Charles Dupras
Biographic Data
| ID | 876664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Dupras |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Dupras |
| SIGNATURE | DUPRAS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9194-3252 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reducing carbon emissions in the healthcare sector: A real-time delphi on challenges and enablers
Healthcare systems are increasingly committing to climate action, yet efforts to reduce their environmental footprint raise operational challenges. Decarbonization initiatives can generate concerns about cost, patient safety, care quality, and equitable access, revealing tensions that complicate implementation. This study examines how experts assess the impact and feasibility of climate-related interventions in healthcare, identifying key challen…
Safe spaces for co-operationalizing one health: Building on momentum in bioethics
Considering the Developing Entity in an Artificial Womb as a Patient
Artificial womb (AW) prototypes are currently being developed with the aim of improving the medical care of extremely premature infants. Despite the seemingly imminent reality of partial ectogenesis (i.e., gestation partially outside a human womb), there is persisting debate about the moral status of the fetus transferred in an AW—henceforth, the “developing entity.” For some, AWs are simply another neonatal intensive cares’ technology. Thus, dev…
Accountability for Reasonableness as a Framework for the Promotion of Fair and Equitable Research
Despite increased efforts to ensure diversity in genomic research, the exclusion of minority groups from data analyses and publications remains a critical issue. This paper addresses the ethical implications of these exclusions and proposes accountability for reasonableness ( A4R ) as a framework to promote fairness and equity in research. Originally conceived by Norman Daniels and James Sabin to guide resource allocation in the context of health…
Governing the futures of non-invasive prenatal testing: An exploration of social acceptability using the Delphi method
The omics of our lives: Practices and policies of direct-to-consumer epigenetic and microbiomic testing companies
While much attention has gone towards ethical, legal, and social implications of direct-to-consumer genetic testing over the past decades, the rise of new forms of consumer omics has largely escaped scrutiny. In this paper, we analyze the product descriptions, promotional messages, terms of service, and privacy policies of five epigenetic and seven microbiomic testing companies. The advent of such tests online represents a significant shift in co…
Human rights in the postgenomic era: Challenges and opportunities arising with epigenetics
Over the past twenty-five years, international organizations have adopted human rights declarations in an attempt to address emerging ethical, legal and social concerns associated with genetic research and technologies. While these declarations point to important challenges and potential issues in genetics, the focus on genetics has been criticized for promoting the idea that there is something unique about our genes, and that therefore, they des…
Epigenetics, ethics, law and society: A multidisciplinary review of descriptive, instrumental, dialectical and reflexive analyses
Epigenetics, defined as ‘the study of mitotically and/or meiotically heritable changes in gene function that cannot be explained by changes in DNA sequence’, has emerged as a promissory yet controversial field of scientific inquiry over the past decade. Scholars from many disciplines have formulated both optimistic and cautionary claims regarding its potential normative implications. This article provides a comprehensive review of the nascent lit…
Epigenetics in the Neoliberal “Regime of Truth”: A Biopolitical Perspective on Knowledge Translation
Recent findings in epigenetics have been attracting much attention from social scientists and bioethicists because they reveal the molecular mechanisms by which exposure to socioenvironmental factors, such as pollutants and social adversity, can influence the expression of genes throughout life. Most surprisingly, some epigenetic modifications may also be heritable via germ cells across generations. Epigenetics may be the missing molecular eviden…
Dupras and Williams-Jones Respond
In his letter, Card argues that “it is not the word ‘pandemic’ that needs improvement, but rather our plans and our communication about what the word means—and doesn’t.” We totally agree with and support this statement. We did not aim to critique the formal definition of the word “pandemic.” Instead, we argued that improving communication should not only mean spreading the true definition of technical medical words, but also the recognition that …
The Expert and the Lay Public: Reflections on Influenza A (H1N1) and the Risk Society
Trust between the lay public and scientific experts is a key element to ensuring the efficient implementation of emergency public health measures. In modern risk societies, the management and elimination of risk have become preeminent drivers of public policy. In this context, the protection of public trust is a complex task. Those actors involved in public health decision-making and implementation (e.g., mass vaccination for influenza A virus) a…
The Expert and the Lay Public: Reflections on Influenza A (H1N1) and the Risk Society
Trust between the lay public and scientific experts is a key element to ensuring the efficient implementation of emergency public health measures. In modern risk societies, the management and elimination of risk have become preeminent drivers of public policy. In this context, the protection of public trust is a complex task. Those actors involved in public health decision-making and implementation (e.g., mass vaccination for influenza A virus) a…
Human rights in the postgenomic era: Challenges and opportunities arising with epigenetics
Over the past twenty-five years, international organizations have adopted human rights declarations in an attempt to address emerging ethical, legal and social concerns associated with genetic research and technologies. While these declarations point to important challenges and potential issues in genetics, the focus on genetics has been criticized for promoting the idea that there is something unique about our genes, and that therefore, they des…
Dupras and Williams-Jones Respond
In his letter, Card argues that “it is not the word ‘pandemic’ that needs improvement, but rather our plans and our communication about what the word means—and doesn’t.” We totally agree with and support this statement. We did not aim to critique the formal definition of the word “pandemic.” Instead, we argued that improving communication should not only mean spreading the true definition of technical medical words, but also the recognition that …
The Expert and the Lay Public: Reflections on Influenza A (H1N1) and the Risk Society
Trust between the lay public and scientific experts is a key element to ensuring the efficient implementation of emergency public health measures. In modern risk societies, the management and elimination of risk have become preeminent drivers of public policy. In this context, the protection of public trust is a complex task. Those actors involved in public health decision-making and implementation (e.g., mass vaccination for influenza A virus) a…
Epigenetics in the Neoliberal “Regime of Truth”: A Biopolitical Perspective on Knowledge Translation
Recent findings in epigenetics have been attracting much attention from social scientists and bioethicists because they reveal the molecular mechanisms by which exposure to socioenvironmental factors, such as pollutants and social adversity, can influence the expression of genes throughout life. Most surprisingly, some epigenetic modifications may also be heritable via germ cells across generations. Epigenetics may be the missing molecular eviden…
Epigenetics, ethics, law and society: A multidisciplinary review of descriptive, instrumental, dialectical and reflexive analyses
Epigenetics, defined as ‘the study of mitotically and/or meiotically heritable changes in gene function that cannot be explained by changes in DNA sequence’, has emerged as a promissory yet controversial field of scientific inquiry over the past decade. Scholars from many disciplines have formulated both optimistic and cautionary claims regarding its potential normative implications. This article provides a comprehensive review of the nascent lit…
Human rights in the postgenomic era: Challenges and opportunities arising with epigenetics
Over the past twenty-five years, international organizations have adopted human rights declarations in an attempt to address emerging ethical, legal and social concerns associated with genetic research and technologies. While these declarations point to important challenges and potential issues in genetics, the focus on genetics has been criticized for promoting the idea that there is something unique about our genes, and that therefore, they des…
The omics of our lives: Practices and policies of direct-to-consumer epigenetic and microbiomic testing companies
While much attention has gone towards ethical, legal, and social implications of direct-to-consumer genetic testing over the past decades, the rise of new forms of consumer omics has largely escaped scrutiny. In this paper, we analyze the product descriptions, promotional messages, terms of service, and privacy policies of five epigenetic and seven microbiomic testing companies. The advent of such tests online represents a significant shift in co…
Governing the futures of non-invasive prenatal testing: An exploration of social acceptability using the Delphi method
Accountability for Reasonableness as a Framework for the Promotion of Fair and Equitable Research
Despite increased efforts to ensure diversity in genomic research, the exclusion of minority groups from data analyses and publications remains a critical issue. This paper addresses the ethical implications of these exclusions and proposes accountability for reasonableness ( A4R ) as a framework to promote fairness and equity in research. Originally conceived by Norman Daniels and James Sabin to guide resource allocation in the context of health…
Considering the Developing Entity in an Artificial Womb as a Patient
Artificial womb (AW) prototypes are currently being developed with the aim of improving the medical care of extremely premature infants. Despite the seemingly imminent reality of partial ectogenesis (i.e., gestation partially outside a human womb), there is persisting debate about the moral status of the fetus transferred in an AW—henceforth, the “developing entity.” For some, AWs are simply another neonatal intensive cares’ technology. Thus, dev…
Reducing carbon emissions in the healthcare sector: A real-time delphi on challenges and enablers
Healthcare systems are increasingly committing to climate action, yet efforts to reduce their environmental footprint raise operational challenges. Decarbonization initiatives can generate concerns about cost, patient safety, care quality, and equitable access, revealing tensions that complicate implementation. This study examines how experts assess the impact and feasibility of climate-related interventions in healthcare, identifying key challen…
Safe spaces for co-operationalizing one health: Building on momentum in bioethics
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Ethics in Clinical Research (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Public health (4 works) · Public relations (4 works)