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7What Is the Aim of Pediatric “Gender‐Affirming” Care?Hastings Center Report 54 (3): 35-50. 2024.The original “Dutch Protocol”—the treatment model comprised of puberty blockers, cross‐sex hormones, and surgery—was intended to improve the mental and physical health of pediatric patients experiencing distress over their sexed bodies. Consequently, both researchers and clinicians have couched eligibility for treatment and measures of treatment efficacy in terms of the interventions’ effects on outcomes such as gender dysphoria, depression, anxiety, and suicide. However, recent systematic revie…Read more
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39Jennifer S. Blumenthal-Barby, Good Ethics and Bad Choices: The Relevance of Behavioral Economics for Medical Ethics (review)Ethics 132 (4): 881-885. 2022.
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1Paternalistic manipulationIn Kalle Grill & Jason Hanna (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Paternalism, Routledge. 2018.
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21A Call for Greater Regulation of Digital Mental Health TechnologiesAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 13 (3): 193-195. 2022.
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30Collective Action Problems, Causal Impotence, and VirtueSouthwest Philosophy Review 35 (2): 27-30. 2019.
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43Some Optimism About EnhancementAmerican Journal of Bioethics 19 (7): 26-28. 2019.Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2019, Page 26-28.
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78Social Media, E‐Health, and Medical EthicsHastings Center Report 49 (1): 24-33. 2019.Given the profound influence of social media and emerging evidence of its effects on human behavior and health, bioethicists have an important role to play in the development of professional standards of conduct for health professionals using social media and in the design of online systems themselves. In short, social media is a bioethics issue that has serious implications for medical practice, research, and public health. Here, we inventory several ethical issues across four areas at the inte…Read more
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99What Makes an Intuition a Compatibilist Intuition? A Response to SripadaPhilosophia 41 (4): 1205-1215. 2013.So-called “manipulation arguments” have played a significant role in recent debates between compatibilists and incompatibilists. Incompatibilists take such arguments to show that agents who lack ultimate control over their characters or actions are not free. Most compatibilists agree that manipulated agents are not free but think this is because certain of the agent’s psychological capacities have been compromised. Chandra Sekhar Sripada has conducted an interesting study in which he applies an …Read more
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15The Bitter Pill of Name‐Brand DrugsHastings Center Report 45 (4): 11-12. 2015.Imagine a drug—let's call it Curebitt—that is safe, cheap, and very effective: take a pill once a day and you will be healthier. Curebitt's taste is so unpleasant, so bitter, however, that a significant proportion of patients cannot bring themselves to ingest the pill regularly. Now suppose that after some time, another drug, Curesweet, hits the market. This drug is clinically equivalent to Curebitt and costs the same, but it is much more palatable, so adherence rates for it are significantly hi…Read more
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5Towards a Theory of Interpersonal ManipulationIn Christian Coons & Michael Weber (eds.), Manipulation: Theory and Practice, Oup Usa. 2014.
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44Justifying Clinical NudgesHastings Center Report 47 (2): 32-38. 2017.The shift away from paternalistic decision-making and toward patient-centered, shared decision-making has stemmed from the recognition that in order to practice medicine ethically, health care professionals must take seriously the values and preferences of their patients. At the same time, there is growing recognition that minor and seemingly irrelevant features of how choices are presented can substantially influence the decisions people make. Behavioral economists have identified striking ways…Read more
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53‘I Did it For the Money’: Incentives, Rationalizations and HealthPublic Health Ethics 8 (1): 34-41. 2015.Incentive programs have been criticized due to concerns that extrinsic rewards can ‘crowd out’ intrinsic motivation, and also that such programs might exert a corrupting influence on those receiving the incentive. Jonathan Wolff has argued that while these worries are in some instances well grounded, incentives can also operate by liberating people from social pressures that stand in the way of their intrinsic motivations. We further develop Wolff's insight by articulating a framework for assess…Read more
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22Health Care Advertising and the Scope of Fiduciary DutiesAmerican Journal of Bioethics 14 (3): 48-49. 2014.No abstract
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46Causal Inefficacy and Utilitarian Arguments Against the Consumption of Factory-Farmed ProductsJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 30 (4): 585-594. 2017.Utilitarian objections to the consumption of factory-farmed products center primarily on the harms such farms cause to animals. One problem with the utilitarian case against the consumption of factory-farmed products is that the system of production is so vast and complex that no typical, individual consumer can, through her consumer behavior, make any difference to the welfare of animals. I grant for the sake of argument that this causal inefficacy objection is sound and go on to argue that the…Read more
Rice University
PhD
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
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Biomedical Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
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