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27In this response to the commentary “Disabling Bioethics Futures”, I offer support for the author’s argument that bioethics theory and pedagogy ought to be reframed to better incorporate the perspectives of disabled persons. Specifically, I argue that it is not only a pedagogical flaw but an active harm when bioethics pedagogy preserves disrespectful or discriminatory views by using outdated literature.
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16Global Health Impact: Extending Access to Essential Medicines, written by Nicole Hassoun (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 21 (1-2). 2024.
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24The name of the game: a Wittgensteinian view of ‘invasiveness’Journal of Medical Ethics 50 (4): 240-241. 2024.In their forthcoming article, ‘What makes a medical intervention invasive?’ De Marco, Simons, and colleagues explore the meaning and usage of the term ‘invasive’ in medical contexts. They describe a ‘Standard Account’, drawn from dictionary definitions, which defines invasiveness as ‘incision of the skin or insertion of an object into the body’. They then highlight cases wherein invasiveness is employed in a manner that is inconsistent with this account (eg, in describing psychotherapy) to argue…Read more
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14Steering clear of Akrasia: An integrative review of self‐binding Ulysses Contracts in clinical practiceBioethics 37 (7): 690-714. 2023.In many jurisdictions, legal frameworks afford patients the opportunity to make prospective medical decisions or to create directives that contain a special provision forfeiting their own ability to object to those decisions at a future time point, should they lose decision‐making capacity. These agreements have been described with widely varying nomenclatures, including Ulysses Contracts, Odysseus Transfers, Psychiatric Advance Directives with Ulysses Clauses, and Powers of Attorney with Specia…Read more
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14“What are my options?”: Physicians as ontological decision architects in surgical informed consentBioethics 36 (9): 936-939. 2022.The aim of a theoretically ideal process of informed consent is to promote the autonomy of the patient and to limit unethical physician paternalism. However, in practice, the nature of the medical profession requires physicians to act as ontological decision architects—based on the medical knowledge that they acquire through their experience and training, physicians ontologically determine a subset of viable courses of action for their patient. What is observed is not an unethical physician limi…Read more
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12“What are my options?”: Physicians as ontological decision architects in surgical informed consentBioethics 36 (9): 936-939. 2022.The aim of a theoretically ideal process of informed consent is to promote the autonomy of the patient and to limit unethical physician paternalism. However, in practice, the nature of the medical profession requires physicians to act as ontological decision architects—based on the medical knowledge that they acquire through their experience and training, physicians ontologically determine a subset of viable courses of action for their patient. What is observed is not an unethical physician limi…Read more
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16Big Decisions on a Small Scale: From Evidence-Based Medicine to Personalized MedicineAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 13 (2): 132-134. 2022.
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70Believing in black boxes: machine learning for healthcare does not need explainability to be evidence-basedJournal of Clinical Epidemiology 142 252-257. 2022.Objective: To examine the role of explainability in machine learning for healthcare (MLHC), and its necessity and significance with respect to effective and ethical MLHC application. Study Design and Setting: This commentary engages with the growing and dynamic corpus of literature on the use of MLHC and artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine, which provide the context for a focused narrative review of arguments presented in favour of and opposition to explainability in MLHC. Results: We find…Read more
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10Neuroethics, Neuroscience, and the Project of Human Self-UnderstandingAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 11 (3): 207-209. 2020.
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Medical Ethics |
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