David Wasserman
Biographic Data
| ID | 212732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Wasserman |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Wasserman |
| SIGNATURE | WASSERMAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Institutes of Health Clinical Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0871-4599 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Two-step approaches to healthcare allocation
From Stranger to Parent
Response to commentaries
The authors respond to four JME commentaries on their Feature Article, ‘Autonomy-based criticisms of the patient preference predictor’
Home Care in America
Home care is one of the fastest‐growing industries in the United States, providing valuable opportunities for millions of older adults and people with disabilities to live at home rather than in institutional settings. Home care workers assist clients with essential activities of daily living, but their wages and working conditions generally fail to reflect the importance of their work. Drawing on the work of Eva Feder Kittay and other care ethic…
Bodily Rights in Personal Ventilators
This article asks whether personal ventilators should be redistributed to maximize lives saved in emergency condition, like the COVID‐19 pandemic. It begins by examining extant claims that items like ventilators are literally parts of their user's bodies. Arguments in favor of incorporation for ventilators fail to show that they meet valid sufficient conditions to be body parts, but arguments against incorporation also fail to show that they fail…
Autonomy-based criticisms of the patient preference predictor
The patient preference predictor (PPP) is a proposed computer-based algorithm that would predict the treatment preferences of decisionally incapacitated patients. Incorporation of a PPP into the decision-making process has the potential to improve implementation of the substituted judgement standard by providing more accurate predictions of patients’ treatment preferences than reliance on surrogates alone. Yet, critics argue that methods for maki…
How to (Consistently) Reject the Options Argument
It is commonly thought that disability is a harm or “bad difference” because having a disability restricts valuable options in life. In his recent essay “Disability, Options and Well-Being,” Thomas Crawley offers a novel defense of this style of reasoning (formulated as the Options Argument) and argues that we and like-minded critics of this brand of argument are guilty of an inconsistency. Our aim in this article is to explain why our view avoid…
Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability
Caring for People with Disabilities
Eva Feder Kittay's Learning from My Daughter: The Value and Care of Disabled Minds is poised to make a major contribution to the disability literature and is likely to spark controversy among disability scholars. The book's central contribution is the articulation of an ethics of care for meeting the “genuine needs” and “legitimate wants” of people with disabilities or chronic illnesses. We applaud Kittay, who is the mother of a woman with cerebr…
Kevin Mintz and David Wasserman Reply
Fetal Medicine and the Pregnant Woman
In coming decades, fetal medicine may become a routine part of reproductive care. The measures pregnant women now take to protect fetal health are largely generic, like restricting their diets and using supplements. Relatively few interventions are based on specific conditions revealed by ultrasound or genetic testing. A recent finding, though, may herald a dramatic rise in “personalized” fetal medicine: certain drugs already approved by the Food…
The Minority Body
The Minority Body is an important and provocative book. It moves disability further into the center of philosophical debates about well-being, harm, and group identity with bold, original arguments; clear, engaging writing; and vivid, concrete examples. Although much of the book is drawn from previously published articles, their integration suggests a unified philosophical project. Those articles have already begun a philosophical conversation co…
Physical Disability, Dignity, and Physician-Assisted Death
This chapter focuses on the relevance of physical disability for justifying extensions of physician assistance in dying to individuals who are not terminally ill. It is concluded that such disability, however severe, provides no stronger dignity-based reason than other kinds of loss or misfortune for permitting physician assistance, either as a condition for finding or presuming unbearable suffering or as an independent ground for physician assis…
Adrienne Asch
Adrienne Asch inspired, challenged, and provoked a generation of bioethicists and philosophers who were discovering the subject of disability. For Adrienne, disability was a complex phenomenon that raised universal issues of embodiment, justice, well‐being, and identity. She insisted that bioethicists and philosophers who invoked disability in discussions about these issues first learn something about it, for which her own work provided critical …
Seeing Responsibility
As imaging technologies help us understand the structure and function of the brain, providing insight into human capabilities as basic as vision and as complex as memory, and human conditions as impairing as depression and as fraught as psychopathy, some have asked whether they can also help us understand human agency. Specifically, could neuroimaging lead us to reassess the socially significant practice of assigning and taking responsibility? Wh…
Recalibrating Ratings for a New Normal
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Translating Advances in Cardiogenetics Into Effective Clinical Practice
In this article we describe a qualitative research study in which we explored individuals' subjective experiences of both genetic testing and cardiogenetic disorders. Using a grounded theory approach, we coded and analyzed interview and focus group transcripts from 50 participants. We found that just under half of the participants who received their diagnosis during the study reported difficulty understanding information about both the purpose of…
Cognitive Surrogacy, Assisted Participation, and Moral Status
Philosophical perspectives on response shift
Ethical Issues in U.S. Presidential Leadership
Informed Consent and Prenatal Testing
For more than 2 decades, some supporters of reproductive choice have contended that the manner in which prenatal testing is typically offered to pregnant women, and positive results typically explained, does not adequately ensure informed consent These critics have objected to the descriptions of testing given to women by their physicians and have challenged the type and quality of information women receive about diagnosed fetal conditions. Recen…
Pairwise Comparison and Numbers Skepticism
In this article, we defend pairwise comparison as a method to resolve conflicting claims from different people that cannot be jointly satisfied because of a scarcity of resources. We consider Michael Otsuka's recent challenge that pairwise comparison leads to intransitive choices for the ‘numbers skeptic’ (someone who believes the numbers should not count in forced choices among lives) and Frances Kamm's responses to Otsuka's challenge. We argue …
The Numbers Problem
Enhancement as an American Dilemma
This old house
Should scientific efforts to make enduring modifications in the human genome and the human form be constrained not only by prudence but by reverence? Would sudden or comprehensive changes in our genomes or our bodies threaten objects or processes of great historic and cultural value? Such fears of destruction and discontinuity are exaggerated and confused
Can a Nonconsequentialist Count Lives
The Numbers Problem
Ethical Issues in U.S. Presidential Leadership
The Borderlands Mall
For an economic innovation to succeed in the developing world, it must adapt to the social and economic structures of the host society. Some scholars consider the Mexican shopping mall an imported innovation that has altered the traditional landscape of urban commerce. This paper details how the landscape form and business functions of two regional shopping malls in Ciudad Juárez, the Plaza Juárez and Río Grande malls, reflect their unique border…
Recalibrating Ratings for a New Normal
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Research into Genetics and Crime
Symposium: Genetics and Crime
Translating Advances in Cardiogenetics Into Effective Clinical Practice
In this article we describe a qualitative research study in which we explored individuals' subjective experiences of both genetic testing and cardiogenetic disorders. Using a grounded theory approach, we coded and analyzed interview and focus group transcripts from 50 participants. We found that just under half of the participants who received their diagnosis during the study reported difficulty understanding information about both the purpose of…
Convention and competence
A Sword for the Convicted
Using New York City as a research model, this study explores the organizational, tactical, and ethical challenges of providing zealous advocacy for every convicted indigent wishing to appeal. David Wasserman, a former staff attorney with New York's Legal Aid Society, examines the unique form of representation that has emerged since the Supreme Court recognized the right to free appellate counsel, and details the conflict between the role of assig…
Moral Responsibility in the Age of Bureaucracy
No twentieth-century writer has thought so deeply, or so yearningly, about natural law as Franz Kafka. Kafka's is a world in which we seek desperately to know the natural law that is sovereign in human affairs but find that knowledge of the law is withheld from us. For this reason, we lead our lives in a state of, if not original sin, then original guilt - guilt for violating the law, or perhaps guilt for not knowing the law, despite the fact tha…
The Borderlands Mall
For an economic innovation to succeed in the developing world, it must adapt to the social and economic structures of the host society. Some scholars consider the Mexican shopping mall an imported innovation that has altered the traditional landscape of urban commerce. This paper details how the landscape form and business functions of two regional shopping malls in Ciudad Juárez, the Plaza Juárez and Río Grande malls, reflect their unique border…
Research into Genetics and Crime
Symposium: Genetics and Crime
Convention and competence
This old house
Should scientific efforts to make enduring modifications in the human genome and the human form be constrained not only by prudence but by reverence? Would sudden or comprehensive changes in our genomes or our bodies threaten objects or processes of great historic and cultural value? Such fears of destruction and discontinuity are exaggerated and confused
Can a Nonconsequentialist Count Lives
Enhancement as an American Dilemma
The Numbers Problem
Pairwise Comparison and Numbers Skepticism
In this article, we defend pairwise comparison as a method to resolve conflicting claims from different people that cannot be jointly satisfied because of a scarcity of resources. We consider Michael Otsuka's recent challenge that pairwise comparison leads to intransitive choices for the ‘numbers skeptic’ (someone who believes the numbers should not count in forced choices among lives) and Frances Kamm's responses to Otsuka's challenge. We argue …
Informed Consent and Prenatal Testing
For more than 2 decades, some supporters of reproductive choice have contended that the manner in which prenatal testing is typically offered to pregnant women, and positive results typically explained, does not adequately ensure informed consent These critics have objected to the descriptions of testing given to women by their physicians and have challenged the type and quality of information women receive about diagnosed fetal conditions. Recen…
Ethical Issues in U.S. Presidential Leadership
Cognitive Surrogacy, Assisted Participation, and Moral Status
Philosophical perspectives on response shift
Adrienne Asch
Adrienne Asch inspired, challenged, and provoked a generation of bioethicists and philosophers who were discovering the subject of disability. For Adrienne, disability was a complex phenomenon that raised universal issues of embodiment, justice, well‐being, and identity. She insisted that bioethicists and philosophers who invoked disability in discussions about these issues first learn something about it, for which her own work provided critical …
Seeing Responsibility
As imaging technologies help us understand the structure and function of the brain, providing insight into human capabilities as basic as vision and as complex as memory, and human conditions as impairing as depression and as fraught as psychopathy, some have asked whether they can also help us understand human agency. Specifically, could neuroimaging lead us to reassess the socially significant practice of assigning and taking responsibility? Wh…
Recalibrating Ratings for a New Normal
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Translating Advances in Cardiogenetics Into Effective Clinical Practice
In this article we describe a qualitative research study in which we explored individuals' subjective experiences of both genetic testing and cardiogenetic disorders. Using a grounded theory approach, we coded and analyzed interview and focus group transcripts from 50 participants. We found that just under half of the participants who received their diagnosis during the study reported difficulty understanding information about both the purpose of…
Physical Disability, Dignity, and Physician-Assisted Death
This chapter focuses on the relevance of physical disability for justifying extensions of physician assistance in dying to individuals who are not terminally ill. It is concluded that such disability, however severe, provides no stronger dignity-based reason than other kinds of loss or misfortune for permitting physician assistance, either as a condition for finding or presuming unbearable suffering or as an independent ground for physician assis…
Fetal Medicine and the Pregnant Woman
In coming decades, fetal medicine may become a routine part of reproductive care. The measures pregnant women now take to protect fetal health are largely generic, like restricting their diets and using supplements. Relatively few interventions are based on specific conditions revealed by ultrasound or genetic testing. A recent finding, though, may herald a dramatic rise in “personalized” fetal medicine: certain drugs already approved by the Food…
The Minority Body
The Minority Body is an important and provocative book. It moves disability further into the center of philosophical debates about well-being, harm, and group identity with bold, original arguments; clear, engaging writing; and vivid, concrete examples. Although much of the book is drawn from previously published articles, their integration suggests a unified philosophical project. Those articles have already begun a philosophical conversation co…
Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability
Caring for People with Disabilities
Eva Feder Kittay's Learning from My Daughter: The Value and Care of Disabled Minds is poised to make a major contribution to the disability literature and is likely to spark controversy among disability scholars. The book's central contribution is the articulation of an ethics of care for meeting the “genuine needs” and “legitimate wants” of people with disabilities or chronic illnesses. We applaud Kittay, who is the mother of a woman with cerebr…
Kevin Mintz and David Wasserman Reply
Autonomy-based criticisms of the patient preference predictor
The patient preference predictor (PPP) is a proposed computer-based algorithm that would predict the treatment preferences of decisionally incapacitated patients. Incorporation of a PPP into the decision-making process has the potential to improve implementation of the substituted judgement standard by providing more accurate predictions of patients’ treatment preferences than reliance on surrogates alone. Yet, critics argue that methods for maki…
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