Below you will find some selected publications organized thematically:
The Politics of Hope
Howard, D. (2024) The Political Value of Letting Hopes Die. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP).
The Scoundrel and the Visionary: On Reasonable Hope and the Possibility of a Just Future in The Journal of Political Philosophy (2019).
Disability, Well-Being, and (In)Apt Emotions in The Ethics of Ability and Enhancement. Flanigan J., Price T. (eds) Jepson Studies in Leadership. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. (2018)
Public
Fried M, Joshi S, Thomas N, Richards N, Svirsky L, Zettler PJ, Howard D. (2024) Treatment Agreements Do Not Change Clinicians’ Permissive Attitudes of Cannabis Use Among Patients on Long-Term Opioid Therapy. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2024 Nov 25:1-3.
Svirsky, L., Howard, D., Fried, M., Richards, N., Thomas, N., Zettler, P. (2024) The Legal Landscape of Opioid Treatment Agreements. Milbank Quarterly.
Richards, N., Fried, M., Svirsky, L., Thomas, N., Zettler, P., and Howard D. (2023) Clinician Perspectives on Opioid Treatment Agreements: A Qualitative Analysis of Focus Groups. AJOB Empirical Bioethics.
“First, Do No Harm”: Physician Discretion, Racial Disparities, and Opioid Treatment Agreements
with Adrienne Beck and Larisa Svirsky in Journal of Medical Ethics (2021)
Conscientious Objection, Moral Distress, and Public Policy
Howard D, Turner AN, Nemeth J and Padamsee TJ (2025) Ethical burdens of COVID-19 testing: the case for a research agenda to improve effectiveness and equity in pandemic response. Frontiers in Public Health 13:1542587.
Rivlin, K; Bornstein, M; Wascher, J.; Norris, A; Norris-Turner, A.; Howard, D. State Abortion Policy and Moral Distress Among Clinicians Providing Abortion After the Dobbs Decision. (2024) JAMA Network Open. 7(8):e2426248. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.26248
Surrogate Perspectives on Patient Preference Predictors: Good Idea, but I Should Decide How They Are Used in AJOB Empirical Bioethics, (2022) with Allan Rivlin, Philip Candilis, Neal W. Dickert, Claire Drolen, Benjamin Krohmal, Mark Pavlick & David Wendler.
Transformative Choices and the Specter of Regret in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association (2022).
E-cigarettes and the Multiple Responsibilities of the FDA with Larisa Svirsky and Micah Berman in The American Journal of Bioethics [Target Article] (2021)
Civil Disobedience, Not Merely Conscientious Objection, In Medicine in HEC Forum (2020)
Reconsidering the Need for Reconsent at 18 with Benjamin Berkman and David Wendler in Pediatrics (July 2018).
On Valuing Impairment with Sean Aas, in Philosophical Studies, Volume 175, Issue 5: 1113 (May 2018)
The Medical Surrogate as Fiduciary Agent in Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Vol. 45, No. 3 (Fall 2017).
'Hey everybody, don't get pregnant’: Zika, the WHO, and an Ethical Framework for Advising with Katherine Byron in Journal of Medical Ethics Vol. 43 (May 1, 2017).
Transforming Others: On the Limits of ‘You’ll Be Glad I did it Reasoning in Res Philosophica, Vol. 92, No. 2, (2015)
Beyond Instrumental Value: Respecting The Will of Others and Deciding On Their Behalf with David Wendler in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability. Edited by Adam Cureton and David T. Wasserman. Oxford University Press (2020)
Paternalism and Deciding for the Incompetent in The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Paternalism. ed. Kalle Grill and Jason Hanna. Taylor & Francis/Routledge (2018)