 | Yvette van der Eijk PhD student - National University of Singapore Bioethics - Medical ethics |
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03.02.2014-27.04.2014
Ethical issues in tackling the public health impacts of addiction: tobacco case study
Broadly, my interests are in public health ethics; human rights; ethical issues in psychiatry / mental health research and treatment; addiction neurobiology, genetics, and epigenetics; neuroaffective development; drug vaccination; and practical / ethical considerations in tobacco control policy. The main objectives of my thesis may be listed as follows: To identify some of the major ethical issues in addiction policies related to normative and scientific conceptions, e.g. moral choice models of addiction, 'chronic and relapsing brain disease' models, self-medication hypotheses, neuroeconomic models, and so on; To identify a suitable role for scientific research within these normative conceptions - i.e. where does neuroscientific research fit into an informed and ethical policy for (tobacco) addiction?; To identify a suitable ethics framework for addiction policies that fits with scientific and normative ideas - e.g. human rights. To research innovative tobacco control policy ideas based on harm reduction (e.g. e-cigarettes), and tobacco 'endgames' - strategies with the aim of phasing out tobacco consumption completely e.g. by creating tobacco-free generations, tightening existing measures, or restricting supply imports. Focus is on world regions most active in these approaches, namely: Australia, New Zealand, parts of the E.U., parts of North America, and Singapore; To research innovative tobacco control policy ideas based on scientific approaches - nicotine vaccines and genetic tests - and their suitability.
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