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8Trials and Tribulations: The Professional Development of Surgical TrialistsAmerican Journal of Surgery 204 (3): 339-346. 2012.
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18Do Surgical Trials Meet the Scientific Standards for Clinical TrialsJournal of the American College of Surgeons 215 (5): 722-730. 2012.
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11Reproductive Justice Beyond Borders: Global Feminist Solidarity in the Post- Roe EraJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 51 (3): 606-611. 2023.The global impact of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and the backlash towards reproductive justice that it represents warrant a global feminist response informed by broad theoretical and geopolitical lenses. We consider how a solidaristic, transnational feminist movement might learn from Latin American feminist movements that have been successful in uniting broad coalitions in the fight for reproductive justice as situated within far-reaching political goals. The success of such a g…Read more
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24Not just a tragic compromise: The positive case for adolescent access to puberty-blocking treatmentBioethics 35 (9): 925-931. 2021.Within bioethics as well as in broader clinical practice, support for transgender and gender‐questioning adolescent access to pubertal suppression has often relied heavily on the desire to prevent risky, self‐destructive, and suicidal behavior. We argue that framing justifications for access to puberty suppression in this way can actually be harmful to both individual patients as well as to the broader trans population. This justification for access to care makes such access precarious, limits i…Read more
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22Exploitation and International Clinical Research: The Disconnect Between Goals and PolicyIn David Boonin (ed.), Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 563-574. 2018.A growing proportion of clinical research funded by pharmaceutical companies, high-income country research agencies, and not-for-profit funders is conducted in low- and middle-income settings. Disparities in wealth and access to healthcare between the populations where new interventions are often tested and those where many of them are ultimately marketed raise concerns about exploitation. This chapter examines several ethical requirements frequently advanced as mechanisms for protecting researc…Read more
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34The Need for Non-Ideal Theory: A Case Study in Deliberative DemocracyIn Kevin Vallier & Michael Weber (eds.), Political Utopias: Contemporary Debates, Oup Usa. pp. 203-231. 2017.
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Areas of Interest
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Social and Political Philosophy |