Douglas Mackay
Biographic Data
| ID | 3755122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas Mackay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Mackay |
| SIGNATURE | MACKAY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6465-237X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1937 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Designing a just soda tax
Soda taxes are controversial. While proponents point to their potential health benefits and the public projects that could be funded with their revenue, critics argue that they are paternalistic and regressive. In this paper, we explore the prospects for designing a just soda tax, one that appropriately balances the often-competing ethical considerations of promoting social welfare, respecting people’s autonomy and ensuring distributive fairness.…
Preventive Human Genome Editing and Enhancement
While somatic cell editing to treat disease is widely accepted, the use of human genome editing for “enhancement” remains contested. Scientists and policy‐makers routinely cite the prospect of enhancement as a salient ethical challenge for human genome editing research. If preventive genome editing projects are perceived as pursuing human enhancement, they could face heightened barriers to scientific, public, and regulatory approval. This article…
Reconsidering scarce drug rationing
Hospital systems commonly face the challenge of determining just ways to allocate scarce drugs during national shortages. There is no standardised approach of how this should be instituted, but principles of distributive justice are commonly used so that patients who are most likely to benefit from the drug receive it. As a result, clinical indications, in which the evidence for the drug is assumed to be established, are often prioritised over re…
Selecting participants fairly for controlled human infection studies
Controlled human infection (CHI) studies involve the deliberate exposure of healthy research participants to infectious agents to study early disease processes and evaluate interventions under controlled conditions with high efficiency. Although CHI studies expose participants to the risk of infection, they are designed to offer investigators unique advantages for studying the pathogenesis of infectious diseases and testing potential vaccines or …
Government Policy Experiments and the Ethics of Randomization
Governments are increasingly using randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to evaluate policy interventions.RCTs are often understood to provide the highest quality evidence regarding the causal efficacy of an intervention.While randomization plays an essential epistemic role in the context of policy RCTs however, it also plays an important distributive role.By randomly assigning participants to either the intervention or control arm of an RCT, peopl…
Basic Income, Cash Transfers, and Welfare State Paternalism
Much of the discussion concerning the permissibility of government paternalism has focused on laws and policies that either (1) ban or mandate the use or purchase of particular products; 1 or (2) structure choice contexts to "nudge" people to make one choice rather than another. 2 Examples of the former include existing laws that mandate the use of seatbelts or ban the possession of marijuana, cocaine, and heroin; as well as proposed laws to ban …
Returning Incidental Findings in Low‐Resource Settings
In a carefully argued article, Haley K. Sullivan and Benjamin E. Berkman address the important question of whether investigators have a duty to report incidental findings to research participants in low‐resource settings. They suggest that the duty to rescue offers the most plausible justification for the duty to return incidental findings, and they explore the implications of this duty for the context of research in low‐resource settings. While …
Immigrant Selection, Health Requirements, and Disability Discrimination
Australia, Canada, and New Zealand currently apply health requirements to prospective immigrants, denying residency to those with health conditions that are likely to impose an “excessive demand” on their publicly funded health and social service programs. In this paper, I investigate the charge that such policies are wrongfully discriminatory against persons with disabilities. I first provide a freedom-based account of the wrongness of discrimin…
Are Skill-Selective Immigration Policies Just
Regarding the Regulation of Dietary Supplements
AffiliationsDouglas MacKay is with the Council for Responsible Nutrition, Washington, DC, a trade association that represents the dietary supplement industry
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Government Policy Experiments and the Ethics of Randomization
Governments are increasingly using randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to evaluate policy interventions.RCTs are often understood to provide the highest quality evidence regarding the causal efficacy of an intervention.While randomization plays an essential epistemic role in the context of policy RCTs however, it also plays an important distributive role.By randomly assigning participants to either the intervention or control arm of an RCT, peopl…
Basic Income, Cash Transfers, and Welfare State Paternalism
Much of the discussion concerning the permissibility of government paternalism has focused on laws and policies that either (1) ban or mandate the use or purchase of particular products; 1 or (2) structure choice contexts to "nudge" people to make one choice rather than another. 2 Examples of the former include existing laws that mandate the use of seatbelts or ban the possession of marijuana, cocaine, and heroin; as well as proposed laws to ban …
The Honourable Company
Regarding the Regulation of Dietary Supplements
AffiliationsDouglas MacKay is with the Council for Responsible Nutrition, Washington, DC, a trade association that represents the dietary supplement industry
Are Skill-Selective Immigration Policies Just
Returning Incidental Findings in Low‐Resource Settings
In a carefully argued article, Haley K. Sullivan and Benjamin E. Berkman address the important question of whether investigators have a duty to report incidental findings to research participants in low‐resource settings. They suggest that the duty to rescue offers the most plausible justification for the duty to return incidental findings, and they explore the implications of this duty for the context of research in low‐resource settings. While …
Immigrant Selection, Health Requirements, and Disability Discrimination
Australia, Canada, and New Zealand currently apply health requirements to prospective immigrants, denying residency to those with health conditions that are likely to impose an “excessive demand” on their publicly funded health and social service programs. In this paper, I investigate the charge that such policies are wrongfully discriminatory against persons with disabilities. I first provide a freedom-based account of the wrongness of discrimin…
Basic Income, Cash Transfers, and Welfare State Paternalism
Much of the discussion concerning the permissibility of government paternalism has focused on laws and policies that either (1) ban or mandate the use or purchase of particular products; 1 or (2) structure choice contexts to "nudge" people to make one choice rather than another. 2 Examples of the former include existing laws that mandate the use of seatbelts or ban the possession of marijuana, cocaine, and heroin; as well as proposed laws to ban …
Selecting participants fairly for controlled human infection studies
Controlled human infection (CHI) studies involve the deliberate exposure of healthy research participants to infectious agents to study early disease processes and evaluate interventions under controlled conditions with high efficiency. Although CHI studies expose participants to the risk of infection, they are designed to offer investigators unique advantages for studying the pathogenesis of infectious diseases and testing potential vaccines or …
Government Policy Experiments and the Ethics of Randomization
Governments are increasingly using randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to evaluate policy interventions.RCTs are often understood to provide the highest quality evidence regarding the causal efficacy of an intervention.While randomization plays an essential epistemic role in the context of policy RCTs however, it also plays an important distributive role.By randomly assigning participants to either the intervention or control arm of an RCT, peopl…
Reconsidering scarce drug rationing
Hospital systems commonly face the challenge of determining just ways to allocate scarce drugs during national shortages. There is no standardised approach of how this should be instituted, but principles of distributive justice are commonly used so that patients who are most likely to benefit from the drug receive it. As a result, clinical indications, in which the evidence for the drug is assumed to be established, are often prioritised over re…
Designing a just soda tax
Soda taxes are controversial. While proponents point to their potential health benefits and the public projects that could be funded with their revenue, critics argue that they are paternalistic and regressive. In this paper, we explore the prospects for designing a just soda tax, one that appropriately balances the often-competing ethical considerations of promoting social welfare, respecting people’s autonomy and ensuring distributive fairness.…
Preventive Human Genome Editing and Enhancement
While somatic cell editing to treat disease is widely accepted, the use of human genome editing for “enhancement” remains contested. Scientists and policy‐makers routinely cite the prospect of enhancement as a salient ethical challenge for human genome editing research. If preventive genome editing projects are perceived as pursuing human enhancement, they could face heightened barriers to scientific, public, and regulatory approval. This article…
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