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5Jennifer Caseldine-Bracht is a Ph. D. student in the department of philosophy at Michigan State University. She is a research associate for the Institute of Human Rights at Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne (review)International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 3 (1). 2010.
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7Deliberation on Childhood Vaccination in Canada: Public Input on Ethical Trade-Offs in Vaccination PolicyAJOB Empirical Bioethics 12 (4): 253-265. 2021.Background Policy decisions about childhood vaccination require consideration of multiple, sometimes conflicting, public health and ethical imperatives. Examples of these decisions are whether vaccination should be mandatory and, if so, whether to allow for non-medical exemptions. In this article we argue that these policy decisions go beyond typical public health mandates and therefore require democratic input.Methods We report on the design, implementation, and results of a deliberative public…Read more
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106Reason and value: making reasoning fit for practiceJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 18 (5): 929-937. 2012.Editors' introduction to 3rd thematic issue on philosophy of medicine
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22Explanation, understanding, objectivity and experienceJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 19 (3): 415-421. 2013.
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185Philosophy, medicine and health care – where we have come from and where we are goingJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 20 (6): 902-907. 2014.
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9Philosophy, ethics, medicine and health care: the urgent need for critical practiceJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 16 (2): 249-259. 2010.
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16Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start—and Why They Don’t Go Away, by Heidi J. Larson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020Journal of Medical Humanities 44 (3): 417-419. 2023.
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22Just regionalisation: rehabilitating care for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses (review)BMC Medical Ethics 7 (1): 1-13. 2006.Background Regionalised models of health care delivery have important implications for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses yet the ethical issues surrounding disability and regionalisation have not yet been explored. Although there is ethics-related research into disability and chronic illness, studies of regionalisation experiences, and research directed at improving health systems for these patient populations, to our knowledge these streams of research have not been brought togethe…Read more
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8Normative Theory and the COVID Pandemic: Author’s Response to Miriam Solomon and Inmaculada de Melo-MartínInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 15 (2): 116-130. 2022.It is a thrill to have two scholars whom I admire greatly commenting on my own work. I want to thank Professors Miriam Solomon and Inmaculada de Melo-Martin for their careful reading and attention to the book. I found their positive evaluation of the research very encouraging and still both commentaries offer critical challenges that warrant attention. This response will address two points of discussion: normative theorizing on trust; whether the conceptual resources, specifically the crisis of …Read more
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2Author Meets Critics: An IntroductionInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 15 (2): 99-99. 2022.Is it enough? Reflecting on a prepandemic monograph on vaccine hesitancy two years into the COVID-19 pandemic demands answer to the questions whether the analysis still holds and whether it offers sufficient resources to address the current situation. Maya J. Goldenberg's Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science argues that vaccines are about much more than vaccines, and vaccine hesitancy reflects the cultural anxieties of the moment. The global attention and geopolitic…Read more
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16A Feminist Take on Vaccine HesitancyInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 15 (1): 180-182. 2022.With unexpectedly good timing, I published a monograph on vaccine hesitancy in March 2021, just as COVID vaccine rollouts were reaching full steam in high income countries, including my own. My years of research and writing were near completion when the SARS-CoV-2 virus was first identified; my focus was on parents' hesitancy over routine childhood vaccinations. Vaccine hesitancy in industrialized nations has been intensely studied by social and behavioral scientists and was the subject of consi…Read more
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178Countering medical nihilism by reconnecting facts and valuesStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 84 75-83. 2020.
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5How can Feminist Theories of Evidence Assist Clinical Reasoning and Decision-making?Social Epistemology 29 (1): 3-30. 2015.
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8Placebo orthodoxy and the double standard of care in multinational clinical researchTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 36 (1): 7-23. 2015.It has been almost 20 years since the field of bioethics was galvanized by a controversial series of multinational AZT trials employing placebo controls on pregnant HIV-positive women in the developing world even though a standard of care existed in the sponsor countries. The trove of ethical investigations that followed was thoughtful and challenging, yet an important and problematic methodological assumption was left unexplored. In this article, I revisit the famous “double standard of care” c…Read more
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65Diversity in Epistemic Communities: A Response to CloughSocial Epistemology Review and Reply Collective Vol. 3, No. 5. 2014.In Clough’s reply paper to me (http://wp.me/p1Bfg0-1aN), she laments how feminist calls for diversity within scientific communities are inadvertently sidelined by our shared feminist empiricist prescriptions. She offers a novel justification for diversity within epistemic communities and challenges me to accept this addendum to my prior prescriptions for biomedical research communities (Goldenberg 2013) on the grounds that they are consistent with the epistemic commitments that I already endorse…Read more
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137Perspectives on Evidence-Based Healthcare for WomenJournal of Women's Health 19 (7): 1235-1238. 2010.We live in an age of evidence-based healthcare, where the concept of evidence has been avidly and often uncritically embraced as a symbol of legitimacy, truth, and justice. By letting the evidence dictate healthcare decision making from the bedside to the policy level, the normative claims that inform decision making appear to be negotiated fairly—without subjectivity, prejudice, or bias. Thus, the term ‘‘evidence-based’’ is typically read in the health sciences as the empirically adequate stand…Read more
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179Working for the Cure: Challenging Pink Ribbon Activism [Book Chapter]In Roma Harris, Nadine Wathen & Sally Wyatt (eds.), [Book] Configuring Health Consumers: Health Work and the Imperative of Personal Responsibility. Eds. R. Harris, N. Wathen, S. Wyatt. Amsterdam: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.In accordance with the critical women’s health literature recounting the ways that women are encouraged to submit themselves to various sorts of health “imperatives”, I investigate the messages tacitly conveyed to women in “campaigns for the cure” and breast cancer awareness efforts, which, I argue, overemphasizes a “positive attitude”, healthy lifestyle, and cure rather than prevention of this life-threatening disease. I challenge that the message of hope pervading breast cancer discourse silen…Read more
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188Iconoclast or Creed? Objectivism, pragmatism, and the hierarchy of evidencePerspectives in Biology and Medicine 52 (2): 168-187. 2009.Because “evidence” is at issue in evidence-based medicine (EBM), the critical responses to the movement have taken up themes from post-positivist philosophy of science to demonstrate the untenability of the objectivist account of evidence. While these post-positivist critiques seem largely correct, I propose that when they focus their analyses on what counts as evidence, the critics miss important and desirable pragmatic features of the evidence-based approach. This article redirects critical at…Read more
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5Clinical Evidence and the Absent Body in Medical PhenomenologyInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethiics 3 (1): 43-71. 2010.The once animated efforts in medical phenomenology to integrate the art and
science of medicine (or to humanize scientific medicine) have fallen out of philosophical fashion. Yet the current competing medical discourses of evidencebased medicine and patient-centered care suggest that this theoretical endeavor requires renewed attention. In this paper, I attempt to enliven the debate by discussing theoretical weaknesses in the way the “lived body” has operated in the medical phenomenology literatu…Read more -
186How can Feminist Theories of Evidence Assist Clinical Reasoning and Decision-Making?Social Epistemology (TBA): 1-28. 2013.While most of healthcare research and practice fully endorses evidence-based healthcare, a minority view borrows popular themes from philosophy of science like underdetermination and value-ladenness to question the legitimacy of the evidence-based movement’s philosophical underpinnings. While the feminist origins go unacknowledged, those critics adopt a feminist reading of the “gap argument” to challenge the perceived objectivism of evidence-based practice. From there, the critics seem to despai…Read more
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5This paper examines the conclusions that one must draw from the finding that there are values in science. The value-ladenness of scientific claims puts the nature and role of empirical evidence into question, as seen in recent discussions in the philosophy of medicine regarding evidence-based medicine and feminist science studies, which maintains the normativity of its feminist claims. Within the critical literature and debates surrounding evidence-based medicine (EBM), one finds a championing o…Read more
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13Evidence-based ethics? On evidence-based practice and the "empirical turn" from normative bioethicsBMC Medical Ethics 6 (1): 1-9. 2005.Background The increase in empirical methods of research in bioethics over the last two decades is typically perceived as a welcomed broadening of the discipline, with increased integration of social and life scientists into the field and ethics consultants into the clinical setting, however it also represents a loss of confidence in the typical normative and analytic methods of bioethics. Discussion The recent incipiency of "Evidence-Based Ethics" attests to this phenomenon and should be reject…Read more
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366The Problem of Exclusion in Feminist Theory and Politics: A Metaphysical Investigation into Constructing a Category of 'Woman'Journal of Gender Studies 16 (2): 139-153. 2007.The precondition of any feminist politics – a usable category of ‘woman’ – has proved to be difficult to construct, even proposed to be impossible, given the ‘problem of exclusion’. This is the inevitable exclusion of at least some women, as their lives or experiences do not fit into the necessary and sufficient condition(s) that denotes group membership. In this paper, I propose that the problem of exclusion arises not because of inappropriate category membership criteria, but because of the pres…Read more
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111Defining quality of care persuasivelyTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 33 (4): 243-261. 2012.As the quality movement in health care now enters its fourth decade, the language of quality is ubiquitous. Practitioners, organizations, and government agencies alike vociferously testify their commitments to quality and accept numerous forms of governance aimed at improving quality of care. Remarkably, the powerful phrase ‘‘quality of care’’ is rarely defined in the health care literature. Instead it operates as an accepted and assumed goal worth pursuing. The status of evidence-based medicine…Read more
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113Whose social values? Evaluating Canada’s ‘death of evidence’ controversyCanadian Journal of Philosophy 45 (3): 404-424. 2015.With twentieth- and twenty-first-century philosophy of science’s unfolding acceptance of the nature of scientific inquiry being value-laden, the persistent worry has been that there are no means for legitimate negotiation of the social or non-epistemic values that enter into science. The rejection of the value-free ideal in science has thereby been coupled with the spectres of indiscriminate relativism and bias in scientific inquiry. I challenge this view in the context of recently expressed con…Read more
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4Clinical evidence and the absent body in medical phenomenology On the need for a new phenomenology of medicineInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 3 (1): 43-71. 2010.Medical discourse currently manages two broad visionary movements: "evidence-based medicine," the effort to make clinical medicine more responsive to the medical research, and "patient-centered care," the platform for a more humane health-care encounter. There have been strong calls to synthesize the two as "evidence-based patient-centred care" (Lacy and Backer 2008; see also Borgmeyer 2005; Baumann, Lewis, and Gutterman 2007; Krahn and Naglie 2008), yet many question the compatibility of the tw…Read more
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7Innovating Medical Knowledge: Undestanding Evidence-Based Medicine as a Socio-medical PhenomenonIn Nikolaos Sitaras (ed.), Evidence Based Medicine: Closer to Patients or Scientists?, Intech Open Science. 2012.Because few would object to evidence-based medicine’s (EBM) principal task of basing medical decisionmaking on the most judicious and up-to-date evidence, the debate over this prolific movement may seem puzzling. Who, one may ask, could be against evidence (Carr-Hill, 2006)? Yet this question belies the sophistication of the evidence-based movement. This chapter presents the evidence-based approach as a socio-medical phenomenon and seeks to explain and negotiate the points of disagreement betwee…Read more
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"Health." in [Reference] Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World HistoryOxford University Press. 2007.
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