J. Rosser Matthews
J. Rosser Matthews has a Ph.D. in the history of science and medicine and has taught at a number of colleges and universities in the United States--including North Carolina State University, Duke University, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Virginia Tech. In 2001-2002, he was a DeWitt Stetten Jr. Memorial Fellow in the History of Biomedical Sciences and Technology at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. He is the author of a book on the history of clinical trials and numerous other publications. In addition to his historical training, he has a Master of Public Policy degree from the Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary and a Master of Public Health degree from Virginia Commonwealth University-Medical College of Virginia. At present, he is a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University in Washington, DC where he is collaborating with Alan I. Faden, a physician and Georgetown faculty member, on a book tentatively entitled "Cracks in the Caduceus: Medicine at Risk."
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Circumcision Protects against AIDS
NIH has terminated clinical trials after circumcision was seen to protect against spread of AIDS. This outcome is related to the ethics of research on human subjects.
Dec 13, 2006
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Selecting Genes in Offspring
Some members of the deaf and dwarf communities want to pass on these characteristics to their offspring. This development is compared to other forms of community identity
Dec 6, 2006
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Deaths from Errors in Hospitals
Recent studies have documented evidence of injuries and deaths in hospitals due to medical errors. This article situates these developments in wider historical contexts.
Dec 1, 2006
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Social Justice v. Market Incentive
This article surveys two of the most widely discussed models for dealing with issues of distributive justice in health care: market based approaches or social justice.
Nov 17, 2006
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Stem Cell Research and Abortion
Many opponents of abortion and stem cell research believe that both procedures involve taking life. Yet, the two procedures have differing ethical rationales.
Nov 10, 2006
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Ethical Issues in Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are experiments on human subjects--which means that ethical issues are always present. This article surveys historically prominent ethical debates.
Nov 5, 2006
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