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Developing an ethical framework for psychedelic clinical care

Melanie Balog — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:32:49 +0000

Developing an ethical framework for psychedelic clinical care Melanie Balog Mon, 06/10/2024 - 14:32

As government agencies around the globe contemplate approval of the first psychedelic medicines, many questions remain about their ethical integration into mainstream medical practice.

Andrew Peterson, assistant professor in ��AV's Department of Philosophy and Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, along with a team of bioethicists, clinicians, researchers, Indigenous groups, industry, philanthropy, veterans, retreat facilitators and training program leaders, worked to identify key ethics and policy issues related to the integration of psychedelic therapies into clinical practice and areas for further research and deliberation.

The team recently published a paper in JAMA Network Open, after a two-day workshop held at the Banbury Center of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

“Psychedelics are often thought of as garden variety recreational drugs, but they have real therapeutic potential for psychiatry. With this potential comes a need for ethical evaluation,” Peterson said. “We provide the first ethical framework to help researchers and lawmakers move forward in this new era of medicine.”

Andrew Peterson presents at the June 2023 Banbury Center workshop. Photo provided

The authors note that many of the traditional frameworks of bioethics and drug policy may be out of date, and that policy makers must take seriously the challenges ahead, while not losing sight of the rich cultural histories and traditions from which contemporary medical uses of psychedelics have emerged.

In the paper, the team focuses on bioethics and regulatory issues in the United States, which may be generalized globally.

They also identify 20 points of consensus across five topics (reparations and reciprocity, equity, and respect; informed consent; professional boundaries and physical touch; personal experience; and gatekeeping).

“There will be novel ethical challenges that accompany the approved medical use of psychedelics, and we must understand the issues at hand, anticipate obstacles and work to surmount them quickly and efficiently so clinicians can focus on utilizing approved psychedelics to provide evidence-based care to patients,” said corresponding author Amy McGuire, Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics and director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor University. “We hope this paper will inspire greater collaboration and action now so that when psychedelics are soon approved there is ethical and safe uptake.”

The workshop held at the Banbury Center of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory was funded by the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR) at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, which is supported by the Saisei Foundation, Tim Ferriss and Matt Mullenweg, Baylor College of Medicine through the Ortus Foundation, and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Corporate Sponsor Program. The meeting was organized by researchers from the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor University, Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

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Biography

Professor Jones received her B.A. in Philosophy and German from St. John's College, Oxford University, and her MA and PhD in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Warwick. Her teaching and research interests include key thinkers and themes in continental and feminist philosophy (such as Kant, Nietzsche, Lyotard, and Irigaray; self and body, the sublime, sexual difference). She is interested in working with art and literature to explore philosophical questions and in the intersection of feminist philosophy with perspectives from queer theory, transnational feminisms, critical philosophies of race, and decolonial theory. Her current research takes Kant's essays on the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 as a prompt for re-interrogating human beings' relations to materiality, natality, and difference. Dr. Jones is a member of the Executive Committees for the Luce Irigaray Circle and for philoSOPHIA .She currently serves as a 'Member at Large' for the International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP).

Selected Publications

‘Thinking Otherwise with Irigaray and Maximin,’ in Thinking: A Philosophical History, eds D. Whistler and Y. Vassilopoulou (Routledge, 2021), pp.236-250.

'Dissonance, Resistance, and Perspectival Pedagogies,' in Dissonant Methods: Undoing Discipline in the Humanities Classroom, eds Ada S. Jaarsma and Kit Dobson (University of Alberta Press, 2020), pp.117-134.

'Kant, Hegel and Irigaray: From Chemism to the Elemental,' in Kant and the Continental Tradition: Sensibility, Nature and Religion (in memoriam: Gary Banham), Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, eds Sorin Baiasu and Alberto Vanzo (Routledge, 2020), pp. 146-170.

'Philosophical Métissage and the Decolonization of Difference: Luce Irigaray, Daniel Maximin, and the Elemental Sublime,' Special Issue of Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, 5:2, 2018; 139-156.

'The Anthropocene and Elemental Multiplicity,' co-authored with Emily Parker, English Language Notes, Special Issue: Environmental Trajectories, Vol. 55. 1/2, Fall 2017; 61-69.

‘Active Matter and Vital Materiality: Between Irigaray and Bennett’, Special Issue of Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology on 'Irigaray and Ecofeminism', Vol. 46.2, 2015; 156-172.

‘Re-Reading Diotima: Resources for a Relational Pedagogy’, Special Issue of Journal of Philosophy of Education: ‘Re-imagining Relationships in Education: Ethics, Politics and Practices’, ed. M. Griffiths et al, Vol 48 Issue 2, 2014; 183-201.

‘On the Value of Not Knowing: Wonder, Beginning Again, and Letting Be’, in On Not Knowing: How Artists Think, E. Fischer and R. Fortnum, eds. (London: Black Dog Publishing, September 2013).

‘Lyotard and Irigaray on Eros, Infancy and Birth: the Dissymmetrical Horizons of Being Between’, in Jean-François Lyotard: New Encounters, H. Bickis and R. Shields, eds. (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013).

‘Adventures in the Abyss: Kant, Irigaray and Earthquakes’, Symposium: Canadian Journal for Continental Philosophy, Volume 17.1, Spring 2013.

‘Irigaray and Lyotard: Birth, Infancy, and Metaphysics’, Hypatia, Vol. 27 Issue 1, Winter 2012.

Luce Irigaray: Towards a Sexuate Philosophy, Key Contemporary Thinkers series (Cambridge: Polity, 2011).

Courses Taught

PHIL 156 - What is Art?

PHIL 329 - Philosophy After Auschwitz

PHIL 336 - Twentieth-Century Continental Thought - Existentialism

PHIL 338 - Philosophy, Race and Gender

PHIL 421 - Philosophy Seminar (Nietzsche)

PHIL 721 - Graduate Seminar: Kant's third Critique; Lyotard and Nancy; Birth, Death, and the Human.

PHIL 730 - Nietzsche and his Readers

WMST 630/PHIL 694 - Feminist Theory Across the Disciplines

HNRS 110 - Research Methods

HNRS 130 - Conceptions of Self

HNRS 240 - Reading the Past: Body Politics – Women and the Political

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