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9Emerging perspectives in the shared decision making debateMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 27 (1): 1-2. 2024.
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18Editors’ statement on the responsible use of generative AI technologies in scholarly journal publishingMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 26 (4): 499-503. 2023.Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform many aspects of scholarly publishing. Authors, peer reviewers, and editors might use AI in a variety of ways, and those uses might augment their existing work or might instead be intended to replace it. We are editors of bioethics and humanities journals who have been contemplating the implications of this ongoing transformation. We believe that generative AI may pose a threat to the goals that animate our work but could also…Read more
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14Correction: Editors’ statement on the responsible use of generative AI technologies in scholarly journal publishingMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 26 (4): 505-505. 2023.
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23Editors’ Statement on the Responsible Use of Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Journal PublishingHastings Center Report 53 (5): 3-6. 2023.Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform many aspects of scholarly publishing. Authors, peer reviewers, and editors might use AI in a variety of ways, and those uses might augment their existing work or might instead be intended to replace it. We are editors of bioethics and humanities journals who have been contemplating the implications of this ongoing transformation. We believe that generative AI may pose a threat to the goals that animate our work but could also…Read more
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12Editors’ Statement on the Responsible Use of Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Journal PublishingAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 14 (4): 337-340. 2023.The new generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, and especially the large language models (LLMs) of which ChatGPT is the most prominent example, have the potential to transform many aspects o...
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21Editors' statement on the responsible use of generative artificial intelligence technologies in scholarly journal publishingBioethics 37 (9): 825-828. 2023.Bioethics, EarlyView.
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18Editors' statement on the responsible use of generative artificial intelligence technologies in scholarly journal publishingDeveloping World Bioethics 23 (4): 296-299. 2023.Developing World Bioethics, EarlyView.
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22Editors’ Statement on the Responsible Use of Generative AI Technologies in Scholarly Journal PublishingAmerican Journal of Bioethics 24 (3): 5-8. 2023.The new generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, and especially the large language models (LLMs) of which ChatGPT is the most prominent example, have the potential to transform many aspects o...
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4Environmental ProtectionIn Nathanaël Wallenhorst & Christoph Wulf (eds.), Handbook of the Anthropocene, Springer. pp. 1035-1039. 2023.The beginning of environmental consciousness and policy discussions on environmental protection can be traced back to the nineteenth century. Since the second half of the twentieth century, most policies and action plans towards environmental protection evolved under the leadership of the UN. While the early policies focused on sustainable development, recent policy discussions have moved beyond this, drawing on the idea of ecological resilience. Environmental protection initiatives face several…Read more
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2GeoengineeringIn Nathanaël Wallenhorst & Christoph Wulf (eds.), Handbook of the Anthropocene, Springer. pp. 257-261. 2023.Geoengineering is a technological response to anthropogenic climate change. There are two kinds of geoengineering: Solar Radiation Management (SRM) and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). SRM aims at reducing the amount of incoming solar light and CDR at reducing the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. Over the past decades, geoengineering has moved from a fringe proposal to a more mainstream contender along with mitigation and adaptation to avert climate change. However, it faces important ethical c…Read more
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7What’s wrong with medical black box AI?Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 26 (3): 283-284. 2023.
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17Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Theories (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2018.This Open Access Book is the first to examine disasters from a multidisciplinary perspective. Justification of actions in the face of disasters requires recourse both to conceptual analysis and ethical traditions. Part 1 of the book contains chapters on how disasters are conceptualized in different academic disciplines relevant to disasters. Part 2 has chapters on how ethical issues that arise in relation to disasters can be addressed from a number of fundamental normative approaches in moral an…Read more
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75Turning residual human biological materials into research collections: playing with consentJournal of Medical Ethics 38 (6): 351-355. 2012.This article focuses on three scenarios in which residual biological materials are turned into research collections during the procedure of procuring these materials for diagnostic, therapeutic or other non-research purposes. These three scenarios differ from each other primarily because they employ different models of consent: (a) precautionary consent, which may be secured during the collecting procedure; (b) the presumed consent model, which may be applied during the collection of materials; …Read more
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72A role for doctors in assisted dying? An analysis of legal regulations and medical professional positions in six European countriesJournal of Medical Ethics 34 (1): 28-32. 2008.Objectives: To analyse legislation and medical professional positions concerning the doctor’s role in assisted dying in western Europe, and to discuss their implications for doctors.Method: This paper is based on country-specific reports by experts from European countries where assisted dying is legalised , or openly practiced , or where it is illegal .Results: Laws on assisted dying in The Netherlands and Belgium are restricted to doctors. In principle, assisted suicide is not illegal in either…Read more
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41BackgroundThere has been no in-depth research of public attitudes on withholding or withdrawing life-prolonging treatment, euthanasia, assisted suicide and physician assisted suicide in Croatia. The aim of this study was to examine these attitudes and their correlation with sociodemographic characteristics, religion, political orientation, tolerance of personal choice, trust in physicians, health status, experiences with death and caring for the seriously ill, and attitudes towards death and dyi…Read more
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18Ethical Issues in Social Science Research Employing Big DataScience and Engineering Ethics 28 (3): 1-21. 2022.This paper analyzes the ethics of social science research employing big data. We begin by highlighting the research gap found on the intersection between big data ethics, SSR and research ethics. We then discuss three aspects of big data SSR which make it warrant special attention from a research ethics angle: the interpretative character of both SSR and big data, complexities of anticipating and managing risks in publication and reuse of big data SSR, and the paucity of regulatory oversight and…Read more
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2Medizinethik und Kultur: Grenzen medizinischen Handelns in Deutschland und den Niederlanden (edited book)Frommann-Holzboog. 2000.If one compares the development of modern medical ethics in Germany with those in the Netherlands, what stands out are the cultural and intellectual differences between the two countries. Dealing with the problems involved in limiting medical treatment, the authors show the differing and the common standards and values on which the discussion of this is based in both countries. Three examples, active termination of life, the do-not-resuscitate order and pain management, which are examined from a…Read more
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The transfer, storage and procurement of human cells and tissues (Seventh International Workshop, Dublin)In Katharina Beier, Nils Hoppe, Christian Lenk & Silvia Schnorrer (eds.), The ethical and legal regulation of human tissue and biobank research in Europe: proceedings of the Tiss.EU project, Universit Atsverlag G Ottingen. 2011.
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31The ethics of self-tracking. A comprehensive review of the literatureEthics and Behavior 33 (4): 239-271. 2022.This paper presents a literature review on the ethics of self-tracking technologies which are utilized by users to monitor parameters related to their activity and bodily parameters. By examining a total of 65 works extracted through a systematic database search and backwards snowballing, the authors of this review discuss three categories of opportunities and ten categories of concerns currently associated with self-tracking. The former include empowerment and well-being, contribution to health…Read more
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64Methods for Practising Ethics in Research and Innovation: A Literature Review, Critical Analysis and RecommendationsScience and Engineering Ethics 24 (5): 1437-1481. 2018.This paper provides a systematic literature review, analysis and discussion of methods that are proposed to practise ethics in research and innovation. Ethical considerations concerning the impacts of R&I are increasingly important, due to the quickening pace of technological innovation and the ubiquitous use of the outcomes of R&I processes in society. For this reason, several methods for practising ethics have been developed in different fields of R&I. The paper first of all presents a systema…Read more
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8Correction: Beyond ethical post-mortemsMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 25 (3): 307-307. 2022.
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32An Ethical Exploration of Increased Average Number of Authors Per PublicationScience and Engineering Ethics 28 (3): 1-24. 2022.This article explores the impact of an Increase in the average Number of Authors per Publication on known ethical issues of authorship. For this purpose, the ten most common ethical issues associated with scholarly authorship are used to set up a taxonomy of existing issues and raise awareness among the community to take precautionary measures and adopt best practices to minimize the negative impact of INAP. We confirm that intense international, interdisciplinary and complex collaborations are …Read more
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Dublin City UniversityResearcher
Dublin, Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |