Fabrice Jotterand, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Clinical Sciences, Psychiatry

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390


Office Fax: 214-648-4967

fabrice.jotterand@utsouthwestern.edu

Biography

Fabrice Jotterand, PhD (Rice University) is a bioethicist. He is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Ethics and Health Policy in the Department of Clinical Sciences at UT Southwestern. He holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry (Division of Ethics) and is an Academic Fellow at the Center for Neurotechnology Studies, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. He also chairs the Donor Advocacy Team Committee. He is the co-Editor-in-Chief of The Internet Journal of Law, Healthcare and Ethics; Associate Editor of the Archives of Public Health and serves on the Editorial Boards of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy and Nanoethics: Ethics for Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale.  He has written numerous articles, reviews and book chapters in the area of neuroethics and bioethics, and has edited three books: The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn: A Pellegrino Reader (2008); Emerging Conceptual, Ethical and Policy Issues in Bionanotechnology (2008) and The Development of Bioethics in the United States (2012). His teaching and scholarly interests focus on neuroethics, research ethics, the philosophy of medicine and medical professionalism. He is currently working on a book to develop a neuroethics framework for the assessment of the ethical, legal/regulatory and social implications of the use of neurotechnologies in psychiatry for the detection, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders such as psychopathy.

 

Education

Graduate SchoolRice University (2005)
Graduate SchoolMcgill University - Canada (2000)
Graduate SchoolGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (1999)

Research Interests

Bioethics/Medical Ethics
Ethics and Nanotechnology/Nanomedicine
Neuroethics
Philosophy of Medicine
Research Ethics

Publications

Transcranial magnetic stimulation, deep brain stimulation and personal identity: Ethical questions, and neuroethical approaches for medical practice.

Jotterand F, Giordano J, International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England), 2011 Oct; 23 (5):476-85

Virtue Engineering? and Moral Agency: Will Post-Humans Still Need the Virtues?

Jotterand F, AJOB Neuroscience, 2011; 2(4):3-9

Managing the "known unknowns": theranostic cancer nanomedicine and informed consent.

Jotterand F, Alexander AA, Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2011 ; 726:413-29

Human dignity and transhumanism: do anthro-technological devices have moral status?

Jotterand F, The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, 2010 Jul; 10 (7):45-52

Ethics and Informed Consent of Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) for Patients with Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD)

Jotterand F, McClintock SM, Alexander AA, Husain MM , NeuroEthics, 2010; 3:13-22

Can medicalization be good? Situating medicalization within bioethics.

Sadler JZ, Jotterand F, Lee SC, Inrig S, Theoretical medicine and bioethics, 2009 ; 30 (6):411-25

Individual responsibility and solidarity in European health care: further down the road to two-tier system of health care.

Ter Meulen R, Jotterand F, The Journal of medicine and philosophy, 2008 Jun; 33 (3):191-7

Beyond therapy and enhancement: The alteration of human nature

Jotterand, F , Nanoethics , 2008; (2):15-23

Nanomedicine: how it could reshape clinical practice.

Jotterand F, Nanomedicine (London, England), 2007 Aug; 2 (4):401-5

Books

Emerging Conceptual, Ethical and Policy Issues in Bionanotechnology

Jotterand, F. , Springer (Dordrecht) 2008

The Development of Bioethics in the United States

Garrett, J.R., Jotterand, F. & Ralston, D.C., Springer (Dordrecht) 2012

The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn: A Pellegrino Reader

H.T. Engelhart, Jr. & Jotterand, F., Notre Dame University of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame) 2008

The Neurobiology of Social Disruption: Intersectional Perspectives on Psychiatry, Pathology and Society

Jotterand, F. & Giordano, J. , Potomac Institute Press (Arlingtong, VA) (in preparation)