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Donna Dickenson

Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics, University of London
Verified email at bristol.ac.uk
Cited by 3546

Commodification of human tissue: implications for feminist and development ethics

D Dickenson - Developing World Bioethics, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
One effect of late capitalism – the commodification of practically everything – is to knock down
the Chinese walls between the natural and productive realms, to use a Marxist framework. …

Body shopping: The economy fuelled by flesh and blood

D Dickenson - 2008 - philpapers.org
'An alarming and illuminating book. The story of how we have allowed private corporations
to patent genes, to stockpile human tissue, and in short to make profits out of what many …

[BOOK][B] Property in the Body

D Dickenson - 2017 - books.google.com
We live in an era when all bodies are potentially'feminised'by being rendered'open-access'
for biomedical research and clinical practice. Adopting a theoretically sophisticated and …

[HTML][HTML] Geneva statement on heritable human genome editing: the need for course correction

R Andorno, F Baylis, M Darnovsky, D Dickenson… - Trends in …, 2020 - cell.com
As public interest advocates, policy experts, bioethicists, and scientists, we call for a course
correction in public discussions about heritable human genome editing. Clarifying …

Overvaluing individual consent ignores risks to tribal participants

KS Tsosie, JM Yracheta, D Dickenson - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Genomic studies often rely on individual-based consent approaches for tribal members
residing outside of their communities. This consent model fails to acknowledge the risks to …

Risk and luck in medical ethics

D Dickenson - 2003 - philpapers.org
This book examines the moral luck paradox, relating it to Kantian, consequentialist and
virtue-based approaches to ethics. It also applies the paradox to areas in medical ethics, …

[BOOK][B] Me medicine vs. we medicine: Reclaiming biotechnology for the common good

D Dickenson - 2013 - degruyter.com
I find it very interesting that the vaccine does the opposite of what its [sic] supposed to do. Is
any one open to the thought that this is intentional? That the people in power are using this …

[BOOK][B] Death, dying and bereavement

D Dickenson, M Johnson, J Katz - 2000 - books.google.com
This second edition, which has also been edited by Samson Katz, utilizes around half of the
original text, of which a significant portions has been revised and updated. The remainder …

Property and women's alienation from their own reproductive labour

DL Dickenson - Bioethics, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
There is an urgent need for reconstructing models of property to make them more women‐friendly.
However, we need not start from scratch: both ‘canonical’ and feminist authors can …

Are medical ethicists out of touch? Practitioner attitudes in the US and UK towards decisions at the end of life

DL Dickenson - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2000 - jme.bmj.com
Objectives—To assess whether UK and US health care professionals share the views of
medical ethicists about medical futility, withdrawing/withholding treatment, ordinary/…