-
105Book Review: The Theology of Paul the Apostle (review)Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 53 (1): 75-77. 1999.
-
51Communicating BRCA research results to patients enrolled in international clinical trials: lessons learnt from the AGO-OVAR 16 studyBMC Medical Ethics 17 (1): 63. 2016.The focus on translational research in clinical trials has the potential to generate clinically relevant genetic data that could have importance to patients. This raises challenging questions about communicating relevant genetic research results to individual patients. An exploratory pharmacogenetic analysis was conducted in the international ovarian cancer phase III trial, AGO-OVAR 16, which found that patients with clinically important germ-line BRCA1/2 mutations had improved progression-free …Read more
-
36Robotics and Well-Being (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2019.This book highlights some of the most pressing safety, ethical, legal and societal issues related to the diverse contexts in which robotic technologies apply. Focusing on the essential concept of well-being, it addresses topics that are fundamental not only for research, but also for industry and end-users, discussing the challenges in a wide variety of applications, including domestic robots, autonomous manufacturing, personal care robots and drones.
-
33Individual Differences in Learning Abilities Impact Structure Addition: Better Learners Create More Structured LanguagesCognitive Science 44 (8). 2020.Over the last decade, iterated learning studies have provided compelling evidence for the claim that linguistic structure can emerge from non‐structured input, through the process of transmission. However, it is unclear whether individuals differ in their tendency to add structure, an issue with implications for understanding who are the agents of change. Here, we identify and test two contrasting predictions: The first sees learning as a pre‐requisite for structure addition, and predicts a posi…Read more
-
30A trade‐off: Antimicrobial resistance and COVID‐19Bioethics 1 (1): 1-9. 2021.As we combat the COVID-19 pandemic, both the prescription of antimicrobials and the use of biocidal agents have increased in many countries. Although these measures can be expected to benefit existing people by, to some extent, mitigating the pandemic's effects, they may threaten long-term well-being of existing and future people, where they contribute to the problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). A trade-off dilemma thus presents itself: combat COVID-19 using these measures, or stop using t…Read more
-
23Spatial and mathematics skills: Similarities and differences related to age, SES, and genderCognition 218 (C): 104918. 2022.
-
23Reading the Fourth Gospel in the COVID-19 pandemic contextHTS Theological Studies 77 (4): 1-9. 2021.The Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic situation persuades a reader of the Fourth Gospel to interpret the Scripture in new lights. In the contemporary context, the gospel of John has the potential to attune the attention of the reader towards the existential struggles of the people with myriad interpretative possibilities. The Jews often twinned sinfulness and sickness together, and in that light, they considered Jesus as a social sinner and his followers as a diseased community. The Johannine na…Read more
-
21Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an urgent, global threat to public health. The development and implementation of effective measures to address AMR is vitally important but presents important ethical questions. This is a policy area requiring further sustained attention to ensure that policies proposed in National Action Plans on AMR are ethically acceptable and preferable to alternatives that might be fairer or more effective, for instance. By ethically analysing case studies of coercive actio…Read more
-
21The Affordable Care Act and Recent Reforms: Policy Implications for Equitable Mental Health Care DeliveryHealth Care Analysis 28 (3): 228-248. 2020.Controversy exists over how to ethically distribute health care resources and which factors should determine access to health care services. Although the US has traditionally used a market-based private insurance model that does not ensure universal coverage, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in the United States aims to increase equitable access to health care by increasing the accessibility, affordability, and quality of health care services. This article evaluates the impact of t…Read more
-
17Developing an Ethical Evaluation Framework for Coercive Antimicrobial Stewardship PoliciesPublic Health Ethics 17 (1-2): 11-23. 2024.Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been declared one of the top ten global public health threats facing humanity. To address AMR, coercive antimicrobial stewardship policies are being enacted in some settings. These policies, like all in public health, require ethical justification. Here, I introduce a framework for ethically evaluating coercive antimicrobial stewardship policies on the basis of ethical justifications (and their limitations). I consider arguments from effectiveness; duty of easy…Read more
-
16For the Good of the Globe: Moral Reasons for States to Mitigate Global Catastrophic Biological RisksJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 1-12. forthcoming.Actions to prepare for and prevent pandemics are a common topic for bioethical analysis. However, little attention has been paid to global catastrophic biological risks more broadly, including pandemics with artificial origins, the creation of agents for biological warfare, and harmful outcomes of human genome editing. What’s more, international policy discussions often focus on economic arguments for state action, ignoring a key potential set of reasons for states to mitigate global catastrophi…Read more
-
12Normal, post-normal and new normal: A theology of hope in John 20:1-29HTS Theological Studies 78 (4): 1-7. 2022.This article re-reads John 20:1-29 to foreground the normal, the post-normal and the new normal realities within the Johannine resurrection narrative. The narrator of John demonstrates the normal situational aspects by taking into consideration the setting, characterisation, thematic development, point of view and plot development of the story in closer relationship with the temporal and spatial mechanisms. The ordinary, local and existent realities are expressed to reveal the colourless human e…Read more
-
12Characterisation of Thomas in the Fourth GospelHTS Theological Studies 76 (1): 1-8. 2020.Thomas appears four times within the narrative framework of the Fourth Gospel. His presence in the Gospel introduces some of the strategic transitions within the macro-narrative structure. The following are some of the crucial moments that are introduced through the entry of Thomas: firstly, Thomas' character is brought to the foreground towards the end of Jesus' public ministry, where a transition is underway through Lazarus' death and raising to Jesus' death and resurrection ; secondly, he app…Read more
-
11Experiência, percepção e affordances: o jornalismo em smartphones no contexto brasileiroLogos: Comuniação e Univerisdade 24 (2): 46-65. 2017.Este artigo apresenta um mapeamento sobre estágios e variações em formatos e conteúdos de websites jornalísticos em interfaces móveis. Examinou-se estruturas e modelos de navegação, bem como design, linguagem e relação espacial, do ponto de vista da experiência do usuário, em 10 home pages de jornais impressos brasileiros publicados em versões para smartphones, entre novembro de 2014 e março de 2015. A partir de noções de experiência, percepção e affordances em tempos de convergência midiática, …Read more
-
10Oneness in John 17:1–26 as a paradigm for wider ecumenism and dialogueHTS Theological Studies 78 (3): 8. 2022.This article re-reads John 17:1–26 with a focus on the theme of oneness within the micronarrative. A multilayered and polyvalent analysis of the text reveals that the theme of oneness holds the prayer together to suggest a new way forward for the Johannine community. The vision and the missio-praxis expressed in the prayer align the thought patterns of Jesus, the narrator, and the community of John. The interactions and the resultant wider perichōrētic relationships between Father and Jesus, Jes…Read more
-
9Is Resource Allocation that is Sensitive to Vaccination Status Coercive? Who Cares?American Journal of Bioethics 24 (7): 106-108. 2024.Park and Davies (2024) discuss the allocation of scarce resources during a pandemic—primarily ventilators and healthcare staff—and assess the ethical concepts that are used in arguments for and aga...
-
7Systemic intervention can be intrusive, too: a reply to PaetkauJournal of Medical Ethics 50 (10): 692-693. 2024.In his feature article, Tyler Paetkau1 argues that the Nuffield Council on Bioethics’ (NCOB) infamous intervention ladder2 fails to acknowledge systemic influences towards poor health outcomes and instead places the blame on individuals. The ladder of interventions to change individual health behaviours runs from less intrusive to more intrusive and pays less attention to possible regulatory mechanisms for big businesses that would often avoid such intrusion on individuals and the punitive impli…Read more
-
7A polyvalent hermeneutic of John 2:13-25: Theoretical and exegetical considerationsHTS Theological Studies 79 (1). 2023.
-
7'Humanhood' in the Gospel of JohnHTS Theological Studies 77 (4): 1-8. 2021.This article is an attempt to explore the theme of 'humanhood' in the Fourth Gospel. The most important questions to be posed at the outset are the following: who is the model human presented in the gospel as per the Johannine community standards? How can a person acquire humanhood status according to the Johannine community? The divine and human interaction in the life and ministry of Jesus dynamically introduces the life ethics and mission aspects of the Johannine community. According to the J…Read more
-
6The irony of ability and disability in John 9:1-41HTS Theological Studies 78 (4). 2022.The story of the man born blind is constructed within a grand irony of ability and disability. The Johannine narrator develops the characterisation of the man born blind as a progressive, seeing and missional personality, whereas all others in the story appear as people without proper understanding and vision and those with lower perspectives. Although the world conceived the man as a sinner, Jesus understands him as a means for divine glorification; though the Jews are widely considered able pe…Read more
-
4Putting People and Robots Together in Manufacturing: Are We Ready?In Maria Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira, João Silva Sequeira, Gurvinder Singh Virk, Mohammad Osman Tokhi & Endre E. Kadar (eds.), Robotics and Well-Being, Springer Verlag. pp. 135-147. 2019.Traditionally, industrial robots have needed complete segregation from people in manufacturing environments to mitigate the significant risk of injury posed by their high operational speeds and heavy payloads. However, advances in technology now not only enable the application of smaller force-limited robotics for lighter industrial tasks but also wider collaborative deployment of large-scale robots. Such applications will be critical to future manufacturing but present a design and integration …Read more
-
1‘Humanhood’ in the Gospel of JohnHTS Theological Studies 77 (4): 8. 2021.This article is an attempt to explore the theme of ‘humanhood’ in the Fourth Gospel. The most important questions to be posed at the outset are the following: who is the model human presented in the gospel as per the Johannine community standards? How can a person acquire humanhood status according to the Johannine community? The divine and human interaction in the life and ministry of Jesus dynamically introduces the life ethics and mission aspects of the Johannine community. According to the J…Read more
-
1Coercive public health policies need context-specific ethical justificationsMonash Bioethics Review 1-22. forthcoming.Public health policies designed to improve individual and population health may involve coercion. These coercive policies require ethical justification, and yet it is unclear in the public health ethics literature which ethical concepts might justify coercion, and what their limitations are in applying across contexts. In this paper, we analyse a number of concepts from Western bioethics, including the harm principle, paternalism, the public interest, and a duty of easy rescue. We find them plau…Read more