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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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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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75Emergency Ethics (edited book)Ashgate. 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; ethical issues in emergency public policy and law; war, terrorism and supreme emergencies; and public health and humanitarian em…Read more
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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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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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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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61The Cambridge textbook of bioethics (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2008.Medicine and health care generate many bioethical problems and dilemmas that are of great academic, professional and public interest. This comprehensive resource is designed as a succinct yet authoritative text and reference for clinicians, bioethicists, and advanced students seeking a better understanding of ethics problems in the clinical setting. Each chapter illustrates an ethical problem that might be encountered in everyday practice; defines the concepts at issue; examines their implicatio…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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51Is Antimicrobial Resistance a Slowly Emerging Disaster?Public Health Ethics 8 (3): 255-265. 2015.The problem of antimicrobial resistance is so dire that people are predicting that the era of antibiotics may be coming to an end, ushering in a ‘post-antibiotic’ era. A comprehensive policy response is therefore urgently needed. A part of this response will require framing the problem in such a way that adequately reflects its nature as well as encompassing an approach that has the best prospect of success. This paper considers framing the problem as a slowly emerging disaster, including its po…Read more
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51Introduction to The Olivieri symposiumJournal of Medical Ethics 30 (1): 1-7. 2004.Adrian Viens, Guest Editor of this Olivieri symposium, and Julian Savulescu, the Editor of JME, set the scene for the symposium."In failing...[her] when she needed them most, it is now clear that some members of the University’s Faculty of Medicine heard her muffled cries of academic freedom from the back room, yet their response was to serve another round of drinks and turn the music up louder. With the bombshell revelations in the...affair, the plug may have been pulled on this business sponso…Read more
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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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48Value judgment, harm, and religious libertyJournal 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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47Public Health and Political Theory: The Importance of Taming IndividualismPublic Health Ethics 9 (2): 136-138. 2016.
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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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35Risk Environments and the Ethics of Reducing Drug-Related HarmsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 17 (12): 46-48. 2017.
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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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31Legal Frameworks for Addressing the Well-Being of Terminally Ill ChildrenAmerican Journal of Bioethics 5 (1): 74-76. 2005.No abstract
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30Prudential motives and reciprocal altruismAmerican Journal of Bioethics 4 (4). 2004.This Article does not have an abstract
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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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28The 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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27Infection Control Measures and Debts of GratitudeAmerican Journal of Bioethics 15 (4): 55-57. 2015.
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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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25Towards a reasons-based pragmatic ethical frameworkAmerican Journal of Bioethics 8 (4). 2008.Brendel and Miller (2008) take the most distinctive commitment in their pragmatic approach to be treating ethical principles as having a hypothetical status. I am sympathetic to a pragmatic approac...
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24Justifying the Initiation and Continued Provision of Public Health Interventions in Humanitarian SettingsPublic Health Ethics 7 (3): 314-317. 2014.Médecins Sans Frontières is not morally required to continue providing the same therapeutic and preventative interventions for lead poisoning in Nigeria in the face of conditions that negatively impact on the achievement of their objectives. Nevertheless, Médecins Sans Frontières may have reasons to revise their objectives and adopt different interventions or methods
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23Interdependence, Human Rights and Global Health LawHealth 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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21Solidarity 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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18Emergency 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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17Criminal Law in the Regulation of Somatic Cell Nuclear TransferAmerican Journal of Bioethics 7 (2): 73-5. 2007.No abstract
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