Joshua Parker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3876086 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Parker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Parker |
| SIGNATURE | PARKER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salzburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5934-8755 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reconciling Subsistence Emissions and Prevention in Environmentally Sustainable Healthcare
With healthcare systems worldwide committing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, policymakers must navigate how to reconcile emissions reduction with the delivery of high-quality care. Two main distributive ideals have emerged to guide a just transition to decarbonized healthcare: subsistence emissions and prevention. The subsistence view holds that healthcare emissions that are necessary to meet a threshold of “enough health” are permissib…
How should institutions help clinicians to practise greener anaesthesia
There is a need for all industries, including healthcare, to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. In anaesthetic practice, this not only requires a reduction in resource use and waste, but also a shift away from inhaled anaesthetic gases and towards alternatives with a lower carbon footprint. As inhalational anaesthesia produces greenhouse gas emissions at the point of use, achieving sustainable anaesthetic practice involves individual practiti…
The Agents of Climate Justice in Healthcare
This paper addresses the critical issue of decarbonising healthcare systems to help combat climate change. I focus on identifying the ‘agents of justice’ responsible for this transformation. Beginning with the claim that healthcare's greenhouse gas emissions cause injustice, the paper assumes that achieving a net zero healthcare system is essential for climate justice. The discussion centres on two prevailing perspectives: one that primarily assi…
Sufficiency and healthcare emissions
In this paper, I am concerned with how healthcare systems ought to transition away from the greenhouse gas emissions that they have historically relied on to provide care. I address two questions in relation to this issue. The first is what emissions target should healthcare systems adopt? Second, is how should the burdens of mitigation be shared fairly in light of that target? I argue that sufficientarianism offers an attractive way to answer bo…
Healthcare exceptionalism
Healthcare systems produce significant greenhouse gas emissions, raising an important question: should healthcare be treated like any other polluter when it comes to reducing its emissions, or is healthcare special because of its essential societal role? On one hand, reducing emissions is critical to combat climate change. On the other, healthcare depends on emissions to deliver vital services. The resulting tension surrounds an idea of healthcar…
Net Zero is not enough
Net Zero is the dominant framework for organising health system decarbonisation. Yet throughout Net Zero’s rise to prominence, greenhouse gas emissions have remained on a dangerous trajectory. In this analysis, we synthesise strands of Net Zero critique from the climate policy literature, examine their implications for health systems and briefly present an alternative framework for decarbonisation. We begin by reviewing three families of Net Zero…
Translational or translationable? A call for ethno‐immersion in (empirical) bioethics research
The shift towards "empirical bioethics" was largely triggered by a recognition that stakeholders' views and experiences are vital in ethical analysis where one hopes to produce practicable recommendations. Such perspectives can provide a rich resource in bioethics scholarship, perhaps challenging the researcher's perspective. However, overreliance on a picture painted by a group of research participants—or on pre‐existing literature in that field…
The scope of patient, healthcare professional and healthcare systems responsibilities to reduce the carbon footprint of inhalers
I am grateful for these four wide-ranging and incisive commentaries on my paper discussing the ethical issues that arise when we consider the carbon footprint of inhalers.1 As I am unable to address every point raised, instead I focus on what I take to be the common thread running through these papers. Each response has something to say regarding the scope of healthcare's responsibility to mitigate climate change. This can be explored at the intu…
Barriers to green inhaler prescribing
The National Health Service (NHS) was the first healthcare system globally to declare ambitions to become net carbon zero. To achieve this, a shift away from metered-dose inhalers which contain powerful greenhouse gases is necessary. Many patients can use dry powder inhalers which do not contain greenhouse gases and are equally effective at managing respiratory disease. This paper discusses the ethical issues that arise as the NHS attempts to mit…
Doctors as Appointed Fiduciaries
How should we respond to patients who do not wish to take on the responsibility and burdens of making decisions about their own care? In this paper, we argue that existing models of decision-making in modern healthcare are ill-equipped to cope with such patients and should be supplemented by an “appointed fiduciary” model where decision-making authority is formally transferred to a medical professional. Healthcare decisions are often complex and …
Darryl Pinckney, Black Deutschland
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Juvenile Crime and Dissent in Nazi Vienna, 1938–1945 by Evan Burr Bukey
Reviewed by: Juvenile Crime and Dissent in Nazi Vienna, 1938–1945 by Evan Burr Bukey Joshua Parker Evan Burr Bukey, Juvenile Crime and Dissent in Nazi Vienna, 1938–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 197 pp. Second World War resistance continues to have an important relevance to Austrian national identity. The main points raised by the research in Evan Burr Bukey's Juvenile Crime and Dissent in Nazi Vienna, 1938–1945 relate to two questions.…
I Am from Austria
When we hear the terms "refugee crisis," "migration" and "Austria" today, we naturally think of Europe's refugee influx of the last several years. This article focuses on an earlier twentieth- century Austrian refugee crisis: that which sent some 35,000 European refugees through Austria to the United States in the 1938–1945 period, specifically a group of authors publishing poetry in German in New York during those years. Self identifying as Aust…
Postmortem non-directed sperm donation
In our paper ‘The ethical case for non-directed postmortem sperm donation’ we argued that it would be ethical for men to donate sperm after death for use by strangers. In their thoughtful response Fredrick and Ben Kroon lay out practical concerns regarding our proposal. They raise issues regarding the quality of sperm collected postmortem based on empirical studies. Second, they claim that concerns about quality would make women unlikely to use s…
Terrible choices in the septic child
In this response article, we challenge a core assumption that lies at the centre of a round table discussion regarding the Pharmacogenetics to Avoid Loss of Hearing trial. The round table regards a genetic test for a variant (mt.1555A>G) that increases the risk of deafness if a carrier is given the antibiotic gentamicin. The idea is that rapid testing can identify neonates at risk, providing an opportunity to prevent giving an antibiotic that mig…
The ethical case for non-directed postmortem sperm donation
In this article we outline and defend the concept of voluntary non-directed postmortem sperm donation. This approach offers a potential means of increasing the quantity and heterogeneity of donor sperm. This is pertinent given the present context of a donor sperm shortage in the UK. Beyond making the case that it is technically feasible for dead men to donate their sperm for use in reproduction, we argue that this is ethically permissible. The in…
No Blame No Gain? From a No Blame Culture to a Responsibility Culture in Medicine
Healthcare systems need to consider not only how to prevent error, but how to respond to errors when they occur. In the United Kingdom’s National Health Service, one strand of this latter response is the ‘No Blame Culture’, which draws attention from individuals and towards systems in the process of understanding an error. Defences of the No Blame Culture typically fail to distinguish between blaming someone and holding them responsible. This art…
'In the Quiet Hours and the Deep Dusk, These Things too Recovered Their Advantage'
Written by an array of international experts, these collected essays gather perspectives from a diverse range of cultural sensibilities. From sensitive discussions of Tintoretto’s unique approach to the play of light and darkness as exhibited in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, to the development of museum lighting as part of Japanese artistic self-fashioning, via the story of an epic American painting on tour, museum illumination in the…
Six Poems from Blossoms in Snow
Among the estimated 135,000 Austrians who fled the country after the Anschluss of 1938 were some 1,200 writers. A good number of these were among the estimated 35,000 Europeans coming through Austria to the United States just before and during the Second World War. Among this lost generation of Austrian authors were some of the best literary voices of their day, offering timely observations on the experience of exile and on America. Many remained…
Resonance
While on a conscious level, readers of fiction take for granted that quoted text represents words spoken by characters to other characters in a diegetic story-world, Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories on polyphony and Franz Stanzel’s (and, more recently, Wolf Schmid’s) ideas on stylistic “contamination” of narrators’ speech by characters’ speech have long nuanced our understanding of quoted speech as always being read as purely diegetic. The article sugg…
Peter J. Spiro, At Home in Two Countries
Peter J. Spiro, At Home in Two Countries: The Past and Future of Dual Citizenship New York: New York University Press, 2016. Pp. 191 (from the series “Citizenship and Migration in the Americas,” ed. Ediberto Román) ISBN: 978081485829. Joshua Parker University of Salzburg U.S. law has never prohibited dual citizenship. Still, even as “a sense of hard, exclusive loyalty to the state began to dissipate” at the Cold War’s close, legal scholar Peter S…
Eros, Thanatos
This article compares a recent American fiction set in Amsterdam (David Liss’s The Coffee Trader, 2003) with several other Anglophone fictions set in the same city to show how several centuries of literary heterostereotypes of Amsterdam have influenced American ideas on the city in literature. Foreign spaces in fiction almost inevitably draw American projections of the American self that cannot be recognized at home, yet Amsterdam’s particular ne…
Structural and Functional Features of Mesophytic Forests in the East-Central United States
Structural characteristics and functional properties of trees are used to investigate regional-scale variation in forest structure in mesophytic forests of the southeastern United States. Compositional data for 112 sites from Braun (1950) are recast into numerical expressions of structural features (e.g., leaf form, bark thickness, and seed weight) and functional traits (e.g., shade tolerance, dispersal agency, and windfirmness) of forests. These…
The Oxley Parker Papers. From the Letters and Diaries of an Essex Family of Land Agents in the Nineteenth Century
Healthcare exceptionalism
Healthcare systems produce significant greenhouse gas emissions, raising an important question: should healthcare be treated like any other polluter when it comes to reducing its emissions, or is healthcare special because of its essential societal role? On one hand, reducing emissions is critical to combat climate change. On the other, healthcare depends on emissions to deliver vital services. The resulting tension surrounds an idea of healthcar…
Structural and Functional Features of Mesophytic Forests in the East-Central United States
Structural characteristics and functional properties of trees are used to investigate regional-scale variation in forest structure in mesophytic forests of the southeastern United States. Compositional data for 112 sites from Braun (1950) are recast into numerical expressions of structural features (e.g., leaf form, bark thickness, and seed weight) and functional traits (e.g., shade tolerance, dispersal agency, and windfirmness) of forests. These…
The Oxley Parker Papers. From the Letters and Diaries of an Essex Family of Land Agents in the Nineteenth Century
Structural and Functional Features of Mesophytic Forests in the East-Central United States
Structural characteristics and functional properties of trees are used to investigate regional-scale variation in forest structure in mesophytic forests of the southeastern United States. Compositional data for 112 sites from Braun (1950) are recast into numerical expressions of structural features (e.g., leaf form, bark thickness, and seed weight) and functional traits (e.g., shade tolerance, dispersal agency, and windfirmness) of forests. These…
Eros, Thanatos
This article compares a recent American fiction set in Amsterdam (David Liss’s The Coffee Trader, 2003) with several other Anglophone fictions set in the same city to show how several centuries of literary heterostereotypes of Amsterdam have influenced American ideas on the city in literature. Foreign spaces in fiction almost inevitably draw American projections of the American self that cannot be recognized at home, yet Amsterdam’s particular ne…
Peter J. Spiro, At Home in Two Countries
Peter J. Spiro, At Home in Two Countries: The Past and Future of Dual Citizenship New York: New York University Press, 2016. Pp. 191 (from the series “Citizenship and Migration in the Americas,” ed. Ediberto Román) ISBN: 978081485829. Joshua Parker University of Salzburg U.S. law has never prohibited dual citizenship. Still, even as “a sense of hard, exclusive loyalty to the state began to dissipate” at the Cold War’s close, legal scholar Peter S…
Resonance
While on a conscious level, readers of fiction take for granted that quoted text represents words spoken by characters to other characters in a diegetic story-world, Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories on polyphony and Franz Stanzel’s (and, more recently, Wolf Schmid’s) ideas on stylistic “contamination” of narrators’ speech by characters’ speech have long nuanced our understanding of quoted speech as always being read as purely diegetic. The article sugg…
'In the Quiet Hours and the Deep Dusk, These Things too Recovered Their Advantage'
Written by an array of international experts, these collected essays gather perspectives from a diverse range of cultural sensibilities. From sensitive discussions of Tintoretto’s unique approach to the play of light and darkness as exhibited in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, to the development of museum lighting as part of Japanese artistic self-fashioning, via the story of an epic American painting on tour, museum illumination in the…
Six Poems from Blossoms in Snow
Among the estimated 135,000 Austrians who fled the country after the Anschluss of 1938 were some 1,200 writers. A good number of these were among the estimated 35,000 Europeans coming through Austria to the United States just before and during the Second World War. Among this lost generation of Austrian authors were some of the best literary voices of their day, offering timely observations on the experience of exile and on America. Many remained…
The ethical case for non-directed postmortem sperm donation
In this article we outline and defend the concept of voluntary non-directed postmortem sperm donation. This approach offers a potential means of increasing the quantity and heterogeneity of donor sperm. This is pertinent given the present context of a donor sperm shortage in the UK. Beyond making the case that it is technically feasible for dead men to donate their sperm for use in reproduction, we argue that this is ethically permissible. The in…
No Blame No Gain? From a No Blame Culture to a Responsibility Culture in Medicine
Healthcare systems need to consider not only how to prevent error, but how to respond to errors when they occur. In the United Kingdom’s National Health Service, one strand of this latter response is the ‘No Blame Culture’, which draws attention from individuals and towards systems in the process of understanding an error. Defences of the No Blame Culture typically fail to distinguish between blaming someone and holding them responsible. This art…
Juvenile Crime and Dissent in Nazi Vienna, 1938–1945 by Evan Burr Bukey
Reviewed by: Juvenile Crime and Dissent in Nazi Vienna, 1938–1945 by Evan Burr Bukey Joshua Parker Evan Burr Bukey, Juvenile Crime and Dissent in Nazi Vienna, 1938–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 197 pp. Second World War resistance continues to have an important relevance to Austrian national identity. The main points raised by the research in Evan Burr Bukey's Juvenile Crime and Dissent in Nazi Vienna, 1938–1945 relate to two questions.…
I Am from Austria
When we hear the terms "refugee crisis," "migration" and "Austria" today, we naturally think of Europe's refugee influx of the last several years. This article focuses on an earlier twentieth- century Austrian refugee crisis: that which sent some 35,000 European refugees through Austria to the United States in the 1938–1945 period, specifically a group of authors publishing poetry in German in New York during those years. Self identifying as Aust…
Postmortem non-directed sperm donation
In our paper ‘The ethical case for non-directed postmortem sperm donation’ we argued that it would be ethical for men to donate sperm after death for use by strangers. In their thoughtful response Fredrick and Ben Kroon lay out practical concerns regarding our proposal. They raise issues regarding the quality of sperm collected postmortem based on empirical studies. Second, they claim that concerns about quality would make women unlikely to use s…
Terrible choices in the septic child
In this response article, we challenge a core assumption that lies at the centre of a round table discussion regarding the Pharmacogenetics to Avoid Loss of Hearing trial. The round table regards a genetic test for a variant (mt.1555A>G) that increases the risk of deafness if a carrier is given the antibiotic gentamicin. The idea is that rapid testing can identify neonates at risk, providing an opportunity to prevent giving an antibiotic that mig…
Doctors as Appointed Fiduciaries
How should we respond to patients who do not wish to take on the responsibility and burdens of making decisions about their own care? In this paper, we argue that existing models of decision-making in modern healthcare are ill-equipped to cope with such patients and should be supplemented by an “appointed fiduciary” model where decision-making authority is formally transferred to a medical professional. Healthcare decisions are often complex and …
Darryl Pinckney, Black Deutschland
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
The scope of patient, healthcare professional and healthcare systems responsibilities to reduce the carbon footprint of inhalers
I am grateful for these four wide-ranging and incisive commentaries on my paper discussing the ethical issues that arise when we consider the carbon footprint of inhalers.1 As I am unable to address every point raised, instead I focus on what I take to be the common thread running through these papers. Each response has something to say regarding the scope of healthcare's responsibility to mitigate climate change. This can be explored at the intu…
Barriers to green inhaler prescribing
The National Health Service (NHS) was the first healthcare system globally to declare ambitions to become net carbon zero. To achieve this, a shift away from metered-dose inhalers which contain powerful greenhouse gases is necessary. Many patients can use dry powder inhalers which do not contain greenhouse gases and are equally effective at managing respiratory disease. This paper discusses the ethical issues that arise as the NHS attempts to mit…
Net Zero is not enough
Net Zero is the dominant framework for organising health system decarbonisation. Yet throughout Net Zero’s rise to prominence, greenhouse gas emissions have remained on a dangerous trajectory. In this analysis, we synthesise strands of Net Zero critique from the climate policy literature, examine their implications for health systems and briefly present an alternative framework for decarbonisation. We begin by reviewing three families of Net Zero…
Translational or translationable? A call for ethno‐immersion in (empirical) bioethics research
The shift towards "empirical bioethics" was largely triggered by a recognition that stakeholders' views and experiences are vital in ethical analysis where one hopes to produce practicable recommendations. Such perspectives can provide a rich resource in bioethics scholarship, perhaps challenging the researcher's perspective. However, overreliance on a picture painted by a group of research participants—or on pre‐existing literature in that field…
Sufficiency and healthcare emissions
In this paper, I am concerned with how healthcare systems ought to transition away from the greenhouse gas emissions that they have historically relied on to provide care. I address two questions in relation to this issue. The first is what emissions target should healthcare systems adopt? Second, is how should the burdens of mitigation be shared fairly in light of that target? I argue that sufficientarianism offers an attractive way to answer bo…
Healthcare exceptionalism
Healthcare systems produce significant greenhouse gas emissions, raising an important question: should healthcare be treated like any other polluter when it comes to reducing its emissions, or is healthcare special because of its essential societal role? On one hand, reducing emissions is critical to combat climate change. On the other, healthcare depends on emissions to deliver vital services. The resulting tension surrounds an idea of healthcar…
Reconciling Subsistence Emissions and Prevention in Environmentally Sustainable Healthcare
With healthcare systems worldwide committing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, policymakers must navigate how to reconcile emissions reduction with the delivery of high-quality care. Two main distributive ideals have emerged to guide a just transition to decarbonized healthcare: subsistence emissions and prevention. The subsistence view holds that healthcare emissions that are necessary to meet a threshold of “enough health” are permissib…
How should institutions help clinicians to practise greener anaesthesia
There is a need for all industries, including healthcare, to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. In anaesthetic practice, this not only requires a reduction in resource use and waste, but also a shift away from inhaled anaesthetic gases and towards alternatives with a lower carbon footprint. As inhalational anaesthesia produces greenhouse gas emissions at the point of use, achieving sustainable anaesthetic practice involves individual practiti…
The Agents of Climate Justice in Healthcare
This paper addresses the critical issue of decarbonising healthcare systems to help combat climate change. I focus on identifying the ‘agents of justice’ responsible for this transformation. Beginning with the claim that healthcare's greenhouse gas emissions cause injustice, the paper assumes that achieving a net zero healthcare system is essential for climate justice. The discussion centres on two prevailing perspectives: one that primarily assi…
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