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Publications: Dr Amos Epstein

Rotulo A, Epstein M, Kondilis E ( 2020 ) . Fiscal federalism vs fiscal decentralization in healthcare: a conceptual framework . Hippokratia vol. 24 , ( 3 ) 107 - 113 .
Mills F, Epstein M ( 2018 ) . Risk disclosure after Montgomery: Where are we going? . Case Reports in Women's Health vol. 21 ,
EPSTEIN AM ( 2018 ) . The corruption of medical morality under advanced capitalism . Marketisation, Ethics and Healthcare: Policy, Practice and Moral Formation. London: Routledge 2018; 32-48. , Editors: Feiler, T, Hordern, J, Papanikitas, A , Routledge
Epstein M ( 2017 ) . Living kidney donation and masked nationalism in Israel . Indian J Med Ethics vol. 2 , ( 2 ) 121 - 124 .
Epstein M ( 2016 ) . Idealist–Atomist Autonomy and the Commercialization of Biomedicine . The American Journal of Bioethics vol. 16 , ( 2 ) 65 - 67 .
Epstein M, Zosmer A ( 2015 ) . The Limits of Reproductive Freedom: Advanced Maternal Age and Harm to the Unborn Child . The American Journal of Bioethics vol. 15 , ( 11 ) 51 - 52 .
EPSTEIN AM ( 2015 ) . Consent for clinical interventions and medical research . Ethical and Legal Issues in Modern Surgery , Editors: Hakim, N, Papalois, V, Epstein, M , vol. Vol. 2 , Imperial College Press ( London ),
EPSTEIN AM ( 2015 ) . Ethical issues in transplantation . Ethical and legal issues in Modern Surgery , Editors: Hakim, N, Papalois, V, Epstein, M , vol. Vol. 2 , Imperial College Press ( London ),
Hakim N, Papalois V, Epstein M ( 2014 ) . Ethical and Legal Issues in Modern Surgery . World Scientific Publishing Co Inc
EPSTEIN AM ( 2014 ) . The best argument against the organ market still awaits refutation . Abstract: java.sql.Clob org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.WrappedClob java.io.Serializable ,
Epstein M ( 2014 ) . Disclosure of financial conflicts of interest: cui bono, cui malo? . J R Soc Med vol. 107 , ( 8 )
Jefferson T, Doshi P ( 2014 ) . Multisystem failure: the story of anti-influenza drugs . The BMJ vol. 348 , ( apr10 14 )
Epstein M ( 2014 ) . For a truly humanistic ethic, we need truly humanistic medicine . BMJ vol. 348 ,
EPSTEIN AM ( 2014 ) . Patients can’t trust doctors’ advice if we hide our financial connections with drug companies .
EPSTEIN AM ( 2014 ) . Evidence based medicine is broken . BMJ
Epstein M ( 2014 ) . Constructing the legal concept of death: the counterhegemonic option . Am J Bioeth vol. 14 , ( 8 ) 45 - 47 .
Epstein M ( 2014 ) . Playing into the hands of the promarket campaigners . Am J Bioeth vol. 14 , ( 10 ) 39 - 40 .
Epstein M, Danovitch G ( 2013 ) . Organ donation and organ trafficking: from dangerous anarchy to problematic equilibrium . Paediatrics and Child Health vol. 23 , ( 11 ) 492 - 496 .
EPSTEIN AM ( 2012 ) . Ethical issues in transplantation . introduction to Organ Transplantation , Editors: Hakim, N , Edition. 2nd , Imperial College Press ( London ),
Arolker M, Epstein M, Seale C ( 2012 ) . A critical appraisal of ethical sedative use for dying patients: comparative ethnographic study of three palliative care units . BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care vol. 2 , ( Suppl 1 )
EPSTEIN AM ( 2012 ) . A market in organs . Kidney transplantation: Challenging the future , Editors: Veroux, M , Bentham Science Publisher ( Netherlands ),
Al Ameri MN, Epstein M, Johnston A ( 2011 ) . Generic and therapeutic substitution: a response to our critic . Int J Clin Pharm vol. 33 , ( 6 )
EPSTEIN AM ( 2011 ) . Words are all we have . BMJ
Wilson M, Epstein M ( 2011 ) . The dark side of the sun . BMJ vol. 343 ,
Epstein M ( 2011 ) . The Origins of Organ Transplantation: Surgery and Laboratory Science, 1880-1930 . MED HIST vol. 55 , ( 4 ) 560 - 562 .
Caplan A, Danovitch G, Shapiro M, Lavee J, Epstein M ( 2011 ) . Time for a boycott of Chinese science and medicine pertaining to organ transplantation . The Lancet vol. 378 , ( 9798 )
Epstein M, Martin D, Danovitch G ( 2011 ) . Caution: deceased donor organ commercialism! . Transpl Int vol. 24 , ( 9 ) 958 - 964 .
Epstein M ( 2011 ) . Surprising revelations about the organ market . BMJ: British Medical Journal
Epstein M, Wilson M ( 2011 ) . Consent in emergency care research . LANCET vol. 378 , ( 9785 ) 26 - 26 .
Epstein M ( 2011 ) . Critique of Moral Judgment: Sociology Versus Neuroscience . AJOB Neuroscience vol. 2 , ( 2 ) 26 - 28 .
Epstein M ( 2011 ) . If I were a rich man could I sell a pancreas? A study in the locus of oppression . J Med Ethics vol. 37 , ( 2 ) 109 - 112 .
EPSTEIN AM, Wilson M ( 2011 ) . A sunshine act for Europe The dark side of the sun . BMJ: British Medical Journal vol. 343 , Article 2. Wilson M, Epstein ,
EPSTEIN AM ( 2011 ) . Introduction to philosophy of science . Researching Society and Culture 3rd Edition , Edition. Sage , SAGE Publications Ltd
AlAmeri M, Epstein M, Johnston A ( 2010 ) . Generic and therapeutic substitutions: are they always ethical in their own terms? . Pharm World Sci vol. 32 , ( 6 ) 691 - 695 .
Epstein M ( 2010 ) . The Truth of Scientific Medicine . SOCIOL HEALTH ILL vol. 32 , ( 7 ) 1120 - 1121 .
EPSTEIN AM ( 2010 ) . The Filipino connection: a response to our critics . BMJ
EPSTEIN AM, Chua A, Danovitch GM ( 2010 ) . The Filipino connection . BMJ
Epstein M ( 2010 ) . HOW WILL THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN AFFECT ACADEMIC BIOETHICS? . BIOETHICS vol. 24 , ( 5 ) 226 - 233 .
EPSTEIN AM ( 2010 ) . Capitalising on the disenfranchised . BMJ
Al Ameri M, Johnston A, Epstein M ( 2010 ) . Ethical issues in generic and therapeutic substitution . PHARM WORLD SCI vol. 32 , ( 2 ) 269 - 269 .
EPSTEIN AM ( 2010 ) . The organ crisis . Project Syndicate
EPSTEIN AM, Al Ameri MN, Johnston A ( 2009 ) . Ethical issues in generic and therapeutic substitution . Presented at: William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry ,
Epstein M ( 2009 ) . Pros and cons of a regulated market in organs . LANCET vol. 374 , ( 9707 ) 2049 - 2050 .
Epstein M ( 2009 ) . Death with dignity: Thin ice over murky water . BMJ
Epstein M ( 2009 ) . Sociological and ethical issues in transplant commercialism . Curr Opin Organ Transplant vol. 14 , ( 2 ) 134 - 139 .
Epstein M, Danovitch G ( 2009 ) . Is altruistic-directed living unrelated organ donation a legal fiction ? . NEPHROL DIAL TRANSPL vol. 24 , ( 2 ) 357 - 360 .
Epstein M ( 2009 ) . The Political Economy of Death and the History of Its Criteria . REVIEWS IN THE NEUROSCIENCES vol. 20 , ( 3-4 ) 293 - 297 .
Turkey ATM2PITISOTTAOTCBTTSAISONII ( 2008 ) . The Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism . Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology vol. 3 , ( 5 ) 1227 - 1231 .
Epstein M ( 2008 ) . 'Tell us what you want to do, and we'll tell you how to do it ethically'--academic bioethics: routinely ideological and occasionally corrupt . Am J Bioeth vol. 8 , ( 8 ) 63 - 65 .
Epstein M ( 2008 ) . The Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism: an important international achievement with one disturbing loophole . BMJ
Zosmer A, Epstein M, Al-Shawaf T ( 2008 ) . Ethical recruitment of patients for PGS trial . HUM REPROD vol. 23 , ( 6 ) 1472 - 1472 .
EPSTEIN AM ( 2008 ) . Pseudononcommercialism: The Trojan horse of the organ market . Organ transplantation: Ethical, legal and psychological aspects. Expanding the European platform. Emmerich: Pabst Science Publishers. , Editors: Weimar, W, Bos, M, van Busschbach, J , Edition. Pabst Science Publishers ,
Epstein M ( 2007 ) . The ethics of poverty and the poverty of ethics: the case of Palestinian prisoners in Israel seeking to sell their kidneys in order to feed their children . J Med Ethics vol. 33 , ( 8 ) 473 - 474 .
Epstein M ( 2007 ) . Clinical trials in the developing world . LANCET vol. 369 , ( 9576 ) 1859 - 1859 .
Epstein M ( 2007 ) . Legal and institutional fictions in medical ethics: a common, and yet largely overlooked, phenomenon . J Med Ethics vol. 33 , ( 6 ) 362 - 364 .
Epstein M ( 2007 ) . The concept of brain death: let us not ignore the context of its social reception . JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS
Epstein M, Wingate DL ( 2007 ) . Is the NHS research ethics committees system to be outsourced to a low-cost offshore call centre? Reflections on human research ethics after the Warner Report . J Med Ethics vol. 33 , ( 1 ) 45 - 47 .
Epstein M ( 2007 ) . Legitimizing the shameful: end-of-life ethics and the political economy of death . Bioethics vol. 21 , ( 1 ) 23 - 31 .
Epstein M ( 2006 ) . Why effective consent presupposes autonomous authorisation: a counterorthodox argument . J Med Ethics vol. 32 , ( 6 ) 342 - 345 .
Mozes B, Epstein M, Ben-Bassat I, Modan B, Halkin H ( 2003 ) . Evaluation of the appropriateness of blood and blood product transfusion using preset criteria . Transfusion vol. 29 , ( 6 ) 473 - 476 .
EPSTEIN AM ( 2002 ) . an age old dilemma . Haaretz
EPSTEIN AM ( 2001 ) . The new medical ethics and the ideology of the health care market: the birth of a new social consciousness . Zmanim Quarterly for History vol. 73 , 88 - 95 .
EPSTEIN AM ( 2001 ) . The right to die with dignity in Israel: other thoughts about ethics and policy . Journal of Medicine and Law240 - 255 .
EPSTEIN AM ( 2001 ) . Air Pollution and Public Health in Israel: Current State, Social Aspects and the Change Needed . Heschel Center ( Israel ),
EPSTEIN AM ( 2000 ) . Health, market, and alleged liberty: the Patient’s Rights Act in historical context . Journal of Medicine and Law6 - 13 .
EPSTEIN AM ( 1999 ) . Euthanasia in historical context: autonomy and rationing . Harefuah vol. 137 , ( 3-4 ) 117 - 119 .