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15Over my dead body: Self-determination, proxy consent, and proportionate reason in the treatment of a Jehovah's Witness patient with severe traumatic hemorrhagic shockClinical Ethics 147775092110345. forthcoming.When a Jehovah’s Witness patient is traumatically injured, the lack of uniform professional consensus guidelines and the cultural knowledge deficit of many clinicians adds an additional layer of legal and ethical complexity to the inherent difficulty of managing a critically ill patient. We present here the case of an incapacitated Jehovah's Witness patient with severe traumatic hemorrhagic shock. We go on to discuss the historical and contemporary case law on proxy refusal of blood transfusion …Read more
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18The Neurostructure of Morality and the Hubris of Memory ManipulationThe New Bioethics 24 (3): 199-227. 2018.Neurotechnologies that promise to dampen (via pharmacologicals), disassociate (via electro-convulsive therapy), erase (via deep brain stimulation), and replace (via false memory creation) unsavory episodic memories are no longer the subject of science fiction. They have already arrived, and their funding suggests that they will not disappear anytime soon. In light of their emergence, this essay examines the neurostructure of normative morality to clarify that memory manipulation, which promises …Read more
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41Communicating Shared Value in Healthcare: Wisdom from Aristotle’s Transcendent ThirdJournal of Clinical Research and Bioethics 9 (2). 2018.
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32The Principle of Cooperation in Confidential Withholdings of HIV Status from Partners of Sexually Active Patients Who Do Not Intend to Disclose: A Role for Organizational Moral AgencyJournal of Clinical Research and Bioethics 9 (2). 2018.
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Duquesne UniversityGraduate student
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America