Nathan Emmerich
Biographic Data
| ID | 213009 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan Emmerich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Emmerich |
| SIGNATURE | EMMERICH N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8199-4673 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Changing face of transplant medicine
Is the Requirement for First-Person Experience of Psychedelic Drugs a Justified Component of a Psychedelic Therapist’s Training
Recent research offers good reason to think that various psychedelic drugs—including psilocybin, ayahuasca, ketamine, MDMA, and LSD—may have significant therapeutic potential in the treatment of various mental health conditions, including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, existential distress, and addiction. Although the use of psychoactive drugs, such as Diazepam or Ritalin, is well established, psychedelics arguably represent a therap…
Balletic bodies under lockdown
Like other elite athletes, ballet dancers are highly dedicated to the pursuit of their vocation. They work to perfect their bodies, their movements and their expression of the art form. The lockdowns that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic represented a significant interruption to the extraordinary but everyday lives of ballet dancers, creating unique environments where exploration of the embodied habitus of ballet can be further investigated.…
Suffering, existential distress and temporality in the provision of terminal sedation
Conscientious objection and the referral requirement as morally permissible moral mistakes
Some contributions to the current literature on conscience objection in healthcare posit the notion that the requirement to refer patients to a non-objecting provider is a morally questionable undertaking in need of explanation. The issue is that providing a referral renders those who conscientiously object to being involved in a particular intervention complicit in its provision. This essay seeks to engage with such claims and argues that referr…
Should Australian states enact statutes that explicitly ban unconsented intimate exams performed by medical students for educational reasons
While the practice now seems to be relatively uncommon, in the recent past some medical doctors have instructed their students to perform intimate exams on unconscious patients without first securing their informed consent. Concern about the issue has led some American states to introduce legislation explicitly banning such exams. We consider if Australian states should do the same. Noting that there is little substantive evidence suggesting that…
Challenges to the Global Issue of End of Life Care
Where the ethical action also is
In Where the ethical action is , Hardman and Hutchinson make some interesting and compelling points about the way in which ‘the ethical’—various values and various kinds of values—are embedded in everyday life, including the everyday life one finds in clinical interactions, understood as scientific or scientifically informed activities. However, even when one considers ‘the ethical’ from within the horizon of understanding adopted in their essay,…
Ethos and Eidos as Field Level Concepts for the Sociology of Morality and the Anthropology of Ethics
Challenges to the Global Issue of End of Life Care
The Multiplicity of Bioethical Expertise in the Context of Secular Liberal Democracies
Virtue Ethics in the Conduct and Governance of Social Science Research
Chapter 11
This chapter questions the way virtue ethics is being drawn into debates about the ethics of social research. In particular, it suggests that discussion of virtue may be motivated by a desire to counter existing, largely principlist, approaches to the ethics of research and its associated administrative structures; virtue ethics has a prima facie appeal for those who are seemingly in need of an alternative moral philosophy. In addition, I argue t…
Bioethics, public intellectuals and political biology today
Reframing Research Ethics
This article is premised on the idea that were we able to articulate a positive vision of the social scientist's professional ethics, this would enable us to reframe social science research ethics as something internal to the profession. As such, rather than suffering under the imperialism of a research ethics constructed for the purposes of governing biomedical research, social scientists might argue for ethical self-regulation with greater forc…
A Sociological Analysis of Ethical Expertise
This article outlines a theoretical and conceptual account for the analysis of contemporary ethical or “bioethical” expertise. The substantive focus is on the academic discipline of bioethics—understood as a “practical” or “applied” ethics—and its relationship to medicine and medical ethics. I draw intellectual inspiration from the sociology of science and make use of research into the idea of “expertise” per se. In so doing, I am attempting to m…
Limitations in the bioethical analysis of medicalisation
Bourdieu’s collective enterprise of inculcation
This paper introduces the idea of enculturation to sociology as a compliment to socialisation in the context of Bourdieu’s ‘collective enterprise of inculcation’ and social theory. Enculturation is positioned as a concept that can be used to address formal education as a factor in social reproduction. Following a discussion of socialisation and enculturation and their interrelation, they are further examined in the context of medical education. I…
Robert Baker, Before Bioethics
Robert Baker began his academic training as a philosopher; however, since becoming a bioethicist, he has fulfilled the promise of this interdisciplinary field. Both here and elsewhere he has made a significant contribution to the history of medical ethics. Whilst we could rightly address such research as a subset of the history of medicine it is, perhaps, better to think of this text as a work of bioethics. Doing so pushes a number of perspective…
Well-founded social fictions
This article engages with Atkinson’s recent criticisms of concepts of collective habitus, such as ‘institutional’ and ‘familial’ habitus, in order to defend their conceptual utility and theoretical coherence. In so doing we promote a flexible understanding of habitus as both an individual and a collective concept. By retaining this flexibility (which we argue is in keeping with the spirit of Bourdieuian philosophy) we allow for a consideration of…
Values, Ethics and Health Care
Duncan, P. Values, Ethics and Health Care . London : Sage . 2010 . Ix+157pp. $37.95 (E-book) ISBN 978-1-84920434-7 £60.00 (hbk) ISBN 978-1-41292351-4 . £19.99 (pbk ) ISBN 978-1-41292352-1 . Values, Ethics and Health Care is billed as something of a ‘textbook’ or guide to the topic aimed at undergraduate students in the healthcare and allied healthcare professions. Some of the comments included on the publisher’s website suggest that it will also …
Tracking the Impact of Health Care Technology
The Ministry and Medicine
What Would You Do? Juggling Bioethics and Ethnography
Well-founded social fictions
This article engages with Atkinson’s recent criticisms of concepts of collective habitus, such as ‘institutional’ and ‘familial’ habitus, in order to defend their conceptual utility and theoretical coherence. In so doing we promote a flexible understanding of habitus as both an individual and a collective concept. By retaining this flexibility (which we argue is in keeping with the spirit of Bourdieuian philosophy) we allow for a consideration of…
Bourdieu’s collective enterprise of inculcation
This paper introduces the idea of enculturation to sociology as a compliment to socialisation in the context of Bourdieu’s ‘collective enterprise of inculcation’ and social theory. Enculturation is positioned as a concept that can be used to address formal education as a factor in social reproduction. Following a discussion of socialisation and enculturation and their interrelation, they are further examined in the context of medical education. I…
Reframing Research Ethics
This article is premised on the idea that were we able to articulate a positive vision of the social scientist's professional ethics, this would enable us to reframe social science research ethics as something internal to the profession. As such, rather than suffering under the imperialism of a research ethics constructed for the purposes of governing biomedical research, social scientists might argue for ethical self-regulation with greater forc…
Balletic bodies under lockdown
Like other elite athletes, ballet dancers are highly dedicated to the pursuit of their vocation. They work to perfect their bodies, their movements and their expression of the art form. The lockdowns that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic represented a significant interruption to the extraordinary but everyday lives of ballet dancers, creating unique environments where exploration of the embodied habitus of ballet can be further investigated.…
Values, Ethics and Health Care
Duncan, P. Values, Ethics and Health Care . London : Sage . 2010 . Ix+157pp. $37.95 (E-book) ISBN 978-1-84920434-7 £60.00 (hbk) ISBN 978-1-41292351-4 . £19.99 (pbk ) ISBN 978-1-41292352-1 . Values, Ethics and Health Care is billed as something of a ‘textbook’ or guide to the topic aimed at undergraduate students in the healthcare and allied healthcare professions. Some of the comments included on the publisher’s website suggest that it will also …
Tracking the Impact of Health Care Technology
The Ministry and Medicine
What Would You Do? Juggling Bioethics and Ethnography
Values, Ethics and Health Care
Duncan, P. Values, Ethics and Health Care . London : Sage . 2010 . Ix+157pp. $37.95 (E-book) ISBN 978-1-84920434-7 £60.00 (hbk) ISBN 978-1-41292351-4 . £19.99 (pbk ) ISBN 978-1-41292352-1 . Values, Ethics and Health Care is billed as something of a ‘textbook’ or guide to the topic aimed at undergraduate students in the healthcare and allied healthcare professions. Some of the comments included on the publisher’s website suggest that it will also …
Well-founded social fictions
This article engages with Atkinson’s recent criticisms of concepts of collective habitus, such as ‘institutional’ and ‘familial’ habitus, in order to defend their conceptual utility and theoretical coherence. In so doing we promote a flexible understanding of habitus as both an individual and a collective concept. By retaining this flexibility (which we argue is in keeping with the spirit of Bourdieuian philosophy) we allow for a consideration of…
Robert Baker, Before Bioethics
Robert Baker began his academic training as a philosopher; however, since becoming a bioethicist, he has fulfilled the promise of this interdisciplinary field. Both here and elsewhere he has made a significant contribution to the history of medical ethics. Whilst we could rightly address such research as a subset of the history of medicine it is, perhaps, better to think of this text as a work of bioethics. Doing so pushes a number of perspective…
A Sociological Analysis of Ethical Expertise
This article outlines a theoretical and conceptual account for the analysis of contemporary ethical or “bioethical” expertise. The substantive focus is on the academic discipline of bioethics—understood as a “practical” or “applied” ethics—and its relationship to medicine and medical ethics. I draw intellectual inspiration from the sociology of science and make use of research into the idea of “expertise” per se. In so doing, I am attempting to m…
Limitations in the bioethical analysis of medicalisation
Bourdieu’s collective enterprise of inculcation
This paper introduces the idea of enculturation to sociology as a compliment to socialisation in the context of Bourdieu’s ‘collective enterprise of inculcation’ and social theory. Enculturation is positioned as a concept that can be used to address formal education as a factor in social reproduction. Following a discussion of socialisation and enculturation and their interrelation, they are further examined in the context of medical education. I…
Reframing Research Ethics
This article is premised on the idea that were we able to articulate a positive vision of the social scientist's professional ethics, this would enable us to reframe social science research ethics as something internal to the profession. As such, rather than suffering under the imperialism of a research ethics constructed for the purposes of governing biomedical research, social scientists might argue for ethical self-regulation with greater forc…
Virtue Ethics in the Conduct and Governance of Social Science Research
Chapter 11
This chapter questions the way virtue ethics is being drawn into debates about the ethics of social research. In particular, it suggests that discussion of virtue may be motivated by a desire to counter existing, largely principlist, approaches to the ethics of research and its associated administrative structures; virtue ethics has a prima facie appeal for those who are seemingly in need of an alternative moral philosophy. In addition, I argue t…
Bioethics, public intellectuals and political biology today
The Multiplicity of Bioethical Expertise in the Context of Secular Liberal Democracies
Ethos and Eidos as Field Level Concepts for the Sociology of Morality and the Anthropology of Ethics
Challenges to the Global Issue of End of Life Care
Challenges to the Global Issue of End of Life Care
Where the ethical action also is
In Where the ethical action is , Hardman and Hutchinson make some interesting and compelling points about the way in which ‘the ethical’—various values and various kinds of values—are embedded in everyday life, including the everyday life one finds in clinical interactions, understood as scientific or scientifically informed activities. However, even when one considers ‘the ethical’ from within the horizon of understanding adopted in their essay,…
Suffering, existential distress and temporality in the provision of terminal sedation
Conscientious objection and the referral requirement as morally permissible moral mistakes
Some contributions to the current literature on conscience objection in healthcare posit the notion that the requirement to refer patients to a non-objecting provider is a morally questionable undertaking in need of explanation. The issue is that providing a referral renders those who conscientiously object to being involved in a particular intervention complicit in its provision. This essay seeks to engage with such claims and argues that referr…
Should Australian states enact statutes that explicitly ban unconsented intimate exams performed by medical students for educational reasons
While the practice now seems to be relatively uncommon, in the recent past some medical doctors have instructed their students to perform intimate exams on unconscious patients without first securing their informed consent. Concern about the issue has led some American states to introduce legislation explicitly banning such exams. We consider if Australian states should do the same. Noting that there is little substantive evidence suggesting that…
Is the Requirement for First-Person Experience of Psychedelic Drugs a Justified Component of a Psychedelic Therapist’s Training
Recent research offers good reason to think that various psychedelic drugs—including psilocybin, ayahuasca, ketamine, MDMA, and LSD—may have significant therapeutic potential in the treatment of various mental health conditions, including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, existential distress, and addiction. Although the use of psychoactive drugs, such as Diazepam or Ritalin, is well established, psychedelics arguably represent a therap…
Balletic bodies under lockdown
Like other elite athletes, ballet dancers are highly dedicated to the pursuit of their vocation. They work to perfect their bodies, their movements and their expression of the art form. The lockdowns that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic represented a significant interruption to the extraordinary but everyday lives of ballet dancers, creating unique environments where exploration of the embodied habitus of ballet can be further investigated.…
Changing face of transplant medicine
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