- Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
- Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Ethics in medical practice
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Law, AI, and Intellectual Property
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Animal testing and alternatives
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
- Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
Deakin University
2024
Binghamton University
2023
University of Oregon
2012-2021
Pennsylvania State University
2014-2015
Gettysburg College
2015
Purdue University West Lafayette
2008-2013
Humans are inextricably linked to each other and our natural world, microorganisms lie at the nexus of those interactions. Microorganisms form genetically flexible, taxonomically diverse, biochemically rich communities, i.e., microbiomes that integral health development macroorganisms, societies, ecosystems.
The view we defend is that in virtue of its nature, disgust not fit to do any moral or social work whatsoever, and there are no defensible uses for legal political institutions. We first describe our favoured empirical theory the nature disgust. Turning from descriptive normative issues, address best arguments favour granting power justify certain judgements, serve as a tool, respectively. Daniel Kahan advances pair theses suggest indispensable (Moral Indispensability Thesis), so has an...
The nature and role of the patient in biomedicine comprise issues central to bioethical inquiry. Given its developmental history grounded firmly a backlash against 20th-century cases egregious human subjects abuse, contemporary medical bioethics has come rely on fundamental assumption: unit care (and value) is autonomous self-directing patient. In this article we examine first structure feminist social critique autonomy. Then show that parallel argument can be made relational autonomy as...
A quarter of a century ago, group scientists and conservationists introduced ‘biodiversity’ as media buzzword with the explicit intent galvanizing public political support for environ...
This paper argues that the practical reach and ethical impact of One Health paradigm is conditional on satisfactorily distinguishing between interconnected interdependent factors among human, non-human, environmental health. Interconnection does not entail interdependence. Offering examples interconnections interdependence in context existing literature, we demonstrate conversations about do yet sufficiently differentiate those concepts. They tend to either ignore such distinctions or...
Dominant views about the nature of health and disease in bioethics philosophy medicine have presumed existence a fixed, stable, individual organism as bearer states, such, appropriate target medical therapy ethical concern. However, recent developments microbial biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, social personality psychology produced novel understanding its fluid boundaries. Drawing on converging evidence from these disciplines, following research public health, we argue that certain...
Abstract This article takes the following two assumptions for granted: first, that gifts influence physicians and, second, influences have on may be harmful patients. These are common in applied ethics literature, and they prompt an obvious practical question, namely, what is best way to mitigate negative effects? We examine effects of gift giving depth, considering how occurs, we assert ethical debate surrounding gift‐giving practices must reoriented. Our main claim failure recent policies...