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313Transcending the confines of economic and political organization?: The misguided metaphor of corporate citizenshipBusiness Ethics Quarterly 18 (1): 35-42. 2008.Although the critical reconceptualization of Corporate Citizenship (CC) proposed by Néron and Norman appropriately focuses on connotations that enable us to distinguish between CC and the all-inclusive notion of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), I argue that they fail to properly account for the misguiding potential of the features of political citizenship they propose to develop further in CC theorizing. It is concluded that the notion of CC is better dispensed with altogether, and that a …Read more
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122Transcending the Confines of Economic and Political Organization? The Misguided Metaphor of Corporate CitizenshipBusiness Ethics Quarterly 18 (1): 35-42. 2008.Although the critical reconceptualization of Corporate Citizenship proposed by Néron and Norman appropriately focuses on connotations that enable us to distinguish between CC and the all-inclusive notion of Corporate Social Responsibility, I argue that they fail to properly account for the misguiding potential of the features of political citizenship they propose to develop further in CC theorizing. It is concluded that the notion of CC is better dispensed with altogether, and that a reorientati…Read more
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101Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a method capable of transiently modulating neural excitability. Depending on the stimulation parameters information processing in the brain can be either enhanced or disrupted. This way the contribution of different brain areas involved in mental processes can be studied, allowing a functional decomposition of cognitive behavior both in the temporal and spatial domain, hence providing a functional resolution of brain/mind processes. The aim of the pre…Read more
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94Consent for Medical Device Registries: Commentary on Schofield, B. (2013) The Role of Consent and Individual Autonomy in the PIP Breast Implant ScandalPublic Health Ethics 6 (2): 226-229. 2013.The clinical introduction of medical devices often occurs with relatively little oversight, regulation and (long-term) follow-up. Some recent controversies underscore the weaknesses of the current regime, such as the complications surrounding the metal-on-metal hip implants and the scandal surrounding the global breast implant scare of silicone implants made by France's Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) Company. The absence of national registries hampered the collection of reliable information on the …Read more
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73Can we justify eliminating coercive measures in psychiatry?Journal of Medical Ethics 35 (1): 69-73. 2009.The practice of coercive measures in psychiatry is controversial. Although some have suggested that it may be acceptable if patients are a danger to others or to themselves, others committed themselves to eliminate it. Ethical, legal and clinical considerations become more complex when the mental incapacity is temporary and when the coercive measures serve to restore autonomy. We discuss these issues, addressing the conflict between autonomy and beneficence/non-maleficence, human dignity, the ex…Read more
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63Influence of physicians' life stances on attitudes to end-of-life decisions and actual end-of-life decision-making in six countriesJournal of Medical Ethics 34 (4): 247-253. 2008.Aim: To examine how physicians’ life stances affect their attitudes to end-of-life decisions and their actual end-of-life decision-making.Methods: Practising physicians from various specialties involved in the care of dying patients in Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and Australia received structured questionnaires on end-of-life care, which included questions about their life stance. Response rates ranged from 53% in Australia to 68% in Denmark. General attitudes, intende…Read more
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57Dutch criteria of due care for physician-assisted dying in medical practice: a physician perspectiveJournal of Medical Ethics 34 (9). 2008.Introduction: The Dutch Euthanasia Act states that euthanasia is not punishable if the attending physician acts in accordance with the statutory due care criteria. These criteria hold that: there should be a voluntary and well-considered request, the patient’s suffering should be unbearable and hopeless, the patient should be informed about their situation, there are no reasonable alternatives, an independent physician should be consulted, and the method should be medically and technically appro…Read more
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55The justificatory power of moral experienceJournal of Medical Ethics 35 (4): 234-237. 2009.A recurrent issue in the vast amount of literature on reasoning models in ethics is the role and nature of moral intuitions. In this paper, we start from the view that people who work and live in a certain moral practice usually possess specific moral wisdom. If we manage to incorporate their moral intuitions in ethical reasoning, we can arrive at judgements and (modest) theories that grasp a moral experience that generally cannot be found outside the practice. Reflective equilibrium (RE) provid…Read more
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53Ties That Grind? Corroborating a Typology of Social Contracting ProblemsJournal of Business Ethics 49 (3): 235-252. 2004.Contractualism conceives of firm-stakeholder relations as cooperative schemes for mutual benefit. In essence, contractualism holds that these schemes, as well as the normative principles that guide and constrain them, are ultimately ratified by the consent and endorsement of those subject to them. This paper explores the empirical validity of a contractualist perspective on firm-stakeholder relations. It first develops a typology of firm-stakeholder contracting problems. It subsequently confront…Read more
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52The unfeasibility of requests for euthanasia in advance directivesJournal of Medical Ethics 30 (5): 447-451. 2004.In April 2002 a new law regarding euthanasia came into effect in the Netherlands. This law holds that euthanasia remains a criminal offence unless it is performed by a physician who acts according to six specified rules of due care and reports the case to a review committee. The six rules of due care are similar to those of the previous regulation and are largely based on jurisprudence. Completely new, however, is the article concerning a competent patient who has written an advance directive re…Read more
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51Extending the global workspace theory to emotion: Phenomenality without accessConsciousness and Cognition 13 (3): 539-549. 2004.Recent accounts on the global workspace theory suggest that consciousness involves transient formations of functional connections in thalamo-cortico-cortical networks. The level of connectivity in these networks is argued to determine the state of consciousness. Emotions are suggested to play a role in shaping consciousness, but their involvement in the global workspace theory remains elusive. In the present study, the role of emotion in the neural workspace theory of consciousness was scrutiniz…Read more
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51Dutch experience of monitoring active ending of life for newbornsJournal of Medical Ethics 36 (4): 234-237. 2010.Introduction In 2007, a national review committee was instituted in The Netherlands to review cases of active ending of life for newborns. It was expected that 15–20 cases would be reported. To date, however, only one case has been reported to this committee. Reporting is essential to obtain societal control and transparency; the possible explanations for this lack of reporting were therefore explored. Methods Data on end-of-life decision-making were scrutinised from Dutch nation-wide studies (1…Read more
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45Medical decision making in scarcity situationsJournal of Medical Ethics 30 (2): 207-211. 2004.The issue of the allocation of resources in health care is here to stay. The goal of this study was to explore the views of physicians on several topics that have arisen in the debate on the allocation of scarce resources and to compare these with the views of policy makers. We asked physicians and policy makers to participate in an interview about their practices and opinions concerning factors playing a role in decision making for patients in different age groups. Both physicians and policy ma…Read more
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41Terminal sedation: source of a restless ethical debateJournal of Medical Ethics 33 (4): 187. 2007.Slow euthanasia or a good palliative intervention?There are many ways in which doctors influence the circumstances and/or the timing of a patient’s death. Some of these are accepted as normal medical practice—for instance, when a disproportional treatment is forgone, others are considered tolerable only under strict conditions or even intolerable, such as non-voluntary active euthanasia. A relatively new phenomenon in the ethical discussion on end-of-life decisions is terminal sedation. Terminal…Read more
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37Disclosure of Risks and Uncertainties Are Especially Vital in Light of Regenerative MedicineAmerican Journal of Bioethics 14 (4): 14-16. 2014.No abstract
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30Why We Should Understand Conversational AI as a ToolAmerican Journal of Bioethics 23 (5): 22-24. 2023.The introduction of chatGPT illustrates the rapid developments within Conversational Artificial Intelligence (CAI) technologies (Gordijn and Have 2023). Ethical reflection and analysis of CAI are c...
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29The Role of Corporations in Shaping the Global Rules of the Game: In Search of New FoundationsBusiness Ethics Quarterly 20 (2): 253-264. 2010.ABSTRACT:Although a research focus on the increasing involvement of corporations in shaping and maintaining the global rules of the game points out promising avenues for future research, it simultaneously makes clear how little currently established, mostly managerial conceptual frameworks have to offer in making sense of these developments. It is argued that we need to expand the rather restricted perspectives that these frameworks provide, in order to explore new conceptual foundations that wi…Read more
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25Social Networking Sites as a Tool for Contact Tracing: Urge for Ethical Framework for Normative GuidancePublic Health Ethics 7 (1): 57-60. 2014.
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24Colour is a culturalist categoryBehavioral and Brain Sciences 28 (4): 507-508. 2005.Extrapolation of Steels & Belpaeme's (S&B) results show that colour is a culturalist category. Populations will only share the category of colour if it is built into the system. If “left to themselves” different populations may or may not stumble on the colour category. Populations that do not share a colour category may still be able to communicate in a wide variety of environments.
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24Euthanasia: Not Just for Rich CountriesIn Ronald M. Green, Aine Donovan & Steven A. Jauss (eds.), Global Bioethics, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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22Phase IV research: innovation in need of ethicsJournal of Medical Ethics 34 (6): 415-416. 2008.Worries about safety of approved drugs have pushed post registration research to become the fastest growing drug research phase. Until recently, phase IV studies were mainly conducted for marketing purposes and run much like a phase III trial—at institutions with experienced investigators and a list of inclusion and exclusion criteria. Innovative phase IV studies involve ordinary physicians in research naïve communities. This brings ethical issues familiar to medical research into clinical pract…Read more
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21Cognitive reactivity as outcome and working mechanism of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for recurrently depressed patients in remissionCognition and Emotion 32 (2): 371-378. 2017.ABSTRACTMajor depressive disorder is a prevalent condition with high relapse rates. There is evidence that cognitive reactivity is an important vulnerability factor for the recurrence of depression. Mindfulness-based interventions are designed to reduce relapse rates, with cognitive reactivity as one of the proposed working mechanisms. In a randomised controlled trial we compared the effect of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy with treatment-as-usual on cognitive reactivity in recurrently depr…Read more
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20Rethinking Organizational Ethics: A Plea for PluralismJournal of Business Ethics 55 (4): 385-393. 2004.This paper challenges a pervasive, if not always explicit assumption of the present state of theorising in business ethics. This is the idea that a workable theory of organizational ethics must provide a unified perspective on its subject matter. In this paper we will sketch the broad outlines of an alternative understanding of business ethics, which focuses on constraints on corporate conduct that cannot reasonably be rejected. These constraints stem from at least three different levels or sphe…Read more
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19Meaningful Respect for the Autonomy of Persons with “Completed Life”: An Analysis in Light of Empirical ResearchAmerican Journal of Bioethics 22 (2): 65-67. 2022.In the Netherlands, the legalization of assisted suicide for persons with a death wish without severe illness, often referred to as persons with “completed life” or “tiredness of life,” is intensel...
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17Teaching domain-specific skills before peer assessment skills is superior to teaching them simultaneouslyEducational Studies 38 (5): 541-557. 2012.Instruction in peer assessment of complex task performance may cause high cognitive load, impairing learning. A stepwise instructional strategy aimed at reducing cognitive load was investigated by comparing it with a combined instructional strategy in an experiment with 128 secondary school students (mean age 14.0?years; 45.2% male) with the between-subjects factor instruction (stepwise, combined). In the stepwise condition, study tasks in Phase 1 were domain-specific and study tasks in Phase 2 …Read more
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17Winning at a Losing Game? Side-Effects of Perceived Tournament Promotion Incentives in Audit FirmsJournal of Business Ethics 162 (1): 149-167. 2020.Tournament-like promotion systems are the default in audit firms, which are generally internally owned professional partnerships. While awarding promotions in a contest-like fashion stimulates contestants’ motivation and productivity, it may also upset an organizations’ ethical climate and trigger ethically adverse behaviors. Since nearly all research on promotion tournaments in management has been conducted in public firms, little is known about how these incentive systems operate in profession…Read more
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14Winning at a Losing Game? Side-Effects of Perceived Tournament Promotion Incentives in Audit FirmsJournal of Business Ethics 162 (1): 149-167. 2020.Tournament-like promotion systems are the default in audit firms, which are generally internally owned professional partnerships. While awarding promotions in a contest-like fashion stimulates contestants’ motivation and productivity, it may also upset an organizations’ ethical climate and trigger ethically adverse behaviors. Since nearly all research on promotion tournaments in management has been conducted in public firms, little is known about how these incentive systems operate in profession…Read more
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