My research falls into three broad categories. First, I work in a number of issues in health care ethics. I am particularly interested in the ethical justifications for public health initiatives and especially on newborn screening. In addition, I have on ongoing interest in the myriad of ethical issues that arise in organ transplants. And I also look at the complex set of ethical issues at the intersection of neuroscience, neurology, and ethics, in particular in the extent to which we think that we should be able to use medicine to modify our brains to improve our memory, our cognition, our moods, and our personality. Second, I have …

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