Rosamond Rhodes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3928864 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosamond Rhodes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosamond |
| FAMILY NAME | Rhodes |
| SIGNATURE | RHODES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4621-0818 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Does Public Engagement Have a Role in Biomedical Clinical Research
In this paper, we focus narrowly on the question of the relevance of public engagement in clinical research (PER). Over the past 20 years, demands for public engagement in research have grown dramatically in their number and scope. In the same period, we have also witnessed escalating attacks on expertise in general and science in particular. This paper responds to these developments. We draw on themes in John Rawls's Political Liberalism to make…
“But I Have a Pacer…There Is No Point in Engaging in Hypothetical Scenarios”
In this case report, we describe a woman with advancing dementia who still retained decisional capacity and was able to clearly articulate her request for deactivation of her implanted cardiac pacemaker—a scenario that would result in her death. In this case, the patient had the autonomy to make her decision, but clinicians at an outside hospital refused to deactivate her pacemaker even though they were in unanimous agreement that the patient had…
Fogarty-Funded Research Ethics Training Programs in Eastern Europe
Low and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Eastern Europe are attractive to global companies as sites for clinical trials, but there are gaps in research oversight and limited in-country expertise in research ethics, raising concerns that research participants may be at risk of exploitation and harm. Three NIH Fogarty International Center-funded research ethics training programs in Eastern Europe address these gaps, developed by partnerships betw…
In Defense of Uncommon Morality
The Uncommon Ethics of the Medical Profession
In responding to my critics, James Childress, Tom Beauchamp, Soren Holm, and Ruth Macklin, I reprise my arguments for medical ethics being an uncommon morality. I also elaborate on points that required further clarification. I explain the role of trust and trustworthiness in the creation of a profession. I also describe my views on the relationship of the medical profession to the society in which medicine is practiced. Finally, I defend my claim…
Justice in Covid-19 vaccine prioritisation
Policies for the allocation of COVID-19 vaccine were implemented in early 2021 as soon as vaccine became available. Those responsible for the planning and execution of COVID-19 vaccination had to make choices about who received vaccination first while numerous authors offered their own recommendations. This paper provides an account of how such decisions should be made by focusing on the specifics of the situation at hand. In that light, I offer …
Medical Ethics
This paper challenges the long-standing and widely accepted view that medical ethics is nothing more than common morality applied to clinical matters. It argues against Tom Beauchamp and James Childress’s four principles; Bernard Gert, K. Danner Clouser and Charles Culver’s ten rules; and Albert Jonsen, Mark Siegler, and William Winslade’s four topics approaches to medical ethics. First, a negative argument shows that common morality does not pro…
The International Hobbes Association
Promoting Research with Organ Transplant Patients
Given the numerous questions related to patient selection, surgical technique, and posttransplant care requiring evidence-based answers, transplantation programs should be conducting research with patients waiting to receive an organ and those who have undergone organ transplantation. Yet, there continues to be a dearth of human subjects research in the field of transplantation medicine. Here, we discuss challenges that may deter transplantation …
Physician Assisted Suicide
Bridging the Gap between Knowledge and Skill
Upon entering the examination room, Caitlyn encounters a woman sitting alone and in distress. Caitlyn introduces herself as the hospital ethicist and tells the woman, Mrs. Dennis, that her aim is to help her reach a decision about whether to perform an autopsy on her recently deceased husband. Mrs. Dennis begins the encounter by telling the ethicist that she has to decide quickly, but that she is very torn about what to do. Mrs. Dennis adds, “My …
Incentives for Healthy Behavior
In recent years, pay‐for‐performance initiatives have been employed to encourage desired behavior in various domains, including health. Employers use money to encourage employees to exercise; and hospitals, to encourage physicians to practice efficiently. Now, medical groups are considering the use of payments to encourage people to accept often‐avoided medical interventions, such as mammography or stool sampling. For example, a panel at the New …
Medicine and Social Justice
"Because medicine can preserve life, restore health and maintain the body's functions, it is widely acknowledged as a basic good that just societies should provide for their members. Yet, there is wide disagreement over the scope and content of what to provide, to whom, how, when, and why. In this unique and comprehensive volume, some of the best-known philosophers, physicians, legal scholars, political scientists, and economists writing on the s…
Taking Hobbes at His Word
This paper focuses on S.A. Loyd's positive account of Hobbes's moral theory as presented in chapters 5 and 6 of her new book. My discussion challenges Lloyd's reciprocity interpretation of Hobbes's moral theory. In the paper I also take issue with Lloyd's account of the derivation of his moral theory and her account of moral obligation. I offer my own definitional reading of the derivation of the Laws of Nature and my own analysis of how Hobbes e…
Hobbes's Fifth Law of Nature and its Implications
Hobbes presents the fifth Law of Nature, Mutual Accommodation, in Leviathan, Chapter XV. Although a great deal of scholarly attention has been devoted to the first four Laws of Nature, hardly any mention of the fifth appears in the literature. This paper explains the fifth Law as a central piece of Hobbes's theory and thereby reveals his progressive inclinations. Drawing upon relevant passages in Leviathan I show how Hobbes's view of property all…
Defining the "community" in community consultation for emergency research
Corporate Sponsorship of Continuing Medical Education
Guidelines are offered for deciding when it is appropriate for a physician to accept corporate-sponsored continuing medical education. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Obligation and Assent in Hobbes's Moral Philosophy
In the history of moral and political philosophy, Hobbes has a bad reputation. Among other things, he has been a favorite whipping boy of moral theorists who wanted to criticize egoism. In what follows, I want to raise the question of whether Hobbes's critics have been engaged in combat with a straw man.1 Is Hobbes's moral theory a classic example of egoism? This is not a new question, but, in my opinion, the answers that have been generated to d…
Physician-Assisted Suicide
Physician Assisted Suicide is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays from philosophers, physicians, theologians, social scientists, lawyers and economists. As the first book to consider the implications of the Supreme Court decisions in Washington v. Glucksburg and Vacco v. Quill concerning physician-assisted suicide from a variety of perspectives, this collection advances informed, reflective, vigorous public debate
Physician-Assisted Suicide
Physician Assisted Suicide is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays from philosophers, physicians, theologians, social scientists, lawyers and economists. As the first book to consider the implications of the Supreme Court decisions in Washington v. Glucksburg and Vacco v. Quill concerning physician-assisted suicide from a variety of perspectives, this collection advances informed, reflective, vigorous public debate
Obligation and Assent in Hobbes's Moral Philosophy
In the history of moral and political philosophy, Hobbes has a bad reputation. Among other things, he has been a favorite whipping boy of moral theorists who wanted to criticize egoism. In what follows, I want to raise the question of whether Hobbes's critics have been engaged in combat with a straw man.1 Is Hobbes's moral theory a classic example of egoism? This is not a new question, but, in my opinion, the answers that have been generated to d…
Corporate Sponsorship of Continuing Medical Education
Guidelines are offered for deciding when it is appropriate for a physician to accept corporate-sponsored continuing medical education. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Defining the "community" in community consultation for emergency research
Hobbes's Fifth Law of Nature and its Implications
Hobbes presents the fifth Law of Nature, Mutual Accommodation, in Leviathan, Chapter XV. Although a great deal of scholarly attention has been devoted to the first four Laws of Nature, hardly any mention of the fifth appears in the literature. This paper explains the fifth Law as a central piece of Hobbes's theory and thereby reveals his progressive inclinations. Drawing upon relevant passages in Leviathan I show how Hobbes's view of property all…
Taking Hobbes at His Word
This paper focuses on S.A. Loyd's positive account of Hobbes's moral theory as presented in chapters 5 and 6 of her new book. My discussion challenges Lloyd's reciprocity interpretation of Hobbes's moral theory. In the paper I also take issue with Lloyd's account of the derivation of his moral theory and her account of moral obligation. I offer my own definitional reading of the derivation of the Laws of Nature and my own analysis of how Hobbes e…
Medicine and Social Justice
"Because medicine can preserve life, restore health and maintain the body's functions, it is widely acknowledged as a basic good that just societies should provide for their members. Yet, there is wide disagreement over the scope and content of what to provide, to whom, how, when, and why. In this unique and comprehensive volume, some of the best-known philosophers, physicians, legal scholars, political scientists, and economists writing on the s…
Physician Assisted Suicide
Bridging the Gap between Knowledge and Skill
Upon entering the examination room, Caitlyn encounters a woman sitting alone and in distress. Caitlyn introduces herself as the hospital ethicist and tells the woman, Mrs. Dennis, that her aim is to help her reach a decision about whether to perform an autopsy on her recently deceased husband. Mrs. Dennis begins the encounter by telling the ethicist that she has to decide quickly, but that she is very torn about what to do. Mrs. Dennis adds, “My …
Incentives for Healthy Behavior
In recent years, pay‐for‐performance initiatives have been employed to encourage desired behavior in various domains, including health. Employers use money to encourage employees to exercise; and hospitals, to encourage physicians to practice efficiently. Now, medical groups are considering the use of payments to encourage people to accept often‐avoided medical interventions, such as mammography or stool sampling. For example, a panel at the New …
The International Hobbes Association
Promoting Research with Organ Transplant Patients
Given the numerous questions related to patient selection, surgical technique, and posttransplant care requiring evidence-based answers, transplantation programs should be conducting research with patients waiting to receive an organ and those who have undergone organ transplantation. Yet, there continues to be a dearth of human subjects research in the field of transplantation medicine. Here, we discuss challenges that may deter transplantation …
Medical Ethics
This paper challenges the long-standing and widely accepted view that medical ethics is nothing more than common morality applied to clinical matters. It argues against Tom Beauchamp and James Childress’s four principles; Bernard Gert, K. Danner Clouser and Charles Culver’s ten rules; and Albert Jonsen, Mark Siegler, and William Winslade’s four topics approaches to medical ethics. First, a negative argument shows that common morality does not pro…
Justice in Covid-19 vaccine prioritisation
Policies for the allocation of COVID-19 vaccine were implemented in early 2021 as soon as vaccine became available. Those responsible for the planning and execution of COVID-19 vaccination had to make choices about who received vaccination first while numerous authors offered their own recommendations. This paper provides an account of how such decisions should be made by focusing on the specifics of the situation at hand. In that light, I offer …
In Defense of Uncommon Morality
The Uncommon Ethics of the Medical Profession
In responding to my critics, James Childress, Tom Beauchamp, Soren Holm, and Ruth Macklin, I reprise my arguments for medical ethics being an uncommon morality. I also elaborate on points that required further clarification. I explain the role of trust and trustworthiness in the creation of a profession. I also describe my views on the relationship of the medical profession to the society in which medicine is practiced. Finally, I defend my claim…
“But I Have a Pacer…There Is No Point in Engaging in Hypothetical Scenarios”
In this case report, we describe a woman with advancing dementia who still retained decisional capacity and was able to clearly articulate her request for deactivation of her implanted cardiac pacemaker—a scenario that would result in her death. In this case, the patient had the autonomy to make her decision, but clinicians at an outside hospital refused to deactivate her pacemaker even though they were in unanimous agreement that the patient had…
Fogarty-Funded Research Ethics Training Programs in Eastern Europe
Low and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Eastern Europe are attractive to global companies as sites for clinical trials, but there are gaps in research oversight and limited in-country expertise in research ethics, raising concerns that research participants may be at risk of exploitation and harm. Three NIH Fogarty International Center-funded research ethics training programs in Eastern Europe address these gaps, developed by partnerships betw…
Does Public Engagement Have a Role in Biomedical Clinical Research
In this paper, we focus narrowly on the question of the relevance of public engagement in clinical research (PER). Over the past 20 years, demands for public engagement in research have grown dramatically in their number and scope. In the same period, we have also witnessed escalating attacks on expertise in general and science in particular. This paper responds to these developments. We draw on themes in John Rawls's Political Liberalism to make…
Law (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Ethics in medical practice (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Bioethics (4 works) · Medical ethics (4 works)