Anya Plutynski, PhD, MA, AB
- Email: aplutyns@nospam.wustl.edu
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Washington University
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AREAS OF EXPERTISE
My main areas of interest and research in the area of bioethics broadly conceived is patient decision-making about care, particularly in the context of cancer, and issues surrounding communication of risk between patients and clinicians. I am also interested in how these issues bear on larger questions concerning informed consent and research ethics, as well as their bearing on clinical ethics. I am also interested in the aims and scope of personalized medicine, and its relationship to evidence-based medicine. My main area of research is history and philosophy of biology and biomedical sciences. My current book project is on cancer, both its heterogeneity, its unique character as a disease, and the challenges this presents to providing a unified scientific explanation of cancer.
PUBLICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
- “How is Cancer Complex?” 2021. European Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
- “Is Cancer a Matter of Luck?” 2021. Biology & Philosophy. 36(3).
- “Cancer Modeling: The advantages and limitations of multiple perspectives” 2019. Understanding Perspectivism: Scientific Challenges and Methodological Prospects. Massimi, M. and C. McCoy, (Eds.) Routledge.
- “Cancer” 2019. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- “What and How Do Cancer Systems Biologists Explain?” 2018. Philosophy of Science: Proceedings. (Co-authored with Marta Bertolaso)
- “Safe, or Sorry? Cancer Screening and Inductive Risk” 2017. Exploring Inductive Risk. Richards, T and K Elliott (Eds.) Oxford University Press.
- “The Evolution of Failure: Cancer from a Multilevel Perspective” 2015. Biology and Philosophy. 31(1): 39-51. (Co-authored with Christopher Lean)
- “Ethical and Scientific Issues in Cancer Screening and Prevention” 2012. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. 37(3): 310-323.
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