Sometimes on campus you accidentally walk by a philosophy class and the professor is writing "utility = pleasures - pains" on the board and everyone is taking notes like it's actual school
Bry Moore
@bryannamoore.bsky.social
assistant professor at @urochester.bsky.social. philosophy, death, pediatric ethics and medical decision-making. all views my own.
Join Seattle Children’s on July 17–18 for the 21st Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference. The UW Bioethics Department is proud to say that many of our faculty and adjunct faculty will be speaking at this event! Register Here: gqr.sh/C4wu #seattle #pediatrics #bioethics
🚨 thrilled for this work to finally be out in the world! 🚨 #bioethics #pediatriconcology #medicaldecisionmaking
Do Reasons Matter? An Empirical Exploration of the Role of Parents’ Reasons in Treatment Refusal in Pediatric Oncology
Accepted ethical principles in pediatrics hold that parents’ reasons should not matter to determining ethical boundaries: it is the decision’s effect on the child that matters. However, there is on...
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18-year review of ethics consultation cases at a pediatric hospital — what gets referred, how that's shifted, where the ethical stress points are. The kind of longitudinal empirical work the field needs more of. #bioethics
Specific Trends in Pediatric Ethical Decision-Making: An 18-Year Review of Ethics Consultation Cases in a Pediatric Hospital
This is a qualitative examination of ethics consultation requests, outcomes, and ethics committee recommendations at a tertiary/quaternary pediatric hospital in the U.S. The purpose of this review of...
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🚨our new article on the need for a more robust ethics of healthcare organizations is out now in the american journal of bioethics🚨 #bioethics #healthcare #institutions #responsibility
What Can We Ask of Hospitals? Conceptual Foundations for an Ethics of Healthcare Organizations
From aggressive billing practices to neglectful or discriminatory care, news stories about the misconduct of healthcare organizations abound. Yet there has been limited ethical scrutiny of hospital...
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Bioethics folks: Considering submitting to the ASBH conference this year? Wondering about how to write a strong abstract? The ASBH Program Committee is offering its first ever webinar on "navigating a proposal." Especially good for students, early career, or first-time submitters, but open to all!
ASBH Navigating a Proposal Webinar
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Our final Season 2 ep of "In the Same Vein" is out! Master's student Diana Herrmann and I had a blast interviewing Helen Frisby, talking about everything from rosemary in coffins, to beeswax candles, to (yes) decaying corpses, to whisky fumes and funeral cakes. open.spotify.com/episode/3AZt...
S2 Ep6: On Smell, Death, and Funerary Rituals with Helen Frisby, PhD
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Last month, I interviewed Dr. Brent Kious about AI-based digital platforms for mental health care. You can read our conversation on my blog @psychologytoday.com #artificialintelligence #bioethics #philosophy #mentalhealth
Mental Health Care, Authenticity, and Unintended Experiments
Two philosophers discuss chatbots, digital therapeutics, and mental health care.
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🚨 our new article is out now in HEC Forum! in it, we explore how to navigate requests by surrogate decision-makers to withhold information from other family members or prevent them from visiting with a patient 🚨 #clinicalethics #medicaldecisionmaking
“Don’t Tell Them Anything”: Should Surrogate Decision-Makers Be Allowed to Withhold Information from Other Family Members or Prevent Them from Visiting with a Patient? - HEC Forum
While patients have the right to control who has access to their health information and designate visitors, it is not always clear whether—when a patient lacks capacity—their surrogate also exercises such rights. States and federal laws are often vague about the limits of surrogate authority. Even where legal or institutional guidance on this issue is clear, requests by surrogates to withhold information or restrict visitation with a patient can be a source of ethical uncertainty and distress on the part of the clinical team. This paper explores the ethical issues raised by such requests. To date, there has been little exploration of this issue in the clinical ethics literature. First, we summarize the scant existing ethical and legal guidance on this issue. Second, we present two potential approaches to navigating requests from surrogates to withhold information or restrict visitation. Third, we discuss the merits and limitations of both approaches, and introduce some additional considerations that further complicate the picture. We argue for a flexible restrictive approach to information-sharing, and a constrained permissive approach to visitation. Finally, we propose several considerations that clinicians and clinical ethicists might think through in these situations to help guide their practice.
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🚨 My new blog, The (Un)Examined Digital Life, is hosted by @psychologytoday.com and explores the intersection of minds, morals, and machines. You can read my first post on therapy chatbots now! #psychology #ai #mentalhealth #ethics
A Therapist in Every Pocket: Why Access Isn’t Everything
AI therapy apps promise easy access to mental health care. But convenience comes with hidden costs we're only just beginning to understand.
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📢🚨 new pub with @thebusyowl.bsky.social 📢🚨 We explore the use of therapy bots in pediatrics. There are a host of open ethical questions associated with these bots that highlight the need for robust, interdisciplinary inquiry into their development and use in pediatric mental health. #ai #pediatrics
The Integration of Artificial Intelligence-Powered Psychotherapy Chatbots in Pediatric Care: Scaffold or Substitute?
In April 2024, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first digital application to treat major depression in adults 22 and older.1 The app—Rejoyn—joins a growing list of art...
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Deciding With Children in Pediatrics is out! Grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this volume (eds John Massie, Georgina Hall, and Lynn Gillam). Dr. Frayman and I discuss "Deciding with children who know more than you. Cystic fibrosis as a chronic disease" shop.elsevier.com/books/decidi...
Deciding with Children in Pediatrics
Deciding with Children in Pediatrics: Children’s Participation in Healthcare Decision-making provides the ethical underpinning and off
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