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  1. Contragestive interventions are not abortifacient

    Article • Clinical Ethics, September 2026, SAGE Publications

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  2. Mereology’s significance: pregnancy, abortion and contragestion

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, August 2026, BMJ

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  3. Co-creating end-of-life choices education: A process description of a program to explore community death-literacy in preparation for voluntary assisted dying

    Article • Palliative Care and Social Practice, August 2026, SAGE Publications

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  4. Changing face of transplant medicine: can we do without the dead donor rule?

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, April 2026, BMJ

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  5. The Private Lives of Healthcare Professionals

    Article • Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  6. Bioethics after COVID-19: Should we embrace a political turn?

    Article • April 2025, ANU Press

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  7. Conscientious Objection and the Provision of Abortion at Late(r) Stages of Pregnancy

    Article • Canadian Journal of Bioethics, January 2025, Consortium Erudit

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  8. Should Australian states enact statutes that explicitly ban unconsented intimate exams performed by medical students for educational reasons?

    Article • Journal of Gender-Based Violence, October 2024, Policy Press

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  9. The provision of abortion in Australia: service delivery as a bioethical concern

    Article • Bioethics News, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  10. Human Research Ethics Committees

    Article • August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  11. Responding to existential distress at the end of life: Psychedelics and psychedelic experiences and/ as medicine

    Article • Neuroethics, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  12. Bioethics in the Twenty-First Century

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  13. A Brief History of Research Ethics

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  14. Medical Ethics Before Bioethics

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  15. Balletic bodies under lockdown: The consequences of a pandemic for highly disciplined habitus

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, July 2023, Wiley

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  16. Suffering, existential distress and temporality in the provision of terminal sedation

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, March 2023, BMJ

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  17. Is the Requirement for First-Person Experience of Psychedelic Drugs a Justified Component of a Psychedelic Therapist’s Training?

    Article • Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, March 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  18. We should not take abortion services for granted

    Article • Clinical Ethics, November 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  19. Where the ethical action also is: a response to Hardman and Hutchinson

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, March 2022, BMJ

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  20. Conscientious objection and the referral requirement as morally permissible moral mistakes

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, March 2022, BMJ

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  21. Afterthoughts: Towards a Realpolitik of Professionalism

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  22. Challenges to the Global Issue of End of Life Care

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  23. Conclusions

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  24. Introduction: Harmonising End of Life Care – A Global Public Health Issue

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  25. Palliative Sedation – Is It a Real Dilemma?

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  26. Should medical students perform pelvic exams on anaesthetised patients without explicit consent?

    Article • Clinical Ethics, December 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  27. Reverse Triage and People Whose Disabilities Render Them Dependent on Ventilators

    Article • Etikk i praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics, December 2021, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Library

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  28. Ethos and Eidos as Field Level Concepts for the Sociology of Morality and the Anthropology of Ethics: Towards a Social Theory of Applied Ethics

    Article • Human Studies, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  29. Ought Conscientious Refusals to Implement Reverse Triage Decisions be Accommodated?

    Article • Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  30. Clinicians’ accounts of communication with patients in end-of-life care contexts: A systematic review

    Article • Patient Education and Counseling, June 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  31. After abortion’s arrival in Northern Ireland: Conscientious objection and other concerns

    Article • Clinical Ethics, April 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  32. Contemporary European Perspectives on the Ethics of End of Life Care: An Introduction

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  33. Postscript: Future Developments in Addressing Ethics and Care at the End of Life

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  34. The Distinction between Ordinary and Extraordinary Treatment: Can It Be Maintained?

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  35. Should professional interpreters be able to conscientiously object in healthcare settings?

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, December 2019, BMJ

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  36. The Multiplicity of Bioethical Expertise in the Context of Secular Liberal Democracies

    Article • Society, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  37. Conscientious objection should not be equated with moral objection: a response to Ben-Moshe

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, July 2019, BMJ

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  38. Ethics of crisis sedation: questions of performance and consent

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, April 2019, BMJ

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  39. Correction to: A Morally Permissible Moral Mistake? Reinterpreting a Thought Experiment as Proof of Concept

    Article • Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  40. Beyond the Equivalence Thesis: how to think about the ethics of withdrawing and withholding life-saving medical treatment

    Article • Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  41. A Professional Ethics for Researchers?

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  42. Commentary: From Liberal Eugenics to Political Biology

    Article • Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, December 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  43. Leadership in palliative medicine: moral, ethical and educational

    Article • BMC Medical Ethics, June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  44. Chapter 11: From Phrónēsis to Habitus: Synderesis and the Practice(s) of Ethics and Social Research

    Article • March 2018, Emerald

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  45. Introduction: Virtue and the Ethics of Social Research

    Article • March 2018, Emerald

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  46. Virtue Ethics in the Conduct and Governance of Social Science Research

    Article • March 2018, Emerald

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  47. A Morally Permissible Moral Mistake? Reinterpreting a Thought Experiment as Proof of Concept

    Article • Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  48. Bioethics, public intellectuals and political biology today

    Article • History of the Human Sciences, February 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  49. Elective Modernism and the Politics of (Bio)Ethical Expertise

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  50. Outroduction

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  51. Philosophies and Sociologies of Bioethics

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  52. Introduction: Crossing the Divides

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  53. Ethics of healthcare simulation

    Article • March 2017, Wiley

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  54. Remaking Research Ethics in the Social Sciences: Anthropological Reflections on a Collaborative Process

    Article • March 2017, Emerald

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  55. The outcome of a series of symposia led by experts in the UK Academy of Social Sciences.

    Article • February 2017, Emerald

    Dr Ron Iphofen, Dr Nathan Emmerich

  56. Reframing Research Ethics: Towards a Professional Ethics for the Social Sciences

    Article • Sociological Research Online, November 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  57. Topics in death and dying

    Article • QJM, October 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  58. Technicians of Human Dignity: Bodies, Souls, and the Making of Intrinsic Worth. Gaymon Bennett, New York: Fordham University Press, 2015, 316 pp.

    Article • Medical Anthropology Quarterly, August 2016, Wiley

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  59. When is a REC not a REC? When it is a gatekeeper

    Article • Research Ethics, June 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  60. A sociological analysis of ethical expertise: The case of bioethics

    Article • Cogent Social Sciences, February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  61. Ethos, Eidos, Habitus A Social Theoretical Contribution to Morality and Ethics

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  62. Dussage, I., Helgesson, C. and Lee, F. Value Practices in the Life Sciences and Medicine (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2015. xiv + 331pp £60 (hbk) ISBN 9780199689583

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, November 2015, Wiley

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  63. The deaths of human beings

    Article • QJM, October 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  64. Challenges to the Dead Donor Rule: Configuring a Biopolitical Response

    Article • August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  65. Limitations in the bioethical analysis of medicalisation: The case of love drugs

    Article • Social Theory & Health, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  66. A Sociological Analysis of Ethical Expertise

    Article • SAGE Open, June 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  67. Confronting the quality paradox: towards new characterisations of ‘quality’ in contemporary healthcare

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  68. Caring for quality of care: symbolic violence and the bureaucracies of audit

    Article • BMC Medical Ethics, May 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  69. Calling time on the Cancer Drugs Fund? Funding the NHS in the age of austerity

    Article • British Journal of Hospital Medicine, April 2015, Mark Allen Group

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  70. What is Bioethics?

    Article • Medicine Health Care and Philosophy, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  71. Medical Ethics Education: An Interdisciplinary and Social Theoretical Perspective, by Nathan Emmerich

    Article • Teaching Philosophy, January 2015, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  72. Reframing Bioethics Education for Non-Professionals

    Article • The New Bioethics, October 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  73. Robert Baker, Before Bioethics: A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution

    Article • Social History of Medicine, May 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  74. Bourdieu’s collective enterprise of inculcation: the moral socialisation and ethical enculturation of medical students

    Article • British Journal of Sociology of Education, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  75. Rethinking ‘quality’ in health care

    Article • Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, January 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  76. Between the accountable and the auditable: Ethics and ethical governance in the social sciences SchragZachary M, Ethical Imperialism: Institutional Review Boards and the Social Sciences, 1965–2009. USA: Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 20...

    Article • Research Ethics, December 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  77. Well-founded social fictions: a defence of the concepts of institutional and familial habitus

    Article • British Journal of Sociology of Education, March 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  78. Medical Ethics Education: An Interdisciplinary and Social Theoretical Perspective

    Article • January 2013

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  79. Conclusions

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  80. Some Relevant Concepts

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  81. Medical Ethics as an Aspect of Medical Education: A UK Perspective

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  82. Medical Ethics Education from a Socio-Cultural Perspective

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  83. Sociological Perspectives on Medical Education

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  84. Prof. W. G. Irwin: A Case Study in the Development of Medical Ethics Education in the UK

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  85. Elective ventilation and the politics of death

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, November 2012, BMJ

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  86. Book Review: Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research (Morality and Society Series) Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research (Morality and Society Series)StarkLauraUniversity of Chicago Press, Chicago201297802267...

    Article • Sociological Research Online, May 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  87. For an Ethnomethodology of Healthcare Ethics

    Article • Health Care Analysis, February 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  88. Whatever happened to medical politics?

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, May 2011, BMJ

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  89. LITERATURE, HISTORY AND THE HUMANIZATION OF BIOETHICS

    Article • Bioethics, December 2010, Wiley

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  90. Anti-theory in action? Planning for pandemics, triage and ICU or: how not to bite a bullet

    Article • Medicine Health Care and Philosophy, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  91. Values, Ethics and Health Care

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, September 2010, Wiley

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  92. The Business of Medicine: A Response to Nathan Emmerich

    Article • Research Ethics, December 2009, SAGE Publications

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  93. What Would You Do? Juggling Bioethics and Ethnography

    Article • Sociology of Health & Illness, October 2009, Wiley

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  94. The Ministry and Medicine

    Article • Metascience, September 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  95. Tracking the Impact of Health Care Technology

    Article • Metascience, September 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nathan Emmerich

  96. Reviews: New Perspectives On Healthcare: R. DeVries, L. Turner, K. Orfali and C. L. Bosk, eds, The View from Here. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007 (first published as Vol. 28 No. 6 of Sociology of Health and Illness), 219 pp., ISBN 1405152699, £19.99

    Article • International Sociology, September 2009, SAGE Publications

    Dr Nathan Emmerich