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14Collateral Paternalism and Liberal Critiques of Public Health Policy: Diminishing Theoretical Demandingness and Accommodating the Devil in the DetailHealth Care Analysis 28 (4): 372-381. 2020.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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4A Pandemic Instrument Can Start Turning Collective Problems into Collective Solutions by Governing the Common-Pool Resource of Antimicrobial EffectivenessJournal 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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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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4Rethinking the Central Role of Equity in the Global Governance of Pandemic ResponseJournal 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
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19Solidarity in Global Health Research—Are the Stakes Equal?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...
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12The Fundamental Importance of the Normative Analysis of HealthHealth Care Analysis 27 (1): 1-3. 2019.
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8Neo-Liberalism, Austerity and the Political Determinants of HealthHealth Care Analysis 27 (3): 147-152. 2019.
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29Risk Environments and the Ethics of Reducing Drug-Related HarmsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 17 (12): 46-48. 2017.
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70Addiction, responsibility and moral psychologyAmerican 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
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16Reciprocity and Neuroscience in Public Health LawIn Michael Freeman (ed.), Law and Neuroscience, 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
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22The Use of Functional Neuroimaging Technology in the Assessment of Loss and Damages in Tort LawAmerican Journal of Bioethics 7 (9): 63-65. 2007.No abstract
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12Ethics in Anesthesiology Research Using Human SubjectsIn G. A. van Norman, S. Jackson, S. H. Rosenbaum & S. K. Palmer (eds.), Clinical Ethics in Anesthesiology, Cambridge University Press. pp. 163. 2010.
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99Joshua Gert, brute rationality: Normativity and human action (cambridge: Cambridge university press, 2004), pp. XIII + 244 (review)Utilitas 20 (2): 246-248. 2008.
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66The Ethical Significance of Antimicrobial ResistancePublic 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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32Morality Provisions in Law Concerning the Commercialization of Human Embryos and Stem CellsIn Aurora Plomer & Paul Torremans (eds.), Embryonic Stem Cell Patents: European Patent Law and Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2009.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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16Book 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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40The inseparability of religion and politics in the neoconservative critique of biotechnologyAmerican Journal of Bioethics 7 (10). 2007.This Article does not have an abstract
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1Keith Graham, Practical Reasoning in a Social World: How we Act Together Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 23 (1): 28-30. 2003.
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64Disadvantage, Social Justice and PaternalismPublic 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
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53The Right to Bodily Integrity (edited book)Lund Humphries Publishers. 2014.The right to bodily integrity is a controversial issue within moral, political and legal discourse. This first collection of scholarly research articles provides a comprehensive overview of the debates around the ethical and legal aspects of the right to bodily integrity and its implications in theory and practice. The selected essays examine topics such as pregnancy and reproduction, altering children's bodies, transplantation, controversial modifications and surgeries, and experimentation and …Read more
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127Your liberty or your life: Reciprocity in the use of restrictive measures in contexts of contagion (review)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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17Criminal Law in the Regulation of Somatic Cell Nuclear TransferAmerican Journal of Bioethics 7 (2): 73-5. 2007.No abstract
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50Justice, Liberal Neutrality, and the New GeneticsJournal of Philosophical Research 30 (9999): 135-145. 2005.Descartes is typically interpreted as asserting two related theses: 1) that the will is absolutely free in the sense that no bodily state can compel it or restrain its activity; and 2) that error is always avoidable, no matter what the condition of the body. On the basis of Descartes’s discussions of insanity and dreaming, I argue that both of these interpretive claims are false. In other words, Descartes acknowledged that a diseased or otherwise out of sorts body can compel the will to affirm o…Read more
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27Infection Control Measures and Debts of GratitudeAmerican Journal of Bioethics 15 (4): 55-57. 2015.
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28Public health, ethical behavior and reciprocityAmerican Journal of Bioethics 8 (5). 2008.This Article does not have an abstract
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26Criminal Law, Philosophy and Public Health Practice (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2013.The goal of improving public health involves the use of different tools, with the law being one way to influence the activities of institutions and individuals. Of the regulatory mechanisms afforded by law to achieve this end, criminal law remains a perennial mechanism to delimit the scope of individual and group conduct. However, criminal law may promote or hinder public health goals, and its use raises a number of complex questions that merit exploration. This examination of the interface betw…Read more
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