Devin M Kellis
Biographic Data
| ID | 8306046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Devin M Kellis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Devin M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kellis |
| SIGNATURE | KELLIS D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Medical University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1520-0238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Why and How Should Physicians Mitigate Threats of Nuclear War
Most physicians do not see, or learn to see, nuclear war threat mitigation as within the scope of their professional duties. This commentary on a case argues there are 2 reasons why physicians, in particular, should draw on their unique training and expertise in medicine to help avert nuclear war: the risk of nuclear war and therefore the risk of catastrophic community, domestic, and global health consequences is presently high; and physicians to…
How Might Health Care Think About the Ethics of Human Extinction
Is there an important ethical difference between a global catastrophe that causes human extinction and one that does not? This commentary on a case introduces 3 approaches-equivalence, further-loss, and pro-extinctionist-in responding to this question. In particular, focus is placed on equivalence and further-loss views' implications for how clinicians, health professions, and health care organizations orient themselves ethically towards managing…
Existential Health Care Ethics
This issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics is dedicated to addressing ethical questions at the intersection of human extinction and health care.These questions include some of the following: Should clinicians be considered to hold special obligations to ensure humanity's survival?Would such obligations conflict with traditional codes of health professional ethics?And, if so, what might this mean for clinical care, public health, or health law?How on…
Why Should Extinction Medicine Be a Specialty
This commentary on a case builds on recent literature on climate change, health, and human extinction to argue in favor of a new clinical specialty: extinction medicine. If based on precise application of scientific findings about species extinction, disaster prevention and management, and health policy, such a specialty could help reduce humanity's extinction risk. Finally, the commentary suggests extinction medicine competencies, who might beco…
Addressing the health threats of nuclear war as United States medical students
Nuclear weapons are an existential threat to humanity, capable of causing mass morbidity and mortality while severely disrupting the public health infrastructure in any use case. Given the health i
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Addressing the health threats of nuclear war as United States medical students
Nuclear weapons are an existential threat to humanity, capable of causing mass morbidity and mortality while severely disrupting the public health infrastructure in any use case. Given the health i
Why and How Should Physicians Mitigate Threats of Nuclear War
Most physicians do not see, or learn to see, nuclear war threat mitigation as within the scope of their professional duties. This commentary on a case argues there are 2 reasons why physicians, in particular, should draw on their unique training and expertise in medicine to help avert nuclear war: the risk of nuclear war and therefore the risk of catastrophic community, domestic, and global health consequences is presently high; and physicians to…
How Might Health Care Think About the Ethics of Human Extinction
Is there an important ethical difference between a global catastrophe that causes human extinction and one that does not? This commentary on a case introduces 3 approaches-equivalence, further-loss, and pro-extinctionist-in responding to this question. In particular, focus is placed on equivalence and further-loss views' implications for how clinicians, health professions, and health care organizations orient themselves ethically towards managing…
Existential Health Care Ethics
This issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics is dedicated to addressing ethical questions at the intersection of human extinction and health care.These questions include some of the following: Should clinicians be considered to hold special obligations to ensure humanity's survival?Would such obligations conflict with traditional codes of health professional ethics?And, if so, what might this mean for clinical care, public health, or health law?How on…
Why Should Extinction Medicine Be a Specialty
This commentary on a case builds on recent literature on climate change, health, and human extinction to argue in favor of a new clinical specialty: extinction medicine. If based on precise application of scientific findings about species extinction, disaster prevention and management, and health policy, such a specialty could help reduce humanity's extinction risk. Finally, the commentary suggests extinction medicine competencies, who might beco…
Health and Conflict Studies (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Extinction (optical mineralogy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Nuclear Issues and Defense (2 works) · Optics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Physics (2 works)