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8Philosophy and Psychedelics: Frameworks for Exceptional Experience (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2022.What do psychedelics reveal about consciousness? What impact have psychedelics had on philosophy? In this rapidly growing area of study, this is the first volume to explore the philosophy of psychedelic experience, from a range of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. In doing so, Philosophy and Psychedelics reveals just why the place of psychedelics in our societies should not be left to medical sciences alone, as psychedelic experience opens up new perspectives on fundamental phil…Read more
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23Philosophy and psychedelics: frameworks for exceptional experience (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2022.What do psychedelics reveal about consciousness? What impact have psychedelics had on philosophy? In this rapidly growing area of study, this is the first volume to explore the philosophy of psychedelic experience, from a range of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. In doing so, Philosophy and Psychedelics reveals just why the place of psychedelics in our societies should not be left to medical sciences alone, as psychedelic experience opens up new perspectives on fundamental phil…Read more
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16Stem cell research has been a problematic endeavour. For the past twenty years it has attracted moral controversies in both the public and the professional sphere. The research involves not only laboratories, clinics and people, but ethics, industries, jurisprudence, and markets. Today it contributes to the development of new therapies and affects increasingly many social arenas. The matrix approach introduced in this book offers a new understanding of this science in its relation to society. Th…Read more
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132Heritable Genome Editing in a Global Context: National and International Policy ChallengesHastings Center Report 49 (3): 30-42. 2019.A central problem for the international governance of heritable germline gene editing is that there are important differences in attitudes and values as well as ethical and health care considerations around the world. These differences are reflected in a complicated and diverse regulatory landscape. Several publications have discussed whether reproductive uses would be legally permissible in individual countries and whether clinical applications could emerge in the context of regulatory gaps and…Read more
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Natur als Grenzbegriff kultureller MachbarkeitIn Maurer M. & Höll O. (eds.), Natur als Politikum, Rli. pp. 175--194. 2003.
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30How traditions of ethical reasoning and institutional processes shape stem cell research in BritainJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 29 (5). 2004.This article aims to show how the traditions of ethical reasoning and policy-making shape stem cell research in Britain. To do so I give a detailed account of the earlier developments of regulations on embryo research and the specific scientific advances made in Britain. The subsequent regulation of stem cell research was largely predetermined by those structures and the different and partly opposing orientations of a utilitarian approach to policies on biomedicine. The setting up of the first s…Read more
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14Between the Local and the Global: Evaluating European regulation of stem cell regenerative medicinePerspectives in Biology and Medicine 61 (1): 42-58. 2018.The history and context of the public policy regarding stem cell research in the European Union are complex. The regulations respond to and aim to realize political and economic goals across a large region that is culturally diverse, as well as addressing moral judgments on a contested emerging area of research. This history and context are relevant for the arguments developed here in relation to autologous stem cell research and how it is affected by those regulations.The EU is currently an ope…Read more
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27Science in touch: Functions of biomedical terminology (review)Biology and Philosophy 20 (4): 815-835. 2005.Scientists’ language use in communication to or with the public has often been criticised as merely strategic. This article explores three terms employed in stem cell and genomic research, to support the hypothesis that biomedical terminology is heavily influenced by different legal, cultural, and ethical backgrounds in different societies. The word ‘pre-embryo’ has never been part of any acceptable official rhetoric in Germany but was important in Britain. The ‘toti-’, ‘pluri-’, or ‘multipotenc…Read more
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18Traveling Across Borders—The Pitfalls of Clinical Trial Regulation and Stem Cell ExceptionalismAmerican Journal of Bioethics 10 (5): 38-40. 2010.
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Areas of Interest
Scientific Practice |
Feminist Ethics |
Genetic Ethics |
Medical Ethics |
Sociology of Science |