Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Ethics and EBM: acknowledging bias, accepting difference and embracing politics
Published 2010-01-01Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been effective because it confers both epistemic and moral authority, promising that both individual patient care and public health interventions are effective, safe and efficient, that ...Open AccessArticle -
The limit of labels: ethical food is more than consumer choice
Published 2016-09-08Over the past hundred years, industrial agriculture and the globalised food system have produced cheaper, longer lasting and more diverse food items. We can now enjoy tropical fruits in winter, purchase whole chickens at ...Open AccessArticle -
A definition and ethical evaluation of overdiagnosis: response to commentaries.
Published 2016-01-01It is a privilege to have respected colleagues engage with our definition and ethical evaluation of overdiagnosis. In our response to the commentaries, we first deal with paradigmatic issues: the place of realism, the ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Personalised medicine: a critique on the future of health care
Published 2013-01-01In recent years we have seen the emergence of “personalised medicine.” This development can be seen as the logical product of reductionism in medical science in which disease is increasingly understood in molecular terms. ...Open AccessArticle -
A Test Unlike Any Other
Published 2015-01-01My story of direct-to-consumer personal genome testing (DTCPGT) differs from many of those published online because it was inspired not so much by a desire to understand my background or my future but by a research interest ...Open AccessArticle