Sara Goering, PhD

Edited Books

• Goering, Shudak and Wartenburg (2013) Philosophy in Schools: An Introduction for Philosophers and Teachers edited with Nicholas Shudak and Thomas Wartenberg, Routledge.
• Burke, Edwards, Goering, Holland and Trinidad (2011) Achieving Justice in Genomic Translation: Rethinking the Pathway to Benefit, edited with Wylie Burke, Kelly Edwards, Suzanne Holland, and Sue Trinidad, Oxford University Press.
• Dula and Goering (1994) "It Just Ain't Fair!" - The Ethics of Health Care for African Americans, edited with Annette Dula, Praeger/Greenwood Publishing.

Articles and chapters

• Beck, Schönau, MacDuffie, Dasgupta, Flynn, Song, Goering, and Klein (2024) “’In the spectrum of people who are healthy’: Views of individuals at risk of dementia on using neurotechnology for cognitive enhancement” Neuroethics 17(2): 1-18.
• Dasgupta, Klein, Cabrera, Chiong, Feinsinger, Fins, Haeusermann, Hendriks, Lazaro-Munoz, Kubu, Mayberg, Ramos, Roskies, Sankary, Walton, Widge, and Goering (2024) “What Happens After a Neural Implant Study? Neuroethics Expert Workshop on Post-Trial Obligations” Neuroethics 17:22 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-024-09549-2
• Borrmann, Versalovic, Brown, Scholl, Klein, Goering, Müller, and Kellmeyer (2024) “Situated and ethically sensitive interviewing: critical phenomenology in the context of neurotechnology” Ch. 10 in Neuro-ProsthEthics: Ethical Implications of Applied Situated Cognition (eds. Heinrichs, Beck and Friedrich). Springer.
• Goering, Brown and Klein (2024) “Brain Pioneers and Moral Entanglement: An Argument for Post-Trial Responsibilities in Neural-Device Trials” Hastings Center Report 54(1): 24-33. DOI: 10.1002/hast.1566
• Ligthart, Ienca, Meynen, Molnar-Gabor, Adnorno, Bublitz, Catley, Claydon, Douglas, Farahany, Fins, Goering, Haselager, Jotterand, Lavazza, McCay, Paz, Rainey, Ryberg and Kellmeyer (2023) “Minding Rights: Mapping Ethical and Legal Foundations of ‘Neurorights’” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 32(4): 461–481.
• Klein and Goering (2023) “Can I hold that thought for you? Dementia and Shared Relational Agency” Hastings Center Report 5: 17-29.
• Boulicault, Goering, Klein, Dougherty and Widge (2023) “The role of family members in psychiatric deep brain stimulation trials: More than psychosocial support” Neuroethics 16:14 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-023-09520-7
• Klein, Montes, Dasgupta, MacDuffie, Schönau, Flynn, Song and Goering (2023) “Views of stakeholders at risk for dementia about deep brain stimulation for cognition” Brain Stimulation 16: 742-747.
• Versalovic, Klein, Goering, Ngo, Gliske, Boulicault, Specker Sullivan, Thomas and Widge (2023) “DBS for substance use disorders? An exploratory qualitative study of perspectives of people currently in treatment” Journal of Addiction Medicine DOI: 10.1097/ADM.0000000000001150
• Reardon, Lee, Goering, Fullerton, Cho, Panofsky, and Hammonds (2023) “From Trust to Trustworthiness: Building Equitable and Ethical Science” Cell 186: 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.01.008 peer-reviewed
• Schönau, Goering, Versalovic, Montes, Brown, Dasgupta, Klein (2022) "Asking questions that matter - Question Prompt Lists as tools for improving the consent process for neurotechnology clinical trials" Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16: 983226; doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.983226
• Jones, Talukdar and Goering (2022) “Can Pre-College Philosophy Help Academic Philosophy’s Diversity Problem? Reflecting on What Diverse Philosophers Say about Early Exposure to Philosophy” Precollege Philosophy and Public Practice 4:5-31
• Goering, Klein, Specker Sullivan, Wexler et al. (2021) “Recommendations for the Responsible Development and Application of Neurotechnologies” Neuroethics https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-021-09468-6
• Goering, Wexler and Klein (2021) “Trading Vulnerabilities: Living with Parkinson’s Disease before and after Deep Brain Stimulation” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 30(4): 1-8.
• Dasgupta, I., Schönau, A, Brown, T., Klein, E., and Goering, S. (2021) “Does Closed-Loop DBS for Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders Raise Salient Authenticity Concerns?” In: Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Brain and Mental Health (eds. Jotterand and Ienca), 217-231, Springer.
• Wexler, Choi, Ramayya, Sharma, McShane, Buch, Donley-Fletcher, Gold, Baltuch, Goering, and Klein (2021) “Ethical Issues in Intraoperative Neuroscience Research: Assessing Subjects’ Recall of Informed Consent and Motivations for Participation” AJOB Empirical Bioethics https://doi.org/10.1080/23294515.2021.1941415
• Schönau, Brown, Dasgupta, Klein, Versalovic and Goering (2021) “Mapping the Dimensions of Agency” AJOB Neuroscience DOI: 10.1080/21507740.2021.1896599
• Goering, Brown and Klein (2021) “Neurotechnology Ethics and Relational Agency” Philosophy Compass DOI: 10.1111/phc3.12734
• Goering and Klein (2020) “Fostering Neuroethics Integration with Neuroscience in the BRAIN Initiative: Comments on the NIH Neuroethics Roadmap (2020)” AJOB Neuroethics 11:3, 184-188, https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2020.1778120
• Goering and Specker Sullivan (2020) “Introduction to the Special Section: Feminist Approaches to Neurotechnologies” IJFAB 13(1): 89–97
• Goering and Klein (2020) “Embedding ethics in neural engineering: An integrated transdisciplinary collaboration” In A Guide to Field Philosophy:  Case Studies and Practical Strategies (eds. Brister and Frodeman), pp. 17-34, Routledge.
• Hendriks, Grady, Ramos, … Goering, et al. (2019) “Ethical challenges of risk, informed consent, and post-trial responsibilities in human research with neural devices: a review” JAMA Neurology doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2019.3523
• Gilbert, Brown, Dasgupta, Martens, Klein and Goering (2019) “An Instrument to Capture the Phenomenology of Implanted Brain Device Use” Neuroethics https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-019-09422-7
• Goering and Klein (2019) “Neurotechnologies and Justice by, with and for Disabled People” in Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability (eds. David Wasserman and Adam Cureton), 2019. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190622879.013.33                                                                                     
• Pham, Sample, Huggins, Goering and Klein (2018) “Asilomar Survey: Researcher Perspectives on Ethical Principles and Guidelines for BCI Research” Brain-Computer Interfaces 4 (1-2): 1-15.
• Knoll, Woiak, Lang, Goering, and Cory (2018) “Disability Studies Curriculum Transformation: Building a Program and Cultivating a Community” Journal of Disability and Religion 12(4): 360-380.
• Yuste, Goering, and the Morningside Group (2017) “Four ethical priorities for neurotechnologies and AI” Nature 551: 159-163.
• Goering, Klein, Dougherty and Widge (2017) “Staying in the loop: Relational Agency and Identity in Next Generation DBS for Psychiatry” AJOB Neuroscience 8(2): 59-70.
• Goering (2017) “Thinking Differently: Neurodiversity and Neural Engineering” Handbook of Neuroethics (eds. Rommelfanger and Johnson), pp. 37-50, Routledge.
• Specker Sullivan, Klein, Brown, Sample, Pham, Tubig, Folland, Truitt, and Goering (2017) “Keeping Disability in Mind: A Case Study in Implantable Brain-Computer Interface Research” Science and Engineering Ethics published online June 2017; DOI 10.1007/s11948-017-9928-9
• Goering and Yuste (2016) “On the Necessity of Ethical Guidelines for Novel Neurotechnologies” Cell 167: 882-885.
• Goering (2016) “Mother and Others: Relational Autonomy and Parenting” Oxford Handbook on Reproductive Ethics (ed. Leslie Francis), pp. 285-300, Oxford University Press.
• Brown, Thompson, Herron, Ko, Chizeck and Goering (2016) “Controlling Our Brains — On the Possibility of Brain Computer Interface-Triggered Deep Brain Stimulation for Essential Tremor” Brain Computer Interface 3(4): 165-170.
• Klein, Goering, Gagne, Shea, Franklin, Zorowitz, Dougherty and Widge (2016) “Brain –computer interface-based control of closed-loop brain stimulation: attitudes and ethical considerations” Brain-Computer Interfaces. 3(3): 140-148, 2016. DOI: 10.1080/2326263X.2016.1207497
• Klein, Brown, Sample, Truitt, and Goering (2015) “Engineering the Brain: Ethical Issues and the Introduction of Neural Devices” Hastings Center Report 45(6): 26-35.
• Goering (2015) “Rethinking Disability: The Social Model of Disability and Chronic Disease” Current Reviews in Musculoskeletal Medicine DOI: 10.1007/s12178-015-9273-2.
• de Melo Martin and Goering (2014; updated 2022) “Eugenics” in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/eugenics/; added co-author de Melo Martin in June 2022.
• Goering (2014) “Using Children’s Literature as a Spark for Philosophical Discussion: Stories that Deal with Death” in Ethics and Children’s Literature (ed. Claudia Mills), p. 233-246, Ashgate.
• Goering (2013) “Finding Philosophy in High School Literature: A Separate Peace and Beloved” in Philosophy in Schools (eds. Goering, Shudak and Wartenberg) pp. 208-218, Routledge.
• Kelley, Edwards, Stark, Fullerton, James, Goering, Holland, Dsis and Burke (2012) “Values in Translation: How Asking the Right Questions Can Move Translational Science Toward Greater Health Impact” Clinical and Translational Science 5: 445-451.
• Goering (2012) “Ethics and the Young Student: Philosophy as Ethics Education” in Philosophy and Education: Introducing Philosophy to Young People (eds. Jana Mohr Lone and Roberta Israeloff), pp. 47-56, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Goering (2011) “Disability, Internalized Oppression and Appearance Norms” in the APA Newsletter on Medicine and Philosophy, 10(2): 9-12.
• Goering (2011) “Bragging about Failure: Mothers Who Take Delight in Their Shortcomings” in the APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, 10(2): 15-19.
• Goering (2011) “The Off-Button: Thought Experiments and Child Control” Motherhood & Philosophy: The Birth of Wisdom (ed. Sheila Lintott), Wiley-Blackwell.
• Wilfond, Miller, Korfiatis, Diekama, Dudzinski and Goering and the Seattle Working Group on Growth Attenuation (2010) “Navigating Growth Attenuation in Children with Profound Disabilities: Children’s Interests, Family Decision-Making, and Community Concerns” Hastings Center Report 40(6): 27-40.
• Goering (2009) “’Mental Illness’ and Justice as Recognition” Philosophy & Public Policy Quarterly 29(1/2): 14-18.
• Goering (2009) “Postnatal Reproductive Autonomy: Promoting Relational Autonomy and Self-Trust in New Parents” Bioethics 23 (1): 9-19.
• Yu, Goering, and Fullerton (2009) “Race-based Medicine and Justice as Recognition: Exploring the Phenomenon of BiDil” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 18: 57-67.
• Goering (2008) “’You say you’re happy, but…’: Contested Quality of Life Judgments in Bioethics and Disability Studies” Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 5: 125-135.
• Goering, Holland and Fryer-Edwards (2008) “Transforming Genetic Research Practices with Marginalized Communities: A Case for Responsive Justice” with Suzanne Holland and Kelly Fryer-Edwards Hastings Center Report 38(2): 43-53.
• Goering (2008) “Finding and Fostering the Philosophical Impulse in Young People: A Tribute to the Work of Gareth Matthews” invited for a special volume of Metaphilosophy (edited by Tom Wartenburg) to honor Gareth Matthews 39(1): 39-50.
• Goering and Whittaker (2007) “Integrating Philosophy for Children and Young Adults into the Public Schools: Tales from Long Beach, California” Theory and Research in Education, 5(3): 341-355.
• Goering (2003) “Conformity through Surgery and Genetics: The Medical Erasure of Race and Disability” Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology (editors, S. Harding and R. Figueroa), New York: Routledge.
• Goering (2003) “Choosing Our Friends: Moral Partiality and the Value of Diversity” Journal of Social Philosophy 34(3): 400-413. Reprinted in Sex, Love and Friendship: Studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, Volume 2: 1993-2003, eds. A. Soble and P. Marino, Rodopi, Value Inquiry Book Series, 2008.
• Goering (2002) “Beyond the Medical Model? Disability, Formal Justice, and the Exception for the ‘Profoundly Impaired’” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 12(4): 373-388.
• Goering (2001) “The Ethics of Making the Body Beautiful: What Cosmetic Genetics Can Learn from Cosmetic Surgery” Philosophy & Public Policy Quarterly 21(1): 21-27. Reprinted in Genetic Prospects, edited by Verna Gehring, Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
• Goering (2000) "Gene Therapies and the Pursuit of a Better Human" Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 9 (3): 330-341. Reprinted in " in Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach, 3^rd edition (eds. May, Collins-Chobanian, and Wong), Prentice-Hall, 2001; Contemporary Bioethics (eds. Pierce and Randals) New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Figueroa and Goering (1997) "The Summer Philosophy Institute of Colorado: Building Bridges" with Robert Figueroa, Teaching Philosophy 20(2): 155-168.
• Goering (1996) "Patient Consumerism and Health Care Reform: Compromise without Commodification" Commentary on the UK Radical Statistics Group document: In Defense of the NHS, Health Care Analysis 4:324-327.
• Goering (1994) "Women and Underserved Populations: Access to Clinical Trials" in "It Just Ain't Fair!" - The Ethics of Health Care for African Americans, (eds. Annette Dula & Sara Goering), Greenwood Publishing. Reprinted in Intervention and Reflection: Basic Issues in Medical Ethics, 6^th edition (ed. Munson), Belmont CA: Wadsworth, 1999.

Book reviews & book notes

• Melissa Shew and Kimberly Garchar (eds) Philosophy for Girls: An Invitation to the Life of Thought Oxford University Press, 2020, in Hypatia 38, e33, 1–4 doi:10.1017/hyp.2023.28
• Susan Levin Posthuman Bliss: The Failed Promise of Transhumanism Oxford University Press, 2020; review “Resisting Transhumanist Fantasies” Hastings Center Report Jan/Feb: 6-8, 2022.
• Francoise Baylis and Carolyn McLeod (eds) Family Making: Contemporary Ethical Challenges Oxford University Press, 2014, in Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 27(3): 5-13, 2017.
• Inmaculada de Melo-Martin Rethinking Reprogenetics New York: Oxford University Press, in Hypatia Reviews Online 2017, http://hypatiareviews.org/reviews/content/328
• Bickenbach, Felder and Schmitz (eds.) Disability and the Good Human Life New York: Cambridge University Press, Ethics 126(4): 1090-1095, 2016.
• Hilde Lindemann Holding and Letting Go in APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, 14(1): 26-28, 2014.
• Comments on Thomas Wartenberg’s Big Ideas for Little Kids New York: Roman & Littlefield, 2009, in Theory in Research and Education 10(1): 77-81, 2012.
• Michael Hand and Carrie Winstanley (eds) Philosophy in Schools London: Continuum, 2008, in Teachers College Record (Columbia University), published September 26, 2008.
• Mary Warnock’s Making Babies: Is There a Right to Have Children? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, in Journal of Moral Philosophy 3(3):378-380, 2006.
• Terrance McConnell Inalienable Rights: The Limits of Consent in Medicine and the Law in Ethics New York: Oxford University Press, in Ethics 113(2): 461, 2003.
• Michael Fox Deep Vegetarianism Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, in Ethics 111(3):632-634, 2001.
• John F. Kilner, Rebecca D. Pentz, and Frank E. Young (eds). Genetic Ethics: Do the Ends Justify the Genes? Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1997 in Ethics 109(2): 482, 1999.
• Daniel Dombrowski Babies and Beasts: The Argument from Marginal Cases Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1997 in Ethics 109(1): 226, 1998.

Other (short commentaries and reviews)

• Goering, Beck, Dorfman, Schwarzwalder and Wohns (2024) “Privacy protections in and across contexts: why we need more than contextual integrity” AJOB Neuroscience.
• Adsit-Morris, Collins, Goering, Karabin, Lee and Reardon (2023) “Unbounding ELSI: The Ongoing Work of Centering Equity and Justice” AJOB 23(7): 103-105.
• Goering and Klein (2023) “Why taking psychosocial effects of neurotechnology seriously matters” AJOB Neuroscience 14(3): 307-309.
• Versalovic, Goering and Klein (2022) “Data, privacy, and agency: beyond transparency to empowerment” AJOB. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2022.2075975 (63-65)
• Goering, Brown, McCusker, Montes, Schönau, Versalovic, and Klein (2022) “Integrating Equity Work throughout Bioethics” AJOB Neuroscience 22(1): 26-27.
• Goering (2020) “Why Should Adamancy of an Uninformed View Give Moral Weight?” AJOB 20:8, 78-79, DOI:10.1080/15265161.2020.1781956
• Dasgupta, Versalovic, Schönau, Klein and Goering (2020) “BCI Mediated Action and Responsibility: Questioning the Distinction Between Non-Disabled Recreation and Disability-Related Necessity” 11(1): 63-65.
• MacDuffie and Goering (2019) “Neurotechnologies cannot seize thoughts: a call for caution in nomenclature” AJOB Neuroscience 10(1): 23-25.
• Goering, Brown and Alsarraf (2017) “Other people's contributions to an individual's narrative identity matter for DBS” AJOB Neuroscience 8(3): 176-178.
• Goering and Specker Sullivan (2017) “Neuroethics” in eLS (the online Encyclopedia of Life Sciences). In: eLS (the online Encyclopedia of Life Sciences), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester. DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a002718
• Moritz, Ruther, Stett, Ball, Burgard, Goering, Chudler, and Rao (2016) “New Perspectives on Neuroengineering and Neurotechnologies: NSF-DFG Workshop Report” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (in press) DOI 10.1109/ TBME.2016.2543662. 63(7): 1354-1367.
• Goering (2015) “Stimulating autonomy: DBS and the prospect of choosing to control ourselves through stimulation” (editorial); AJOB Neuroscience 6(4): 1-3.
• Goering (2014) “Is it Still Me? DBS, Agency, and the Extended, Relational Me” AJOB Neuroscience 5(4): 50-51, 2014.
• Goering (2010) “Revisiting the Relevance of the Social Model of Disability” American Journal of Bioethics 10(1): 54-55.
• Goering (2007) “What Makes Suffering ‘Unbearable and Hopeless’? Advance directives, Dementia and Disability” American Journal of Bioethics 7(4): 62-63.
• Goering (2005) “Autonomy” in Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics (ed. Carl Mitcham) Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA.
• Goering (2005) “Cosmetics” in Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics (ed. Carl Mitcham) Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA.
• Goering and Dula (2004) “Reasonable People, Double Jeopardy and Justice” with Annette Dula American Journal of Bioethics 4(4): 37-39.
• Goering (2004) “Facing the Consequences of Facial Transplantation: Individual Choices, Social Effects” American Journal of Bioethics 4(3): 25-27.
• Goering (2000) "Alison Jaggar" and "Gender Bias in Intelligence Studies" for the Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories, edited by Lorraine Code, NY: Routledge.