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Overview

Bruce Jennings is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States, with academic contributions primarily in the fields of Health Professions and Social Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields including General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Global and Planetary Change, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The research topics covered by Jennings focus on Public Health Policies and Education, Ethics in Medical Practice, Climate Change and Geoengineering, Ethics in Clinical Research, Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, Political Philosophy and Ethics, and Religion, Ecology, and Ethics.

Jennings has published several papers across a range of notable journals. Recent works include:

  • "Ends and Means of Solidarity," 2020, The American Journal of Bioethics
  • "Recommendations for Better Civic Learning: Building and Rebuilding Democracy," 2021, The Hastings Center Report
  • "Civic Learning for a Democracy in Crisis," 2021, The Hastings Center Report

Other papers where Jennings contributed as a co-author or in related fields include:

  • "Public Health Code of Ethics: Deliberative Decision-Making and Reflective Practice," 2020, American Journal of Public Health
  • "Can evidence drive health equity in the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond?," 2024, Journal of Public Health Policy

Jennings frequently publishes in The Hastings Center Report and has also contributed to the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, American Journal of Public Health, and Journal of Public Health Policy.

Collaboration plays a role in Jennings's research output, with frequent co-authors including Gregory E. Kaebnick, James Cresswell, Michael K. Gusmano, Carolyn P. Neuhaus, and Mildred Z. Solomon.

Best Publications

  • The argumentative turn in policy analysis and planning

    Frank Fischer;John Forester;Maarten A. Hajer;Robert Hoppe

  • Decisions near the end of life: professional views on life-sustaining treatments.

    M Z Solomon;L O'Donnell;B Jennings;V Guilfoy

  • Ethics and Public Health: Forging a Strong Relationship

    Daniel Callahan;Bruce Jennings

  • The ethics of using quality improvement methods in health care.

    Joanne Lynn;Mary Ann Baily;Melissa Bottrell;Bruce Jennings

  • Dependency, Difference and the Global Ethic of Longterm Care

    Eva Feder Kittay;Bruce Jennings;Angela A. Wasunna

  • Sources of Concern about the Patient Self-Determination Act

    Susan M. Wolf;Philip Boyle;Daniel Callahan;Joseph J. Fins

  • The ethics of using QI methods to improve health care quality and safety.

    Mary Ann Baily;Melissa M. Bottrell;Joanne Lynn;Bruce Jennings

  • The Perversion of Autonomy: The Proper Uses of Coercion and Constraints in a Liberal Society

    Willard Gaylin;Bruce Jennings

  • The perversion of autonomy : coercion and constraints in a liberal society

    Willard Gaylin;Bruce Jennings

  • The Care of the Terminally Ill: Morality and Economics

    Ronald Bayer;Daniel Callahan;John Fletcher;Thomas Hodgson

  • The Hastings Center Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care Near the End of Life: Revised and Expanded Second Edition

    Nancy Berlinger;Bruce Jennings;Susan M. Wolf

  • The Place of Solidarity in Public Health Ethics

    Angus Dawson;Bruce Jennings

  • Ethical Challenges of Chronic Illness

    Bruce Jennings;Daniel Callahan;Arthur L. Caplan

  • Ethics, The Social Sciences, and Policy Analysis

    Daniel Callahan;Bruce Jennings

  • Access to hospice care. Expanding boundaries, overcoming barriers.

    Bruce Jennings;True Ryndes;Carol D'Onofrio;Mary Ann Baily

  • Interpretive Social Science and Policy Analysis

    Bruce Jennings

  • SOLIDARITY in the Moral Imagination of Bioethics

    Bruce Jennings;Angus Dawson

  • The Hastings Center Guidelines for Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care Near the End of Life

    Nancy Berlinger;Bruce Jennings;Susan M. Wolf

  • The Professions: Public Interest and Common Good

    Bruce Jennings;Daniel Callahan;Susan M. Wolf

  • SYNTAX Score and Long-Term Outcomes: The BARI-2D Trial

    Fumiaki Ikeno;Maria Mori Brooks;Kaori Nakagawa;Min Kyu Kim

  • Reconceptualizing Autonomy: A Relational Turn in Bioethics

    Bruce Jennings

  • New Directions in Nursing Home Ethics

    Bart Collopy;Philip Boyle;Bruce Jennings

  • Ethics and Public Health : Model Curriculum

    Bruce Jennings;Jeffrey Khan;Anna Mastroianni;Lisa S. Parker

  • Pharmaceutical research involving the homeless

    Tom L. Beauchamp;Bruce Jennings;Eleanor D. Kinney;Robert J. Levine

  • Relational Liberty Revisited: Membership, Solidarity and a Public Health Ethics of Place

    Bruce Jennings

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan M. Wolf
Susan M. Wolf University of Minnesota
Daniel Callahan
Daniel Callahan Hastings Center
Arthur L. Caplan
Arthur L. Caplan New York University
Dan W. Brock
Dan W. Brock Harvard University
Rebecca Dresser
Rebecca Dresser Washington University in St. Louis
Richard J. Bonnie
Richard J. Bonnie University of Virginia
Lawrence O. Gostin
Lawrence O. Gostin Georgetown University
Tom L. Beauchamp
Tom L. Beauchamp Georgetown University
Joseph J. Fins
Joseph J. Fins Cornell University
Michael K. Gusmano
Michael K. Gusmano Lehigh University

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