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    A Human Right to What Kind of Medicine?Kathryn Muyskens - 2023 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 48 (6):577-590.
    The human right to health, insofar as it is widely recognized, is typically thought to include the right to fair access to adequate healthcare, but the operating conception of healthcare in this context has been under-defined. This lack of conceptual clarity has often led in practice to largely Western cultural assumptions about what validly constitutes “healthcare” and “medicine.” Ethnocentric and parochial assumptions ought to be avoided, lest they give justification to the accusation that universal human rights are mere tools for (...)
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    Medical Pluralism as a Matter of Justice.Kathryn Lynn Muyskens - 2024 - Journal of Medical Humanities 45 (1):95-111.
    Culture, health, and medicine intersect in various ways—and not always without friction. This paper examines how liberal multicultural states ought to interact with diverse communities which hold different health-related or medical beliefs and practices. The debate is fierce within the fields of medicine and bioethics as to how traditional medicines ought to be regarded. What this debate often misses is the relationship that medical traditions have with cultural identity and the value that these traditions can have beyond the confines of (...)
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    The Permissibility of Biased AI in a Biased World: An Ethical Analysis of AI for Screening and Referrals for Diabetic Retinopathy in Singapore.Kathryn Muyskens, Angela Ballantyne, Julian Savulescu, Harisan Unais Nasir & Anantharaman Muralidharan - 2025 - Asian Bioethics Review 17 (1):167-185.
    A significant and important ethical tension in resource allocation and public health ethics is between utility and equity. We explore this tension between utility and equity in the context of health AI through an examination of a diagnostic AI screening tool for diabetic retinopathy developed by a team of researchers at Duke-NUS in Singapore. While this tool was found to be effective, it was not equally effective across every ethnic group in Singapore, being less effective for the minority Malay population (...)
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    When can we Kick (Some) Humans “Out of the Loop”? An Examination of the use of AI in Medical Imaging for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis.Kathryn Muyskens, Yonghui Ma, Jerry Menikoff, James Hallinan & Julian Savulescu - 2025 - Asian Bioethics Review 17 (1):207-223.
    Artificial intelligence (AI) has attracted an increasing amount of attention, both positive and negative. Its potential applications in healthcare are indeed manifold and revolutionary, and within the realm of medical imaging and radiology (which will be the focus of this paper), significant increases in accuracy and speed, as well as significant savings in cost, stand to be gained through the adoption of this technology. Because of its novelty, a norm of keeping humans “in the loop” wherever AI mechanisms are deployed (...)
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    A Human Right to What Kind of Health?Kathryn Muyskens - 2022 - Ethics and Social Welfare 16 (4):364-379.
    Until now, it has mostly been assumed that the kind of health the human right to health is concerned with is clearly understood and universal. Here, I question this assumption and offer an explicitly political and pluralistic account of health that is designed to help guide international and cross-cultural interventions on behalf of health. In order to be a useful mechanism of accountability, the human right to health needs an enforceable minimum standard of health by which to judge situations and (...)
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    Intervening on Behalf of the Human Right to Health: Who, When, and How?Kathryn Muyskens - 2021 - Human Rights Review 22 (2):173-191.
    A common understanding of the political function of human rights is as a trigger for international intervention, with states typically understood to be duty bound by these rights claims. The unique character of the human right to health raises some complications for these conventional views. In this paper, I will argue that because of the unique character of the human right to health, intervention on its behalf can be justified not only in response to outright violation, but also due to (...)
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    Will Confucian Values Help or Hinder the Crisis of Elder Care in Modern Singapore?Kathryn Muyskens - 2020 - Asian Bioethics Review 12 (2):117-134.
    The unique mix of modern Western and traditional Confucian values in Singapore presents young people with contradictory views on duties to aging parents. It remains to be seen whether the changing demands of modern life will result in new generations giving up Confucian family ethics or whether the Confucian dynamic will find a way to adapt to the new pressures. It is the opinion of this author that the Confucian family structure has mixed potential for the growing crisis of elder (...)
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  8. Can an AI-carebot be filial? Reflections from Confucian ethics.Kathryn Muyskens, Yonghui Ma & Michael Dunn - 2024 - Nursing Ethics 31 (6):999-1009.
    This article discusses the application of artificially intelligent robots within eldercare and explores a series of ethical considerations, including the challenges that AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology poses to traditional Chinese Confucian filial piety. From the perspective of Confucian ethics, the paper argues that robots cannot adequately fulfill duties of care. Due to their detachment from personal relationships and interactions, the “emotions” of AI robots are merely performative reactions in different situations, rather than actual emotional abilities. No matter how “humanized” robots (...)
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    Relational epistemic humility in the clinical encounter.Kathryn Muyskens, Chloe Ang & Eric Thomson Kerr - forthcoming - Journal of Medical Ethics.
    Epistemic humility has garnered increased attention in recent years, including within the realm of clinical ethics and is increasingly accepted as an important part of patient-centred practice and clinical care. However, while literature on the topic often states what epistemic humility isnot, there have been few positive definitions given for the term. Further, these few positive definitions downplay the relational nature of epistemic humility, in other words, the ways in which epistemic humility is developed within the clinical encounter through the (...)
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  10. The Other Half of Effective Altruism: Selective Asceticism.Kathryn Muyskens - 2017 - Essays in Philosophy 18 (1):91-106.
    What I seek to do in this paper is to reemphasize what I see as the forgotten or neglected other half of the effective altruist equation. Effective altruists need to take seriously the ways in which their actions contribute to systemic inequality and structural violence. Charitable donation is not enough to create a paradigm shift or stop systemic injustice. In tackling systemic injustice, the ascetic response may allow effective altruists to attack the roots of the problem more directly. Further, the (...)
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    Avoiding Cultural Imperialism in the Human Right to Health.Kathryn Muyskens - 2021 - Asian Bioethics Review 14 (1):87-101.
    As political instruments, human rights can be challenged in two important ways: first, by undermining the claim to universality by appealing to a kind of cultural relativism, and second, by accusing human rights of unjustifiably imposing values that are not genuinely universal (which I dub the problem of parochialism). The human right to health is no exception. If a human right to health is to be a useful instrument in mobilizing action for global health justice, then we need to take (...)
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    Response to Nakamura et al.Kathryn Muyskens, Yonghui Ma, Jerry Menikoff, James Hallinan & Julian Savulescu - 2025 - Asian Bioethics Review 17 (1):17-19.
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    Confucian reflections on the new reproductive model of ROPA.Yonghui Ma, Hua Chen & Kathryn Muyskens - forthcoming - Bioethics.
    Some countries are legalizing same‐sex marriage and assisted reproductive technologies (ART) for homosexual couples. One unique form of ART, ROPA (Reception of Oocytes from Partner), recently stirred up controversy in China, when a custody dispute between a female same‐sex couple who used ROPA brought this reproductive model into the public eye. Some Western scholars have argued for the legitimacy of ROPA from the perspective of autonomy and reproductive rights. Yet, these arguments do not easily translate into all cultural contexts, as (...)
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  14. Decentralized Trials: Let’s Not Overthink It.G. Owen Schaefer, Kathryn Muyskens, Ivan Teo & Jerry Menikoff - 2025 - American Journal of Bioethics 25 (5):89-91.
    Volume 25, Issue 5, May 2025, Page 89-91.
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    Easier Said than Done: The Politics of Medical Integration.Kathryn Muyskens - forthcoming - Asian Bioethics Review:1-14.
    The WHO has recently been advocating for a more inclusive approach within healthcare systems, urging the integration of traditional medicines with biomedicine. Which traditions are perceived as authentic, authoritative or legitimate is as much a political question as it is a conceptual or scientific one. This paper will pose the question: is integration in fact desirable? Proponents may argue that integration will produce a number of benefits: more efficient use of healthcare resources, greater range of patient choice, and respect for (...)
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