Miller, Franklin

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A worthwhile wager: the ethics of open-label placebo treatment in clinical practice. Journal of medical ethics. 2025 Academic Article GET IT
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Individual difference factors that predict evaluations and acceptance of authorized concealment for the reduction of nocebo side effects. Patient education and counseling. 2025 Academic Article GET IT
Clinical trials are not the solution to inequities in cancer care. Gynecologic oncology. 2025 Editorial Article GET IT
Xenotransplantation: Injustice, Harm, and Alternatives for Addressing the Organ Crisis. The Hastings Center report. 2025 Academic Article GET IT
Are Patients With Cancer Best Managed in a Clinical Trial?. JAMA. 2024 Academic Article GET IT
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The Use of Authorized Concealment to Minimize Nocebo Side Effects: A Survey of US Public Attitudes. Psychotherapy and psychosomatics. 2023 Academic Article GET IT
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Ethical Outreach for Rural Cancer Care in the United States: Balancing Access With Optimal Clinical Outcomes. JCO oncology practice. 2023 Editorial Article GET IT
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Frequency of Adverse Events in the Placebo Arms of COVID-19 Vaccine Trials: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA network open. 2022 Review GET IT
Times cited: 130
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection Challenge Experiments in Nonhuman Primates: An Ethical Perspective. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
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It Is Time to Abandon the Dogma That Brain Death Is Biological Death. The Hastings Center report. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
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Human Infection Challenge Experiments: Then and Now. Ethics & human research. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
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Ethical trade-offs in vaccine development and distribution-Response to Gurwitz. Vaccine. 2021 Letter GET IT
Problems With Paying People to Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19. JAMA. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 61
The Ethics of Continuing Placebo in SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Trials. JAMA. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
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Liberty and Protection of Society During a Pandemic: Revisiting John Stuart Mill. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
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The Legality and Ethics of Mandating COVID-19 Vaccination. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 2021 Academic Article GET IT
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Allocating a COVID-19 Vaccine: Balancing National and International Responsibilities. The Milbank quarterly. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
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The role of community engagement in addressing bystander risks in research: The case of a Zika virus controlled human infection study. Bioethics. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
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So much at stake: Ethical tradeoffs in accelerating SARSCoV-2 vaccine development. Vaccine. 2020 Review GET IT
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Cognitive Bias and Public Health Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 60
Placebos in chronic pain: evidence, theory, ethics, and use in clinical practice. BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 2020 Review GET IT
Times cited: 148
Proportionality, Pandemics, and Medical Ethics. The American journal of medicine. 2020 Editorial Article GET IT
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Unnecessary hesitancy on human vaccine tests-Response. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2020 Comment GET IT
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Current Practice Diagnosing Brain Death Is Not Consistent With Legal Statutes Requiring the Absence of All Brain Function. Journal of intensive care medicine. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 7
Primary care providers' use of and attitudes towards placebos: An exploratory focus group study with US physicians. British journal of health psychology. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 21
Ethics of controlled human infection to address COVID-19. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2020 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 99
The Urge to Build More Intensive Care Unit Beds and Ventilators: Intuitive but Errant. Annals of internal medicine. 2020 Editorial Article GET IT
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The Ethics of Everyday Life in the Midst of a Pandemic. The Hastings Center report. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
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Bioethics as a Vocation. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Belmont Report. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
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Revisiting the Distinction and the Connection Between Research and Practice. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 2020 Academic Article GET IT
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Ethical Challenges of Risk, Informed Consent, and Posttrial Responsibilities in Human Research With Neural Devices: A Review. JAMA neurology. 2019 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 68
Commentary: False Positives in the Diagnosis of Brain Death. Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees. 2019 Comment GET IT
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On Collaboration in Bioethics Scholarship. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 2019 Academic Article GET IT
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Drawing the line on physician-assisted death. Journal of medical ethics. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 15
Open label placebo: can honestly prescribed placebos evoke meaningful therapeutic benefits?. BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 2018 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 99
The Limits and Hazards of Clinical Equipoise on Cardiology Study Design and Conduct. JAMA cardiology. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
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Response-Evaluating human trials: FDA's role. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2018 Comment GET IT
Bystander risk, social value, and ethics of human research. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2018 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 40
Physician-Assisted Death for Psychiatric Patients - Misguided Public Policy. The New England journal of medicine. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 31
Sham-Controlled Trials for Coronary Interventions: Ethically Acceptable and Ethically Important. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2018 Editorial Article GET IT
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Medical Futility and "Brain Death". Perspectives in biology and medicine. 2018 Comment GET IT
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Reining in the Placebo Effect. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 2018 Academic Article GET IT
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Is the concept of clinical equipoise still relevant to research?. BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 2017 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 40
Advice and care for patients who die by voluntarily stopping eating and drinking is not assisted suicide. BMC medicine. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
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Reframing Consent for Clinical Research: A Function-Based Approach. The American journal of bioethics : AJOB. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 112
Do the 'brain dead' merely appear to be alive?. Journal of medical ethics. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 37
The Ethics of Clinical Trials Research in Severe Mood Disorders. Bioethics. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
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Effects of placebos without deception compared with no treatment: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of evidence-based medicine. 2017 Review GET IT
Times cited: 161
Challenging the Conventional Wisdom: From Philosophy to Bioethics. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
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Introduction to the Special Issue. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 2017 Academic Article GET IT
Phase I Cancer Trials and Palliative Care: Antagonism, Irrelevance, or Synergy?. Journal of pain and symptom management. 2016 Conference Paper GET IT
Times cited: 30
Response to Magnus and Wilfond. Clinical trials (London, England). 2016 Letter GET IT
The Ethics of Infection Challenges in Primates. The Hastings Center report. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 13
Is heart transplantation after circulatory death compatible with the dead donor rule?. Journal of medical ethics. 2016 Editorial Article GET IT
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Placebo Effects and the Ethics of Therapeutic Communication: A Pragmatic Perspective. Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 35
When and Why Is Research without Consent Permissible?. The Hastings Center report. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
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Ethical Rationale for the Ebola "Ring Vaccination" Trial Design. American journal of public health. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
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Editors' Introduction. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 2016 Article GET IT
Facing Death. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
Henry Beecher and Consent to Research: a critical re-examination. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
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Should a Legal Option of Physician-Assisted Death Include Those Who Are "Tired of Life"?. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
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Waivers and Alterations to Consent in Pragmatic Clinical Trials: Respecting the Principle of Respect for Persons. IRB. 2016 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 38
To what extent are surgery and invasive procedures effective beyond a placebo response? A systematic review with meta-analysis of randomised, sham controlled trials. BMJ open. 2015 Review GET IT
Times cited: 146
Personal Care in Learning Health Care Systems. Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 6
Effects of placebos without deception compared with no treatment: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ open. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
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Treatment-resistant depression and physician-assisted death. Journal of medical ethics. 2015 Comment GET IT
Times cited: 19
Ethical complexities in standard of care randomized trials: A case study of morning versus nighttime dosing of blood pressure drugs. Clinical trials (London, England). 2015 Academic Article GET IT
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Pragmatic Randomized Trials Without Standard Informed Consent?: A National Survey. Annals of internal medicine. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 50
Vasopressin Boosts Placebo Analgesic Effects in Women: A Randomized Trial. Biological psychiatry. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 96
Involving patients in enrolment decisions for acute myocardial infarction trials. BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 2015 Academic Article GET IT
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The Ethics of Continued Life-Sustaining Treatment for those Diagnosed as Brain-dead. Bioethics. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 12
Placebo Effects in Medicine. The New England journal of medicine. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
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The ethics of placebo treatments in clinical practice: a reply to Glackin. Journal of medical ethics. 2015 Comment GET IT
Times cited: 7
Expanding long-term care options for persons with serious mental illness. JAMA. 2015 Letter GET IT
Understanding placebo effects: Implications for nursing practice. Nursing outlook. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 17
Varieties of standard-of-care treatment randomized trials: ethical implications. JAMA. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
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Reply to S. Gupta et al. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2015 Letter GET IT
In memoriam: Alan Wertheimer. The Hastings Center report. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
On Changing One's Mind in Bioethics. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 2015 Academic Article GET IT
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Placebo and deception: a commentary. The Journal of medicine and philosophy. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
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Subjective and objective outcomes in randomized clinical trials: definitions differed in methods publications and were often absent from trial reports. Journal of clinical epidemiology. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 48
Ethics of cancer clinical trials in low-resource settings. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 8
Understanding and translating the knowledge about placebo effects: the contribution of psychology. Current opinion in psychiatry. 2014 Review GET IT
Times cited: 33
Cost-related motivations for research--reply. JAMA. 2014 Letter GET IT
The meaning of brain death: a different view. JAMA internal medicine. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
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Clinical research before informed consent. Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
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Defining death: the importance of scientific candor and transparency. Intensive care medicine. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
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A narrative review of the empirical evidence on public attitudes on brain death and vital organ transplantation: the need for better data to inform policy. Journal of medical ethics. 2014 Review GET IT
Times cited: 55
Cost-related motivations for conducting research: participants should be informed. JAMA. 2014 Comment GET IT
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Learning from FAME: the need for sham controls in trials of stable coronary disease. JACC. Cardiovascular interventions. 2014 Editorial Article GET IT
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Changing the conversation about brain death. The American journal of bioethics : AJOB. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 59
Evidence, errors, and ethics. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 2014 Review GET IT
Times cited: 7
Reevaluating the placebo effect in medical practice. Zeitschrift fur Psychologie. 2014 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 38
The ethics of peer review in bioethics. Journal of medical ethics. 2013 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 16
There are (STILL) no coercive offers. Journal of medical ethics. 2013 Comment GET IT
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A prescription for ethical learning. Commentary. The Hastings Center report. 2013 Comment GET IT
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Nudging, autonomy, and valid consent: context matters. The American journal of bioethics : AJOB. 2013 Comment GET IT
Times cited: 12
The Stateville penitentiary malaria experiments: a case study in retrospective ethical assessment. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 2013 Academic Article GET IT
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The research-clinical practice distinction, learning health systems, and relationships. The Hastings Center report. 2013 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 34
The potential benefit of the placebo effect in sham-controlled trials: implications for risk-benefit assessments and informed consent. Journal of medical ethics. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 51
Simulated patient studies: an ethical analysis. The Milbank quarterly. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 66
Killing versus totally disabling: a reply to critics. Journal of medical ethics. 2012 Comment GET IT
Phase 1 oncology trials and informed consent. Journal of medical ethics. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 30
Is anything lost if we give up clinical equipoise?. Clinical trials (London, England). 2012 Comment GET IT
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Clinical equipoise and risk-benefit assessment. Clinical trials (London, England). 2012 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 16
Misconceptions about coercion and undue influence: reflections on the views of IRB members. Bioethics. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 63
The placebo phenomenon: implications for the ethics of shared decision-making. Journal of general internal medicine. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 35
What makes killing wrong?. Journal of medical ethics. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
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Clarifying the nocebo effect and its ethical implications. The American journal of bioethics : AJOB. 2012 Comment GET IT
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Going all the way: ethical clarity and ethical progress. The American journal of bioethics : AJOB. 2012 Comment GET IT
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Homage to Henry Beecher (1904-1976). Perspectives in biology and medicine. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
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Money, coercion, and undue inducement: attitudes about payments to research participants. IRB. 2012 Academic Article GET IT
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The enduring legacy of sham-controlled trials of internal mammary artery ligation. Progress in cardiovascular diseases. 2012 Review GET IT
Times cited: 28
Linking insurance coverage for innovative invasive procedures with participation in clinical research. JAMA. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
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Dispensing with equipoise. The American journal of the medical sciences. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
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On authorship. The American journal of bioethics : AJOB. 2011 Comment GET IT
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The fair transaction model of informed consent: an alternative to autonomous authorization. Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 39
Death and legal fictions. Journal of medical ethics. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
Times cited: 53
The placebo phenomenon and medical ethics: rethinking the relationship between informed consent and risk-benefit assessment. Theoretical medicine and bioethics. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
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Research and complicity: the case of Julius Hallervorden. Journal of medical ethics. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
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Balancing access and evaluation in the approval of new cancer drugs. JAMA. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
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Equipoise and the dilemma of randomized clinical trials. The New England journal of medicine. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
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Understanding and harnessing placebo effects: clearing away the underbrush. The Journal of medicine and philosophy. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
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Can research and care be ethically integrated?. The Hastings Center report. 2011 Academic Article GET IT
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Misunderstanding, period. IRB. 2011 Letter GET IT
Moral fictions and medical ethics. Bioethics. 2010 Academic Article GET IT
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The case of vertebroplasty trials: promoting a culture of evidence-based procedural medicine. Spine. 2010 Academic Article GET IT
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Striking the right balance in research ethics and regulation. The American journal of bioethics : AJOB. 2010 Comment GET IT
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Decapitation and the definition of death. Journal of medical ethics. 2010 Academic Article GET IT
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The ethics of sham surgery on research subjects with cognitive impairments that affect decision-making capacity. Contemporary clinical trials. 2010 Academic Article GET IT
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The ethics of research on enhancement interventions. Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal. 2010 Academic Article GET IT
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The dead donor rule: can it withstand critical scrutiny?. The Journal of medicine and philosophy. 2010 Review GET IT
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Biological, clinical, and ethical advances of placebo effects. Lancet (London, England). 2010 Review GET IT
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Can we handle the truth? Legal fictions in the determination of death. American journal of law & medicine. 2010 Academic Article GET IT
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Semiotics and the placebo effect. Perspectives in biology and medicine. 2010 Review GET IT
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Screening and cognitive impairment: ethics of forgoing mammography in older women. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2004 Academic Article GET IT
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The surgical intensivist as mediator of end-of-life issues in the care of critically ill patients. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2003 Review GET IT
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Gene therapy ethics and haemophilia: an inevitable therapeutic future?. Haemophilia : the official journal of the World Federation of Hemophilia. 2003 Review GET IT
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Enrolling decisionally incapacitated subjects in neuropsychiatric research. CNS spectrums. 2000 Academic Article GET IT
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A proposal to restructure hospital care for dying patients. The New England journal of medicine. 1996 Academic Article GET IT
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Disseminated intravascular coagulation and acute myoglobinuric renal failure: a consequence of the serotonergic syndrome. Journal of clinical psychopharmacology. 1991 Letter GET IT
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Ph.D., Columbia University 1977
B.A., Columbia College-Columbia University 1971

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Franklin Miller

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VIVO Weill Cornell Medical College

Franklin Miller Professor of Medical Ethics in Medicine (Courtesy)

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