PUBLICATIONS
Distributive Justice
Douglas MacKay and Gopal Sreenivasan. “Justice, Inequality, and Health,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta, Winter 2021.
Jayna Fishman and Douglas MacKay, “Rawlsian Justice and the Social Determinants of Health,” Journal of Applied Philosophy 36(4) 2019: 608-625.
Douglas MacKay, “Coercion and Distributive Justice: A Defense,” Journal of Social Philosophy 47(2) 2016: 211-230.
Douglas MacKay, “Incentive Inequalities and Freedom of Occupational Choice,” Economics and Philosophy 32(1) 2016: 21-49.
Douglas MacKay, “Incentive Inequalities and Talents: A Reply to Shiffrin,” Philosophia 41 (2013): 521-526.
Research Ethics
Douglas MacKay and Emma Cohn, “Public Policy Experiments Without Equipoise: When is Randomization Fair?” Ethics & Human Research 45 (1) 2023: 15-28.
Rebecca Walker, Douglas MacKay, Margaret Waltz, Anne Lyerly, and Jill Fisher, “Ethical Criteria for Improved Human Subject Protections in Phase I Healthy Volunteer Trials,” Ethics & Human Research 44 (5) 2022: 2-21.
Ana S. Iltis and Douglas MacKay, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Research Ethics, Oxford University Press, Forthcoming.
Douglas MacKay, “The Ethics of Public Policy Experiments: Lessons From Clinical Research Ethics,” in The Oxford Handbook of Research Ethics, edited by Ana S. Iltis and Douglas MacKay, Oxford University Press, Forthcoming.
Douglas MacKay, “Fair Subject Selection in Clinical and Social Scientific Research,” in The Oxford Handbook of Research Ethics, edited by Ana S. Iltis and Douglas MacKay, Oxford University Press, Forthcoming.
Douglas MacKay, “Government Policy Experiments and the Ethics of Randomization,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 48 (4) 2020: 319-352.
Accepted version available at Carolina Digital Repository.
Douglas MacKay, Punnee Pitisuttithum, Katherine Saylor, and Nancy Jecker, “Selecting Participants Fairly for CHIM Studies,” Bioethics (Forthcoming).
Seema K. Shah, Franklin G. Miller, Thomas C. Darton, Devan Duenas, Claudia Emerson, Holly Fernandez Lynch, Euzebiusz Jamrozik, Nancy S. Jecker, Dorcas Kamuya, Melissa Kapulu, Jonathan Kimmelman, Douglas MacKay, Matthew J. Memoli, Sean C. Murphy, Ricardo Palacios, Thomas L. Richie, Meta Roestenberg, Abha Saxena, Katherine Saylor, Michael J. Selgelid, Vina Vaswani, Annette Rid. “Ethics of Controlled Human Infection to Study COVID-19.” Science (2020).
Douglas MacKay and Katherine Saylor, “Four Faces of Fair Subject Selection,” American Journal of Bioethics 20(2) 2020: 5-19.
Eric T. Juengst, Gail E. Henderson, Rebecca L. Walker, John M. Conley, Douglas MacKay, Karen M. Meagher, Katherine Saylor, Margaret Waltz, Kristine J. Kuczynski, and R. Jean Cadigan, “Is Enhancement the Price of Prevention in Human Gene Editing?” The CRISPR Journal 1(6) 2018: 351-354.
Douglas MacKay and Averi Chakrabarti, “Government Policy Experiments and Informed Consent,” Public Health Ethics, 12(2) 2019: 188-201.
Douglas MacKay, “Health Research Priority Setting: A Duty to Maximize Social Value?” American Journal of Bioethics 18(11) 2018: 25-26.
Douglas MacKay, “Returning Incidental Findings in Low-Resource Settings: A Case of Rescue?” Hastings Center Report 48 (2018): 28-30.
Douglas MacKay, “The Ethics of Public Policy RCTs: The Principle of Policy Equipoise,” Bioethics 32(1) 2018: 59-67.
Douglas MacKay and Tina Rulli, “The Duty to Rescue and Investigators’ Obligations,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 27(1) 2017: 71-105.
Douglas MacKay, “Fair Subject Selection in Clinical Research: Formal Equality of Opportunity,” Journal of Medical Ethics 42(10) 2016: 672-677.
Douglas MacKay, “Standard of Care, Institutional Obligations, and Distributive Justice,” Bioethics 29 (2015): 262-273.
Douglas MacKay, “Standard of Care, Professional Obligations, and Distributive Justice,” Bioethics 28 (2014): 352-559.
Ethics and Social Policy
Douglas MacKay and Ali Huber-Disla, “Designing a Just Soda Tax,” Economics and Philosophy, Forthcoming.
Douglas MacKay, “Cash Transfers, Basic Income, and Welfare State Paternalism,” Journal of Political Philosophy 27(4) 2019: 422-447.
Douglas MacKay, “Parenting the Parents: The Ethics of Parent-Targeted Paternalism in the Context of Anti-Poverty Policies,” in Philosophy and Child Poverty: Reflections on the Ethics and Politics of Poor Children and Their Families. Edited by Nicolas Brando and Gottfried Schweiger. Springer International Publishing (2019).
Nicole M.V. Ross and Douglas MacKay, “Ending SNAP-Subsidized Purchases of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: The Case for a Pilot Project,” Public Health Ethics 10 (1) 2017: 62-77.
Priority Setting in Healthcare
Paul Treacy and Douglas MacKay, “Weighing Obligations to Home-Care Workers and Medicaid Recipients,” Nursing Ethics 26(2) 2019: 418-424.
Paige Clayton and Douglas MacKay, “Experienced Utility or Decision Utility for QALY Calculation? Both.” Public Health Ethics 11(1) 2018: 82-89.
Douglas MacKay, “Calculating QALYs: Liberalism and the Value of Health States,” Economics and Philosophy 33(2) 2017: 259-285.
Douglas MacKay and Marion Danis, “Federalism and Responsibility for Health Care,” Public Affairs Quarterly 30(1) 2016: 1-29.
Ethics of Organ Donation and Allocation
Douglas MacKay and Katherine Saylor, “Ethical Aspects of Nudging in Donation Policy,” in Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation: Current Debates and International Perspectives. Edited by Solveig Lena Hansen and Silke Schicktanz. Transcript (Forthcoming).
Douglas MacKay and Samuel Fitz, “Geographic Location and Moral Arbitrariness in the Allocation of Livers,” Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 47 (2) 2019: 308-319.
Douglas MacKay, “Nudges, Autonomy, and Organ Donor Registration Policies: Response to Critics,” American Journal of Bioethics 17(2) 2017: 1-5.
Douglas MacKay and Alexandra Robinson, “Registering Organ Donors: Nudges and Respect for Autonomy,” American Journal of Bioethics 16(11) 2016: 3-12.
Douglas MacKay, “Opt-out and Consent,” Journal of Medical Ethics 10 (4) 2015: 832-835.
Ethics of Immigration Policy
Douglas MacKay, “Immigrant Selection, Health Requirements, and Disability Discrimination,” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 14(1) 2018: 44-82.
Douglas MacKay, “Review: José Jorge Mendoza, The Moral and Political Philosophy of Immigration: Liberty, Security, and Equality, Lexington Books, 2017,” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2017.
Douglas MacKay, “Review of Glenn Cohen, Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics, Oxford University Press, 2014,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 26(3) 2016: e1-e10.
Douglas MacKay, “Are Skill Selective Immigration Policies Just?” Social Theory and Practice 42(1) 2016: 123-154.