ELISA HURLEY

Elisa Hurley’s recent work focuses on human subjects protections and research ethics. She is the author of “Modernizing the Common Rule: Public Trust and Investigator Accountability” in the American Journal of Bioethics(2017); co-author of a chapter on public trust and biospecimens research in Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications (MIT Press, 2017); and co-author of a chapter on the past and present of human subject protections in Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future (MIT Press, 2014).

Elisa’s earlier work lay at the intersection of value theory and philosophy of mind, and encompassed questions in meta-ethics, moral psychology, bioethics, and feminist ethics. It explored connections between our distinctively human capacities to experience certain affective psychological states, and the fact that we encounter and navigate a world that is filled with value. In one project, for instance, Elisa looked at whether the contribution of our emotional states to moral understanding and agency might have ethical implications for new developments in psychopharmacology. She examined the implications of using drugs such as beta-blockers to blunt the emotional impact of traumatic memories for both individual moral agency, and for our collective responses to violence and the socio-political conditions that support it.

Hurley, E. A.“Modernizing the Common Rule: Public Trust and Investigator Accountability.” American Journal of Bioethics(17) (2017): 39-41.

Hurley, E. A., K. Hensle Lowrance, and A. Avrakotos, “Research with Biospecimens: Tensions, Tradeoffs, and Trust.” Biospecimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications, edited by Suzanne M. Rivera, Barbara E. Bierer, Holly Fernandez Lynch, and I. Glenn Cohen. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2017.

Davis, A. L and E.A. Hurley, “Setting the Stage: The Past and Present of Human Subjects Research Regulations.” Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future, edited by I. Glenn Cohen and Holly Fernandez Lynch. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2014.

Capron, A. M., E. A. Hurley, and A. L. Davis, “Public Trust and Institutional Culture.” The Intersection of Research Fraud and Human Subjects Research: A Regulatory Review, special report, Hastings Center Report 45 (4) (2014): S35-S36.

Hurley, E. A.,Review of Robert Klitzman, Am I My Genes?: Confronting Fate and Family Secrets in the Age of Genetic Testing (Oxford University Press, 2012). Journal of Empirical Research on Human research Ethics (JERHRE)9 (1) (2014): 96-97

Hurley, E.A. and C. Macnamara, “Beyond Belief: Toward a Theory of the Reactive Attitudes.”  Philosophical Papers39 (3) (2010): 373-99.

Hurley, E.A.“Pharmacotherapy to Blunt Memories of Sexual Violence: What’s a Feminist to Think?” Hypatia25 (3) (2010): 527-52.

Hurley, E. A., “Combat Trauma and the Moral Risks of Memory Manipulating Drugs” Journal of Applied Philosophy 27 (3) (2010): 221-45.

Hurley, E. A., “Working Passions: Emotions and Creative Engagement with Value.” TheSouthern Journal of Philosophy 45 (1) (2007): 79–104.

Hurley, E. A.,“The Moral Costs of Prophylactic Propranolol.” American Journal of Bioethics/AJOB-Neuroscience7 (9) (2007): 35-36.

Hurley, E. A., “Apt Affect: Moral Concept Mastery and the Phenomenology of Emotions.” Consciousness & Emotion: Agency, Conscious Choice, and Selective Perception, edited by Ralph D. Ellis and Natika Newton, 287-301. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005. 

POPULAR PRESS COMMENTARY

Hurley, E.A.“Lab animal regulations can be simplified without weakening welfare standards.” STAT, April 4, 2018 (www.statnews.com/2018/04/04/lab-animal-research-policies-reform/; accessed 5/16/18).

Hankenson, F.C., E.A. Hurley and D. H. Strauss. “Here’s why Congress should support the lab animal oversight community.” The Hill, April 13, 2018 (http://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/383022-heres-why-congress-should-support-the-lab-animal-oversight; accessed 5/16/18).