Publications

Books

• Walker RL. Of Mice and Primates: Virtue Ethics and Animal Research. (in press, Oxford University Press).
• Oberlander, J, Buchbinder, M, Churchill, LR, Estroff, SE, King, NMP, Saunders, BF, Strauss, RP, Walker RL, editors. The Social Medicine Reader, Volume 1: Ethics and Cultures of Biomedicine. Third Edition.  Durham: Duke University Press; 2019.
• Oberlander, J, Buchbinder, M, Churchill, LR, Estroff, SE, King, NMP, Saunders, BF, Strauss, RP, Walker RL, editors. The Social Medicine Reader, Volume 2: Differences and Inequalities. Third Edition.  Durham: Duke University Press; 2019.
• Buchbinder M, Rivkin-Fish M, Walker RL, editors. Health Inequalities and Justice: New Conversations Across the Disciplines. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press; 2016. 350 pp.
• Walker RL, Ivanhoe PJ, editors. Working Virtue: Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press; 2007. 319pp. [Re-issued in paperback, 2009].

Chapters

• Walker RL. Physicians and Punishment: Ethics beyond oaths and codes. Oxford Handbook of Punishment Theory and Philosophy. Ryberg J, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (In press).
• Walker RL. Biomedical research using nonhuman animals: Ethics and translational value. Oxford Handbook of Research Ethics. Iltis AS and MacKay D, editors. New York: Oxford University Press. Oxford University Press; 2024; 880-896.
• Walker RL, Churchill LR. Ways to Allocate Health Related Resources. The Social Medicine Reader, third edition, Volume 1: Illness, Ethics, and Cultures of Biomedicine. Durham: Duke University Press; 2019: 311-315.
• Churchill LR, King NMP, Schenck D, Walker RL. Ethics in Medicine: An Introduction to Moral Tools and Traditions. The Social Medicine Reader, third edition, Volume 1: Illness, Ethics, and Cultures of Biomedicine. (In Press). Durham: Duke University Press; 2019: 175-190.
• Walker RL, Rivkin-Fish M, Buchbinder M. Introduction. Health Inequalities and Justice: New Conversations Across the Disciplines. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press; 2016: 1-30.
• Walker RL. Virtue Ethics and Medical Ethics. Companion to Virtue Ethics, Besser-Jones LL and Slote M, editors. New York: Routledge; 2015: 515-528.
• Walker RL. The Good Life for Non-Human Animals: What Virtue Requires of Humans. Working Virtue: Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press; 2007: 173-189.
• Walker RL, Ivanhoe PJ. Introduction. Working Virtue: Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press; 2007: 1-39.

Original Research Articles

• Juengst EJ, Conley JM, Davis AM, Flatt M, Henderson GE, MacKay D, Major R, Walker RL, Cadigan RJ. Preventive Human Genome Editing and Enhancement: Candidate Criteria for Governance. The Hastings Center Report. (in press).
• Walker RL. 2024. How Should Clinician-Researchers Model Regard for Nonhuman Animals Bred for and Used in Human-Centered Science? American Medical Association Journal of Ethics 26(9): E673-E678.
• Waltz M, Walker RL, Flatt MA, MacKay D, Conley JM, Juengst ET, and Cadigan RJ. 2024. Challenging the Boundaries Between Treatment, Prevention, and Enhancement in Human Genome Editing. CRISPR Journalhttps://doi.org/10.1089/crispr.2024.0021.
• Walker RL. Virtue Ethics and Animal Moral Status. 2023. Res Philosophica. 100(4): 473-495.
• Waltz M, Fisher JA, Walker RL.  Mission Creep or Mission Lapse? Scientific Review in Research Oversight. 2022. AJOB Empirical Bioethics.
• Walker RL, MacKay D, Waltz M, Lyerly AD, Fisher JA. Ethical Criteria for Improved Human Subject Protections in Phase I Healthy Volunteer Trials. Ethics & Human Research, 2022; 44(5): 2-21.
• Walker RL, Saylor KW, Waltz M, Fisher JA. Translational science: a survey of US biomedical researchers’ perspectives and practices. Lab Animal, 2021; 51: 22-35.
• Fisher JA, McManus L, Kalbaugh JM, Walker RL. Phase I Trial Compensation: How Much Do Healthy Volunteers Actually Earn from Clinical Trial Enrollment? Clinical Trials, 2021; 18(4): 477-487.
• Waltz M, Saylor KW, Fisher JA, Walker RL. Biomedical Researchers’ Perceptions of the NIH’s Sex as a Biological Variable Policy for Animal Research: Results from a US National Survey. Journal of Women’s Health, 2021. 
• Conley JM, Davis AM, Henderson GE, Juengst ET, Meagher KM, Walker RL, Waltz M, Cadigan J.  A New Governance Approach to Regulating Human Genome Editing. North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology, 2020; 22(2): 107-141
• Waltz M, Fisher JA, Drapkin Lyerly A, Walker RL. Evaluating the National Institute of Health’s Sex as a Biological Variable Policy: Conflicting Accounts from the Front Lines of Animal Research. Journal of Women’s Health, 2020; 30(3): 348-354.
• Walker RL. The Unfinished Business of Respect for Autonomy: Persons, Relationships, and Animals. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2020; 45(4-5): 521-39.
• Walker RL, Eggel M. From Mice to Monkeys? Beyond Orthodox Approaches to the Ethics of Animal Model Choice. Animals, 2020; 10(77).
• Walker RL. Virtue Ethics and Laboratory Animal Research. Institute for Laboratory Animal Research (ILAR) Journal, 2019; 60(3): 415-423.
• Walker RL, Fisher JA. “My Body is One of the Best Commodities”: Exploring the Ethics of Commodification in Phase I Healthy Volunteer Clinical Trials. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 2019; 29(4): 305-331.
• Fisher JA, Monahan T, Walker RL. Picking and Choosing among Phase I Trials: A Qualitative Examination of How Healthy Volunteers Understand Study Risks. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2019; 16: 535-549.
• Eggel M, Walker RL. Replacement or Reduction of Gene-Edited Animals in Biomedicine: A Comparative Ethics and Policy Analysis. North Carolina Law Review, 2019; 97(5): 1241-1271.
• Fisher JA, Walker RL. Advancing Ethics and Policy for Healthy Volunteer Research through a Model Organism Framework. Ethics & Human Research, 2019. 41(1): 4-14.
• Fisher JA, McManus L, Cottingham MD, Kalbaugh JM, Wood MM, Monahan T, Walker RL. Healthy volunteers’ perceptions of risk in US Phase I clinical trials: A mixed-methods study. PLoS Medicine, 2018; 15(11): e1002698.
• Fisher JA, McManus L, Wood MM, Cottingham MD, Kalbaugh JM, Monahan T,  Walker RL. Healthy Volunteers’ Perceptions of the Benefits of Their Participation in Phase I Clinical Trials, Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 2018;13(5): 494-510.
• Walker RL. Virtue, Vice, and “Voracious” Science: How should we approach the Ethics of Primate Research? Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 2018; 61(1): 130-146.
• Morrissey C, Walker RL. The Ethics of General Population Preventive Genomic Sequencing: Rights and Social Justice. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2018; 43(1): 22-43.
• Walker RL, Cottingham MD, Fisher JA. Serial Participation and the Ethics of Phase 1 Healthy Volunteer Research. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2018; 43(1): 83-114.
• Walker RL. Dr. Death?  Professionalism, Virtue and US Physician Participation in the Death Penalty. Criminal Justice Ethics, 2017; 36(1): 78-96.
• Lázaro-Muñoz G, Conley JM, Davis AM, Van Riper M, Walker RL, Juengst ET. Looking for Trouble: Preventive Genomic Sequencing in the General Population and the Role of Patient Choice. American Journal of Bioethics, 2015; 15(7): 3-14.
• Walker RL, Juengst ET, Whipple W, Davis AM. Genomic Research with the Newly Dead: A Crossroads for Ethics and Policy. Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 2014; 42(2): 220-231.
• Walker RL, Morrissey C. Bioethics methods in the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project literature. Bioethics, 2014; 28(9): 481-490.
• Morrissey C, Walker RL. Funding and Forums for ELSI Research: Who (or What) is Setting the Agenda? American Journal of Bioethics Primary Research, 2012; 3(3): 51-60.
• Estroff SE, Walker RL. Confidentiality: Concealing “Things Shameful to be Spoken About.” AMA Journal of Ethics (formerly Virtual Mentor), 2012, 14(9):733-737.
• Walker RL, Morrissey C. Charting ELSI’s Future Course: Lessons from the Recent Past. Genetics in Medicine, 2012; 14(4): 259-267.
• Walker RL, King NMP. Biodefense Research and the US Regulatory Structure: Whither Nonhuman Primate Moral Status? Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 2011; 21(3): 277-310.
• Walker RL. Virtue Ethics and Medicine. Lahey Clinic Journal of Medical Ethics, 2010; 17(3): 1-2.
• Walker RL. Respect for Rational Autonomy. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 2009; 19(4): 339-366.
• Walker RL. Medical Ethics Needs a New View of Autonomy. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2009; 33(6): 594-608.
• Walker RL. Bioethics. Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Borchert D, editor, Vol. 1. 2nd ed. Detroit (MI): Macmillan Reference USA; 2006: 598-605.
• Walker RL. Human and Animal Subjects of Research: The Moral Significance of Respect versus Welfare. Journal of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2006; 27(4): 305-331.
• Walker RL, Siegel AW. Morality and the Limits of Societal Values in Health Care Allocation. Health Economics, 2002. 11(3): 265-273.

Commentaries and Reviews

• Walker RL. Care or Complicity? Medical Personnel in Prisons. The Hastings Center Report, 2024; 54(1): 2.
• MacKay D, Walker RL. Paying for Fairness? Incentives and Fair Subject Selection. American Journal of Bioethics, 2020; 21(3): 35-37.
• Walker RL. Can We Do without Respect and Justice in Animal Research Ethics? Hastings Center Report, 2020; 50(5): 46-47.
• Juengst ET, Henderson GE, Walker RL, Conley JM, MacKay D, Meagher KM, Saylor K, Waltz M, Kuczynski KJ, Cadigan RJ. Is Enhancement the Price of Prevention in Human Gene Editing? The CRISPR Journal, 2018. 1(6): 1-4.
• Walker RL, Fisher JA. Companion Animal Studies: Slipping Through a Research Oversight Gap. American Journal of Bioethics, 2018. 18(10): 62-63.
• Walker RL. Beyond Primates: Research Protections and Animal Moral Value. Hasting Center Report, 2016. 46(4): 28-30.
• Biller-Andorno N, Grimm H, Walker RL*. Professionalism and Ethics in Animal Research. Nature Biotechnology, 2015. 33(10): 2-3. *According to Nature Biotechnology style, the primary author is listed last.
• Lázaro-Muñoz G, Conley JM, Davis AM, Van Riper M, Walker RL, Juengst ET. Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Looking for Trouble: Preventive Genomic Sequencing in the General Population and the Role of Patient Choice”. American Journal of Bioethics, 2015;15 (12):W6-9.
• Walker RL. Review of Current Controversies in Virtue Theory (M Alfano, editor). Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (Online Journal). 2015.09.24.
• Walker RL. Review of The Ethics of Species: An Introduction (R Sandler). International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 2013; 27(2):225-228.
• Walker RL. Review of Disability and Disadvantage (K Brownlee and A Cureton, eds). Mind, 2012; 121(484):1047-1052.

Other Scholarship

• Andrews K, Comstock G, Crozier GKD, Donaldson S, Fenton A, Johnson LSM, Jones R, Kymlicka W, Meynell L, Nobis N, Pena-Guzman D, Rocha J, Rollin B, Sebo J, Shriver A, Walker RL. In re Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc., on Behalf of Tommy. Brief by Amici Curiae Philosophers. Filed in State of New York Court of Appeals. New York County Clerk’s Index Nos. 162358/15 and 150149/16. 2018. 41pp. Available on line at: https://www.nonhumanrights.org/content/uploads/In-re-Nonhuman-Rights-v.-Lavery-Proposed-Brief-by-PHILOSOPHERS-74435.pdf
• Walker RL, King NMP. Animal Care and Use in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Disease Research: Framing the Ethical and Policy Issues. Chapel Hill (NC): Policy, Ethics, and Law Core of the Southeast Regional Center of Excellence for Emerging Infections and Biodefense [White Paper]. 2010. 106 pp.