The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 22, Issue 10 (2022)

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Guest Editorial

Against Whitecoat Washing: The Need for Formal Human Rights Assessment in International Collaborations
Jacob M. Appel
Pages: 1-4
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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E-Cigarettes and the Multiple Responsibilities of the FDA
Larisa Svirsky, Dana Howard & Micah L. Berman
Pages: 5-14
Published online: 19 Apr 2021
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Open Peer Commentaries

Article Commentary
Limitations on the Capability of the FDA to Advise
Leah Z. Rand & Aaron S. Kesselheim
Pages: 15-17
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article Commentary
Harm Reduction Ethics, Public Health, and the Manufacture of Doubt
Daniel S. Goldberg
Pages: 18-20
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article Commentary
Advice on Vaping in the Face of Empirical and Ethical Uncertainty
Kalle Grill
Pages: 20-22
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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E-Cigarettes, the FDA’s Strategic Orientation, and Lessons from the Opioid Crisis
Jake Monaghan & Brandon del Pozo
Pages: 23-25
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article Commentary
Stepping Up or Stepping Back: FDA Roles in Producing and Shaping Knowledge of Pediatric Covid-19 Vaccines
Elizabeth Lanphier & Sophia Bessias
Pages: 26-28
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article Commentary
E-Cigarette Use and Regulation: A Comparative Analysis between the United States, the UK, and China
Hui Zhang, Yuming Wang, Lijun Shen, Yue Gu & Fengmin Shao
Pages: 29-31
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article Commentary
External Dynamics Contextualizing the FDA’s Role in E-Cigarette Regulation
Omar Gaidarov & Rachel Asher
Pages: 32-34
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Moral Wrongs, Epistemic Wrongs, and the FDA
Jack Harris
Pages: 34-37
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article
Harmful Choices, the Case of C, and Decision-Making Competence
Neil Pickering, GIles Newton-Howes & Greg Young
Pages: 38-50
Published online: 13 Jul 2021
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Open Peer Commentaries

Article Commentary
Conceptual Compatibility and Transparency in Capacity Assessments
Peter Maloy Koch
Pages: 51-53
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article Commentary
Against Over-Protectionism: Riskier Decisions Require Clearer Evidence of Capacity But Don’t Call for Stricter Criteria
Manuel Trachsel & Paul S. Appelbaum
Pages: 53-55
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article Commentary
An Externalist, Process-Based Approach to Supported Decision-Making
Leslie P. Francis, Barbara E. Bierer & Michael Ashley Stein
Pages: 55-58
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article Commentary
Against Externalism: Maintaining Patient Autonomy and the Right to Refuse Medical Treatment
Megan S. Wright
Pages: 58-60
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article Commentary
We Don’t Offer What Can’t Be Chosen: Why Harmful Consequences Should Not Be “Decisive” in Assessing Decision-Making
David J. Satin, Marc Tunzi & Philip Day
Pages: 60-62
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article Commentary
The Nature of Harm: A Wine-Dark Sea
Eli G. Schantz & Mark D. Fox
Pages: 63-65
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article Commentary
Against Externalism in Capacity Assessment—Why Apparently Harmful Treatment Refusals Should Not Be Decisive for Finding Patients Incompetent
Brian D. Earp, Joanna Demaree-Cotton & Julian Savulescu
Pages: 65-70
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article Commentary
When Limiting Liberty, Tread Carefully: Autonomous Free Choices Should Not Be Overruled Because of the Beliefs and Values of the Decider
Johan Christiaan Bester
Pages: 70-72
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article Commentary
On the Relationship between Competence and Welfare
Daniel Fogal & Ben Schwan
Pages: 73-75
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article Commentary
Determinations of Competence Ought Not to Be Primarily Grounded in Paternalistic Justifications regarding Welfare
Hojjat Soofi & Anson Fehross
Pages: 75-78
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article Commentary
“Harmful” Choices and Subjectivity: Against an Externalist Approach to Capacity Assessments
Harleen Kaur Johal, Aoife M. Finnerty & Jordan A. Parsons
Pages: 78-81
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article Commentary
The Value of Value in Decision-Making Competence Assessments
Isaac Atley
Pages: 81-83
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article Commentary
Preserve Patient Autonomy; Resist Expanding the Harm Principle to Override Decisions by Competent Patients
Edward McArdle
Pages: 84-86
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Case Report

Case Report
To Disclose or Not to Disclose: Secondary Findings of XXY Chromosomes
Benjamin S. Wilfond, Devan M. Duenas & Liza-Marie Johnson
Pages: 87-88
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article Commentary
Respecting Autonomy and Balancing Benefits by Disclosing the Secondary Finding of Klinefelter’s
Skye Adell Miner & D. Micah Hester
Pages: 89-91
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article Commentary
When to Disclose a Borderline Incidental Finding
Susanna McGrew & Benjamin E. Berkman
Pages: 91-93
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article Commentary
The Importance of Defining Actionability as Related to Disclosure of Secondary Findings Identified in Research
Jordan Brown & Dana Howard
Pages: 93-95
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Article Commentary
Clarifying the Blurry Boundaries between Research and Clinical Care
Forough Noohi & Lainie F. Ross
Pages: 96-98
Published online: 28 Sep 2022
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Correspondence

Identity and Liberalism in Public Health: A Response to the Open Peer Commentaries
Hafez Ismaili M'hamdi
Pages: W1-W5
Published online: 30 Sep 2021
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Response to Open Peer Commentaries: On Social Harms, Big Tech, and Institutional Accountability
James A. Anderson, Melissa D. McCradden & Elizabeth A. Stephenson
Pages: W6-W8
Published online: 20 May 2022
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The Principle of Autonomy in Biomedical- and Neuroethics
Barend W. Florijn
Pages: W9-W11
Published online: 21 Jun 2022
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