Stephen Latham’s Publications
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Identification of Patients Expected to Benefit from Electronic Alerts for Acute Kidney Injury (Co-authored with A. Biswas, C.R. Parikh, H.I. Feldman, AX Garg, H. Lin, P.M. Palevsky, U. Ugwuowo and F.P. Wilson), forthcoming in Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (2018).
Debating Medical Utility, Not Futility: Ethical Dilemmas in Treating Critically Ill People Who Use Injection Drugs (Co-authored with S. Baldassarri, I. Lee, and G. D’Onofrio), forthcoming in Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (2018).
Genetics, Ethics and Education. S. Bouregy, E. Grigorenko, S. Latham and M. Tan, eds. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Introduction (co-authored with S. Bouregy, E. Grigorenko and M. Tan) and Conclusion: How Might School Systems Use Genetic Data? in Bouregy, Grigorenko, Latham and Tan, eds., Genetics, Ethics and Education (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Responsibility for Collateral Harm (open peer commentary), 17 American Journal of Bioethics 10:55-57 (October 2017).
Trump’s Abortion-Promoting Aid Policy, 47 Hastings Center Report 4:7-8 (July/August 2017).
On Essentiality and the World Health Organization’s Model List of Essential Medicines,(co-authored with VA Marks and SP Kishore), forthcoming in Annals of Global Health (2017).
Encyclopedia Entries on Classical Political Economy, Price Fixing, Consumer and Producer Surplus, Marginal Revenue, and Sunset Laws, in Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, ed. R. Kolb (London: SAGE Publications, 2d ed. 2017).
Lawrence Gostin’s Enthusiastic Globalism (book review of L. Gostin, Global Health Law). 46 Hastings Center Report 6 (Nov/Dec 2016).
Moral Distress and Cooperation with Wrongdoing (open peer commentary), 16 American Journal of Bioethics 12 (December 2016).
Proceed With Caution: The NIH won’t follow the U.K.’s lead on human genome editing, but others in the U.S. will (Blog post). US News and World Report “Policy Dose” Blog, February 8, 2016. Available here.
Political Theory, Values and Public Health, 9 Public Health Ethics 2:139-149 (2016) (special issue on “Civic Republicanism as a Basis for Public Health,” J. De Wispelaere and J. Coggon, eds.); first published online 12/9/2015.
“Aid in Dying” in the Courts, 45 Hastings Center Report 3:11-12 (May/June 2015).Subsequent exchange with K. Tucker, 45 Hastings Center Report 5:3-4 (Sept/Oct 2015).
What Makes a Death “Good”? in L. Dugdale, ed., Dying in the 21st Century (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015).
Approval Parties! Faculty Ad-Hoc Meetings for Exempt/Expedited Determinations (co-authored with B. Dionne, C. McDaniel and C. Montano), peer-reviewed poster session presented at Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) annual meeting, November 13, 2015, Boston, MA.
On-Target with On-Site IRB Reviews and Approvals (co-authored with B. Dionne, C. McDaniel and C. Montano), peer-reviewed poster session presented at PRIM&R annual meeting, November 13, 2015, Boston, MA.
The SUPPORT Study Case: Not Vindication (Online commentary), The Hastings Center’s Bioethics Forum, September 10, 2015. Available here.
Contributing Editor of The Ethics of Suicide, M. Battin, ed., (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015) entries on “Increase Mather” and “Cotton Mather.”
Professionalization of Clinical Ethics Consultation: Defining (Down) the Code (open peer commentary), 15 American Journal of Bioethics 5:54-56 (May, 2015).
Facilitated Discussion: Good and Good for You (open peer commentary), 15 American Journal of Bioethics 1, pp. 58-59 (January 2015).
The Role and Reliability of Surgical Residents in Obtaining Informed Consent (Co-authored with C. Thiessen, Q. Yang, J. Wang and R. Gusberg), 186 Journal of Surgical Research 2:675 (Feb 2014).
Time to Decriminalize HIV Status, 43 Hastings Center Report 5:12-13 (Sept./Oct. 2013). Subsequent exchange with T. Murphy, 44 Hastings Center Report 2:4-5 (March/April 2014).
Encyclopedia of Bioethics (6 vols.), B. Jennings, ed.-in-chief, L. Eckenwiler, G. Kaebnick, B. Koenig, S. Krimsky, S. Latham, M. Mercurio, assoc. eds. (Macmillan Reference USA, 4th ed. 2014).
Encyclopedia entries in Encyclopedia of Bioethics (Macmillan Reference, 4th ed. 2014) on “Animal Research: Law and Policy” and “[Human Subjects] Research Policy.”
State-law Criminalization of HIV exposure/transmission. Law Atlas Dataset co-authored with Julian Polaris. Funded by a Public Health Law Mapping grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Available at http://lawatlas.org/preview?dataset=hiv-criminalization-statutes.
On Some Difficulties for Any Theory of Global Health Justice, in J. Coggon and S. Gola, eds., Global Health, Global Goods, and International Community (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013).
Living Wills and Alzheimer’s Disease, 23 Quinnipiac Probate Law Journal 4:425-31 (2010). Excerpted in J. Dolgin and L. Shepherd, eds., Bioethics and the Law (New York: Aspen Publishers, 3rd ed. 2013).