Rotman Researchers' Publications
Research found in Rotman Institute of Philosophy Publications pairs philosophy and science to explore history and the philosophy of science, research ethics, bioethics, science and values, and feminist approaches to science.
Submissions from 1999
Another Tuskegee?, Charles Weijer
Consensus-seeking Roundtable on Placebos in Clinical Research, Charles Weijer
Getting Doctors to Listen: Ethics and Outcomes Data in Context, Charles Weijer
Medical Futility: Physicians, not Patients, Call the Shots, Charles Weijer
Placebo-controlled Trials in Schizophrenia: Are They Ethical? Are They Necessary?, Charles Weijer
Protecting Communities in Research: Philosophical and Pragmatic Challenges, Charles Weijer
Research Involving the Vulnerable Sick, Charles Weijer
Selecting Subjects for Participation in Clinical Research: One Sphere of Justice, Charles Weijer
The Analysis of Risks and Potential Benefits in Research, Charles Weijer
Thinking Clearly about Research Risk: Implications of the Work of Benjamin Freedman, Charles Weijer
We’re Alright Jack, Charles Weijer
What's the Price of a Research Subject?, Charles Weijer
Why I Am Not a Futilitarian (Review of When Doctors Say No: The Battleground of Medical Futility), Charles Weijer
Why Should We Include Women and Minorities in Randomized Controlled Trials?, Charles Weijer and R. A. Crouch
Protecting Communities in Research: Current Guidelines and Limits of Extrapolation, Charles Weijer, Gary Goldsand, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Submissions from 1998
A Study in Contrasts: Eligibility Criteria in a Twenty-Year Sample of NSABP and POG Clinical Trials, Abraham Fuks, Charles Weijer, Benjamin Freedman, Stanley Shapiro, Myriam Skrutkowska, and Amina Riaz
An Essentialistic Modal Logic: The First Commentators of the Prior Analysics and Their View of Modal Syllogistics in the Late Middle Ages, Henrik Lagerlund
Jodocus Trutfetter's Conception of Modal Logic, Henrik Lagerlund
Women’s Autonomy and the ‘G’ Case, Carolyn McLeod
D'oh! An Analysis of the Medical Care Provided to the Family of Homer J. Simpson, Robert Patterson and Charles Weijer
Monitoring Informed Consent in an Oncology Study Posing Serious Risk to Subjects, Myrian Skrutkowski, Charles Weijer, Stan Shapiro, Abraham Fuks, Adrian Langleben, and Benjamin Freedman
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for Patients in a Persistent Vegetative State: Futile or Acceptable?, Charles Weijer
CPR for Patients in a Persistent Vegetative State?, Charles Weijer
Society’s Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine, Charles Weijer
REB Review of Research Proposals Involving Placebo Controls, Charles Weijer