Assistant Professor of Philosophy, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Clinical Sciences, Program in Ethics in Science and Medicine, Division of Clinical Research Ethics, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

UT Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Psychiatry
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75390-9070
Office: 214-648-5118
Fax: 214-648-4967
E-mail: fabrice.jotterand@utsouthwestern.edu

Ethics/Medical Humanities Areas of Expertise/Interest:

Medical Ethics
Bioethics
Philosophy of Medicine
Medical Professionalism
Research Ethics
Ethics and Nanotechnology
Neuroethics

CME Lectures:

Ethical issues in nanotechnology/nanomedicine
Technology and the practice of medicine
Medical Professionalism
Issues in Research Ethics

Public Lectures:

Social and ethical implications of nanotechnology
Ethics and Human Enhancement

Recent Ethics/Medical Humanities Publications:

"Individual Responsibility and Solidarity in European Health Care", The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2008, 33, 191-197, co-author; Ruud ter Meulen

"Beyond Therapy and Enhancement: The Alteration of Human Nature”, Nanoethics, 2008, 2, 15-23

“Ethics and Nanotechnology: Toward a Procedural Integrated Model” in Laurie Zoloth and Marta Flory (Eds.), The Social Scale: The Weight of Justice. (forthcoming, Johns Hopkins University Press)

"Nanomedicine: How it Could Reshape Clinical Practice", Nanomedicine, 2007, 2:4, 401-405

“The Politicization of Science and Technology: Its Implications for Nanotechnology”, The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 2006, 34:4, 658-666

“Bioethics and the Philosophy of Medicine: A Thirty-Year Perspective”, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2006, 31, 565-568, co-authors: H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. and Jeremy R. Garrett

"Bioethics as Biopolitics", The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2006, 31, 205-212, co-author: Jeffrey P. Bishop

“The Hippocratic Oath and Contemporary Medicine: Dialectic Between Past Ideals and Present Reality?”, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2005, 30, 107-128

“Neither Convention nor Constitution - What the Debate on Stem Cell Research Tells Us about the Status of the Common European Ethics”, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2004, 29, 301-312, co-authors: K. Schmidt and C. Foppa

“The Precautionary Principle: A Dialectical Reconsideration”, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2004, 29, 301-312, co-author: H.T. Engelhardt, Jr

“Moral Identity and the Natural Law Theory: A Response to Tollefsen’s ‘Natural Law and Modern Meta-Ethics: A Guided Tour’” in Mark J. Cherry (Ed.) (2004). Natural Law and the Possibility of Global Ethics (pp. 57-67). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

“Institutionalization of Bioethics” in Encyclopedia of the Human Genome (pp. 281-285), David Cooper (Ed.) (2003), co-authors: H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Ana Smith Iltis, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.

“Bioethics in Switzerland” in J.F. Peppin and M.J. Cherry (Eds.) (2003). Regional Perspectives in Bioethics (pp. 135-145). Lisse, The Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger

“Development and Identity of Swiss Bioethics” in H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. and L. M. Rasmussen (Eds.) (2002). Bioethics and Moral Content: National Traditions of Health Care Morality (pp. 121-142). Dordrecht: Kluwer

Key Publications:

Emerging Conceptual, Ethical and Policy Issues in Bionanotechnology. Edited volume (Philosophy & Medicine Book Series) Springer (2008, forthcoming).

The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn: A Pellegrino Reader. Co-edited volume (with H.T. Engelhardt, Jr.). Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press (2008).