Potentiality: the ethical foundation of design (2017)
Journal Article
Buwert, P. (2017). Potentiality: the ethical foundation of design. Design Journal, 20(sup1), S4459-S4467. https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1352942

This paper presents the argument that design is by nature an activity which extends and transforms potentiality and that therefore, because of this, it is always an ethical activity. This foundational ethicality does not guarantee that design will al... Read More about Potentiality: the ethical foundation of design.

Aesthetic Justice. Design for a blind-spot culture (2017)
Journal Article
Buwert, P. (2017). Aesthetic Justice. Design for a blind-spot culture. Design Journal, 20(sup1), S38-S48. https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1353017

This paper presents a conception of aesthetic justice which builds on thoughts of Theodor Adorno and Wolfgang Welsch and attempts to reconcile design’s relationships with both aesthetics and ethics. Where legal justice operates on a principle of hom... Read More about Aesthetic Justice. Design for a blind-spot culture.

Ethics and Brain Implants in the Military [Commentary] (2017)
Journal Article
Wigan, M. (2017). Ethics and Brain Implants in the Military [Commentary]. IEEE technology & society magazine, 36(1), 65-68. https://doi.org/10.1109/mts.2017.2654292

Definitions are a key factor when discussing the ethics of brain implants in the military. There is a world of difference between a permanent embedded rewritable chip and an active RFID-managed interface to a nervous system.

Interventions in randomised controlled trials in surgery: issues to consider during trial design (2015)
Journal Article
Blencowe, N. S., Brown, J. M., Cook, J. A., Metcalfe, C., Morton, D. G., Nicholl, J., …Members of the MRC Hub for Trials Methodology Research Network Workshop, . (2015). Interventions in randomised controlled trials in surgery: issues to consider during trial design. Trials, 16(1), 392. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-0918-4

Until recently, insufficient attention has been paid to the fact that surgical interventions are complex. This complexity has several implications, including the way in which surgical interventions are described and delivered in trials. In order for... Read More about Interventions in randomised controlled trials in surgery: issues to consider during trial design.

Hallelujah! using topical examples to Illustrate ethical and business Issues for engineers. (2010)
Conference Proceeding
McEwan, T., & Cairncross, S. (2010). Hallelujah! using topical examples to Illustrate ethical and business Issues for engineers. In Proceedings of FIE 2010 (S3E-1). https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2010.5673348

Technically-oriented undergraduate students are often reluctant to engage with “Legal, Social, Ethical and Professional Issues”. In particular many learners appear to have an increasingly cavalier attitude to intellectual property in digital media. M... Read More about Hallelujah! using topical examples to Illustrate ethical and business Issues for engineers..

Healthcare Professionals’ Experience in Applying Presumed Consent Legislation in Organ Donation: The Norwegian Experience. (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Neades, B. L. (2008, February). Healthcare Professionals’ Experience in Applying Presumed Consent Legislation in Organ Donation: The Norwegian Experience

Healthcare professionals' experiences in applying presumed consent legislation in organ donation in three European countries: a phenomenological study (2007)
Thesis
Neades, B. L. Healthcare professionals' experiences in applying presumed consent legislation in organ donation in three European countries: a phenomenological study. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4343

The crisis in the numbers of donated organs has featured strongly in the U. K. literature highlighting the growing gap between those waiting for a transplant currently 6,698 and the numbers of organs available for transplant in 2006 numbering 2,195 (... Read More about Healthcare professionals' experiences in applying presumed consent legislation in organ donation in three European countries: a phenomenological study.

Consent: Working your Way through the Legal and Ethical Maze (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Neades, B. L. (2007, September). Consent: Working your Way through the Legal and Ethical Maze. Paper presented at The College of Emergency Medicine Conference, Sheffield

Healthcare Professionals’ Experience in Applying Presumed Consent Legislation in Organ Donation in Three European Countries: A Phenomenological Study (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Three European Countries: A Phenomenological Study. Paper presented at Napier University 8th Annual Post Graduate Research Conference, Edinburgh

Organ donation opt in: opt out ethical considerations. (2003)
Presentation / Conference
Neades, B. L. (2003, July). Organ donation opt in: opt out ethical considerations. Paper presented at Conference of the Association of Research Ethical Committees, Glasgow

Exploration of the Impact of presumed consent legislation in the procurement of organs for transplantation on the health care professionals who are subject to this legislation. (2003)
Presentation / Conference
Neades, B. L. (2003, April). Exploration of the Impact of presumed consent legislation in the procurement of organs for transplantation on the health care professionals who are subject to this legislation. Paper presented at Napier University Annual Postgraduate Research Research Conference, Edinburgh