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Beyond Integration: Advancing Climate-Conscious Clinical Ethics Through Temporal, Resilience, and Responsibility FrameworksAmerican Journal of Bioethics 25 (7): 27-29. 2025.Hantel, Marron, and Abel’s framework for climate-conscious clinical medical ethics (CME) provides a valuable starting point for reconciling traditionally anthropocentric medical ethics with environ...
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3Digital Resurrection and Posthumous Identity: Toward a Cross-Cultural Neurorights FrameworkAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience. forthcoming.Digital resurrection technologies use artificial intelligence to recreate the voices, images, and personalities of deceased individuals, raising ethical concerns about memory, identity, and respect for the dignity of the deceased. This paper examines key neuroethical challenges, including mental privacy, cognitive liberty, and the authenticity of AI-generated representations. Rather than framing East-West differences as opposing cultural values, the paper identifies shared ethical concerns expre…Read more
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17Strengthening ARIE: Integrating Complexity and Ethics for Equitable Health OutcomesAmerican Journal of Bioethics 25 (6): 113-114. 2025.Geneviève et al.’s ARIE framework provides a robust foundation for addressing health inequities by integrating Critical Race Theory and Critical Gerontology (Geneviève et al. 2025), notably context...
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34Comparison of the deformation behaviour of commercially pure titanium and Ti–5Al–2.5Sn at 296 and 728 KPhilosophical Magazine 93 (21): 2875-2895. 2013.
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18Beyond Disclosure: Rethinking Patient Consent and AI Accountability in HealthcareAmerican Journal of Bioethics 25 (3): 151-153. 2025.Volume 25, Issue 3, March 2025, Page 151-153.
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33Beyond Individual Consent: The Hidden Crisis of Group Harm in the AI and Genomics EraAmerican Journal of Bioethics 25 (2): 93-94. 2025.Chapman and colleagues make a compelling case for reforming the Common Rule to better protect group interests in genomics and data-centric research (Chapman et al. 2025). Drawing on insights from p...
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24Wired Ethics: When Love, Dementia, and Surveillance Collide in Long-Term CareAmerican Journal of Bioethics 25 (2): 151-153. 2025.In the case of GK, an 82-year-old dementia patient residing in a long-term care (LTC) facility, several ethical challenges arise in responding to his daughter’s concerns about his potential inappro...
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27When Adolescents Disagree with Their Vaccine-Hesitant Parents about COVID-19 VaccinationJournal of Clinical Ethics 34 (2): 158-168. 2023.As we journey into the fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a majority of Americans express relief at a “return to normal,” experience pandemic fatigue, or embrace the idea of living with COVID-19 in much the same way we live with the seasonal flu. But transition to a new phase of life with SARS-CoV-2 does not diminish the importance of vaccination. The US Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration recently recommended another round of booster dose for persons age 5 and up…Read more
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72Problems and the Potential Direction of Reforms for the Current Individual Medical Savings Accounts in the Chinese Health Care SystemJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 37 (6): 556-567. 2012.Individual health savings accounts are an important part of the current basic medical insurance system for urban workers in China. Since 1998 when the system of personal medical insurance accounts was first implemented, there has been considerable controversy over its function and significance within different social communities. This paper analyzes the main problems in the practical implementation of individual medical insurance accounts and discusses the social and cultural foundations for the…Read more
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124Obesity and Health System Reform: Private vs. Public ResponsibilityJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 39 (3): 380-386. 2011.The obesity epidemic is not only impairing the health of millions of Americans but also giving rise to billions of added dollars in health care spending. Climbing rates of obesity over the past decades are one of the predominant determinants behind the surging progression of health care expenses in the United States. Moreover, the less fit and less productive U.S. workforce has gradually eroded the nation’s industrial competitiveness. Since the early 1970s, adult obesity rates have doubled and c…Read more
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66Care Coordination and the Expansion of Nursing Scopes of PracticeJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 42 (1): 93-103. 2014.Recent developments in the health care industry have precipitated a new wave of interest in expanding the scope of practice for nursing. This is because the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, broadly designed to increase access to health insurance, will inevitably result in increased demand for primary care providers. And with compensation for primary care physicians already lagging far behind that of specialists, the role of nurse practitioners is once again receiving increased attenti…Read more
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77Caring for Elder Parents: A Comparative Evaluation of Family Leave LawsJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 41 (2): 501-513. 2013.The call for family and medical leave reform in the United States was largely the result of sweeping demographic shifts that occurred in the workforce after the 1950s, coupled with an ever-increasing life expectancy and changing social norms concerning the role of women as caretakers. By the early 1990s, the number of women in the workforce had nearly tripled from 1950. During that same period, life expectancy increased by six years for males and seven for females. Meanwhile, the first wave of t…Read more
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54From Beginning to End: The Importance of Evidence-Based Policymaking in Vaccination MandatesJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 43 (S1): 99-102. 2015.Used appropriately, reliance on science distinguishes public health from policymaking driven more by theory and opinion and enhances trust in public health interventions. Evidence-based vaccine policymaking aims to control communicable disease by urging decision makers to base policies on the best available evidence rather than politics or personal views. The results of this approach, such as smallpox eradication, have been dramatic. Historically, mandatory childhood vaccination has been perhaps…Read more
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101Palliative care for the terminally ill in America: the consideration of QALYs, costs, and ethical issuesMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 15 (4): 411-416. 2012.The drive for cost-effective use of medical interventions has advantages, but can also be challenging in the context of end-of-life palliative treatments. A quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) provides a common currency to assess the extent of the benefits gained from a variety of interventions in terms of health-related quality of life and survival for the patient. However, since it is in the nature of end-of-life palliative care that the benefits it brings to its patients are of short duration, …Read more
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23From Safe Touch to Sexual Abuse: Walking the Tightrope of Patient Safety in Psychedelic TherapyAmerican Journal of Bioethics 25 (1): 123-125. 2025.The recent surge in psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) research and anticipated Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine) and psilocybin treatments has bro...
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9© 2015 Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.Soil transplant serves as a proxy to simulate climate changes. Recently, we have shown that southward transplant of black soil and northward transplant of red soil altered soil microbial communities and biogeochemical variables. However, fundamental differences in soil types have prevented direct comparison between southward and northward transplants. To tackle it, herein we report an analysis of microbial communities of Cambisol soil in an agriculture f…Read more
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15© 2015 Elsevier Inc.The breakthrough of induced pluripotent stem cell technology has raised the possibility that patient-specific iPSCs may become a renewable source of autologous cells for cell therapy without the concern of immune rejection. However, the immunogenicity of autologous human iPSC -derived cells is not well understood. Using a humanized mouse model reconstituted with a functional human immune system, we demonstrate that most teratomas formed by autologous integration-free hiPSCs e…Read more
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11© 2016 AIP Publishing LLC.We present evidence for breathing modes in magnetron sputtering plasmas: periodic axial variations of plasma parameters with characteristic frequencies between 10 and 100 kHz. A set of azimuthally distributed probes shows synchronous oscillations of the floating potential. They appear most clearly when considering the intermediate current regime in which the direction of azimuthal spoke motion changes. Breathing oscillations were found to be superimposed on azimuthal sp…Read more
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14© CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration 2011.We present first measurements of charged and neutral particle-flow correlations in pp collisions using the ATLAS calorimeters.Data were collected in 2009 and 2010 at centre-of-mass energies of 900 GeV and 7 TeV.Events were selected using a minimum-bias trigger which required a charged particle in scintillation counters on either side of the interaction point.Particle flows, sensitive to the underlying event, are measured using clusters of en…Read more
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9© 2015 American Chemical Society. We demonstrate straightforward fabrication of highly sensitive biosensor arrays based on field-effect transistors, using an efficient high-throughput, large-area patterning process. Chemical lift-off lithography is used to construct field-effect transistor arrays with high spatial precision suitable for the fabrication of both micrometer- and nanometer-scale devices. Sol-gel processing is used to deposit ultrathin In 2 O 3 films as semiconducting channel layers.…Read more
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75The minimal e-degree problem in fragments of Peano arithmeticAnnals of Pure and Applied Logic 131 (1-3): 159-175. 2005.We study the minimal enumeration degree problem in models of fragments of Peano arithmetic () and prove the following results: in any model M of Σ2 induction, there is a minimal enumeration degree if and only if M is a nonstandard model. Furthermore, any cut in such a model has minimal e-degree. By contrast, this phenomenon fails in the absence of Σ2 induction. In fact, whether every Σ2 cut has minimal e-degree is independent of the Σ2 bounding principle
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |