William Rogers

Biographic Data

ID715152
NAMEWilliam Rogers
GIVEN NAMESWilliam
FAMILY NAMERogers
SIGNATUREROGERS W
AFFILIATIONSFlinders University
ORCID0000-0001-9186-870X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS61
TOTAL CITATIONS40
AUTHOR COUNT61
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1953
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Expanding the Taxonomy of Ethical Issues in Surgical Innovation

    Open AccessJane Johnson, Katrina Hutchison et al.ARTICLEBioethics2026

    Surgical innovation poses significant ethical challenges. Previous work has grouped these challenges under four categories: potential harms to patients; compromised informed consent; unfair allocation of healthcare resources; and conflicts of interest. We argue that recent technological developments in surgery warrant the addition of three new ethical challenges to the existing taxonomy: allocating responsibility; impact on relationships; and ris…

  • Practical, epistemic and normative implications of algorithmic bias in healthcare artificial intelligence

    Open AccessYves Saint James Aquino, Stacy M Carter et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2025

    BACKGROUND: There is a growing concern about artificial intelligence (AI) applications in healthcare that can disadvantage already under-represented and marginalised groups (eg, based on gender or race). OBJECTIVES: Our objectives are to canvas the range of strategies stakeholders endorse in attempting to mitigate algorithmic bias, and to consider the ethical question of responsibility for algorithmic bias. METHODOLOGY: The study involves in-dept…

  • Contrasting Opportunities to Learn Across Domains in Special Education Teacher Preparation

    Open AccessHannah Morris Mathews, William Rogers et al.ARTICLETeachers College Record The Voice…2025

    Background/Context: Special educators must be prepared to provide expert instruction and collaborate with a range of professionals to provide students with disabilities with equitable and inclusive educational opportunities. Teacher preparation is an important part of providing special education teacher candidates (SETCs) with robust opportunities to learn (OTL) both the instructional and collaborate aspects of their role. Purpose/Research Questi…

  • Taking risk seriously

    Open AccessMatthew Petersen, William Rogers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Risk Research2025References: 2

  • Epistemic Exclusion

    Open AccessSwati Arora, Katrina Hutchison et al.ARTICLEHypatia2025References: 16

    Conceptual innovation is highly prized in Western Anglophone philosophy. Yet it often stems from a relatively narrow tradition that takes little account of contributions from other cultures and philosophical practices. We illustrate this point using the example of work done by Dalit feminists on identifying and addressing hermeneutical injustice. Despite their relevance, Dalit feminist contributions are virtually unknown and remain unrecognized i…

  • Scientists’ Views on the Ethics, Promises and Practices of Synthetic Biology

    Open AccessJacqueline Dalziell, William RogersARTICLEScience and Engineering Ethics2023

  • What Feminist Bioethics Can Bring to Synthetic Biology

    William Rogers, Jacqueline DalziellARTICLEInternational Journal of Feminist…2023

    Synthetic biology (synbio) involves designing and creating new living systems to serve human ends, using techniques including molecular biology, genomics, and engineering. Existing bioethical analyses of synbio focus largely on balancing benefits against harms, the dual-use dilemma, and metaphysical questions about creating and commercializing synthetic organisms. We argue that these approaches fail to consider key feminist concerns. We ground ou…

  • Medical AI and human dignity

    Open AccessPaul Formosa, William Rogers et al.ARTICLEComputers in Human Behavior2022

    Forms of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are already being deployed into clinical settings and research into its future healthcare uses is accelerating. Despite this trajectory, more research is needed regarding the impacts on patients of increasing AI decision making. In particular, the impersonal nature of AI means that its deployment in highly sensitive contexts-of-use, such as in healthcare, raises issues associated with patients' perceptions of…

  • Reports of new healthcare AI interventions should include systematic ethical evaluations

    Open AccessWilliam Rogers, Hal Draper et al.ARTICLEBioethics2022

  • The Regulation of Medical Device Representatives

    Open AccessBernadette Richards, Susannah Sage Jacobson et al.ARTICLELaw Technology and Humans2022

    The introduction of new technologies in medical treatment has led to innovation in medical devices that are highly technical in their application and operation. The medical technology landscape is changeable and healthcare providers often turn to the medical device representatives (MDRs), employed by device manufacturers to help navigate the shifts and uncertainties. While the relationship between MDRs and healthcare providers can be a positive o…

  • Evaluation of artificial intelligence clinical applications

    Open AccessWilliam Rogers, Hal Draper et al.ARTICLEBioethics2021

    This paper is one of the first to analyse the ethical implications of specific healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) applications, and the first to provide a detailed analysis of AI‐based systems for clinical decision support. AI is increasingly being deployed across multiple domains. In response, a plethora of ethical guidelines and principles for general AI use have been published, with some convergence about which ethical concepts are releva…

  • Activism and Bioethics

    Open AccessWilliam Rogers, Wendy A Rogers et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2021

    The question of whether activism should be overtly embraced as part of the bioethicist's role deserves serious consideration. Like others, we agree that bioethics is inescapably partisan; bioethical deliberation is based on trying to determine morally relevant features of situations and morally justifiable outcomes. Where disagreement arises is over the degree to which bioethicists should be activists. Meyers argues for a somewhat circumscribed r…

  • Revisiting the equity debate in Covid-19

    Open AccessAngela Ballantyne, William Rogers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2020

    Throughout March and April 2020, debate raged about how best to allocate limited intensive care unit (ICU) resources in the face of a growing COVID-19 pandemic. The debate was dominated by utility-based arguments for saving the most lives or life-years. These arguments were tempered by equity-based concerns that triage based solely on prognosis would exacerbate existing health inequities, leaving disadvantaged patients worse off. Central to this …

  • Against the use and publication of contemporary unethical research

    Open AccessWendy C Higgins, William Rogers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2020

    Recent calls for retraction of a large body of Chinese transplant research and of Dr Jiankui He’s gene editing research has led to renewed interest in the question of publication, retraction and use of unethical biomedical research. In Part 1 of this paper, we briefly review the now well-established consequentialist and deontological arguments for and against the use of unethical research. We argue that, while there are potentially compelling jus…

  • Responding to unethical research

    William Rogers, Wendy C Higgins et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2020

    We thank Goldstein and Peterson, Caplan, and Bramstedt for engaging with our paper on the ethics of publishing and using Chinese transplant research that involves organs procured from executed prisoners.1–4 In that paper, we examine consequentialist and deontological arguments for and against using data from unethical research. Goldstein and Peterson question the relationship between the social and scientific value of the research and the decisio…

  • A new algorithm to build bridges between two patient-reported health outcome instruments

    Open AccessAlfredo J Selim, Alfredo Selim et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2018

  • Hips, Knees, and Hernia Mesh

    Katrina Hutchison, William RogersARTICLEInternational Journal of Feminist…2017

    This paper draws attention to gendered dimensions of surgical device failure, focusing on two case studies—hernia repair mesh for pelvic organ prolapse, and metal-on-metal hip implants. We explore possible reasons for higher rates of harms to women, including systematic biases in health research and device regulation. Given that these factors are readily identifiable, we look to feminist scholarship to understand what might maintain them, includi…

  • Reasonableness, Credibility, and Clinical Disagreement

    Open AccessMary Jean Walker, William RogersARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2017

    Evidence in medicine can come from more or less trustworthy sources and be produced by more or less reliable methods, and its interpretation can be disputed. As such, it can be unclear when disagreements in medicine result from different, but reasonable, interpretations of the available evidence and when they result from unreasonable refusals to consider legitimate evidence. In this article, we seek to show how assessments of the relevance and im…

  • Effects of Minimal Versus Intensive Intervention to Enhance Motivational Interviewing in HIV Care

    Open AccessMary Catherine Beach, M Barton Laws et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2017

  • Public Religious Disputation in England, 1558–1626

    William RogersARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2016

  • Habitus and responsible dog-ownership

    Open AccessChris Degeling, Melanie Rock et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2015

    Responsible dog ownership has been identified as a point of intervention to promote physical activity, based upon an expectation of dog walking in public space. Nevertheless, quantitative research has found variability among owners in their dog walking. In this study, we explore the implications for health promotion of such variability. We do so by drawing on the concepts of habitus and social capital to analyse qualitative interviews. Participan…

  • Aging and Skilled Performance

    William Rogers, Wendy A Rogers et al.BOOKAging and Skilled Performance2014

    The term "skill" encompasses an array of topics and issues. For example, individuals are skilled in a variety of domains such as chess, typing, air traffic control, or knitting; researchers study skill in a variety of ways, including speed of acquisition, accuracy of performance, and retention over time; and there are a variety of approaches to the study of skill such as computer modeling or experimental analysis. Contributing to the understandin…

  • Vulnerability

    William Rogers, Catriona Mackenzie et al.BOOKVulnerability2013

  • Autonomy, vulnerability and capacity

    Open AccessCatriona Mackenzie, William RogersARTICLEInternational Journal of Law in…2013Cited by: 1References: 5

    The UK Mental Capacity Act provides an important legislative framework for protecting persons who are vulnerable, by virtue of partial or total lack of capacity, from abuse, coercion, exploitation, disrespect or unwarranted intrusions on their privacy and liberty. In this article we argue, however, that in order to effectively implement the Act's governing principles and promote the autonomy of persons whose capacities are impaired, health and so…

  • Introduction

    Catriona Mackenzie, William Rogers et al.