Assistant Professor of Clinical Sciences and Psychiatry (Bioethics/Philosophy)
Division of Ethics and Health Policy, Department of Clinical Sciences
Division of Ethics, Department of Psychiatry
Chairman, Donor Advocacy Team Committee, University Hospital-St. Paul Hospital, UT Southwestern Medical Center

Editor-in-Chief
The Internet Journal of Law, Healthcare and Ethics

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

Current Research

Ethics/Medical Humanities Areas of Expertise/Interest:

Bioethics/Research Ethics
Philosophy of Medicine
Medical Professionalism
Ethics of Kidney Transplants
Ethics and Nanotechnology
Neuroethics

CME Lectures:

Informed Consent and The Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Treatment Resistant Depression
Ethical issues in nanotechnology/nanomedicine
Brain-computer interface and neuroethics
Technology and the practice of medicine
Medical professionalism
Issues in research ethics
Health care allocation and the concept of justice

Public Lectures:

Social and ethical implications of nanotechnology
Ethics and human enhancement
Neuro-digital interface
Justice and access to health care

Recent Ethics/Medical Humanities Publications:

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

Jotterand, F. (2003). “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.

Engelhardt, Jr., H.T., Smith, A. & Jotterand, F. (2003). “Institutionalization of Bioethics” in Encyclopedia of the Human Genome (pp. 281-285), David Cooper (Ed.) Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.

Jotterand, F. (2004). “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.). Natural Law and the Possibility of Global Ethics (pp. 57-67). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Engelhardt, Jr., H.T. & Jotterand, F. (2004). “The Precautionary Principle: A Dialectical Reconsideration”, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 29, 301-312.

Schmidt, K., Foppa, C. & Jotterand, F. (2004). “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 29, 301-312.

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

Bishop, J.P. & Jotterand, F. (2006). "Bioethics as Biopolitics", The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 31, 205-212.

Engelhardt, Jr., H.T., Garett, J.R. & Jotterand, F. (2006).“Bioethics and the Philosophy of Medicine: A Thirty-Year Perspective”, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 31, 565-568.

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

Jotterand, F. (2007). "Nanomedicine: How it Could Reshape Clinical Practice", Nanomedicine 2:4, 401-405.

Jotterand, F. (2007). "Beyond Therapy and Enhancement: The Alteration of Human Nature”, Nanoethics 2,15-23.

Ter Meulen, R. & Jotterand, F. (2008). "Individual Responsibility and Solidarity in European Health Care", The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 33, 191-197.

Engelhardt, Jr., H.T., Smith, A. & Jotterand, F. (forthcoming). “Institutionalization of Bioethics” (update) in Encyclopedia of the Life Sciences (ELS). Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.

Jotterand, F. (forthcoming). "Human Dignity and Transhumanism: Do Anthro-technological Devices Have Moral Status?", American Journal of Bioethics.

Jotterand, F. (forthcoming). “Ethics and Nanotechnology: Toward a Procedural Integrated Model” in Laurie Zoloth, Bryan Breau & Daniel Seltzer (Eds.), The Social Scale: The Weight of Justice. The MIT Press.

Jotterand, F., McClintock, S.M., Alexander, A.A. & Husain, M.M. (forthcoming). “Ethics and Informed Consent of Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) for Patients with Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD)”, NeuroEthics.

Sadler, J.Z., Jotterand, F., Craddock Lee, S., Inrig, S. (forthcoming). "Can Medicalization Be Good? Situating Medicalization within Bioethics", Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics.

Key Publications:

Engelhardt, Jr. H.T. & Jotterand, F. (Eds.) (2008). The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn: A Pellegrino Reader. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.

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

Garrett, J.R., Jotterand, F. & Ralston D.C. (Eds.) (forthcoming). The Development of Bioethics in the United States (Philosophy & Medicine Book Series). Dordrecht: Springer.