ideals in medicine & healthcare
MEDIA & readings
September 26, 2024
The Normal
the Pathological
and the PerfecT
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Lennart Nordenfelt. Understanding the concept of health. Hommage a Wlodek, 2007
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Georges Canguilhem. On the normal and the pathological. D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1978
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Richard Horton. Georges Canguilhem: philosopher of disease. J R Soc Med. 1995
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Christopher Boorse. The Meaning of Clinical Normality. Medical Research Archives, 2022
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Thomas Schramme. Christopher Boorse and the Philosophy of Medicine, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine. 2014
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Yana Buhrer Tavanier. What is "normal" and what is "different"?. TEDx Talk, 2022
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Alicia Nordstrom. The fallacy of normal and the beauty of difference. TEDx Talk, 2016
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Marisa Catita Águas et al. Normality in medicine: a critical review. Philos Ethics Humanit Med, 2020
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Nathaniel Comfort. The eugenic impulse. Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
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Michael Sandell. The case against perfection. The Atlantic Monthly, April 2004
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Taras Oleksyk and Juan Carlos Martinez-Cruzado. There is no perfect human in Puerto Rico or anywhere else. Scientific American blog, February 5, 2015
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Robert A. Wilson. Eugenics Today, Aeon, May 21, 2018
October 30, 2024
Making sense
of suffering:
insights from
great literature
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Trevor Koester. Meaning of suffering in literature and life. University of Wisconsin-Stout Journal of Student Research, 16, 22-30, 2017
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Elisabeth Powell. A literature of modern suffering: Suffering in the work of Feodor Dostoevsky, Albert Camus & Milan Kunders. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Western Sydney, 2007
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Havi Carel. The philosophical role of illness – and how it can teach us to live reflectively. The Conversation, April 6, 2016
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Beth Clark and Nina Preto. Exploring the concept of vulnerability in health care. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2018
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Caitlin McMullan. The Fitting (11 min documentary film). Aeon, July 24, 2024
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Szymon Jan Sinoff. Brothers (11 min documentary film), Aeon, September 9, 2024
November 21, 2024
Human dignity: True or false?
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Steven Pinker. The stupidity of dignity. The New Republic, May 28, 2008
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Nicole Yeatman. A brief history of human dignity. The Big Think, November 30, 2020
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Ruth Macklin. Dignity is a useless concept. British Medical Journal, December 2003
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United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, December 10, 1948
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Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. Declaration Dignitas Infinita on human dignity. March 25, 2024
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John Paul II. Encyclical Evangelium vitae, March 25, 1995
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Sigrid Müller. Concepts and Dimensions of Human Dignity in the Christian Tradition. Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society, 2020
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Barbara A. Misztal, The idea of dignity: Its modern significance. European Journal of Social Theory, 2013
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David J. Mattson and Susan G. Clark. Human dignity in concept and practice. Policy Sciences, 2011
December 5, 2024
Rights, Liberty &
the Nature of Medicine
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Jonathan Pugh. Autonomy, Rationality and Contemporary Bioethics, Oxford Philosophical Monographs. Oxford University Press, 2020
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Farr Curlin & Christopher Tollefson. Conscience and the Way of Medicine. Persectives in Biology & Medicine, Summer 2019
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Farr Curlin & Christopher Tollefson. Medicine against Suicide: Sustaining Solidarity with Those Diminished by Illness and Debility. Christian Bioethics, 2021
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Henk Hten Have. Respect for Human Vulnerability: The Emergence of a New Principle in Bioethics. Bioethical Inquiry, 2015
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Scott Yenor. Why autonomy cannot explain marriage and family life. Public Discourse, August 16, 2016
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Lisa Dive & Ainsley Newson. Reconceptualizing autonomy for bioethics: Genomics Highlights the Need for Normative Competence. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, January 1, 2018
January 16, 2025
meaning in medicine
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Kristin Collier. What is medicine for? BMJ Leader 2024 Mar 18;8(1):55-58
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Edmund Pellegrino. The "telos" of medicine and the good of the patient. C. Viafora (Ed.), Clinical Bioethics. A Search for the Foundations, 21-32.
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Harold Koenig. Religion, spirituality and medicine: How are they related and what does it mean? Mayo Clinic Proceedings, December 2001
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John D. Arras. A method in search of a purpose: the internal morality of medicine. Journal of medicine and philosophy, 26:643-662,2001
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Benjamin Frush and Kristin M. Collier, Moral Diversity for Medical Trainees. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 67 (3):424-436, 2024
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M. Sara Rosenthal and Maria Clay. Initiatives for responding to medical trainees' moral distress about end-of-life cases. AMA J Ethics. 2017
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Derek C. Chang et al. A Phenomenological Exploration of Physicians’ Moral Distress: Situating Emotion Within Lived Experiences. Academic Medicine, July 20, 2024
February 24, 2025
is a good death possible?
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Balfour M. Mount et al. Healing connections: On moving from suffering to a sense of well being, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, April 2007
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Elisabeth Rosenthal. Pain Doesn’t Belong on a Scale of Zero to 10, KFF Health News, July 2, 2024
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Sarah Chan. A bioethics for all seasons. Journal of Medical Ethics 2015
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Dominic Wilkinson et al. In Favour of Medical Dissensus: Why We Should Agree to Disagree About End-of-Life Decisions. Bioethics, 2016
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Xavier Symons and Tyler VanderWeele. Aristotelian Flourishing and Contemporary Philosophical Theories of Wellbeing. Journal of Happiness Studies, 2024
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Xavier Symons et al. Flourishing at the end of life. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2024
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Patrick Lee & Germain Grisez. Total brain death: Valid criterion for death. Public Discourse, April 26, 2013
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Columba Thomas & Lydia Dugdale. Brain tumors, lethal drugs and the art of dying. Public Discoourse, May 8, 2022
March 27, 2025
artificial intelligence in medicine
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Kun-Hsing Yu et al. Medical artificial intelligence and human values, NEJM, May 30, 2024
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Ida Sim & Christine Cassel. The Ethics of Relational AI — Expanding and Implementing the Belmont Principles. NEJM July 18, 2024
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Ilya: The AI scientist changing the world. The Guardian, 12 minute video
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Jordan J. Wales. Metaphysics, meaning, and morality: A theological reflection on AI. Journal of Moral Theology, 2022
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David J. Gunkel and Jordan Wales. Debate: what is personhood in the age of AI?. AI & Society, 2021
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Brian P. Green et al. Artificial Intelligence and Moral Theology: A Conversation. Journal of Moral Theology, 2022
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Jordan Wales. The Icon and the Idol: A Christian Perspective on Sociable Robots. In Jens Zimmermann (ed.), Human Flourishing in a Technological World: A Theological Perspective. Oxford University Press. 2023.
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Timnit Gebru. The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI: Race and Gender. July 2020
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Karen Hao. The two-year fight to stop Amazon from selling face recognition to the police. MIT Technology Review, June 12, 2020
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Karen Hao. We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says. MIT Technology Review, December 4, 2020
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Shana Lynch. Stanford HAI at Five: Pioneering the future of human-centred AI. Stanford University Human Centered Artificial intelligence, March 2024
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Geoffrey Hinton: On working with Ilya, choosing problems, and the power of intuition. SANA AI Summit, 2024
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"The Godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton: The 60 Minutes Interview,
April 24, 2025
US healthcarE:
can we do better?
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Michael Connelly. The Journey's End: An investigation on death and dying in modern America, Rowman Littlefield, 2023
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Marc Harrison. 5 critical priorities for the US healthcare system, Harvard Business Review, Decmeber 15, 2021
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Jonathan Oberlander. Unfinished Journey — A Century of Health Care Reform in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine, 2012
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Katherine Smith. A (Brief) History of Health Policy in the United States. Delaware Journal of Public Health, Dec. 2023
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Elisabeth Rosenthal. Why Many Nonprofit (Wink, Wink) Hospitals Are Rolling in Money. KFF Health News, July 29, 2024
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Advertisment. Using AI to make healthcare more human, Nature Portfolio, 2020
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Carlos F. Mendes de Leon & Jennifer J. Griggs. Medical debt in the US, 2009 to 2020. JAMA, July 2022