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76Jennifer 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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812Reason 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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102Explanation, understanding, objectivity and experienceJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 19 (3): 415-421. 2013.
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167Philosophy, 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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786Philosophy, 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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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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84Just 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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29Normative 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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10Author 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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41A 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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576Countering medical nihilism by reconnecting facts and valuesStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 84 75-83. 2020.
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35How can Feminist Theories of Evidence Assist Clinical Reasoning and Decision-making?Social Epistemology 29 (1): 3-30. 2015.
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77Clinical 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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127Innovating 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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62Evidence-based ethics? On evidence-based practice and the "empirical turn" from normative bioethicsBMC Medical Ethics 6 (1): 11. 2005.BackgroundThe 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.DiscussionThe recent incipiency of "Evidence-Based Ethics" attests to this phenomenon and should be rejected …Read more
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12From Popperian Science to Normal Science. Commentary on Sestini (2010).Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 16 (2): 306-310. 2010.
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6538On Evidence and Evidence-Based Medicine: Lessons from the Philosophy of ScienceSocial Science and Medicine 62 (11): 2621-2632. 2006.The evidence-based medicine (EBM) movement is touted as a new paradigm in medical education and practice, a description that carries with it an enthusiasm for science that has not been seen since logical positivism flourished (circa 1920–1950). At the same time, the term ‘‘evidence-based medicine’’ has a ring of obviousness to it, as few physicians, one suspects, would claim that they do not attempt to base their clinical decision-making on available evidence. However, the apparent obviousnes…Read more
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507Clinical 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.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 literat…Read more
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3825Public Misunderstanding of Science? Reframing the Problem of Vaccine HesitancyPerspectives on Science 24 (5): 552-581. 2016.The public rejection of scientific claims is widely recognized by scientific and governmental institutions to be threatening to modern democratic societies. Intense conflict between science and the public over diverse health and environmental issues have invited speculation by concerned officials regarding both the source of and the solution to the problem of public resistance towards scientific and policy positions on such hot-button issues as global warming, genetically modified crops, environ…Read more
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21MA Thesis. Biomedical ethics does not lend itself to easy categorisation as either a 'theoretical' or a 'practical' enterprise because inquiry into the quandaries of morality requires both situational and 'translocal' perspectives. These types of investigation bring into question the legitimacy of the theory/practice divide that has dominated intellectual thought since antiquity. This division hinders the development of bioethics by fostering internal dispute within the discipline regarding appr…Read more
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88From Popperian science to normal science. Commentary on Sestini (2009) 'Epistemology and ethics of evidence‐based medicine'Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 16 (2): 306-309. 2010.
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42A Response to Sestini's (2011) ResponseJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 17 (5): 1004-1005. 2011.
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279HealthIn "Health." in [Reference] Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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53Placebo 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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377Diversity 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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697Perspectives 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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