PUBLICATIONS AND PUBLICATION-RELATED ITEMS

PEER-REVIEWED WORK IN PRINT OR IN PRESS

Sprinkle RH, Cole T, Smith SJ, Buchanan GR. "Acute chest syndrome in children with sickle cell disease: a retrospective analysis of 100 hospitalized cases." American Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, 1986, Volume 8, Number 2, pp. 105-110.

Cole TB, Sprinkle RH, Smith SJ, Buchanan GR. "Intravenous narcotic therapy for children with severe sickle cell pain crisis." American Journal of Diseases of Children, December, 1986, Volume 140, pp. 1255-1259. (NOTE: In October, 1993, AJDC, official pediatric specialty journal of the American Medical Association, was renamed Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.)

Sprinkle RH. "Chapter 37: Care of the Newborn" in Textbook of Family Practice, 4th ed., Rakel, RE, ed. (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1990), pp. 636-673.

Sprinkle RH. "Bioweaponry and 'Life-Sciences Liberalism.'" Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 666, December 31, 1992, pp. 88-99.

Sprinkle RH. "Clinical Case Studies: Newborn Care" in Essentials of Family Practice, Rakel RE, ed. (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1993), pp. 275-279.

[Contributing author], Sickle Cell Disease: Screening, Diagnosis, Management and Counseling in Newborns and Infants, AHCPR Clinical Practice Guideline, April, 1993.

Sprinkle RH. "Remodeling Health Care," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Spring, 1994, 19(1):45-68.

Sprinkle RH, Hynes DM, Konrad TR. "Is universal neonatal hemoglobinopathy screening cost-effective?" Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine [till 10/93 the AJDC], May 1994; 148:461-469. (Funding source: AHCPR; funding level: $25,651.18 [Duke and UNC contracts]; contract date: March 1, 1992.) (See PRESENTATIONS above.)

Sprinkle RH. PROFESSION OF CONSCIENCE: THE MAKING AND MEANING OF LIFE-SCIENCES LIBERALISM (Princeton University Press, 1994). Profession of Conscience has been republished by Princeton University Press as an e-Book ( http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/5617.html) available in Adobe Reader and Microsoft Reader formats.

Book description, as at Amazon.com

Dust cover image... What happens to a profession that loses the memory of its moral independence? And what happens then to those reliant on its honor, its advocacy, its initiative? In an era of biotechnological adventure, medical audacity, ecological disruption, fiscal strain, and financial temptation, these are urgent questions for all life scientists and for all they serve. Profession of Conscience is an exposition, analysis, and application of a political-ethical tradition in, of, and for the life sciences, from molecular genetics to clinical medicine to environmental biology. The goal is avoidance of the fate of physics -- the previous "super science" -- whose technological transformations several generations ago so enhanced its political and economic value to governments, societies, and corporations that it lost control of its own conduct. Profession of Conscience discovers within the life sciences a long-evolving profession-specific standard for political action and activism, tracing it from conception in Hellenic and Roman imperial times, through birth and baptism in the Scientific Revolution, then through a naively optimistic adolescence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and finally into a self-conscious maturity, solemnized at the Nuremberg Trials but tested ever more subtly since, even down to the present day. The protagonist is a set of ideas. The product is "life-sciences liberalism."

Extant reviews (13), listed chronologically

1. John L. Howland [Bowdoin College]. "Ethics and Science: Putting Old Dilemmas in New Flasks." Insights on Global Ethics, May, 1995; 5(4):7.

2. Peter D. Toon [general practitioner, London]. British Medical Journal, May 27, 1995.

3. Eric J. Cassell [Cornell University Medical College]. "Profession of Conscience: The Making and Meaning of Life-Sciences Liberalism." New England Journal of Medicine, June 1, 1995; 332(22):1522.

4. H. O. Thompson [University of Pennsylvania], Choice, June 1995, 32:10.

5. Lucy Horwitz, "Scientists, Politicians & the Public," The Boston Book Review, November, 1995, pp. 14, 16-17. [A review of five related books, including one by I. Bernard Cohen and one by C. P. Snow.]

6. --. Review in POLITICS AND THE LIFE SCIENCES, August 1995, pp. 275-76.

7. Christopher D. Horvath, Ph.D. [Northwestern University], "Life Science Ethics." Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA], December 6, 1995; 274(21): 1723.

8. Cecilia Bruno. "La coscienza e la scienza." Recenti Progressi in Medicina, March, 1996, 87:3, pp. 136-138. [A review of eleven related books.]

9. Francis Moran III. "Ethics for Frankenstein." The Review of Politics, 1996, 58:2, pp. 408-410.

10. --. Review in Bulletin of Medical Ethics, April 1996, p. 24.

11. Paul Lawrence Farber [Oregon State University]. Review in American Historical Review, October 1996, p. 1181.

12. Stewart G. Wolf, MD. Review in Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science, [undated clipping, pp. 83-84, received 1997].

13. --. Review in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Summer 1997, 33:3, p. 344.

Sprinkle RH and Konrad TR. [Letter], "'Is universal neonatal hemoglobinopathy screening cost-effective?' -- Reply," Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 149: (4) 466- 467 April 1995.

Sprinkle RH. "Chapter 27: Care of the Newborn" in Textbook of Family Practice, 5th ed., Rakel, RE, ed. (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1995), pp. 569-609.

COST-REDUCING HEALTH-CARE TECHNOLOGIES PROJECT

PATENT DISCLOSURE (Duke University Office of Science and Technology File Number 1186): Sprinkle RH (50% of royalties), Neuman MR [Case Western Reserve University] (12.5%), Buck RP [UNC] (12.5%), Cosofret VV [UNC] (12.5%), Lucic R [Duke University NSF/ERC] (12.5%). “Biomedical Sensor for Detection of Bacterial Vaginosis.” Disclosure date set to match preliminary grant-proposal submission date. http://www.duke.edu/web/ost/technology/tdevices.htm

Solicited market projection: Sprinkle RH, "Marketing Prospects for the BV Probe," Orion Research, Inc., 500 Cummings Center, Beverly, MA 01915, 2/10/97.

Clarke X. Xu, Sayed A. M. Marzouk, Vasile V. Cosofret, Richard P. Buck, Michael R. Neuman, and Robert H. Sprinkle. "Development of a Diamine Biosensor." Talanta: The International Journal of Pure and Applied Analytical Chemistry 44 (1997) 1625-1632. [This paper appeared in a Festschrift for the third author's major professor.]

S.A.M. Marzouk [UNC], C.X. Xu [UNC], B.R. Cosofret [UNC], R.P. Buck [UNC], S.S.M. Hassan [UNC], M.R. Neuman [CWRU], R. H. Sprinkle, "Amperometric Flow Injection Determination of Putrescine and Putrescine Oxidase." Analytica Chimica Acta 363(1), 1998: 57-65.

Nagy G [UNC], Xu CX [UNC], Cosofret VV [UNC], Buck RP [UNC], Lindner E [Duke], Neuman MR [CWRU], and Sprinkle RH, "Amperometric measuring cell for the determination of putrescine oxidase activity." Talanta: The International Journal of Pure and Applied Analytical Chemistry 47 (1998): 367-76.

Geza Nagy [UNC], Clarke Xu [UNC], Richard P. Buck [UNC], Erno Lindner [Duke], Michael R. Neuman [CWRU], Robert H. Sprinkle, "Wet and Dry Chemistry Kits for Total Creatine Kinase Activity Using a Microfabricated, Planar, Small-Volume, Amperometric Cell." Analytica Chimica Acta 377(1),1998: 1-12.

Final written report to the Whitaker Foundation and National Science Foundation Joint Program on Cost-Reducing Health-Care Technologies, July 1998: Robert H. Sprinkle, Michael R. Neuman, Erno Lindner, Richard P. Buck, Richard Lucic. Bacterial Vaginosis Testing for Premature Labor Prevention: Could Routine Prenatal Screening Cover Its Costs?

Sprinkle RH. "Transfigured Plight," Environment and Development Economics, July/August, 1996, 1:3, pp. 374-378.

Sprinkle RH. "Corporatism in Question: A Note on Managed Care." Report of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, Summer 1997, 17:3, pp. 13-17.

Sprinkle RH. "Coming to Terms with the Microenvironment: Ending the War and Winning the Peace." POLITICS AND THE LIFE SCIENCES, March, 1998, 17:1, 39-50.

Sprinkle RH. "Two Cold Wars and Why They Ended Differently," Review of International Studies, October 1999, 25, 623-639.

Pirages D, Runci P, and Sprinkle RH. "Human Populations in the Shared Environment," in Ecosystem Change and Public Health: A New Curriculum for a Global Perspective, Aron JL, ed. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), pp. 165-187.

Sprinkle RH, "The Missing Politics and Unsettled Science of the Trend Toward Earlier Puberty," POLITICS AND THE LIFE SCIENCES, March 2001 [but "Appearing in Print December 2004"], 20:1, pp. 43-66.

Sprinkle RH, "A Moral Economy of American Medicine in the Managed-Care Era," Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, June 2001, 22:3, pp. 247-268.

Sprinkle RH. "The Realist Illusion and a Patriarchal Reality," in The Real and the Ideal: Essays on International Relations in Honor of Richard Ullman, Anthony Lake and David Ochmanek, eds. (Council on Foreign Relations in conjunction with Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001), pp. 57-73.

R. H. Sprinkle, “The Realist Illusion, a Patriarchal Reality, and the Plight of Osama the Pirate,” Philosophy & Public Policy Quarterly, Winter/Spring 2002, 22(1/2):17-23.

Dan Nees, Valerie Green, Kim Treadway, John Lafferty, Michelle Vanyo, Paul Date, and Robert Hunt Sprinkle (corresponding author), "Activism, Objectivism, and Environmental Politics," Environmental Ethics, Fall 2003, 25:295-312.

Sprinkle RH, "The Biosecurity Trust," BioScience, March 2003, 53(3):270-277.

"Bioethics without analogy," solicited and accepted for a Festschrift honoring Richard Zaner, 2008.

"From here to biosecurity: advice for an incoming administration," solicited by and accepted for BioScience 58(11):xxx-xxx, 12/2008, IN PRESS.

WORK IN (OR IN PREPARATION FOR) PEER REVIEW (3)

"FROM THE EDITOR" COLUMNS FOR POLITICS AND THE LIFE SCIENCES (9)

["From the editor" column] R. H. Sprinkle, "Hawks, doves, and birds of paradise," POLITICS AND THE LIFE SCIENCES, March 2002, 21:1, p. 1.

["From the editor" column] R. H. Sprinkle, "Weapons, honor, anguish, and earth," POLITICS AND THE LIFE SCIENCES, September 2002, 21:2, p. 1-2.

["From the editor" column] R. H. Sprinkle, "A mix of motives," POLITICS AND THE LIFE SCIENCES, March 2003, 22:1, p. 1.

["From the editor" column] R. H. Sprinkle, "Lines, shares, games, and bases," POLITICS AND THE LIFE SCIENCES, September 2003, 22:2, p. 1.

["From the editor" column] R. H. Sprinkle, "Species, scientometrics, and surveys," POLITICS AND THE LIFE SCIENCES, 8 June 2005, 23:1, p. 1.

["From the editor" column] R. H. Sprinkle, "Distinctions, defenses, perfections, proportions, progressives, and disbelievers," POLITICS AND THE LIFE SCIENCES, 16 December 2005, 23:2, p. 1.

["From the editor" column] R. H. Sprinkle, "Doubling time," POLITICS AND THE LIFE SCIENCES, 9 August 2006, 24:1-2, p. 1. [DOUBLE ISSUE]

["From the editor" column] R. H. Sprinkle, "Approaching promptness," POLITICS AND THE LIFE SCIENCES, February 2007, 25:1-2, p. 1. [DOUBLE ISSUE]

["From the editor" column] R. H. Sprinkle, "Six years and change," POLITICS AND THE LIFE SCIENCES, 3 October 2007, 26:1, p. 1.

SOLICITED BOOK REVIEWS (7)

[SOLICITED REVIEW OF] Wargo J, Our Children's Toxic Legacy: How Science and Law Fail to Protect Us from Pesticides (Yale University Press, 1996), JAMA, April 23/30, 1997, 277:16, pp. 1329-1330.

[SOLICITED REVIEW OF] Birenbaum A, Managed Care: Made in America (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1997); Strosberg MA and Teres D, Gatekeeping in the Intensive Care Unit (Chicago: Health Administration Press, 1997); and Assessing Medical Rehabilitation Practices: The Promise of Outcomes Research, Fuhrer MJ, ed. (Baltimore: Brookes Publishing, 1997), The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Fall 1998, 17:4, pp. 738-743.

[SOLICITED REVIEW OF] William B. Schwartz, M.D., Life Without Disease: The Pursuit of Medical Utopia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998). The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1999, 18:4, pp. 705-713.

[SOLICITED REVIEW OF] Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997, 1999), The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Winter 2001, 20:1, 173-177.

[SOLICITED REVIEW OF] Critical Issues in Global Health, C. Everett Koop, Clarence E. Pearson, and M. Roy Schwarz, editors, foreword by Jimmy Carter (San Francisco: Jossey- Bass, 2001), JAMA, 10/3/01, 286:13, pp. 1641-1642.

[SOLICITED REVIEW OF] Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor, forward by Amartya Sen (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), JAMA, August 4, 2004, 292:5, 631-632.

[SOLICITED REVIEW OF] E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., and Robert H. Yolken, M.D., Beasts of the Earth: Animals, Humans, and Disease. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005), BioScience, February 2006, 56(2): pp. 166-7.

OTHER (1)

R. H. Sprinkle, "A thread pulled through scholarly time," JSTOR Perspectives, 2007.