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Richard T. Ashcroft

Lecturer, Political Science and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Program, UC Berkeley
Verified email at berkeley.edu
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Current epistemological problems in evidence-based medicine

RE Ashcroft - Evidence-based Practice in Medicine and Health Care …, 2005 - Springer
Evidence based Medicine (EBM) is an important movement within medicine and health
services, which has had considerable success over the past 30 years, in promoting critical …

Nudge: concept, effectiveness, and ethics

Y Lin, M Osman, R Ashcroft - Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Nudges are psychologically informed tools designed to promote behavioral change in order
to improve health and well-being. In this review, we focus on three areas of concern: theory …

Making sense of dignity

RE Ashcroft - Journal of medical ethics, 2005 - jme.bmj.com
In this review of Leon Kass's Life, liberty and the defense of dignity and Deryck Beyleveld
and Roger Brownsword's Human dignity in bioethics and biolaw. I consider the prospects for …

An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research

T Greenhalgh, E Annandale, R Ashcroft, J Barlow… - Bmj, 2016 - bmj.com
Seventy six senior academics from 11 countries invite The BMJ's editors to reconsider their
policy of rejecting qualitative research on the grounds of low priority. They challenge the …

Using financial incentives to achieve healthy behaviour

TM Marteau, RE Ashcroft, A Oliver - Bmj, 2009 - bmj.com
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Epistemologic inquiries in evidence-based medicine

B Djulbegovic, GH Guyatt, RE Ashcroft - Cancer control, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Since the term “evidence-based medicine”(EBM) first appeared in the scientific
literature in 1991, the concept has had considerable influence in many parts of the world …

Beyond “misunderstanding”: written information and decisions about taking part in a genetic epidemiology study

M Dixon-Woods, RE Ashcroft, CJ Jackson… - Social science & …, 2007 - Elsevier
Although the need to obtain “informed” consent is institutionalised as a principle of ethical
practice in research, there is persistent evidence that the meanings people attribute to …

Why national eHealth programs need dead philosophers: Wittgensteinian reflections on policymakers' reluctance to learn from history

T Greenhalgh, J Russell, RE Ashcroft… - The Milbank …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Context: Policymakers seeking to introduce expensive national eHealth programs would be
advised to study lessons from elsewhere. But these lessons are unclear, partly because a …

The ethics of mandatory vaccination against influenza for health care workers

JJM van Delden, R Ashcroft, A Dawson, G Marckmann… - Vaccine, 2008 - Elsevier
Vaccination of health care workers (HCW) in long-term care results in indirect protection of
patients who are at high-risk for influenza. The voluntary uptake of influenza vaccination …

[BOOK][B] Principles of health care ethics

RE Ashcroft, A Dawson, H Draper, J McMillan - 2007 - books.google.com
Edited by four leading members of the new generation of medical and healthcare ethicists
working in the UK, respected worldwide for their work in medical ethics, Principles of Health …