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19Qatar’s Bioethics MeetingAmerican Journal of Bioethics 24 (4): 1-3. 2024.What is the purpose of a large academic meeting attended by hundreds or thousands of participants? What are the reasons, given current virtual conferencing technology, to hold such meetings in pers...
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14Editors’ 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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12Correction: 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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19Editors’ 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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16Editors' 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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10Editors’ 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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20Editors’ 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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18Editors' 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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33The Importance of Understanding Language in Large Language ModelsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 23 (10): 6-7. 2023.Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have ushered in a transformative phase in artificial intelligence (AI). Unlike conventional AI, LLMs excel in facilitating fluid human–computer d...
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In Defense of Natural History: David Starr Jordan and the Role of Isolation in EvolutionDissertation, Stanford University. 1993.Philosophers and historians of science have tended to denigrate the status and usefulness of the practice of natural history. The development of biology in this century is seen as the replacement of an older, descriptive and speculative method with a quantitative, experimental and well-founded science. This account embodies a philosophical view about the nature of science, which deems certain kinds of evidence and certain ways of producing knowledge appropriate. Natural history is seen as inadeq…Read more
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37Building a Trustworthy Precision Health Research EnterpriseAmerican Journal of Bioethics 18 (4): 1-2. 2018.
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56Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Strangers at the Beachside: Research Ethics Consultation”American Journal of Bioethics 8 (3): 4-6. 2008.Institutional ethics consultation services for biomedical scientists have begun to proliferate, especially for clinical researchers. We discuss several models of ethics consultation and describe a team-based approach used at Stanford University in the context of these models. As research ethics consultation services expand, there are many unresolved questions that need to be addressed, including what the scope, composition, and purpose of such services should be, whether core competencies for co…Read more
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28Informed Consent: A Matter of Aspiration Since 1966American Journal of Bioethics 19 (5): 3-5. 2019.Volume 19, Issue 5, May 2019, Page 3-5.
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22Justice and Bioethics: Who Should Finance Academic Publishing?American Journal of Bioethics 17 (10): 1-2. 2017.
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6Technik, Ereignis, Material: neue Perspektiven auf Ontologie, Aisthesis und Ethik der stofflichen Welt (edited book)Kulturverlag Kadmos. 2019.
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14A Rejection of “Applied Ethics”: Philosophy’s Real Contributions to Bioethics Found ElsewhereAmerican Journal of Bioethics 22 (12): 1-2. 2022.This month’s Target Article by Blumenthal-Barby et al. (2022) offers a defense of the importance of philosophy to bioethics. The authors cite the crucial role of philosophers in the development and...
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21Allocation of Opportunities to Participate in Clinical Trials during the Covid‐19 Pandemic and Other Public Health EmergenciesHastings Center Report 52 (1): 51-58. 2021.Hastings Center Report, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 51-58, January/February 2022.
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11Disability, Aging, and the Importance of Recognizing Social Supports in Medical Decision MakingAmerican Journal of Bioethics 21 (11): 1-3. 2021.The two target articles in this issue draw an important connection between disability bioethics and geriatric bioethics. Dominic JC Wilkinson makes a pragmatic case for using frailty as a fa...
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16More than Conveying Information: Informed Consent as Speech ActAmerican Journal of Bioethics 21 (5): 1-3. 2021.In their target article, Millum and Bromwich situate their article against a backdrop of well-documented empirical research demonstrating that many participants have variable and often poor...
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43Digital Contact Tracing, Privacy, and Public HealthHastings Center Report 50 (3): 43-46. 2020.Digital contact tracing, in combination with widespread testing, has been a focal point for many plans to “reopen” economies while containing the spread of Covid‐19. Most digital contact tracing projects in the United States and Europe have prioritized privacy protections in the form of local storage of data on smartphones and the deidentification of information. However, in the prioritization of privacy in this narrow form, there is not sufficient attention given to weighing ethical trade‐offs …Read more
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10The Limits of Individualism: Potential Societal Harms from the EAP for Convalescent PlasmaAmerican Journal of Bioethics 20 (9): 1-3. 2020.Volume 20, Issue 9, September 2020, Page 1-3.
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9Dimensions of Research-Participant Interaction: Engagement is Not a Replacement for ConsentJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 48 (1): 183-184. 2020.
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8Using Implementation Science to Enact Specific Ethical Norms: The Case of Code Status PolicyAmerican Journal of Bioethics 20 (4): 6-7. 2020.Volume 20, Issue 4, May 2020, Page 6-7.
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20Response to Commentaries: When “Everyday Language” Contributes to Miscommunication in Serious IllnessCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 28 (3): 433-438. 2019.
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20Treatability Statements in Serious Illness: The Gap Between What is Said and What is HeardCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 28 (3): 394-404. 2019.:Empirical work has shown that patients and physicians have markedly divergent understandings of treatability statements in the context of serious illness. Patients often understand treatability statements as conveying good news for prognosis and quality of life. In contrast, physicians often do not intend treatability statements to convey improvement in prognosis or quality of life, but merely that a treatment is available. Similarly, patients often understand treatability statements as conveyi…Read more
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16Introduction: Through the Lens of Linguistic TheoryCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 28 (3): 392-393. 2019.
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30Citizen Science and GamificationHastings Center Report 49 (2): 40-46. 2019.According to the mainstream conception of research involving human participants, researchers have been trained scientists acting within institutions and have been the individuals doing the studying, while participants, who are nonscientist members of the public, have been the individuals being studied. The relationship between the public and scientists is evolving, however, giving rise to several new concepts, including crowdsourcing and citizen science. In addition, the practice of gamification…Read more
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33A Defense of the Dead Donor RuleHastings Center Report 48 (S4): 36-38. 2018.Discussion of the “dead donor rule” is challenging because it implicates views about a wide range of issues, including whether and when patients are appropriately declared dead, the validity of the doctrine of double effect, and the moral difference between or equivalence of active euthanasia and withdrawal of life‐sustaining treatment. The DDR will be defined here as the prohibition against removal of organs necessary for the life of the patient—that is, the prohibition of intentionally ending …Read more
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17The One Health Approach to Zoonotic Emerging Infectious DiseasesAmerican Journal of Bioethics 18 (10): 1-2. 2018.
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