As aN ASSOCIATE RESEARCH PROFESSOR in the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University, I write and teach on a variety of topics in bioethics.
Explore selected publications below.
PAIN, OPIOIDS, & ADDICTION
Travis N. Rieder. 2021. “Ending the War on Drugs Requires Decriminalization. Does it also Require Legalization?” American Journal of Bioethics, 21(4): 38-41.
L. McLean House II, Kayla N. Tabari, Travis N. Rieder, & Zachary L. McCormick. 2020. “Pain in the Pandemic: Ethical Approaches during COVID-19.” Pain Medicine, ePub ahead of print.
Travis N. Rieder. 2020. “America’s Opioid Crisis is a Bioethics Crisis.” Hastings Center Report 50(4): 24-32.
Travis N. Rieder. 2020. “Is Non-Consensual Tapering of High-Dose Opioid Therapy Justified?” AMA Journal of Ethics, 22(8): E651-657.
Travis N. Rieder. 2020. “The Perilous Blessing of Opioids.” Missouri Medicine 117(3): 202-203. Adapted from an essay first published in The Wall Street Journal.
Travis N. Rieder. 2019. “The Painful Truth about Pain.” Nature, 573: S16.
Travis N. Rieder. 2019. “Opioids and Ethics: Is Opioid-Free the Only Responsible Arthroplasty?” HSS Journal: The Musculoskeletal Journal of Hospital for Special Surgery, 15(1): 12-16.
Seth Waldman, Charles N. Cornell, Louis A. Shapiro, Todd J. Albert, William Schairer, E. Carlos Rodriguez-Merchan, Ellen M. Soffin, Christopher Lee Wu, Mark Barnes, Alex Rich, Jonathan Avery, Travis N. Rieder. 2019. “CONSENSUS STATEMENT: Toward Opioid-Free Arthroplasty: A Leadership Forum.” HSS Journal: The Musculoskeletal Journal of Hospital for Special Surgery, 15(1): 4-7.
Travis N. Rieder. 2018. “There’s Never Just One Side to the Story: Why America Must Stop Swinging the Opioid Pendulum.” Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, 8(3): 225-232.
Travis N. Rieder. 2018. “Pain Medicine during an Opioid Epidemic Needs More Transparency, Not Less: Commentary on Gligorov’s 'Telling the Truth About Pain'.” Forthcoming in American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience.
Adams, S., C. Blanco, H. Chaudhry, H. Chen, R. Chou, M. Christopher, P. Harris, S. Levin, S. Mackey, E. McCance-Katz, P. Moore, J. Rathmell, Travis N. Rieder, B. Twillman. 2017. “First, Do No Harm: Marshaling Clinician Leadership to Counter the Opioid Epidemic.” Special Publication from the National Academy of Medicine, Washington, D.C.
Travis N. Rieder. 2017. “In Opioid Withdrawal, with No Help in Sight.” Health Affairs, 36(1): 182-185.
Climate Change
Travis N. Rieder & Justin Bernstein. 2020. “The Case for ‘Contributory Ethics’: Or How to Think about Individual Ethics in a Time of Global Problems.” Forthcoming at Ethics, Policy and the Environment.
Cheryl C. MacPherson, Elise Smith, Travis N. Rieder. 2020. “Does Health Promotion Harm the Environment?” The New Bioethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Biotechnology and the Body, ePub ahead of print.
Travis N. Rieder. 2019. “Worry and Hope in the Making of New People.” Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring.: Staging Life and Death (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press).
Jake Earl, Colin Hickey, Travis N. Rieder. 2017. “Fertility, Immigration, and the Fight against Climate Change.” Bioethics, 31: 582-589.
Marcus Hedahl, Travis N. Rieder. 2017. “Don’t Feed the Trolls: Bold Climate Action in an Age of Trump and Denialism.” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Special Issue: Trump and the 2016 Election.
Travis N. Rieder. 2016. Toward a Small Family Ethic: How Overpopulation and Climate Change are Affecting the Morality of Procreation(Springer).
Colin Hickey, Travis N. Rieder, Jake Earl. 2016. “Population Engineering and the Fight against Climate Change.” Social Theory and Practice. 42(4): 845-870.
OTHER PHILOSOPHY & Ethics
Nabina Liebow & Travis N. Rieder. 2022. “On White Individuals’ Responsibility for Promoting Racial Justice.” Bioethics.
Casey Jo Humbyrd, Alexandra M. Dunham, Amy L. Xu, Travis N. Rieder. 2020. “Restarting Orthopaedic Care in a Pandemic: Ethical Framework and Case Examples.” Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, ePub ahead of print.
Alexandra M. Dunham, Travis N. Rieder, & Casey Jo Humbyrd. 2020. “A Bioethical Perspective for Navigating Moral Dilemmas Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, EPub ahead of print.
Justin Bernstein, Brian Hutler, Travis N. Rieder, & Anne Barnhill. 2020. “Grappling with the Ethics of Social Distancing: A Framework for Evaluating Social Distancing Policies and Reopening Plans.” White paper published by the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.
Travis N. Rieder, Brian Hutler, Debra JH Mathews. 2020. “Rethinking the Ethics of Robots and Artificial Intelligence: Pragmatic First Steps Toward an Ethics for Semi-Autonomous Agents.” AJOB Neuroscience, 11(2): 120-127.
Casey Jo Humbyrd & Travis N. Rieder. 2018. “Ethics and Limb Salvage: Presenting Amputation as a Treatment Option in Lower Extremity Trauma.” In press at Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.
Travis N. Rieder. 2017. “Saving or Creating? Which Are We Doing When We Resuscitate Extremely Preterm Infants?” American Journal of Bioethics, 17(8): 4-12.
Travis N. Rieder. 2016. “Why I’m Still a Proportionalist.” Philosophical Studies. 173(1): 251-270.
Travis N. Rieder. 2015. “How to Solve Prichard’s Dilemma: A Complex Contractualist Account of Moral Motivation.” Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. 9(1).
Travis N. Rieder. 2015. “Procreation, Adoption and the Contours of Obligation.” Journal of Applied Philosophy. 32(3):293-30.