Jennifer A Chandler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4076643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer A Chandler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer A |
| FAMILY NAME | Chandler |
| SIGNATURE | CHANDLER J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9471-4626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Donation Care Work
Family members of potential deceased organ donors are often portrayed as gatekeepers to the individual experience of organ donation. We argue the success of deceased donation as an institution depends on often‐unrecognised family labour that occurs after consent. Building on feminist notions of care work, we propose the concept of ‘donation care work’ to conceptualise the combination of emotion work, end‐of‐life care, and death work that family m…
Inferring Mental States from Brain Data
Neurotechnologies that collect and interpret data about brain activity are already in use for medical and nonmedical applications. Refinements of existing noninvasive techniques and the discovery of new ones will likely encourage broader uptake. The increased collection and use of brain data and, in particular, their use to infer the existence of mental states have led to questions about whether mental privacy may be threatened. It may be threate…
Knowing the Mind from Brain Data
This article is the second in a series examining the ethical and social implications of inferring mental states from brain data. It considers two main topics. First, it discusses the challenges of extending inferences from present brain activity to mental states and from there to future mental states or behaviors. There is a risk of compounded errors when multiple inferential models are applied sequentially; harmful outcomes for minority groups u…
No consent for brain death testing
The overwhelming weight of legal authority in the USA and Canada holds that consent is not required for brain death testing. The situation in England and Wales is similar but different. While clinicians in England and Wales may have a prima facie duty to obtain consent, lack of consent has not barred testing. In three recent cases where consent for brain death testing was formally presented to the court, lack of consent was not determinative, and…
Two Views of Vulnerability in the Evolution of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying Law
Canada is six years into a new era of legalized medical assistance in dying (MAiD). The law continues to evolve, following a pattern in which Canadian courts rule that legal restrictions on eligibility for MAiD are unconstitutional and Parliament responds by gradually expanding eligibility for MAiD. The central tension underlying this dialogue between courts and government has focused on two conceptions of how to best promote and protect the inte…
Family experiences with non-therapeutic research on dying patients in the intensive care unit
Experiences of substitute decision-makers with requests for consent to non-therapeutic research participation during the dying process, including to what degree such requests are perceived as burdensome, have not been well described. In this study, we explored the lived experiences of family members who consented to non-therapeutic research participation on behalf of an imminently dying patient. We interviewed 33 family members involved in surrog…
Medicalized Metamorphosis
Vulnerable
Psychiatric Interventions in Virtual Reality
Recent improvements in virtual reality (VR) allow for the representation of authentic environments and multiple users in a shared complex virtual world in real time. These advances have fostered clinical applications including in psychiatry. However, although VR is already used in clinical settings to help people with mental disorders (e.g., exposure therapy), the related ethical issues require greater attention. Based on a thematic literature se…
A qualitative study of forensic patients' perceptions of quasi‐coercive offers of biological treatment
At various points in the trajectory through the criminal justice system, a person may be encouraged by the hope of legal benefit to consent to medical treatment. This benefit may consist of diversion from prosecution, a favorable sentence, or parole. This form of legal encouragement has been referred to as legal leverage, quasi‐coercive, or quasi‐compulsory treatment. In this article, we analyze interviews with 15 men convicted of sexual offenses…
“Obligatory Technologies”
The ideas of technological determinism and the autonomy of technology are long-standing and widespread. This article explores why the use of certain technologies is perceived to be obligatory, thus fueling the fatalism of technological determinism and undermining our sense of freedom vis-à-vis the use of technologies. Three main mechanisms that might explain “obligatory technologies” (technologies that must be adopted) are explored. First, compet…
Obligatory Technologies’ and the Autonomy of Patients in Biomedical Ethics
Drawing on the debate over ʻthe technological imperativeʼ in the sociology and philosophy of technology, the article suggests several concrete mechanisms that produce the appearance that the use of technology is obligatory – essentially giving individuals ʻan offer they cannot refuseʼ. These mechanisms include competition, adaptation and dependency, as well as the ʻnormalisationʼ and ʻmoralisationʼ of the use of technology. The law plays a role i…
Human Autonomy, Law, and Technology
Scholars of technology have long puzzled over the question of the relationship between human societies and their technologies. Technological determinism suggests that the technologies present in a society have a determining effect on the structure of that society. Critics of this idea point out that the technologies are themselves developed by people within societies and so are themselves determined by the characteristics of those societies. It m…
The Autonomy of Technology
This article draws on the suggestion that modern technology is “autonomous” in that our social control mechanisms are unable to control technology and instead merely adapt society to integrate new technologies. In this article, I suggest that common law judges tend systematically to support the integration of novel technologies into society. For example, courts sometimes require parties seeking compensation for serious injuries to submit to medic…
Law and Technology
Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts
Pilgrimage to Kensington Palace
The death of Diana Princess of Wales led to an overwhelming popular movement which seemed to fuse elements of the roadside shrine phenomenon previously reported in Folklore (Monger 1997), pilgrimage on the Great Religion model, and New Age forms of expressing spirituality. The countrywide reaction to the death resulted in gifts and flowers being placed at town halls and council offices all over the country. Some were also placed at war memorials …
Whiteness and Warts
Notes and Comments
Society Meetings and Reports
Pilgrimage to Kensington Palace
The death of Diana Princess of Wales led to an overwhelming popular movement which seemed to fuse elements of the roadside shrine phenomenon previously reported in Folklore (Monger 1997), pilgrimage on the Great Religion model, and New Age forms of expressing spirituality. The countrywide reaction to the death resulted in gifts and flowers being placed at town halls and council offices all over the country. Some were also placed at war memorials …
Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts
Whiteness and Warts
Society Meetings and Reports
Notes and Comments
Whiteness and Warts
Pilgrimage to Kensington Palace
The death of Diana Princess of Wales led to an overwhelming popular movement which seemed to fuse elements of the roadside shrine phenomenon previously reported in Folklore (Monger 1997), pilgrimage on the Great Religion model, and New Age forms of expressing spirituality. The countrywide reaction to the death resulted in gifts and flowers being placed at town halls and council offices all over the country. Some were also placed at war memorials …
Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts
The Autonomy of Technology
This article draws on the suggestion that modern technology is “autonomous” in that our social control mechanisms are unable to control technology and instead merely adapt society to integrate new technologies. In this article, I suggest that common law judges tend systematically to support the integration of novel technologies into society. For example, courts sometimes require parties seeking compensation for serious injuries to submit to medic…
Law and Technology
Human Autonomy, Law, and Technology
Scholars of technology have long puzzled over the question of the relationship between human societies and their technologies. Technological determinism suggests that the technologies present in a society have a determining effect on the structure of that society. Critics of this idea point out that the technologies are themselves developed by people within societies and so are themselves determined by the characteristics of those societies. It m…
Obligatory Technologies’ and the Autonomy of Patients in Biomedical Ethics
Drawing on the debate over ʻthe technological imperativeʼ in the sociology and philosophy of technology, the article suggests several concrete mechanisms that produce the appearance that the use of technology is obligatory – essentially giving individuals ʻan offer they cannot refuseʼ. These mechanisms include competition, adaptation and dependency, as well as the ʻnormalisationʼ and ʻmoralisationʼ of the use of technology. The law plays a role i…
“Obligatory Technologies”
The ideas of technological determinism and the autonomy of technology are long-standing and widespread. This article explores why the use of certain technologies is perceived to be obligatory, thus fueling the fatalism of technological determinism and undermining our sense of freedom vis-à-vis the use of technologies. Three main mechanisms that might explain “obligatory technologies” (technologies that must be adopted) are explored. First, compet…
Vulnerable
Psychiatric Interventions in Virtual Reality
Recent improvements in virtual reality (VR) allow for the representation of authentic environments and multiple users in a shared complex virtual world in real time. These advances have fostered clinical applications including in psychiatry. However, although VR is already used in clinical settings to help people with mental disorders (e.g., exposure therapy), the related ethical issues require greater attention. Based on a thematic literature se…
A qualitative study of forensic patients' perceptions of quasi‐coercive offers of biological treatment
At various points in the trajectory through the criminal justice system, a person may be encouraged by the hope of legal benefit to consent to medical treatment. This benefit may consist of diversion from prosecution, a favorable sentence, or parole. This form of legal encouragement has been referred to as legal leverage, quasi‐coercive, or quasi‐compulsory treatment. In this article, we analyze interviews with 15 men convicted of sexual offenses…
Medicalized Metamorphosis
Family experiences with non-therapeutic research on dying patients in the intensive care unit
Experiences of substitute decision-makers with requests for consent to non-therapeutic research participation during the dying process, including to what degree such requests are perceived as burdensome, have not been well described. In this study, we explored the lived experiences of family members who consented to non-therapeutic research participation on behalf of an imminently dying patient. We interviewed 33 family members involved in surrog…
Two Views of Vulnerability in the Evolution of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying Law
Canada is six years into a new era of legalized medical assistance in dying (MAiD). The law continues to evolve, following a pattern in which Canadian courts rule that legal restrictions on eligibility for MAiD are unconstitutional and Parliament responds by gradually expanding eligibility for MAiD. The central tension underlying this dialogue between courts and government has focused on two conceptions of how to best promote and protect the inte…
No consent for brain death testing
The overwhelming weight of legal authority in the USA and Canada holds that consent is not required for brain death testing. The situation in England and Wales is similar but different. While clinicians in England and Wales may have a prima facie duty to obtain consent, lack of consent has not barred testing. In three recent cases where consent for brain death testing was formally presented to the court, lack of consent was not determinative, and…
Inferring Mental States from Brain Data
Neurotechnologies that collect and interpret data about brain activity are already in use for medical and nonmedical applications. Refinements of existing noninvasive techniques and the discovery of new ones will likely encourage broader uptake. The increased collection and use of brain data and, in particular, their use to infer the existence of mental states have led to questions about whether mental privacy may be threatened. It may be threate…
Knowing the Mind from Brain Data
This article is the second in a series examining the ethical and social implications of inferring mental states from brain data. It considers two main topics. First, it discusses the challenges of extending inferences from present brain activity to mental states and from there to future mental states or behaviors. There is a risk of compounded errors when multiple inferential models are applied sequentially; harmful outcomes for minority groups u…
Donation Care Work
Family members of potential deceased organ donors are often portrayed as gatekeepers to the individual experience of organ donation. We argue the success of deceased donation as an institution depends on often‐unrecognised family labour that occurs after consent. Building on feminist notions of care work, we propose the concept of ‘donation care work’ to conceptualise the combination of emotion work, end‐of‐life care, and death work that family m…
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