    Coroners and the Obligation to Protect Public Health: The Case of the Failed UK vCJD Study
    with C. R. McGowan
    Public Health 125 (4): 234-7. 2011.
    The Health Protection Agency has recently attempted to create a postmortem tissue archive to determine the prevalence of abnormal prion protein. The success of this archive was prevented because the Health Protection Agency could not convince coroners to support the study’s methodology and participate on that basis. The findings of this paper detail and support the view that the Coroners’ Society of England and Wales’s refusal to participate was misguided and failed to appreciate that coroners h…Read more
  •  69
    Interdependence, Human Rights and Global Health Law
    Health Care Analysis 23 (4): 401-417. 2015.
    The connection between health and human rights continues to play a prominent role within global health law. In particular, a number of theorists rely on the claim that there is a relation of interdependence between health and human rights. The nature and extent of this relation, however, is rarely defined, developed or defended in a conceptually robust way. This paper seeks to explore the source, scope and strength of this putative relation and what role it might play in developing a global heal…Read more
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    Value judgment, harm, and religious liberty
    Journal of Medical Ethics 30 (3): 241-247. 2004.
    Parents’ freedom to choose infant male circumcision is the correct policyIndividuals and groups lobbying to have infant male circumcision prohibited or restricted often argue that the practice of routinely circumcising infants is unjustified. For instance, in this issue of the journal, John Hutson argues that it is virtually impossible to justify a policy in which the medical establishment should be able to embark on a “mass circumcision” campaign of 100% of the infant male population [see page …Read more
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    Emergency Research Ethics (edited book)
    Ashgate. 2013.
    The essays selected for this volume focus on issues that arise when attempting to design, review and undertake research involving human participants who are experiencing a private or public emergency. The main themes discussed by the essays are: the distinctive and significant ethical questions as to how research participants can be treated during emergency settings; the ethical challenges raised by emergencies for researchers undertaking research and its effects on the nature of research pursue…Read more
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    Book Review: Rights and Reason: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Rights (review)
    Journal of Moral Philosophy 2 (1): 112-114. 2005.
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    Addiction, responsibility and moral psychology
    American Journal of Bioethics 7 (1). 2007.
    The author comments on several articles on addiction. Recent developments in neuroscience suggest that addicted individuals have substantial impairments in the cognitive control of voluntary behavior. The author differs on the observations that addicts either act on desires that are not conducive to rational action. The author also states that addiction seems to be a prime manifestation of akrasia, in which one fails to be motivated to act in accordance with what one judges ought to be done. Acc…Read more
  •  43
    Reciprocity and Neuroscience in Public Health Law
    In Michael Freeman (ed.), Law and Neuroscience: Current Legal Issues, Oxford University Press. 2011.
    There is an underdeveloped potential for using neuroscience as a particular input in the process of law-making. This paper examines one such instance in the area of public health law. Neuroscience could play an important role in elucidating and strengthening the relevance of the conditions underlying and re-enforcing our ability to cooperate in balancing the benefits and burdens necessary to achieve particular goods; for instance, the protection of public health in an outbreak of pandemic influe…Read more
  •  192
    Your liberty or your life: Reciprocity in the use of restrictive measures in contexts of contagion (review)
    with Cécile M. Bensimon and Ross E. G. Upshur
    Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 6 (2): 207-217. 2009.
    In this paper, we explore the role of reciprocity in the employment of restrictive measures in contexts of contagion. Reciprocity should be understood as a substantive value that governs the use, level and extent of restrictive measures. We also argue that independent of the role reciprocity plays in the legitimisation the use of restrictive measures, reciprocity can also motivate support and compliance with legitimate restrictive measures. The importance of reciprocity has implications for how …Read more
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    Ethics in Anesthesiology Research Using Human Subjects
    In Gail A. Van Norman, Stephen Jackson, Stanley H. Rosenbaum & Susan K. Palmer (eds.), Clinical Ethics in Anesthesiology: A Case-Based Textbook, Cambridge University Press. pp. 163. 2010.
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    The Ethical Significance of Antimicrobial Resistance
    Public Health Ethics 8 (3): 209-224. 2015.
    In this paper, we provide a state-of-the-art overview of the ethical challenges that arise in the context of antimicrobial resistance, which includes an introduction to the contributions to the symposium in this issue. We begin by discussing why AMR is a distinct ethical issue, and should not be viewed purely as a technical or medical problem. In the second section, we expand on some of these arguments and argue that AMR presents us with a broad range of ethical problems that must be addressed a…Read more
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    The aim of establishing a consistent and unified approach in law concerning the ethics of commercializing human embryos and their derivative parts, products, or related technologies remains incomplete within the European Union. In an attempt to elucidate these problems and implications, I examine three separate moral considerations (i.e., exploitation, commodification, and objectification) that could be used to ground the putative wrongness associated with commercializing stem cells—in particula…Read more
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    Socio-Economic Status and Inducement to Participate
    American Journal of Bioethics 1 (2). 2001.
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    Disadvantage, Social Justice and Paternalism
    Public Health Ethics 6 (1): 28-34. 2013.
    While Powers and Faden do not consider possible anti-paternalism objections to their view, there are two variants of this objection that a social justice perspective is susceptible to. It is worth exploring which responses to such objections may be less promising than others. It is argued that for most public health measures targeting the disadvantaged, theorists and practitioners taking a social justice perspective should bite the paternalist bullet. Insofar as the government has the ability to…Read more