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39 published articles in 2025
Uncertainty tolerance in healthcare: towards a normative conception
Published on 15 Oct 2025
Who are ‘people’ and why are they ‘like us’?: the language-game of dignity
Published on 15 Oct 2025
Of rats and humans: rethinking physiological boundaries
Published on 6 Oct 2025
Unmasking therapy-speak
Published on 30 Sep 2025
Orthorexia nervosa: nosographic category or not?
Published on 8 Sep 2025
Deleuzo–Guattarian de-construction of the mind to re-evaluate undeath
Published on 4 Sep 2025
Pain-like isn’t pain. Reasserting affective attitudes as the boundary of moral life
Published on 1 Sep 2025
The ethics of anti-love drugs qua precommitment strategy
Published on 5 Jul 2025
The volitional approach to surrogate decision making
Published on 25 Jun 2025
A single definition and criterion of death
Published on 11 Jun 2025
Clarifying the public misrepresentation of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance
Published on 4 Jun 2025
Wellness versus flourishing in medical education: a critique toward a new synthesis
Published on 14 May 2025
The limitations of narrative medicine
Published on 16 Apr 2025
Take another five. A response to Adams
Published on 25 Mar 2025
Take another five A response to Adams
Published on 24 Mar 2025
Defining ‘Abortion’: a call for clarity
Published on 22 Mar 2025
Can AI principlism without explicability be coherent? A response to Segers and De Proost
Published on 22 Mar 2025
Defining Abortion a call for clarity
Published on 21 Mar 2025
Can AI principlism without explicability be coherent A response to Segers and De Proost
Published on 21 Mar 2025
‘I am in pain’: neuroethics, philosophy of language, and the representation of pain
Published on 26 Feb 2025
Moral bricolage and the emerging tradition of secular bioethics
Published on 26 Feb 2025
Hermeneutics as impediment to AI in medicine
Published on 26 Feb 2025
Principlism language in contemporary Chinese bioethics: dissonance and discordance
Published on 26 Feb 2025
Bioethics as a language game: probing the quality of moral guidance in principlism
Published on 26 Feb 2025
Can bioethics bray? Non-human animals, biosemiotics, and a road to shared decision-making
Published on 26 Feb 2025
Reviewers, 2024
Published on 24 Feb 2025
Contributions of neo-Aristotelian phronesis to ethical medical practice
Published on 1 Dec 2024
Correction: Flourishing at the end of life
Published on 19 Oct 2024
On instrumentality and second-order effects: revisiting anti-natalism and animal farming
Published on 10 Oct 2024
Defending a choice-based system for the determination of death
Published on 7 Oct 2024
The self-fulfilling prophecy in medicine
Published on 1 Oct 2024
Flourishing at the end of life
Published on 1 Oct 2024
Baruch Brody and the principle of justifiable homicide
Published on 1 Oct 2024
Take five? A coherentist argument why medical AI does not require a new ethical principle
Published on 1 Oct 2024
Response to “The conceptual Injustice of the brain death standard”
Published on 28 Sep 2024
Biting the bullet on ethical veganism, antinatalism, and the demands of morality
Published on 27 Sep 2024
Epicureanism and euthanasia
Published on 22 Sep 2024
An ageless body does not imply transhumanism: A reply to Levin
Published on 14 Sep 2024
Antinatalism and the vegan’s dilemma
Published on 14 Sep 2024
Risky first-in-human clinical trials on medically fragile persons: owning the moral cost
Published on 11 Sep 2024
Should vegans have children? A response to Räsänen
Published on 1 Aug 2024
Using curiosity to render the invisible, visible
Published on 1 Aug 2024
The conceptual injustice of the brain death standard
Published on 1 Aug 2024
Reconsidering the utilitarian link between veganism and antinatalism
Published on 1 Aug 2024
The irrationality of human confidence that an ageless existence would be better
Published on 17 Jun 2024
Catholic religious agency during the Covid 19 emergency the issue of vaccines
Published on 29 May 2024
Facing a pandemic outbreak issues of global health ethics and technology
Published on 24 May 2024
Tacit social experimentation with digital technologies during the Covid 19 crisis
Published on 24 May 2024
Global health planetary health One Health conceptual and ethical challenges and concerns
Published on 24 May 2024
Spiritual care in the dementia ward during a pandemic
Published on 15 May 2024
James Rachels and the morality of euthanasia
Published on 11 Mar 2024
Kairos in diagnostics
Published on 6 Feb 2024
Reviewers 2023
Published on 5 Feb 2024
Sexual citizenship defending society s most disadvantaged
Published on 26 Dec 2023
The harm threshold and Mill s harm principle
Published on 17 Nov 2023
Refund a defense of luck egalitarian policy in healthcare
Published on 29 Oct 2023
Age based restrictions on reproductive care discerning the arbitrary from the necessary
Published on 10 Oct 2023
Sex demoralized
Published on 10 Oct 2023
In ethics a model is important interview with Professor Edmund D Pellegrino
Published on 29 Sep 2023
Correction Defending the link between ethical veganism and antinatalism
Published on 30 Aug 2023
Response to comments on my paper on whole body gestational donation
Published on 28 Aug 2023
An account of medical treatment with a preliminary account of medical conditions
Published on 23 Aug 2023
Making a dead woman pregnant A critique of the thought experiment of Anna Smajdor
Published on 21 Aug 2023
Defending the link between ethical veganism and antinatalism
Published on 16 Aug 2023
Probability and informed consent
Published on 7 Aug 2023
A critique of whole body gestational donation
Published on 27 Jul 2023
Controversial arguments are controversial
Published on 17 Jul 2023
Why whole body gestational donation must be rejected a response to Smajdor
Published on 6 Jul 2023
Policy change without ethical analysis Commentary on the publication of Smajdor
Published on 6 Jul 2023
Why at least some moral vegans may have children a response to R s nen
Published on 20 Jun 2023
Public sexual health replying to Firth and Neiders on sex doula programs
Published on 24 May 2023
Somatics and phenomenological psychopathology a mental health proposal
Published on 24 May 2023
Treat the dead not just death with dignity
Published on 24 May 2023
Epistemic injustice in the therapeutic relationship in psychiatry
Published on 23 May 2023
Why we have duties of autonomy towards marginal agents
Published on 11 May 2023
Saving unwanted children a proposal for a National Rearing Institute
Published on 2 May 2023
The indispensability of race in medicine
Published on 10 Apr 2023
Phenomenology s place in the philosophy of medicine
Published on 23 Mar 2023
The virtues and the vices of the outrageous
Published on 9 Mar 2023
Controversial views and moral realism
Published on 2 Mar 2023
Suffering and the dilemmas of pediatric care a response to Tyler Tate
Published on 25 Feb 2023
Childbearing abortion and regret a response to Kate Greasley
Published on 23 Feb 2023
Anent the theoretical justification of a sex doula program
Published on 23 Feb 2023
Reviewers 2022
Published on 15 Feb 2023
Weak transhumanism moderate enhancement as a non radical path to radical enhancement
Published on 12 Feb 2023
Should vegans have children Examining the links between animal ethics and antinatalism
Published on 10 Feb 2023
Introduction controversial arguments in bioethics
Published on 10 Feb 2023
Correction to Biographical lives and organ conscription
Published on 4 Jan 2023
Are some controversial views in bioethics Juvenalian satire without irony
Published on 23 Dec 2022
Biological lives and organ conscription
Published on 14 Dec 2022
Why good work in philosophical bioethics often looks strange
Published on 5 Dec 2022
Whole body gestational donation
Published on 17 Nov 2022
The criticism of medicine at the end of its golden age
Published on 13 Nov 2022
Misapplying autonomy why patient wishes cannot settle treatment decisions
Published on 27 Oct 2022
Towards a dispositionalist and unifying account of addiction
Published on 26 Oct 2022
The ubiquity of the fallacy of composition in cognitive enhancement and in education
Published on 22 Oct 2022
Death as benefit in the context of non voluntary euthanasia
Published on 12 Oct 2022
Osteoporosis and risk of fracture reference class problems are real
Published on 16 Sep 2022
Case analysis in ethics instruction bootlegging theory in a topical structure
Published on 11 Sep 2022
Disability bioethics and the commitment to equality
Published on 19 Aug 2022
The evolution of research participant as partner the seminal contributions of Bob Veatch
Published on 17 Aug 2022
The patient experience of medically unexplained symptoms an existentialist analysis
Published on 4 Aug 2022
The principle of procreative beneficence and its implications for genetic engineering
Published on 25 Jul 2022
Rosamond Rhodes The trusted doctor medical ethics and professionalism
Published on 24 Jul 2022
Global justice in the context of transnational surrogacy an African bioethical perspective
Published on 24 Jul 2022
Towards a systematic evaluation of moral bioenhancement
Published on 23 Jul 2022
Experimental pregnancy revisited
Published on 19 Jul 2022
Procreative responsibilities and the parental obligation objection
Published on 19 Jul 2022
A festschrift in memory of Robert M Veatch
Published on 19 Jul 2022
Robert Veatch s Disrupted Dialogue and its implications for bioethics
Published on 17 Jul 2022
The philosopher as partner an introduction to the scholarship of Robert M Veatch
Published on 12 Jul 2022
Robert Veatch s transplantation ethics obtaining and allocating organs from deceased persons
Published on 9 Jun 2022
Relational autonomy and the clinical relationship in dementia care
Published on 16 May 2022
A defense of surgical procedures regulation
Published on 11 May 2022
Thomas Boggatz ed Quality of life and person centered care for older people
Published on 15 Apr 2022
To harvest procure or receive Organ transplantation metaphors and the technological imaginary
Published on 31 Mar 2022
Correction to Transposon dynamics and the epigenetic switch hypothesis
Published on 21 Mar 2022
The inviolateness of life and equal protection a defense of the dead donor rule
Published on 3 Mar 2022
Introducing philosophy of medicine three new books
Published on 3 Mar 2022
Philosophy of medicine in 2021
Published on 26 Feb 2022
Maureen L Condic Untangling twinning what science tells us about the nature of human embryos
Published on 26 Feb 2022
Is the replication crisis a base rate fallacy
Published on 26 Feb 2022
The prospects of precision psychiatry
Published on 31 Jan 2022
Correction to Experimental philosophy of medicine and the concepts of health and disease
Published on 9 Jan 2022
Transposon dynamics and the epigenetic switch hypothesis
Published on 16 Dec 2021
A plea for an experimental philosophy of medicine
Published on 16 Dec 2021
Experimental philosophy of medicine and the concepts of health and disease
Published on 30 Nov 2021
Why bother the public A critique of Leslie Cannold s empirical research on ectogenesis
Published on 29 Nov 2021
Experimental philosophical bioethics and normative inference
Published on 16 Nov 2021
Cross cultural bioethics lessons from the Sub Saharan African philosophy of ubuntu
Published on 13 Nov 2021
Erwin B Montgomery Medical reasoning the nature and use of medical knowledge
Published on 14 Sep 2021
Telling it like it was dignity therapy and moral reckoning in palliative care
Published on 10 Aug 2021
Diagnosing death the fuzzy area between life and decomposition
Published on 12 Apr 2021
The concept of disease in the time of COVID 19
Published on 15 Feb 2021
What is a reasonable framework for new non validated treatments
Published on 13 Feb 2021
Nathan Carlin Pastoral aesthetics a theological perspective on principlist bioethics
Published on 11 Feb 2021
Critical conversations at the crossroads
Published on 28 Jan 2021
What we talk about when we talk about pediatric suffering
Published on 4 Jan 2021
Valuing life and evaluating suffering in infants with life limiting illness
Published on 16 Dec 2020
Philosophical investigations into the essence of pediatric suffering
Published on 16 Dec 2020
Our suffering and the suffering of our time
Published on 6 Dec 2020
Relational suffering and the moral authority of love and care
Published on 6 Dec 2020
The right to assistive technology
Published on 5 Oct 2020
Gregory L Eastwood Finishing our story preparing for the end of life
Published on 19 Sep 2020
A naturalist response to Kingma s critique of naturalist accounts of disease
Published on 30 Aug 2020
Addressing complex hospital discharge by cultivating the virtues of acknowledged dependence
Published on 3 Aug 2020
Walter Glannon Psychiatric neuroethics studies in research and practice
Published on 16 Jul 2020
Experiential knowledge in clinical medicine use and justification
Published on 23 Apr 2020
Is skin bleaching a moral wrong An African bioethical perspective
Published on 16 Apr 2020
Making sense of the inevitable
Published on 7 Apr 2020
Eudaimonia and well being questioning the moral authority of advance directives in dementia
Published on 6 Feb 2020
John Keown Euthanasia ethics and public policy an argument against legalisation 2nd edition
Published on 3 Feb 2020
Medical disorder harm and damage
Published on 3 Feb 2020
Thomas Schramme Theories of health justice just enough health
Published on 8 Jan 2020
Conscience conscientious objections and medicine
Published on 3 Dec 2019
Conscientious objection in health care
Published on 25 Nov 2019
Protecting reasonable conscientious refusals in health care
Published on 25 Nov 2019
Conscience based refusal of patient care in medicine a consequentialist analysis
Published on 20 Nov 2019
Conscience tolerance and pluralism in health care
Published on 18 Nov 2019
When is somebody just some body Ethics as first philosophy and the brain death debate
Published on 15 Nov 2019
Controversies in defining death a case for choice
Published on 14 Nov 2019
Brain death new questions and fresh perspectives
Published on 14 Nov 2019
Correction to Stephen Scher and Kasia Kozlowska Rethinking health care ethics
Published on 2 Oct 2019
Fran oise Baylis and Angela Ballantyne eds Clinical research involving pregnant women
Published on 25 Aug 2019
Intervention principles in pediatric health care the difference between physicians and the state
Published on 11 Aug 2019
Stephen Scher and Kasia Kozlowska Rethinking health care ethics
Published on 6 Aug 2019
Pellegrino MacIntyre and the internal morality of clinical medicine
Published on 2 Aug 2019
Grounding medical ethics in philosophy of medicine problematic and potential
Published on 2 Aug 2019
Professing clinical medicine in an evolving health care network
Published on 2 Aug 2019
The healing relationship Edmund Pellegrino s philosophy of the physician patient encounter
Published on 28 Jul 2019
The ends of medicine and the crisis of chronic pain
Published on 26 Jul 2019
Toward a Pellegrino inspired theory of value in health care
Published on 8 Jul 2019
Taking patient virtue seriously
Published on 9 Apr 2019
Is aid in dying suicide
Published on 5 Apr 2019
Death unity and the brain
Published on 2 Apr 2019
The harm of medical disorder as harm in the damage sense
Published on 1 Mar 2019
Outcome adaptive randomization in clinical trials issues of participant welfare and autonomy
Published on 17 Feb 2019
Evidence for personalised medicine mechanisms correlation and new kinds of black box
Published on 14 Feb 2019
Whose harm Which metaphysic
Published on 11 Feb 2019
Akira Akabayashi ed The future of bioethics international dialogues
Published on 17 Dec 2018
Jacob Stegenga Medical nihilism
Published on 9 Dec 2018
Just do your job technology bureaucracy and the eclipse of conscience in contemporary medicine
Published on 19 Nov 2018
Enchanted nature dissected nature the case of Galen s anatomical theology
Published on 16 Nov 2018
Understanding modern technological medicine enchanted disenchanted or other
Published on 14 Nov 2018
Re enchanting the body overcoming the melancholy of anatomy
Published on 7 Nov 2018
Patient reflections on the disenchantment of techno medicine
Published on 31 Oct 2018
Paula Gerber and Katie O Byrne eds Surrogacy law and human rights
Published on 23 Oct 2018
Rivka Weinberg The risk of a lifetime how when and why procreation may be permissible
Published on 23 Oct 2018
The dramatic essence of the narrative approach
Published on 4 Oct 2018
Henry S Perkins A guide to psychosocial and spiritual care at the end of life
Published on 30 Sep 2018
Should physicians be empathetic Rethinking clinical empathy
Published on 19 Sep 2018
Deborah Lynn Steinberg Genes and the bioimaginary science spectacle culture
Published on 29 Aug 2018
Twin Inc
Published on 29 Aug 2018
Birth with dignity from the Confucian perspective
Published on 28 Aug 2018
Palliative sedation clinical context and ethical questions
Published on 21 Aug 2018
Nicholas Agar Truly human enhancement a philosophical defense of limits
Published on 20 Aug 2018
Henk ten Have Global bioethics an introduction
Published on 17 Aug 2018
Proportionate palliative sedation and the giving of a deadly drug the conundrum
Published on 16 Aug 2018
Violence research and non identity in the psychiatric clinic
Published on 16 Aug 2018
Sarah Ferber Bioethics in historical perspective
Published on 15 Aug 2018
Letter to the editor
Published on 13 Aug 2018
Reckoning with the last enemy
Published on 9 Aug 2018
Benjamin Smart Concepts and causes in the philosophy of disease
Published on 9 Aug 2018
The discourse on faith and medicine a tale of two literatures
Published on 8 Aug 2018
Comforting when we cannot heal the ethics of palliative sedation
Published on 3 Aug 2018
James Tabery Beyond versus the struggle to understand the interaction of nature and nurture
Published on 1 Aug 2018
Taking responsibility for health in an epistemically polluted environment
Published on 27 Jul 2018
Conscientious objection and person centered care
Published on 18 Jul 2018
Against the iDoctor why artificial intelligence should not replace physician judgment
Published on 9 Jul 2018
Sedation and care at the end of life
Published on 1 Jul 2018
The composite redesign of humanity s nature a work in process
Published on 28 Jun 2018
Prisoners competence to die hunger strike and cognitive competence
Published on 13 Jun 2018
Physician assisted dying thoughts drawn from Albert Camus writing
Published on 19 Mar 2018
The ethics of separating conjoined twins two arguments against
Published on 13 Feb 2018
A new path for humanistic medicine
Published on 9 Feb 2018
How not to think of the dead donor rule
Published on 5 Feb 2018
Philosophy of medicine 2017 reviewing the situation
Published on 5 Nov 2017
Thomas Schramme and Steven Edwards eds Handbook of the philosophy of medicine
Published on 5 Nov 2017
Marcum James A ed The Bloomsbury companion to contemporary philosophy of medicine
Published on 5 Nov 2017
John C Moskop Ethics and health care an introduction
Published on 10 Sep 2017
Robyn Bluhm Knowing and acting in medicine
Published on 10 Sep 2017
Personhood pregnancy and gender a reply to Hershenov and Hershenov
Published on 22 Aug 2017
Health interests and equality
Published on 13 Aug 2017
If Abortion then Infanticide
Published on 1 Aug 2017
Exemplars ethics and illness narratives
Published on 12 Jul 2017
Understanding disease and illness
Published on 12 Jul 2017
Harm and the concept of medical disorder
Published on 10 Jul 2017
Diagnosis narrative identity and asymptomatic disease
Published on 4 Jul 2017
Multiple studies and weak evidential defeat
Published on 3 Jul 2017
The muddle of medicalization pathologizing or medicalizing
Published on 3 Jul 2017
From method to hermeneutics which epistemological framework for narrative medicine
Published on 12 May 2017
Alex Broom Dying a social perspective on the end of life
Published on 9 May 2017
Hearing sub Saharan African voices in bioethics
Published on 29 Mar 2017
Partiality and distributive justice in African bioethics
Published on 26 Mar 2017
Giving voice to African thought in medical research ethics
Published on 24 Mar 2017
Ancillary care obligations in light of an African bioethic from entrustment to communion
Published on 15 Mar 2017
Dealing with the other between the ethical and the moral albinism on the African continent
Published on 14 Mar 2017
Erratum to Solidarity justice and recognition of the other
Published on 22 Feb 2017
An integral approach to health science and healthcare
Published on 31 Jan 2017
Indeterminacy and the principle of need
Published on 31 Jan 2017
Susan R Holman Beholden religion global health and human rights
Published on 31 Jan 2017
The causal explanatory functions of medical diagnoses
Published on 31 Jan 2017
Erratum to The causal explanatory functions of medical diagnoses
Published on 31 Jan 2017
Death with dignity from the Confucian perspective
Published on 31 Jan 2017
Big eye surgery the ethics of medicalizing Asian features
Published on 18 Jan 2017
From solidarity to autonomy towards a redefinition of the parameters of the notion of autonomy
Published on 30 Nov 2016
Privacy autonomy and public policy French and North American perspectives
Published on 30 Nov 2016