Arthur J Caplan

Biographic Data

ID1413155
NAMEArthur J Caplan
GIVEN NAMESArthur J
FAMILY NAMECaplan
SIGNATURECAPLAN A J
AFFILIATIONSUtah State University
ORCID0000-0002-2435-3973
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS15
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Measuring heterogeneous preferences for the preservation of prime farmland with and without agrivoltaics

    Arthur J Caplan, Tiffany Woods et al.ARTICLEJournal of Environmental Planning…2025

    This study addresses a gap in cultural ecosystem service (CES) assessment of prime farmland located in peri-urban areas by presenting results from a choice experiment recently conducted in Utah’s Wasatch Front region. The choice experiment was designed to account for heterogeneous effects associated with a wide array of socio-demographic and attitudinal characteristics on household preferences for farmland preservation, including farmland used fo…

  • Treating infertility as a missing capability, not a disease

    Michelle J Bayefsky, Arthur L Caplan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2025

    Infertility patients and patient advocates have long argued for classifying infertility as a disease, in the hopes that this recognition would improve coverage for and access to fertility treatment. However, for many fertility patients, including older women, single women and same-sex couples, infertility does not represent a true disease state. Therefore, while calling infertility a ‘disease’ may seem politically advantageous, it might actually …

  • Research involving the recently deceased

    Brendan Parent, Olivia S Kates et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2024

    Research involving recently deceased humans that are physiologically maintained following declaration of death by neurologic criteria—or ‘research involving the recently deceased’—can fill a translational research gap while reducing harm to animals and living human subjects. It also creates new challenges for honouring the donor’s legacy, respecting the rights of donor loved ones, resource allocation and public health. As this research model gain…

  • The challenging concept of eradication

    Open AccessArthur J Caplan, Nathaniel MamoARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2024References: 4

    The celebrated 1980 announcement that smallpox had been eradicated was made using the following definition of eradication: "Permanent reduction to zero of the worldwide incidence of infection caused by a specific agent as a result of deliberate efforts: intervention measures are no longer needed." Public health around the world works with this definition of "eradication," setting it as a goal for other infectious disease control programs. The def…

  • Measuring heterogeneous preferences for residential amenities

    Open AccessArthur J Caplan, Sherzod B Akhundjanov et al.ARTICLERegional Science and Urban…2021

  • Hope to the End

    Open AccessArthur L Caplan, Arthur J Caplan et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2021

    In the book Exploiting Hope: How the Promise of New Medical Interventions Sustains Us—and Makes Us Vulnerable, Jeremy Snyder takes on the dominant theory that exploitation in research ethics involves culpable inequity in transactions between parties. He rightly dismisses that economic explanation as inadequate. His theory of exploitation argues that it happens when those who have a duty of beneficence to someone take advantage of their hope. Expl…

  • Vaccine Trials in Schools

    Alan R Hinman, David G Addi et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2019References: 6

    Vaccine Trials in Schools: We Must Not Ignore Progress Alan R. Hinman MD, MPH, David Addiss MD, MPH, Arthur Caplan PhD, Lisa M. Carlson MPH, James V. Lavery PhD, and Walter A. Orenstein MD Affiliation Alan R. Hinman is with the Center for Vaccine Equity, Task Force for Global Health, Decatur, GA. David Addiss is with the Task Force for Global Health. Arthur Caplan is with the Division of Medical Ethics, New York University School of Medicine, New…

  • Death

    Open AccessArthur L Caplan, Arthur J Caplan et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2018

    Constantin Reliu had been working for twenty years as a cook in Turkey when he returned to his hometown of Barlad, Romania, to discover that, there, he was dead. His former wife had, unbeknownst to him, at some point during his stay in Turkey registered him as deceased in Romania. He has since been living a legal nightmare trying to prove to Romanian authorities that he is, in fact, alive. Reliu is not alone in finding out that the legal system i…

  • Charlie Gard and the Limits of Parental Authority

    Open AccessArthur L Caplan, Arthur J Caplan et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2017

    The parents of Charlie Gard, who was born August 4, 2016, with an exceedingly rare and incurable disease called mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, fought a prolonged and heated legal battle to allow him access to experimental treatment that they hoped would prolong his life and to prevent his doctors from withdrawing life‐sustaining care. Charlie's clinicians at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London believed that the brain damage Charlie …

  • Measuring the environmental cost of hypocrisy

    Open AccessArthur J Caplan, Charles Sims et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2014

  • Using choice question formats to determine compensable values

    Open AccessArthur J Caplan, Arthur Caplan et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2007

  • The effect of experience and quantity-based pricing on the valuation of a curbside recycling program

    Open AccessAlok K Bohara, Arthur J Caplan et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2007

  • Curbside recycling

    Open AccessDavid Aadland, Arthur J CaplanARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…2006Cited by: 9References: 4

    In this paper, we address the often contentious debate over state and local recycling policy by carefully estimating the social net benefit of curbside recycling. Benefits are estimated using household survey data from over 4,000 households across 40 western U.S. cities. We calibrate household willingnesstopay for hypothetical bias using an innovative experimental design that contrasts stated and revealed preferences. Cost estimates are compiled …

  • Policy & Politics

    Arthur L Caplan, Arthur J Caplan et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2005

  • The Consensus on Assisted Suicide

    Ellen Moskowitz, Kathleen A Foley et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2003

    By the close of 2001, according to Oregon public health officials, physicians in the state had lawfully prescribed a lethal dose of barbiturates for 139 patients. Ninety of these patients ingested the substance and died (http://www.ohd.hr.state.or.us/news). To date, Oregon remains the sole U.S. state to authorize physicians, as part of recognized medical care (and subject to certain regulatory constraints) to dispense prescription drugs for use i…

  • Reputation and the control of pollution

    Open AccessArthur J CaplanARTICLEEcological Economics2003

  • The Task Force Responds

    Baruch A Brody, Baruch Brody et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2002

    Baruch Brody, Nancy Dubler, Jeff Blustein, Arthur Caplan, Jeffrey P. Kahn, Nancy Kass, Bernard Lo, Jonathan Moreno, Jeremy Sugarman, Laurie Zoloth, The Task Force Responds, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 32, No. 3 (May - Jun., 2002), pp. 22-23

  • Waste not or want not? A contingent ranking analysis of curbside waste disposal options

    Open AccessArthur J Caplan, Therese C Grijalva et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2002

  • Stem Cell Research

    Glenn McGee, Arthur L Caplan et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2001

  • Stem Cells

    Karen Lebacqz, Carol A Tauer et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1999

  • Federal Acid Rain Games

    Open AccessArthur J Caplan, Emilson C D Silva et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics1999Cited by: 3References: 6

  • More Evidence on the Role of Secondary Education in the Development of Lower-Income Countries

    Lonnie E Brist, Arthur J CaplanARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…1999Cited by: 2

    The need to understand surplus-sharing rules in cooperative game theory occurs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The rules are generally depicted as mathematical problems that entail the calculation of a vector of allocations. This Web page provides a downloadable program that enables users to interactively generate geometrical depictions of the rules for an unlimited number of three-player games. The program (1) demonstrates graphic…

  • Imperiled Newborns

    Arthur L Caplan, Arthur J Caplan et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1987

  • Will "Required Request" Work

    Marshall B Kapp, Arthur J Caplan et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1985

  • The Use - and Misuse-Of Psychiatric Consults

    R Michels, Arthur L Caplan et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1985