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14The Ethical Complexity of Using Whole-Exome Sequencing to Detect Adult-Onset Conditions in the Prenatal and Pediatric SettingsIn Lisa Campo-Engelstein & Paul Burcher (eds.), Reproductive Ethics Ii: New Ideas and Innovations, Springer Verlag. pp. 25-35. 2018.The clinical relevance of whole-exome sequencing is unquestionable. In the prenatal setting, the standard testing process of reflexing from karyotype to microarray to single-gene disorders may take several weeks, leaving a family in prolonged turmoil and often without answers in time to make a decision about the pregnancy. WES provides a powerful amount of data more quickly and with a higher yield of diagnostic results, allowing a timelier plan for medical management and decision-making. However…Read more
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48Unplanned Cesarean Birth: Can the Quality of Consent Affect Birth Experiences?AJOB Empirical Bioethics 11 (4): 268-274. 2020.
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28Beneficence in Maternity Care: Objective Aspects of Subjective GoalsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 20 (3): 88-90. 2020.Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2020, Page 88-90.
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23Hans Jonas and the Value of LifeTheoretical and Applied Ethics 2 (1): 103-114. 2013.Daniel Callahan, in his short article “Hans Jonas and Death,” writes that while he appreciates the perspective on death offered by Jonas in his “The Burden and Blessing of Mortality,” he is concerned by certain omissions that suggest Jonas may not have fully appreciated the value of life. Callahan writes that Jonas does not say “a great deal about why life is worth living,” give an account of the “meaning of evolution for human life,” or describe the “experiences and possibilities in the content…Read more
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29Disclosure of Genetic Risk: When Genetic Relatives Are Not Family MembersAmerican Journal of Bioethics 18 (7): 77-79. 2018.
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65There Is No Place Like Home: Why Women Are Choosing Home Birth in the Era of "Homelike" HospitalsInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 9 (1): 149-165. 2016.In a recent article in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Frank Chervenak et al. argue that home birth is less safe than hospital birth, and that physicians have a dual duty to avoid any collaboration with home birth midwives and to make hospital birth more psychologically and socially supportive to accommodate women who want more choices during labor. The assertion that home birth is significantly less safe than hospital birth has been responded to by Howard Minkoff and Jeffrey …Read more
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Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Philosophy of Biology |
General Philosophy of Science |
Continental Philosophy |