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    Re-thinking the Ethics of International Bioethics Conferencing
    with Nicole Martinez-Martin and Laura Yenisa Cabrera
    American Journal of Bioethics 24 (4): 55-57. 2024.
    Jecker and colleagues open (2024) a critical and needed dialogue about the ethics of international conferencing. In particular, they focus on proposing a set of principles in selecting the location...
  • Black Panther and Philosophy (edited book)
    with Edwardo Pérez
    Wiley. 2022-01-11.
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    When Tech Meets Tradition
    In Edwardo Pérez & Timothy E. Brown (eds.), Black Panther and Philosophy, Wiley. 2022.
    Black Panther, even with the deep problems in how it represents Black American men, grapples with messy histories directly, in plain sight of white audiences. The motivations and struggles of the characters Shuri and Erik "Killmonger" Stevens, in particular, show us how Black Panther's blend of Africanfuturism and Afrofuturism is meant to teach us how our memories of the past must connect with our visions of the future. Black Panther presents a vision of a distinctly African future that not only…Read more
  • Introduction
    with Edwardo Pérez
    In Edwardo Pérez & Timothy E. Brown (eds.), Black Panther and Philosophy, Wiley. 2022.
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    Relational Autonomy and the Quantified Relationship
    with Hannah Martens
    American Journal of Bioethics 18 (2): 39-40. 2018.
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    Others' Contributions to an Individual's Narrative Identity Matter
    with Sara Goering and Jenan Alsarraf
    American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 8 (3): 176-178. 2017.
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    Black Panther
    The Philosophers' Magazine 81 108-109. 2018.
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    A Relational Take on Advisory Brain Implant Systems
    American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 6 (4): 46-47. 2015.
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    Included but Still Invisible?: Considering the Protection-Inclusion Dilemma in Qualitative Research Findings
    with Erika Versalovic and Asad Beck
    American Journal of Bioethics 23 (6): 97-100. 2023.
    The COVID-19 pandemic’s disproportionate harm to racialized communities and increased public attention to the deaths of Black people at the hands of police (Elijah McClain, Breonna Taylor, George F...
  • Ambiguous Agency as a Frame on Neural Device User Experience
    with Sara Goering and Erika Versalovic
    American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 14 (1): 50-52. 2023.
    Haeusermann et al. (2023) provide a valuable ethnographic window into how RNS device users understand themselves in relation to refractory epilepsy, the medications for it, and the use of the impla...
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    Black Panther and philosophy: what can Wakanda offer the world? (edited book)
    with Edwardo Pérez
    Wiley. 2022.
    When the character of Black Panther first appeared in Fantastic Four no. 52 in July 1966, legendary creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby didn't just write a story about another hero with extraordinary powers, they birthed the first Black superhero. For Lee, "it was a very normal thing," because "A good many of our people here in America are not white. You've got to recognize that and you've got to include them whatever you do." While it might've seemed normal to Lee, Black Panther's (and Wakanda's) …Read more
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    Deconstructing Structural Injustices in the Clinic, Classroom, and Boardroom
    with Georgina Morley, Lauren R. Sankary, and Sundus H. Riaz
    American Journal of Bioethics 22 (3): 29-32. 2022.
    Russell articulates compelling reasons that bioethicists and health care professionals should take individual responsibility for deconstructing structural injustices in healthcare through in...
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    Integrating Equity Work throughout Bioethics
    with Eran Klein, Erika Versalovic, Andreas Schönau, Natalia Montes, Darcy McCusker, and Sara Goering
    American Journal of Bioethics 22 (1): 26-27. 2022.
    As members of a neuroethics research group funded by the NIH, we echo the call from Fabi and Goldberg for greater funding parity between the ethics of specialized medical technologies and br...
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    Mapping the Dimensions of Agency
    with Andreas Schönau, Ishan Dasgupta, Erika Versalovic, Eran Klein, and Sara Goering
    American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 12 (2): 172-186. 2021.
    Neural devices have the capacity to enable users to regain abilities lost due to disease or injury – for instance, a deep brain stimulator (DBS) that allows a person with Parkinson’s disease to regain the ability to fluently perform movements or a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) that enables a person with spinal cord injury to control a robotic arm. While users recognize and appreciate the technologies’ capacity to maintain or restore their capabilities, the neuroethics literature is replete with…Read more
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    Neurotechnology ethics and relational agency
    with Sara Goering and Eran Klein
    Philosophy Compass 16 (4). 2021.
    Novel neurotechnologies, like deep brain stimulation and brain‐computer interface, offer great hope for treating, curing, and preventing disease, but raise important questions about effects these devices may have on human identity, authenticity, and autonomy. After briefly assessing recent narrative work in these areas, we show that agency is a phenomenon key to all three goods and highlight the ways in which neural devices can help to draw attention to the relational nature of our agency. Drawi…Read more
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    Building Intricate Partnerships with Neurotechnology: Deep Brain Stimulation and Relational Agency
    International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 13 (1): 134-154. 2020.
    Deep Brain Stimulation is an FDA-approved treatment for the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, dystonia, and epilepsy—with experimental use for mood disorders. DBS systems consist of a signal generator, typically implanted in the user's chest, that sends impulses to electrodes implanted in select areas of the user's brain. These signals change the activity of areas of the brain associated with unwanted symptoms. Several research groups have begun trials to use DBS as a treatment …Read more
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    Brain–Computer Interface research is an interdisciplinary area of study within Neural Engineering. Recent interest in end-user perspectives has led to an intersection with user-centered design. The goal of user-centered design is to reduce the translational gap between researchers and potential end users. However, while qualitative studies have been conducted with end users of BCI technology, little is known about individual BCI researchers’ experience with and attitudes towards UCD. Given the s…Read more
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    Engineering the Brain: Ethical Issues and the Introduction of Neural Devices
    with Eran Klein, Matthew Sample, Anjali R. Truitt, and Sara Goering
    Hastings Center Report 45 (6): 26-35. 2015.
    Neural engineering technologies such as implanted deep brain stimulators and brain-computer interfaces represent exciting and potentially transformative tools for improving human health and well-being. Yet their current use and future prospects raise a variety of ethical and philosophical concerns. Devices that alter brain function invite us to think deeply about a range of ethical concerns—identity, normality, authority, responsibility, privacy, and justice. If a device is stimulating my brain …Read more