Ethics

Guest-Blogging: Introduction

By Daniel Goldberg

Adam was kind enough to allow me to bend the ears of the N&L readership, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to give you a quick introduction.  I'm currently a lawyer and a full-time Ph.D student in ethics & the medical humanities at University of Texas Medical Branch.  I've finished my coursework and am currently preparing for my qualifying exams, which I hope to take in early summer.  I'm also a health policy fellow with Baylor College of Medicine's Chronic Disease Prevention & Control Research Center, and a Research Professor with the fledgling Initiative on Law, Brains & Behavior at BCM's Department of Neuroscience.

I am definitely a fox, though given my commitment and training in interdisciplinary studies, perhaps my wanderin' soul is more easily understood.  My dissertation will be on the devastating undertreatment of pain both in the U.S. and globally.  I am also very interested in conflicts of interest in clinical practice and research, disability studies, and, more recently, the social determinants of health and disparities.  I have a background in philosophy, and I even dabbled there too -- ethics, philosophy of science, some philosophy of language, some philosophy of mind, etc.

For a flavor of the general topics and issues that pique my interest, y'all can check out my full-time blogging stint at Medical Humanities Blog.  Here, I'll obviously focus on neuroethics issues, and I hope to say a few small things about my general approach to pain, which is quite different from most others I know who are working on the topic. 

Full post as published by Neuroethics and Law on March 16, 2008 (boomark / email).