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Contributors Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-02
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Michiel De Proost is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University and is affiliated with the Bioethics Institute Ghent and the METAMEDICA consortium. Benjamin Chin-Yee is a hematologist in the Division of Hematology, Western University, Canada, and a doctoral student in the
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Editor's Note Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Quill R. Kukla
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editor's Note Quill R. Kukla This issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal offers three articles that encourage readers to think in different ways about how we use and share medical facts and information. Communication and information-sharing in medicine are never value-neutral processes, and there is never an objective answer
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The Goals of Medicine: Debate and Disagreements Around Contraceptive Side Effects Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Ilvie Prince
Since the invention of hormonal contraceptives, there has been disagreement between users and providers about the existence of side effects and their implications for care. The lack of consideration for cisgender women, and other people who may become pregnant, has often been explained by sexist bias in the philosophy of medicine. My goal is to contribute additional elements to this discussion. I will
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Generalizations in Clinical Trials—Do Generics Help Or Harm? Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Benjamin Chin-Yee
Generalizations in medical research can be informative, but also misleading. Building on recent work in the philosophy of science and ethics of communication, I offer a novel analysis of common generalizations in clinical trials as generics in natural language. Generics, which express generalizations without terms of quantification, have attracted considerable attention from philosophers, psychologists
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Data Solidarity Disrupted: Musings On the Overlooked Role of Mutual Aid in Data-Driven Medicine Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Michiel De Proost
Several suggestions have been made to embolden and reorient the concept of solidarity given the emergence of data-driven medicine. Recently, the European Union introduced a new consent model for so-called data altruism to motivate people to make their data available for purposes such as scientific research or improving public services. Others have introduced the alternative concept of data solidarily
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Allergic Intimacies: Food, Disability, Desire, and Risk by Michael Gill (review) Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Megan A. Dean
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Allergic Intimacies: Food, Disability, Desire, and Risk by Michael Gill Megan A. Dean (bio) Review of Michael Gill, Allergic Intimacies: Food, Disability, Desire, and Risk (Fordham University Press, 2023) In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the mundane activity of eating with or near others became physically hazardous
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Green Light Ethics: A Theory of Permissive Consent and its Moral Metaphysics by Hallie Liberto (review) Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Jonathan Ichikawa
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Green Light Ethics: A Theory of Permissive Consent and its Moral Metaphysics by Hallie Liberto Jonathan Ichikawa (bio) Review of Hallie Liberto, Green Light Ethics: A Theory of Permissive Consent and its Moral Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2022) Hallie Liberto's Green Light Ethics offers a framework for conceptualizing
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Editor's Note Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Quill Kukla
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editor’s Note Quill Kukla, Editor-in-Chief This issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal contains two essays and one dialogue, all of which concern ethical and epistemological issues that arise at the meeting point of our cognitive and mental lives and technology. In the first piece, two leading bioethicists with expertise in neurotechnology
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Minding Brain Injury, Consciousness, and Ethics: Discourse and Deliberations Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Joseph J. Fins, James Giordano
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Minding Brain Injury, Consciousness, and Ethics: Discourse and Deliberations Joseph J. Fins (bio) and James Giordano (bio) The annual John Collins Harvey Lecture at the Georgetown University’s Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics is a forum for addressing contemporary topics at the intersection of medicine and bioethics. This year
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Social Robots to Fend Off Loneliness? Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Zohar Lederman, Nancy S. Jecker
Social robots are increasingly being deployed to address social isolation and loneliness, particularly among older adults. Clips on social media attest that individuals availing themselves of this option are pleased with their robot companions. Yet, some people find the use of social robots to meet fundamental human emotional needs disturbing. This article clarifies and critically evaluates this response
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The First Smart Pill: Digital Revolution or Last Gasp? Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Anna K. Swartz, Phoebe Friesen
Abilify MyCite was granted regulatory approval in 2017, becoming the world’s first “smart pill” that could digitally track whether patients had taken their medication. The new technology was introduced as one that had gained the support of patients and ethicists alike, and could contribute to solving the widespread and costly problem of patient nonadherence. Here, we offer an in-depth exploration of
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A Theory of Bioethics by David DeGrazia and Joseph Millum (review) Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Colin Hoy, Winston Chiong
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: A Theory of Bioethics by David DeGrazia and Joseph Millum Colin Hoy (bio) and Winston Chiong (bio) Review of David DeGrazia and Joseph Millum, A Theory of Bioethics (Cambridge University Press, 2021) David DeGrazia and Joseph Millum’s A Theory of Bioethics 2021 arrives at a curious time for an ambitious effort at systematic
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Contributor Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-11
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributor Ricky Mouser is a PhD Candidate at Indiana University–Bloomington. He works broadly in value theory, with an emphasis on the ethics of well-being and AI, and additional interests in aesthetics, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of games and sports. Savannah Pearlman is a PhD Candidate at Indiana University–Bloomington
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Mutual Aid Praxis Aligns Principles and Practice in Grassroots COVID-19 Responses Across the US Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Nora Kenworthy, Emily Hops, Amy Hagopian
COVID-19 elicited a rapid emergence of new mutual aid networks in the US, but the practices of these networks are understudied. Using qualitative methods, we explored the empirical ethics guiding US-based mutual aid networks' activities, and assessed the alignment between principles and practices as networks mobilized to meet community needs during 2020–21. We conducted in-depth interviews with 15
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Solidarity Over Charity: Mutual Aid as a Moral Alternative to Effective Altruism Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Savannah Pearlman
Effective Altruism is a popular social movement that encourages individuals to donate to organizations that effectively address humanity's most severe poverty. However, because Effective Altruists are committed to doing the most good in the most effective ways, they often argue that it is wrong to help those nearest to you. In this article, I target a major subset of Effective Altruists who consider
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Mutual Aid as Effective Altruism Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Ricky Mouser
Effective altruism has a strategy problem. Overreliance on a strategy of donating to the most effective charities keeps us on the firefighter's treadmill, continually pursuing the next-highest quantifiable marginal gain. But on its own, this is politically shortsighted. Without any long-term framework within which these individual rescues fit together to bring about the greatest overall impact, we
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The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects (2021) by Sarah Richardson (review) Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Quill Kukla
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects (2021) by Sarah Richardson Quill Kukla Quill Kukla, review of Sarah Richardson's The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects (2021) I had been eagerly anticipating the release of Sarah Richardson's meticulously researched The Maternal
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Contributors Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-07
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Nethanel Lipshitz is a Hecht-Levi Postdoctoral Fellow at the Berman Institute of Bioethics (Johns Hopkins University). He has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. In July 2023, Dr. Lipshitz will join the faculty at Penn State College of Medicine. Jonathan Kimmelman is James McGill Professor in the Department
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Editor's Note March 2023 Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-07
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editor's Note March 2023 The first essay in this issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, "Varieties of Community Uncertainty and Clinical Equipoise," by Alex London, Patrick Kane, and Jonathan Kimmelman, exemplifies the core mission of the journal: to publish papers that explore the intersection between bioethics and philosophy
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Varieties of Community Uncertainty and Clinical Equipoise Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Alex John London, Patrick Bodilly Kane, Jonathan Kimmelman
The judgments of conscientious and informed experts play a central role in two elements of clinical equipoise. The first, and most widely discussed, element involves ensuring that no participant in a randomized trial is allocated to a level of treatment that everyone agrees is substandard. The second, and less often discussed, element involves ensuring that trials are likely to generate social value
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Screening Out Neurodiversity Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Jada Wiggleton-Little, Craig Callender
Autistic adults suffer from an alarmingly high and increasing unemployment rate. Many companies use pre-employment personality screening tests. These filters likely have disparate impacts on neurodivergent individuals, exacerbating this social problem. This situation gives rise to a bind. On the one hand, the tests disproportionately harm a vulnerable group in society. On the other, employers think
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How Should Urban Climate Change Planning Advance Social Justice? Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Bridget Pratt
Cities are struggling to balance the moral imperatives of sustainable development, with equity and social justice often ignored and negatively impacted by climate change mitigation and adaptation. Yet, the nature of these impacts on social justice has not been comprehensively investigated and little ethical guidance exists on how to better promote social justice in urban climate change planning practice
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Equality and a Complete Ban on the Sale of Cigarettes Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Nethanel Lipshitz
In the last two decades it has become increasingly common to advocate for a complete ban on the sale of cigarettes. One reason in favor of such a ban is egalitarian: differences in the prevalence of smoking between socioeconomic groups go a long way in explaining health inequality, and a complete ban might be effective in reducing this inequality. However, a complete ban might also be objectionable
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Contributors Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-07
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Dr. Emma C. Gordon is a Lecturer in Applied Ethics at the University of Glasgow and Head of Interdisciplinary Research at the COGITO Epistemology Research Centre. Her main research interests are in bioethics, medical ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of technology. Her book, Human Enhancement and Well-Being, is forthcoming
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Editor's Note, December 2022 Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-07
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editor's Note, December 2022 All four of the articles in this issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal concern questions of identity and its ethical significance; all four frame and study identity in different ways, using different methodologies and literatures. The pieces by Emma Gordon and by Neşe Devenot and their colleagues
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Virtual Reality and Technologically Mediated Love Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Emma Gordon
An emerging line of research in bioethics questions whether enhanced love is less significant or valuable than otherwise, where "enhanced love" generally refers to cases where drugs (e.g., oxytocin, etc.) are relied on to maintain romantic relationships. Separate from these debates is a recent body of literature on the philosophy and psychology of "Virtual Reality (VR) dating," where romantic relationships
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Psychedelic Identity Shift: A Critical Approach to Set And Setting Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Neşe Devenot, Aidan Seale-Feldman, Elyse Smith, Tehseen Noorani, Albert Garcia-Romeu, Matthew W. Johnson
While the literature on psychedelic medicine emphasizes the importance of set and setting alongside the quality of subjective drug effects for therapeutic efficacy, few scholars have explored the therapeutic frameworks that are used alongside psychedelics in the lab or in the clinic. Based on a narrative analysis of the treatment manual and post-session experience reports from a pilot study of psilocybin-assisted
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Medicalization, Contributory Injustice, and Mad Studies Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien
One recent body of work has concerned medicalization and how it can create epistemic injustice. It focuses on medicalization as a hermeneutical process that shapes the conceptual framework(s) we use to refer to some conditions/experiences. In parallel, some scholars with lived experience of madness have started to explore the epistemic harms suffered by the Mad community. Building on this, I argue
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"White, Fat, and Racist": Racism and Environmental Accounts of Obesity Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Megan Dean, Nabina Liebow
This paper offers a novel argument for the claim that "environmental" explanations of obesity meant to help address racial health disparities may actually reinforce racism. While some contend that these explanations reinforce racist and sizeist interracial dynamics, we argue that environmental explanations can bolster intraracial hierarchies of whiteness that reinforce white supremacy. Deployments
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Review of Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Dana Howard
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Review of When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Adam Omelianchuk
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The Epistemic Risk in Representation Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Stephanie Harvard,Eric Winsberg
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Suffering in Animal Research: The Need for Limits and the Possibility of Compensation. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 David Wendler
Guidelines and regulations for medical research recognize that the experiences of humans and animals both matter morally. They thus set a presumption against harming research subjects, whether humans or animals, and mandate that the harms subjects experience should be the minimal necessary for achieving the scientific aims of the study. Beyond this, guidelines and regulations place upper limits on
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Foundations of Bioethics through the Voice of a Pioneer: Conversations with Robert M. Veatch. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Marta Dias Barcelos
In these Conversations, Robert Veatch reveals remarkable moments of his intellectual journey through bioethics. In Part I, he recalls some of the major historical events that contributed to modern bioethics development from the 1970s onward. Going back more than one decade, he emphasizes the impact of the Antiwar and Civil Rights movements, his pacifist ideals, and his engagement as an activist. In
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Compensation and Limits on Harm in Animal Research. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Jake Earl
Although researchers generally take great care to ensure that human subjects do not suffer very serious harms from their involvement in research, the situation is different for nonhuman animal subjects. Significant progress has been made in reducing unnecessary animal suffering in research, yet researchers still inflict severe pain and distress on tens of thousands of animals every year for scientific
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Reimagining Commitments to Patients and the Public in Professional Oaths. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Laura Guidry-Grimes
Robert Veatch argues that physician oaths should not be valued as substantive moral commitments, transformational rituals, or symbolic acts. Further, he insists that oath recitation in medical schools is immoral. I respond to Veatch's criticisms and argue that, with alterations to their content and practice, oaths can have value for articulating moral commitments and building a sense of moral community
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White Ignorance in Pain Research: Racial Differences and Racial Disparities. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Phoebe Friesen,Nada Gligorov
Racial disparities in pain treatment are well documented. Such disparities are explained with reference to factors related to providers, health care structures, and patient behaviors. Racial differences in pain experiences, although well documented, are less well understood. Explanations for such differences usually involve genetic or psychological factors. Here, we argue that racial differences in
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Epistemic Equality: Distributive Epistemic Justice in the Context of Justification. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Boaz Miller,Meital Pinto
Social inequality may obstruct the generation of knowledge, as the rich and powerful may bring about social acceptance of skewed views that suit their interests. Epistemic equality in the context of justification is a means of preventing such obstruction. Drawing on social epistemology and theories of equality and distributive justice, we provide an account of epistemic equality. We regard participation
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Adolescent Medical Transition is Ethical: An Analogy with Reproductive Health. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Florence Ashley
In this article, I argue that adolescent medical transition is ethical by analogizing it to abortion and birth control. The interventions are similar insofar as they intervene on healthy physiological states by reason of the person's fundamental self-conception and desired life, and their effectiveness is defined by their ability to achieve patients' embodiment goals. Since the evidence of mental health
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Unreliable Threats: Conflicts of Interest Disclosure and the Safeguarding of Biomedical Knowledge. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Steven Tresker
Medical epistemology lately has seen a strengthening of the view that the construction of evidence should be sensitive to the social context in which it is produced. A poignant illustration of this is the undue influence of the pharmaceutical industry on research results and reporting. I challenge a particular application of this view by examining a common practice in the medical and scientific community:
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Values in Science, Biodiversity Research, and the Problem of Particularity. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Tobias Schönwitz
How to deal with non-epistemic values in science presents a pressing problem for science and society as well as for philosophers of science. In recent years, accounts of democratizing science have been proposed as a possible solution to this. By providing a case study on the establishment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy comment: Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services comment: (IPBES)
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An Ethical Framework for Presenting Scientific Results to Policy-Makers. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 S Andrew Schroeder
Scientists have the ability to influence policy in important ways through how they present their results. Surprisingly, existing codes of scientific ethics have little to say about such choices. I propose that we can arrive at a set of ethical guidelines to govern scientists' presentation of information to policymakers by looking to bioethics: roughly, just as a clinician should aim to promote informed
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Free to Decide: The Positive Moral Right to Reproductive Choice. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-09-28 Tess Johnson
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Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Dan Steinberg
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The Tragedy of Heterosexuality by Jane Ward Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Catharine Saint-Croix
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Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Carolyn P. Neuhaus
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Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders by Maneesha Deckha Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Angela Fernandez
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The Epistemic Duties of Philosophers: An Addendum. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Philippe van Basshuysen,Lucie White
In "Were Lockdowns Justified? A Return to the Facts and Evidence", we argue that Eric Winsberg, Jason Brennan and Chris Surprenant fail to make their case that initial COVID-19 lockdowns were unjustified, due to the fact their argument rests on erroneous factual claims. As is made clear by a response in this volume, the authors mistakenly take us to have been defending the imposition of lockdowns.
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This Paper Attacks a Strawman but the Strawman Wins: A reply to van Basshuysen and White. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Eric Winsberg,Jason Brennan,Chris Surprenant
We reply to van Basshuysen and White's criticism of our paper. We argue that they have misconstrued what our original claims were. Nevertheless, we maintain that their arguments against the position they incorrectly attribute to us fail.
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Were lockdowns justified? A return to the facts and evidence. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Philippe van Basshuysen,Lucie White
Were governments justified in imposing lockdowns to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic? We argue that a convincing answer to this question is to date wanting, by critically analyzing the factual basis of a recent paper, "How Government Leaders Violated Their Epistemic Duties During the SARS-CoV-2 Crisis" (Winsberg, Brennan, and Suprenant 2020). In their paper, Winsberg, Brennan, and Suprenant
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And If It Takes Lying: The Ethics of Blood Donor Non-Compliance. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Kurt Blankschaen
Sometimes, people who are otherwise eligible to donate blood are unduly deferred from donating. "Unduly" indicates a gap where a deferral policy misstates what exposes potential donors to risk and so defers more donors than is justified. A number of bioethicists and public health officials have criticized specific deferral policies in order to reformulate or eliminate them. Policy change is undoubtedly
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Contextualizing Risk in the Ethics of PrEP as HIV Prevention: The Lived Experiences of MSM. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Michael Montess
In this article, I challenge the risk assessment approach to the ethics of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as HIV prevention among men who have sex with men (MSM). Traditional risk assessment focuses on the medical risks and benefits of using medical technologies, but this emphasizes certain risks and benefits over others. The medical risks of using PrEP are presently being overblown and its social
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The Moral Requirement for Digital Connectivity. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Nick Munn
Crises illustrate the value of digital connectedness. When our physical routines are disrupted, having alternative options to connect with others is important. Yet there are clear divisions in access to the internet, and in the distribution of the skills required to take advantage of the internet. I argue that the COVID-19 pandemic is but one example of a more general idea; that everyone has a moral
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Can Treatment for Substance Use Disorder Prescribe the same Substance as that Used? The Case of Injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Daniel Steel,Şerife Tekin
This article examines injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment (iOAT), in which patients suffering from long-term, treatment refractory opioid use disorder (OUD) are prescribed injectable diacetylmorphine, the active ingredient of heroin. While iOAT is part of the continuum of care for OUD in some European countries and in some parts of Canada, it is not an available treatment in the United States. We suggest
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Must Consent Be Informed? Patient rights, state authority, and the moral basis of the physician's duties of disclosure. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 D Robert MacDougall
Legal standards of disclosure in a variety of jurisdictions require physicians to inform patients about the likely consequences of treatment, as a condition for obtaining the patient's consent. Such a duty to inform is special insofar as extensive disclosure of risks and potential benefits is not usually a condition for obtaining consent in non-medical transactions.What could morally justify the physician's
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Truthfulness and Deceit in Dementia Care: An argument for truthful regard as a morally significant human bond. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Philippa Byers
This paper presents a challenge to the view that benign 'white lies' may be therapeutic in dementia care and preferable to more truthful alternatives. Drawing on Sissela Bok and Bernard Williams, the paper develops three key points: first, that another person's dementia is not a reason to suspend one's customary reluctance to deceive others; second, that the commonly drawn contrast between benign deceit
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Rude Inquiry: Should Philosophy Be More Polite? Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Alice MacLachlan
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Hidden Costs of Inquiry: Exploitation, World-Travelling and Marginalized Lives. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Audrey Yap
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The Evolving Social Purpose of Academic Freedom. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Shannon Dea
In the face of the increasing substitution of free speech for academic freedom, I argue for the distinctiveness and irreplaceability of the latter. Academic freedom has evolved alongside universities in order to support the important social purpose universities serve. Having limned this evolution, I compare academic freedom and free speech. This comparison reveals freedom of expression to be an individual
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The Limits of the Rights to Free Thought and Expression. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Barrett Emerick
It is often held that people have a moral right to believe and say whatever they want. For instance, one might claim that they have a right to believe racist things as long as they keep those thoughts to themselves. Or, one might claim that they have a right to pursue any scholarly question they want as long as they do so with a civil tone. This paper rejects those claims and argues that no one has