Work in progress
book length account of medicine conceived as a “thick” practice of technique brought to bear in a morally inflected manner in the medical realm. A broadly Aristotelian virtue ethics account of what physicians do.
Some recent papers and commentaries
Huddle TS. “On Seeing Long Shadows: Is Academic Medicine at its Core a Practice of Racial Oppression?” In Press, HEC Forum.
Grace A, Forgoros RN, Gordon MA, Huddle TS, Kennergren CK, Soejima K, Stambler BS, Shorofsky S. “Patient Safety Advisory Boards and Risk Evaluation” Heart Rhythm. 2023. Published ahead of print open access at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2023.04.020. published version
Huddle TS. “Against the Turn to Critical Race Theory and “Anti-Racism” in Academic Medicine” In Press, HEC Forum soon available at DOI 10.1007/s10730-022-09471-1. Accepted version is here: HECF-D-21-00078R1 clean. viewable final version is here: https://rdcu.be/cHaGP
Huddle TS “A Moral Argument against Turning Off an Implantable Cardiac Device: Why Deactivation Is a Form of Killing, Not Simply Allowing
a Patient to Die” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 28(2019): 329-337. CQH_28_2_a moral argument against turning off
published version is at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180119000148
Huddle TS “Reply to Sulmasy/Courtois: Why it is Sometimes Unethical to Deactivate Cardiac Implantable Electrical Devices” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 28(2019): 347-352. CQH_28_2_reply to Sulmasy Courtois
published version is at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180119000161
Huddle TS “Last Words: Seeking Understanding, If Not
Agreement, on Killing and Allowing-to-Die” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 28(2019): 359-360. CQH_28_2_last words
published version is at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180119000185
Huddle TS “What Does the Character of Medicine as a Social Practice Imply for Professional Conscientious Objection?” Published online, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
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published version is at: http://rdcu.be/wKpx
Huddle TS “Putting Patient Autonomy in its Proper Place: A Professional Norm-Guided Medical Decision Making Model” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 2016;26(December): 457-482. huddle autonomy proofs 1216 http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/35759
Huddle TS “Suicide, Physician-Assisted Suicide, the Doing-Allowing Distinction, and Double Effect” in Davis, JK (ed.) 2017. End of Life Ethics: New Issues and Arguments London: Routledge.
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Huddle TS, Kertesz SG, Nash R “Academic medical centers should not exclude smokers from employment.” Academic Medicine 2014;89: 843-47.
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exchange with Berman and Crane over tobacco free hiring policies; Academic Medicine 2015;90: 126-127.
tobacco free hiring policies exchange with Berman and Crane
Huddle TS “Political Activism is not Mandated by Medical Professionalism” The American Journal of Bioethics 2014;14: 51-53.
political activism is not mandated
Huddle TS “Fumbling Toward the Future: Internal Medicine and Clinical Care Teams” Annals of Internal Medicine 2013;159: 644-645.
Huddle TS “Dont Ban the Sunset in Pharmaceutical Advertising if it doesn’t Darken the Sky” The American Journal of Bioethics 2013;13: 27-30.
Huddle TS “The Limits of Social Justice as an Aspect of Medical Professionalism” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 2013;38: 369-387.
professionalism and social justice proofs1
Huddle TS “Moral Fiction or Moral Fact? The Distinction between Doing and Allowing in Medical Ethics” Bioethics 2013;27: 257-262.
moral fiction doing and allowing med ethics
Huddle TS and Bailey FA “Pacemaker Deactivation: Withdrawal of Support or Active Ending of Life?” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 2012;33: 421-433.
Huddle TS “Honesty is an Internal Norm of Medical Practice; and the Best Policy” The American Journal of Bioethics 2012;12:15-17.
Huddle TS “Clarifying the Dispute over Academic-Industry Relationships” The American Journal of Bioethics 2011; 11: 47-48.
Huddle TS and Kristina R Maletz. Clinical Case Commentaries. Physician Involvement with Politics—Obligation or Avocation? AMA Journal of Ethics 13(2011): 757-764. online version
Huddle TS and Centor RM “Retainer Medicine is an Ethically Legitimate Form of Internal Medicine Practice that will Likely Improve the Status of Primary Care in the United States” and exchange with correspondents. Annals of Internal Medicine 2011;155: 633-35 and 2012;156: 399-401.
retainer medicine letters and response annals 12
Huddle TS “Medical Professionalism and Medical Education Should Not Involve Commitments to Political Advocacy” and exchange with correspondents. Academic Medicine 2011;86: 378-383, 1061-65 and 2012;87:132.
medical professionalism advocacy letters and response acad med 11
regarding physician advocacy final 2-12
Huddle TS. “The Pitfalls of Deducing Ethics from Behavioral Economics: Why the Association of American Medical Colleges is Wrong About Pharmaceutical Detailing” and “Reply to Commentaries” The American Journal of Bioethics 2010; 1-8 and w1-3.
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Huddle TS and Heudebert GR. “Internal Medicine Training in the 21st Century” Academic Medicine 2008;83: 910-15.
Huddle TS, Schwartz MA, Bailey FA, and Bos MA. “Death, organ transplantation and medical practice” Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2008;3:5:1-11.
Huddle, TS. “Drug Reps and the Academic Medical Center; a case for management rather than prohibition” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 2008;51: 251-60.
Huddle, TS. “The limits of objective assessment of medical practice” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 2007;28:487-496.