Maya J. Goldenberg
Description
My research addresses the fundamental epistemic question, “How do we know what to believe?” (or when are knowledge claims justified) in health care.
More recently, I have broadened my research into the science-values complex to investigate vaccine hesitancy as illustrative of poor public trust in scientific institutions.
Cross-appointment: Bachelor of Arts and Science (BAS) Program
Education
PhD Michigan State Univerisity
MA McGill University
BA University of Toronto
Publications
Goldenberg, MJ and C McCron. “‘The Science is Clear!’ Media Uptake of Health Research into Vaccine Hesitancy.” In Knowing and Acting in Medicine. Ed. R. Bluhm. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017..
“Whose social values? Evaluating Canada's 'Death of Evidence' Controversy” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 45:3 (2015): 404-424.
"Public Misunderstanding of Science?" Reframing the Problem of Vaccine Hesitancy." Perspectives on Science 24:5 (2016): 552-581.
"The Placebo Orthodoxy and the Double Standard of Care in Multinational Clinical Research,” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 36:1 (2015): 7-23.
Loughlin M, Bluhm R, Fuller J, Buetow S, Upshur REG, Borgerson K, Goldenberg MJ, Kingma E. "Philosophy, Medicine, and Health Care--Where We Have Come From and Where We are Going." Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 20:6 (December 2014): 902-907.
"Diversity in Epistemic Communities: A Response to Clough." Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 3:5 (April 2014): 25-30.
"How can Feminist Theories of Evidence Assist Clinical Reasoning and Decision-Making?" Social Epistemology 2013. doi: 10.1080/02691728.2013.794871.
"Is 'Scientifically-Informed yet Humanistic Medicine' the Solution to the Crisis of Modern Medicine? A Friendly Corrective to the Emergent Model of Person-Centered Medicine." European Journal of Person-Centered Healthcare 2:1 (March 2014): 106-113.
Loughlin M, Bluhm R, Stoyanov D, Buetow S, Upshur REG, Borgerson K, Goldenberg MJ, Kingma E. "Explanation, Understanding, Objectivity, and Experience." Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 19:3 (June 2013): 415-421.
Loughlin M, Bluhm R, Buetow S, Upshur REG, Goldenberg MJ, Borgerson K, Entwistle V, Kingma E. "Reason and Value: Making Reasoning Fit for Practice." Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 18:5 (October 2012): 929-937.
"Defining 'Quality of Care' Persuasively." Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 33:4 (September 2012): 243-261.
"Evidence-Based Medicine." In Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society. Eds. WC Cockerham, R Dingwall, S Quah.Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
"Innovating Medical Knowledge: Understanding Evidence-Based Medicine as a Socio-Medical Phenomenon". In: Evidence-Based Medicine: Closer to Patients or Scientists? Ed. Nikolaos Sitara. InTech Publications,2012.
"A Response to Sestini's (2011) Response." Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 17:5 (October 2011): 1004-1005.
Loughlin M, Bluhm R, Buetow S, Upshur REG, Goldenberg MJ, Borgerson K, Entwistle V. "Virtue, Progress, and Practice." (Editor's Introduction) Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 17:5(October 2011): 839-846.
“Working for the Cure: Challenging Pink Ribbon Activism.” In Configuring Health Consumers: Health Work and the Imperative of Personal Responsibility. Eds. R. Harris, N. Wathen, S. Wyatt. Amsterdam: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010: 140-159.
“Perspectives in Evidence-based Women’s Health.” Journal of Women’s Health 19:7 (July 2010): 1235-1238.
“From Popperian Science to Normal Science. Commentary on Sestini (2010).” Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 16:2 (2010): 306-310.
Loughlin M, Upshur REG, Goldenberg MJ, Bluhm R, Borgerson K. “Philosophy, Ethics, Medicine and Health Care: The Urgent Need for Critical Practice.” (Editors’ introduction) Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 16:2 (2010): 249-259.
“Clinical Evidence and the Absent Body in Medical Epistemology: On the Need for a New Phenomenology of Medicine.” International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 3:1 (Spring 2010): 43-71.
“Iconoclast or Creed? Objectivism and Pragmatism in Evidence-Based Medicine’s Hierarchy of Evidence.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 52:2 (Spring 2009): 168-187.*
Goldenberg MJ, Borgerson K, Bluhm R. “The Nature of Evidence in Evidence-Based Medicine: Guest Editors’ Introduction.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 52:2 (Spring 2009): 164-167.
“Women’s Health.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford University Press (2007): 441-444.
“The Problem of Exclusion in Feminist Theory and Politics: A Metaphysical Investigation into Constructing a Catogory of 'Woman'." Journal of Gender Studies 16:2(June 2007): 139-153.
Secker, Barbara, Maya J Goldenberg, et al. “Just Regionalisation: Rehabilitating Care for People with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses,” BMC Medical Ethics 7:3 (Aug 2006).
“On Evidence and Evidence Based Medicine: Lessons from the Philosophy of Science,” Social Science & Medicine 62:11 (June 2006): 2621-2632.
“Evidence Based Ethics? On Evidence Based Practice and the ‘Empirical Turn’ from Normative Bioethics,” BMC Medical Ethics 6:11 (Nov 2005).
Secker, Barbara, Frank Wagner, Maya J Goldenberg, et al.“Ethics of LHINS: Implications for People with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses.” [POLICY PAPER] Released: November 2005.
Editorial work:
Guest editor for special issue of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C featuring paper from the 7th International Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable meeting in Toronto, 2017
Guest editor for "Philosophy and Medicine" series for Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice:
* "Diseases, Patients, and the Epistemology of Practice" (Vol. 21, Iss. 3, Summer 2015)
* "Health Philosophy" (Vol. 20, Iss. 6, Winter 2014)
* "Explanation, Understanding, and Experience" (Vol. 19, Iss. 3, Summer 2013)
* "Reasoning in Medicine" (Vol. 18, Iss. 5, 2012)
* "Progress in Medicine" (Vol. 17, Iss. 5; Fall 2011)
* "Ethics, Epsitemiology, and Medicine (Vol. 16, Iss. 2; Spring 2010)
Guest editor for special issue of Perspectives in Biology and Medicine on Evidence-Based Medicine (Vo. 52, Iss. 2; Spring 2009).
Presentations
"A War on Science? The Death of Expertise? Reframing Vaccine Hesitancy." Public Health Ontario Grand Rounds. Toronto, September 2018.
"The Deathof Expertise? Reframing Vaccine Hesitancy as Public Mistrust of Science” 6th Annual Upshur Lecture in Public Health Ethics. University of Toronto. March 2018.
"Reframing the Problem of Vaccine Hesitancy." Distinguished Lecture Series, Committee on History and Philosophy of Science, University of Colorado at Boulder. April 2018.
"Public Trust and the Death of Expertise.” Critical Perspectives on Vaccine hesitancy Symposium. University of Toront. February 2018.
"Reframing the Problem of Vaccine Hesitancy." Ruggles Lecture in Philosophy of Medicine. June 2017, Toronto, ON.
"Trust and the Scientific Consensus on Childhood Vaccines." Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science. May 2017, Toronto, ON.
"Reframing the Problem of Vaccine Hesitancy." Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics. May 2017, Toronto, ON.
"Vaccine Hesitancy and Public Mistrust of Scientific Institutions." Canadian Immunization Research Network Annual General Meeting. May 2017, Halifax, NS..
"Trust, Credibility and the Scientific Consensus on Childhood Vaccines." Michigan State Univesity Philosophy Speaker Series, February 2017, E. Lansing, MI.
"You Can't Change an Anti-Vaxxer's Mind: Cognitive DIssonance, Cultrual Cognition, and Conspiracy Theories." University of Texas at Dallas Center for Values in Medicine, Science and Technology, April 2016, Dallas, TX.
"Public Resistance to Science." National Judicial Institute: Science in the Courtroom, February 2016, Montreal, PQ.
"A Primer on Philosophy of Science." National Judicial Institute: Science in the Courtroom, February 2016, Montreal, PQ.
"The Maverick as Scientific Hero: On the Making of Andrew Wakefield's Expertise in the Vaccine-Safety Debate." FEMMS Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics and Science Studies. August 2014, Waterloo, ON.
"Subject? Object? Patient? Complex Biological Machine? The Phenomenology of Person and the Person-Centered Approach to Healthcare." European Society for Person Centered Healthcare. July 2014, Madrid, Spain.
“Ethics and the Evidence of Evidence-Based Medicine.” Specialist Seminar in Empirical Ethics. Department of Humanities, University of Tilburg, December 2010, Tilburg, Netherlands.
Funding