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Developing an ethical framework-guided instrument for assessing bias in EHR-based Big Data studies: a research protocol by Qiao, Shan, Khushf, George, Li, Xiaoming, Zhang, Jiajia, Olatosi, Bankole

“…The emergence of Big Data health research has exponentially advanced the fields of medicine and public health but has also faced many ethical challenges. One…”
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When Religious Language Blocks Discussion About Health Care Decision Making by Khushf, George

“…There is a curious asymmetry in cases where the use of religious language involves a breakdown in communication and leads to a seemingly intractable dispute…”
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What Hope for Reason? A Critique of New Natural Law Theory by Khushf, George

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A Framework for Understanding Medical Epistemologies by KHUSHF, George

“…What clinicians, biomedical scientists, and other health care professionals know as individuals or as groups and how they come to know and use knowledge are…”
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Beware of mereologists bearing gifts: prolegomena to a medical metaphysics by Khushf, George

“…This essay considers implications of formal mereologies and ontologies for medical metaphysics. Edward Fried’s extensional mereological account of the human…”
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Upstream ethics in nanomedicine: a call for research by Khushf, George

“…Insufficient attention has been given to ethical and social issues integral to nanomedicine. Part of this deficiency arises from some mistaken assumptions…”
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An agenda for future debate on concepts of health and disease by Khushf, George

“…The traditional contrast between naturalist and normativist disease concepts fails to capture the most salient features of the health concepts debate. By using…”
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A Matter of Respect: A Defense of the Dead Donor Rule and of a “Whole-Brain” Criterion for Determination of Death by Khushf, George

“…Many accounts of the historical development of neurological criteria for determination of death insufficiently distinguish between two strands of…”
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Points to consider to avoid unfair discrimination and the misuse of genetic information: A statement of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) by Seaver, Laurie H., Khushf, George, King, Nancy M.P., Matalon, Dena R., Sanghavi, Kunal, Vatta, Matteo, Wees, Kristi

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Clinical Utility of Polygenic Risk Scores for Embryo Selection: A Points to Consider Statement of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) by Grebe, Theresa A., Khushf, George, Greally, John M., Turley, Patrick, Foyouzi, Nastaran, Rabin-Havt, Sara, Berkman, Benjamin E., Pope, Kathleen, Vatta, Matteo, Kaur, Shagun

“…(Abstracted from Genet Med 26:101052) Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) quantify the combined associations of multiple single nucleotide variations in an…”
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The interface of genomic information with the electronic health record: a points to consider statement of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) by Grebe, Theresa A., Khushf, George, Chen, Margaret, Bailey, Dawn, Brenman, Leslie Manace, Williams, Marc S., Seaver, Laurie H.

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Clinical utility of polygenic risk scores for embryo selection: A points to consider statement of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) by Grebe, Theresa A., Khushf, George, Greally, John M., Turley, Patrick, Foyouzi, Nastaran, Rabin-Havt, Sara, Berkman, Benjamin E., Pope, Kathleen, Vatta, Matteo, Kaur, Shagun

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Response to Widen et al by Grebe, Theresa A, Khushf, George, Greally, John M, Turley, Patrick, Foyouzi, Nastaran, Rabin-Havt, Sara, Berkman, Benjamin, Pope, Kathleen, Vatta, Matteo, Kaur, Shagun

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Stewardship of Patient Genomic Data: A Policy Statement of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) by Best, Robert G., Khushf, George, Rabin-Havt, Sara Schonfeld, Clayton, Ellen Wright, Grebe, Theresa A., Hagenkord, Jill, Topper, Scott, Fivecoat, Jaime, Chen, Margaret, Grody, Wayne W.

“…(Abstracted from Genet Med 2022;24:509–511) The need for genomic research is a firmly held value of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics…”
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Stewardship of patient genomic data: A policy statement of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) by Best, Robert G., Khushf, George, Rabin-Havt, Sara Schonfeld, Clayton, Ellen Wright, Grebe, Theresa A., Hagenkord, Jill, Topper, Scott, Fivecoat, Jaime, Chen, Margaret, Grody, Wayne W.

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Health as intra-systemic integrity: rethinking the foundations of systems biology and nanomedicine by Khushf, George

“…In current research on systems biology and nanomedicine, we often find an ideal of a new science-based preventive medicine. I consider how disease, cause,…”
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The Ethics of NBIC Convergence by KHUSHF, George

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Systems Theory and the Ethics of Human Enhancement: A Framework for NBIC Convergence by KHUSHF, GEORGE

“…: Representatives from government and the private sector recommend a major, cooperative initiative directed toward using NBIC (nano‐, bio‐, info‐, and cogno‐)…”
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Open Questions in the Ethics of Convergence by Khushf, George

“…After historically situating NBIC Convergence in the context of earlier bioethical debate on genetics, ten questions are raised in areas related to the ethics…”
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The Social Conditions for Nanomedicine: Disruption, Systems, and Lock-in by Best, Robert, Khushf, George

“…Here we consider two ways that nanomedicine might be disruptive. First, low‐end disruptions that are intrinsically unpredictable but limited in scope, and…”
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