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Ethical dilemma: codes of practice, why they don't work and why we need them. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2017, March). Ethical dilemma: codes of practice, why they don't work and why we need them. Presented at Can I Really Do This?

The very term ‘ethics’ falters unhelpfully in its usage. On a common sense level, we all know what we mean when we hear or use the term but in practice it signifies both a mode of responding and, increasingly, a set of guidelines or strictures which... Read More about Ethical dilemma: codes of practice, why they don't work and why we need them..

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.

An/Aesth/Ethics: the ethical potential of design (2015)
Journal Article
Buwert, P. M. (2015). An/Aesth/Ethics: the ethical potential of design. Artifact, 3(3), 4. https://doi.org/10.14434/artifact.v3i3.3960

Design is often thought of as an activity seeking to change existing situations into preferred ones (Simon, 1969). But how are designers to discern what the nature of this “preferred” change should be? What would it mean to truly design ethically? In... Read More about An/Aesth/Ethics: the ethical potential of design.

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., Sharples, L. D., Treweek, S., Blazeby, J. M., & 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.

‘Ethics, discourse, experience’. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2015, May). ‘Ethics, discourse, experience’. Presented at Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland

‘Repetition / Interpretation / Failure: Towards an Ethics of Discourse Analysis’ (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2015, March). ‘Repetition / Interpretation / Failure: Towards an Ethics of Discourse Analysis’. Presented at Manchester University, Discursive Practice Workshop

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." Embarking from Beckett's famous lines from Worstward Ho, this paper considers the import of the quotation in context to dispel the commonplace motivational reading of the quota... Read More about ‘Repetition / Interpretation / Failure: Towards an Ethics of Discourse Analysis’.

Without ground: Lacanian ethics and the assumption of subjectivity. (2014)
Book
Neill, C. (2014). Without ground: Lacanian ethics and the assumption of subjectivity. Palgrave Macmillan

In this new paperback edition, Calum Neill explores the ideas of Jacques Lacan to present a powerful argument for an approach to ethics which is neither rooted in a traditional morality nor reduced to a relativism, an ethics, that is, which is withou... Read More about Without ground: Lacanian ethics and the assumption of subjectivity..

‘O Cursed Spite: On Ethics and Time’ (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2014, January). ‘O Cursed Spite: On Ethics and Time’. Paper presented at Symposium Depsychologizing / Deneurologizing Modern Subjectivity

Hallelujah! using topical examples to Illustrate ethical and business Issues for engineers. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McEwan, T., & Cairncross, S. (2010, October). Hallelujah! using topical examples to Illustrate ethical and business Issues for engineers

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' 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. 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.

Choang-tsu’s butterfly: objects and the subjective function of fantasy. (2006)
Journal Article
Neill, C. (2006). Choang-tsu’s butterfly: objects and the subjective function of fantasy. Gramma: journal of theory and criticism, 14, 61-70

In the sixth chapter of the Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, Lacan refers to the taoist Choang-tsu's well known parable of the dream butterfly. Choang-tsu poses the question of how, after waking from a dream of being a butterfly, he can t... Read More about Choang-tsu’s butterfly: objects and the subjective function of fantasy..