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Ethics/Medical Humanities Areas of Expertise/Interest:
Medical Ethics
Bioethics
Philosophy of Medicine
Medical Professionalism
Research Ethics
Ethics and Nanotechnology
Neuroethics
Courses
Taught:
PHIL 1301 Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 3304 Conceptions of Human Nature
PHIL 4380 Philosophy of Medicine
PHIL 4380 Medical Ethics
HIST 3328 History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine
HUHI 7379 Technology, Death and Medicine
HUHI 7379 Ethics in Biomedical Research (taught at UT Southwestern
Medical Center)
Key Publications:
Emerging Conceptual, Ethical and Policy Issues in Bionanotechnology.
Edited volume. Springer (Accepted for publication).
The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn: A Pellegrino Reader. Co-edited volume (with H.T. Engelhardt, Jr.). Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame
Press. (March 2008)
Recent Ethics/Medical Humanities Publications:
"Beyond Therapy and Enhancement: The Alteration of Human Nature”,
Nanoethics: Ethics for Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale,
March 2008, (forthcoming)
“Ethics and Nanotechnology: Toward a Procedural Integrated Model”
in Laurie Zoloth and Marta Flory (Eds.), The Social Scale: The Weight of
Justice. (submitted, Johns Hopkins University Press)
"Nanomedicine: How it Could Reshape Clinical Practice", Nanomedicine,
2007, 2:4, 401-405.
“The Politicization of Science and Technology: Its Implications for
Nanotechnology”, The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 2006, 34:4,
658-666
“Bioethics and the Philosophy of Medicine: A Thirty-Year
Perspective”, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2006, 31,
565-568, co-authors: H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. and Jeremy R. Garrett.
"Bioethics as Biopolitics", The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy,
2006, 31, 205-212, co-author: Jeffrey P. Bishop
“The Hippocratic Oath and Contemporary Medicine: Dialectic Between
Past Ideals and Present Reality?”, The Journal of Medicine and
Philosophy, 2005, 30, 107-128.
“Neither Convention nor Constitution - What the Debate on Stem Cell
Research Tells Us about the Status of the Common European Ethics”, The
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2004, 29, 301-312, co-authors: K.
Schmidt and C. Foppa.
“The Precautionary Principle: A Dialectical Reconsideration”, The
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2004, 29, 301-312, co-author: H.T.
Engelhardt, Jr.
“Moral Identity and the Natural Law Theory: A Response to
Tollefsen’s ‘Natural Law and Modern Meta-Ethics: A Guided
Tour’” in Mark J. Cherry (Ed.) (2004). Natural Law and the
Possibility of Global Ethics (pp. 57-67). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic
Publishers.
“Institutionalization of Bioethics” in Encyclopedia of the Human
Genome (pp. 281-285), David Cooper (Ed.) (2003), co-authors: H. Tristram
Engelhardt, Jr., Ana Smith Iltis, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
“Bioethics in Switzerland” in J.F. Peppin and M.J. Cherry (Eds.)
(2003). Regional Perspectives in Bioethics (pp. 135-145). Lisse, The
Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger.
“Development and Identity of Swiss Bioethics” in H. Tristram
Engelhardt, Jr. and L. M. Rasmussen (Eds.) (2002). Bioethics and Moral
Content: National Traditions of Health Care Morality (pp. 121-142). Dordrecht: Kluwer.
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