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25Conceptualising and regulating all neural data from consumer-directed devices as medical data: more scope for an unnecessary expansion of medical influence?Ethics and Information Technology 25 (4): 1-8. 2023.Neurodevices that collect neural (or brain activity) data have been characterised as having the ability to register the inner workings of human mentality. There are concerns that the proliferation of such devices in the consumer-directed realm may result in the mass processing and commercialisation of neural data (as has been the case with social media data) and even threaten the mental privacy of individuals. To prevent this, some argue that all raw neural data should be conceptualised and regu…Read more
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3Big Picture Bioethics: Developing Democratic Policy in Contested Domains (edited book)Imprint: Springer. 2016.This book addresses the problem of how to make democratically-legitimate public policy on issues of contentious bioethical debate. It focuses on ethical contests about research and their legitimate resolution, while addressing questions of political legitimacy. How should states make public policy on issues where there is ethical disagreement, not only about appropriate outcomes, but even what values are at stake? What constitutes justified, democratic policy in such conflicted domains? Case stu…Read more
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6Janna Thompson’s Contributions to PhilosophyThe Monist 106 (2): 145-149. 2023.Professor Janna Thompson, FASSA, FAHA died in Melbourne on 24 June 2022. She retired in 2011 as Professor of Philosophy from La Trobe University after more than.
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14Tension and Paradox in Women-Oriented Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: A Duality of EthicsJournal of Business Ethics 190 (2): 327-346. 2024.The pursuit of social goals and ethics in business creates challenges. Sustained efforts to address poverty, environmental degradation or health/wellbeing require meaningful and transformative responses that impact across multiple levels—individual, community and the global collective. Shifting predominant paradigms to facilitate change entails a renegotiation of business strategy—between organizations, their purpose(s), individual and collective stakeholders and ultimately with society at large…Read more
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10Warum die Bioethik ein Konzept von Vulnerabilität benötigtIn Nikola Biller-Andorno, Settimio Monteverde, Tanja Krones & Tobias Eichinger (eds.), Medizinethik, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 189-219. 2021.Wendy Rogers ist Professorin für klinische Ethik und Catriona Mackenzie ist Professorin für Philosophie. Beide lehren an der Macquarie University in Sydney, Australien. Susan Dodds ist Professorin für Philosophie an der La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australien. Alle drei befassen sich seit Jahren intensiv mit feministischer Theorie, angewandter und biomedizinischer Ethik sowie mit Moralphilosophie.
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24Invasive experimental brain surgery for dementia: Ethical shifts in clinical research practices?Bioethics 36 (1): 25-41. 2021.Bioethics, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 25-41, January 2022.
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32Gender, ageing, and injustice: social and political contexts of bioethicsJournal of Medical Ethics 31 (5): 295-298. 2005.There has been considerable work in bioethics addressing injustice and gender oppression in the provision of healthcare services, in the interaction between client and healthcare professional, and in allocation of healthcare services within a particular hospital or health service. There remain several sites of continued injustice that can only be addressed adequately from a broader analytical perspective, one that attends to the social and political contexts framing healthcare policy and practic…Read more
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19Editors’ IntroductionInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 5 (2): 1-10. 2012.
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127Vulnerability in Research Ethics: a Way ForwardBioethics 27 (6): 333-340. 2013.Several foundational documents of bioethics mention the special obligation researchers have to vulnerable research participants. However, the treatment of vulnerability offered by these documents often relies on enumeration of vulnerable groups rather than an analysis of the features that make such groups vulnerable. Recent attempts in the scholarly literature to lend philosophical weight to the concept of vulnerability are offered by Luna and Hurst. Luna suggests that vulnerability is irreducib…Read more
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225Why bioethics needs a concept of vulnerabilityInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 5 (2): 11-38. 2012.Concern for human vulnerability seems to be at the heart of bioethical inquiry, but the concept of vulnerability is under-theorized in the bioethical literature. The aim of this article is to show why bioethics needs an adequately theorized and nuanced conception of vulnerability. We first review approaches to vulnerability in research ethics and public health ethics, and show that the bioethical literature associates vulnerability with risk of harm and exploitation, and limited capacity for aut…Read more
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25Is the Australian HREC system sustainable?Monash Bioethics Review 21 (3). 2002.In Australia, Human Research Ethics Committees (HRECs) have a vital role to play—as the primary institutional mechanism for ethical review of research—in protecting research participants, and promoting ethical research. Their ability to act effectively in this role is currently threatened by the limited support they receive and their burgeoning workloads. In this discussion paper, I trace some of the factors contributing to what I describe as a resource crisis in human research ethics. I suggest…Read more
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47Vulnerability: New Essays in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy (edited book)Oup Usa. 2013.This volume breaks new ground by investigating the ethics of vulnerability. Drawing on various ethical traditions, the contributors explore the nature of vulnerability, the responsibilities owed to the vulnerable, and by whom
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56Avoiding empty rhetoric: Engaging publics in debates about nanotechnologiesScience and Engineering Ethics 15 (1): 81-96. 2009.Despite the amount of public investment in nanotechnology ventures in the developed world, research shows that there is little public awareness about nanotechnology, and public knowledge is very limited. This is concerning given that nanotechnology has been heralded as ‘revolutionising’ the way we live. In this paper, we articulate why public engagement in debates about nanotechnology is important, drawing on literature on public engagement and science policy debate and deliberation about public…Read more
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72Print Me an Organ? Ethical and Regulatory Issues Emerging from 3D Bioprinting in MedicineScience and Engineering Ethics 24 (1): 73-91. 2018.Recent developments of three-dimensional printing of biomaterials in medicine have been portrayed as demonstrating the potential to transform some medical treatments, including providing new responses to organ damage or organ failure. However, beyond the hype and before 3D bioprinted organs are ready to be transplanted into humans, several important ethical concerns and regulatory questions need to be addressed. This article starts by raising general ethical concerns associated with the use of b…Read more
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78Is There a Moral Obligation to Develop Brain Implants Involving NanoBionic Technologies? Ethical Issues for Clinical TrialsNanoEthics 8 (1): 49-56. 2014.In their article published in Nanoethics, “Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of Brain-Implants Using Nano-Scale Materials and Techniques”, Berger et al. suggest that there may be a prima facie moral obligation to improve neuro implants with nanotechnology given their possible therapeutic advantages for patients [Nanoethics, 2:241–249]. Although we agree with Berger et al. that developments in nanomedicine hold the potential to render brain implant technologies less invasive and to better target …Read more
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24Are Contact Precautions ethically justifiable in contemporary hospital care?Nursing Ethics 26 (2): 611-624. 2019.
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45The Olivieri case: Lessons for australasiaJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 2 (2): 90-105. 2005.The case of Dr. Nancy Olivieri, the Hospital for Sick Children, the University of Toronto, and Apotex Inc. vividly illustrates many of the issues central to contemporary health research and the safety of research participants. First, it exemplifies the financial and health stakes in such research. Second, it shows deficits in the ways in which research is governed. Finally, it was and remains relevant not only in Toronto but in communities across Canada and well beyond its borders because, absen…Read more
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37Enthusiastic portrayal of 3D bioprinting in the media: Ethical side effectsBioethics 32 (2): 94-102. 2017.There has been a surge in mass media reports extolling the potential for using three-dimensional printing of biomaterials to treat a wide range of clinical conditions. Given that mass media is recognized as one of the most important sources of health and medical information for the general public, especially prospective patients, we report and discuss the ethical consequences of coverage of 3D bioprinting in the media. First, we illustrate how positive mass media narratives of a similar biofabri…Read more
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28How to Turn Ethical Neglect Into Ethical ApprovalAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 4 (2): 59-60. 2013.
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26Is a ‘Last Chance’ Treatment Possible After an Irreversible Brain Intervention?American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 6 (2). 2015.
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28Inclusion and exclusion in women’s access to health and medicineInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 1 (2): 58-79. 2008.Women’s access to health and medicine in developed countries has been characterized by a range of inconsistent inclusions and exclusions. Health policy has been asymmetrically interested in women’s reproductive capacities and has sought to regulate, control, and manage aspects of women’s reproductive decision making in a manner unwitnessed in relation to men’s reproductive health and reproductive decision making. In other areas, research that addresses health concerns that affect both men and wo…Read more
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5Linking Visions: Feminist Bioethics, Human Rights, and the Developing World (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2004.This collection brings together fourteen contributions by authors from around the globe. Each of the contributions engages with questions about how local and global bioethical issues are made to be comparable, in the hope of redressing basic needs and demands for justice. These works demonstrate the significant conceptual contributions that can be made through feminists' attention to debates in a range of interrelated fields, especially as they formulate appropriate responses to developments in …Read more
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104Regulation of hESC research in australia: Promises and pitfalls for deliberative democratic approachesJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 3 (1-2): 95-107. 2006.This paper considers the legislative debates in Australia that led to the passage of the Research Involving Human Embryos Act (Cth 2002) and the Prohibition of Human Cloning Act (Cth 2002). In the first part of the paper, we discuss the debate surrounding the legislation with particular emphasis on the ways in which demands for public consultation, public debate and the education of Australians about the potential ethical and scientific impact of human embryonic stem cells (hESC) research were d…Read more
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119Justice and indigenous land rightsInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 41 (2). 1998.Political theorists have begun to re-examine claims by indigenous peoples to lands which were expropriated in the course of sixteenth-eighteenth century European expansionism. In Australia, these issues have captured public attention as they emerged in two central High Court cases: Mabo (1992) and Wik (1996), which recognize pre-existing common law rights of native title held by indigenous people prior to European contact and, in some cases, continue to be held to the present day. The theoretica…Read more
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11Bioethics and Democracy: Competing Roles of National Bioethics OrganisationsBioethics 20 (6): 326-338. 2006.ABSTRACT In establishing National Bioethics Organisations (NBOs), liberal democracies seek to acknowledge the diversity of strongly held ethical positions and the imperative to engage in public debate about important bioethical decisions. NBOs are typically given a range of responsibilities, including contributing to and stimulating public debate; providing expert opinion on relevant issues for policy deliberations; and developing public policy. The state is now found to have an interest in area…Read more
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36In tribute to Anne DonchinInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 8 (1): 1-17. 2015.