Leemon McHenry

Leemon McHenry
Born	1956 North Carolina, United States
Residence	Los Angeles, California
Nationality	American Notable work The Event Universe
Occupation	Philosopher School/Tradition -- Speculative Philosophy

Leemon McHenry is a bioethicist and a lecturer in philosophy at California State University, Northridge, in the United States. He has taught philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Old Dominion University, Davidson College, Central Michigan University, Wittenberg University and Loyola Marymount University, and has held visiting research positions at Johns Hopkins University, UCLA and at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in the University of Edinburgh. His research interests center on medical ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of science.

Education

McHenry received his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland, where he was Vans Dunlop Scholar in Logic and Metaphysics studying with Professor Timothy L. S. Sprigge.

Writings

Much of McHenry's philosophical work focuses on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and process studies. He has devoted attention to Whitehead's attempt to construct a unified general theory from the revolutionary developments in modern physics. McHenry has argued that Whitehead's event ontology is a more adequate basis for achieving this unification than a traditional substance metaphysics. His papers on this subject and a book, The Event Universe, investigate the influence of Maxwell's electromagnetic field and Einstein's special theory of relativity on the ontology of events. In this manner he has defended the naturalized and speculative approach to metaphysics as opposed to analytical and linguistic methods that arose in the 20th century. His main influences include: Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, W. V. Quine, Karl Popper, Nicholas Maxwell and Timothy Sprigge.

In medical ethics he has focused attention on the interplay between medicine and the pharmaceutical industry. He has criticized the corporate takeover of medicine and the corrupting influence of the pharmaceutical industry on medicine. This includes dubious claims about chemical imbalance as a marketing ploy for selling antidepressants, direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals, industry-sponsored clinical research, and ghostwriting for medical journals. As an example of the latter, he has written articles about GlaxoSmithKline's study 329 on paroxetine and teenagers, and asked that the ghostwritten article about the trial results be retracted by the journal that published it in 2001.^[1] In a broader realm, he has argued that the industry-academic partnerships have worsened university research, created increased opportunities for scientific misconduct, and failed to protect academic freedom.

McHenry has edited several books, authored chapters of numerous academic texts, served as the philosophy review editor for Process Studies (ISBN 0791455734), and participated in the State University of New York's series in philosophy, which brings together the world’s leading contemporary process and analytic philosophers. He has written articles and reviews for Process Studies, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Journal of Medical Ethics,The Review of Metaphysics,Mind, and American Rationalist.

In 2007 he became the literary executor to the late Professor Timothy Sprigge.

Selected Publications

Philosophy

1992, Whitehead and Bradley: A Comparative Analysis, SUNY Series in Systematic Philosophy, Albany: State University of New York Press.
1995, "Quine's Pragmatic Ontology," The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 9/2, pp. 147–158.
1996, "Descriptive and Revisionary Theories of Events", Process Studies, 25, p. 90-103
1997,"Quine and Whitehead: Ontology and Methodology," Process Studies, The Forum, 26, pp. 2–12. (Reply: W. V. Quine, "Response to Leemon McHenry" Process Studies, The Forum, 26, pp. 13–14; reprinted in Process and Analysis: Whitehead, Hartshorne and the Analytic Tradition, ed by George Shields, State University of New York Press, 2003, pp. 171–173, and Quine in Dialogue, ed by Dagfinn Føllesdal and Douglas Quine, Harvard University Press, 2008, pp. 257–58.)
2002, British Philosophers: 1800-2000, ed. with P. Dematteis and P. Fosl, London and Detroit: Gale.
2002, American Philosophers to 1950, ed. with P. Dematteis, London and Detroit: Gale.
2003, Reflections on Philosophy: Introductory Essays, ed. with T. Yagisawa, New York: Longman.
2004, "The Case Against Catholicism: A Historical and Philosophical Analysis," American Rationalist, Part 1, July/August, pp. 8–10, Part 2, September/October, pp. 6–10.
2007, "Maxwell's Field and Whitehead's Events: The Adventure of a Revolutionary Idea" in Subjectivity, Process, and Rationality edited by Michel Weber and P. Basile, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag.
2007, "Commercial Influences on the Pursuit of Wisdom," London Review of Education, vol. 5, no 2, p. 131-142; reprinted and translated into Spanish by Antoni Furió as “La mercantilización del saber: Influencias mercantiles en la búsqueda del conocimiento,” Pasajes: Revista de Pensamiento Contemporaneo, 33, 2010, pp. 31–41.
2007, Consciousness, Reality and Value: Essays in Honour of T. L. S. Sprigge, ed. with P. Basile, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag.
2009, "Popper and Maxwell on Scientific Progress," Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom: Studies in the Philosophy of Nicholas Maxwell, ed. by L. McHenry, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, pp. 233–248.
2010, "Sprigge's Ontology of Consciousness," The Metaphysics of Consciousness ed by P. Basile, J. Kiverstein,P. Phemister, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 5–20.
2011, "The Multiverse Conjecture: Whitehead’s Cosmic Epochs and Contemporary Cosmology” Process Studies 40.1, pp. 5-25.
2015, The Event Universe: The Revisionary Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead, Edinburgh University Press.
2016, "Analytical Critiques of Whitehead's Metaphysics," with George Sheilds, The Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 2, pp. 1-21.

Medicine and Bioethics

2005, "On the Origin of Great Ideas: Science in the Age of Big Pharma," Hastings Center Report, vol 35, no 6, p 17-19
2006, "Ethical Issues in Psychopharmacology", Journal of Medical Ethics vol 32, p 405-410
2008, "Clinical Trials and Drug Promotion: Selective Reporting of Study 329," with Jon N. Jureidini and Peter R. Mansfield, International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine, vol. 20, pp. 73–81
2008, "Industry-Sponsored Ghostwriting in Clinical Reporting: A Case Study," with Jon N. Jureidini, Accountability in Research, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 152–167
2008, “Biomedical Research and Corporate Interests: A Question of Academic Freedom,” Mens Sana Monographs, 6, pp. 146–156.
2010, "Of Sophists and Spin-Doctors: Industry-Sponsored Ghostwriting and the Crisis of Academic Medicine," Mens Sana Monographs, 8, pp. 129–145.
2012, "On the Proposed Changes to the Credibility Gap in Industry-Supported Biomedical Research: A Critical Evaluation” with Jon N.Jureidini, Ethical Human Psychology & Psychiatry 14/3, pp. 156–161.
2012, “The Paroxetine 352 Bipolar Trial: A Study in Medical Ghostwriting,” with Jay D. Amsterdam, International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine 24/4, pp. 221–231.
2014, “Blood Money: Bayer’s Inventory of HIV Contaminated Blood Products and 3rd World Hemophiliacs,” with Mellad M. Khoshnood, Accountability in Research 21/6, pp. 389–400.
2016, “The Citalopram CIT-MD-18 Pediatric Depression Trial: A Deconstruction of Medical Ghostwriting, Data Manipulation and Academic Malfeasance,” with Jay D. Amsterdam and Jon N. Jureidini, International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine, 28, pp. 33-43.

References

↑ Melanie Newman, "The Rules of Retraction", BMJ, 341(7785), 11 December 2010, pp. 1246–1248. doi:10.1136/bmj.c6985 PMID 21138994
Leemon B. McHenry, Jon N. Jureidini, "Industry-sponsored ghostwriting in clinical trial reporting: a case study," Accountability in Research: Policies and Quality Assurance, 15(3), July–September 2008, pp. 152–167. doi:10.1080/08989620802194384 PMID 18792536
Jon N. Jureidini, Leemon B. McHenry, Peter R. Mansfield, "Clinical trials and drug promotion: Selective reporting of study 329", International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine, 20, 2008, pp. 73–81. doi:10.3233/JRS-2008-0426

External links

CSUN.edu - Leemon McHenry's CSUN faculty homepage, Philosophy Department
- Interview with Leemon McHenry about his forthcoming book, The Event Universe
AnthonyFlood.com - 'A review of Leemon McHenry, Whitehead and Bradley: A Comparative Analysis', Lewis S. Ford
Timothy Sprigge
http://www.whiteheadresearch.com/about/intl-board.shtml—Whitehead Research Institute
http://www.philosophy.ed.ac.uk—University of Edinburgh Philosophy Department

Conflict of interest

Issues	Chinese wall Conflict of interest in the health care industry Funding bias Insider trading Judicial disqualification Nepotism Regulatory capture Self-dealing Self-regulation Shill

Related	AllTrials Arm's length principle Bias Business ethics Cochrane Collaboration Corruption Cui bono Follow the money Legal ethics Lobbying Medical ethics cases Medical ghostwriter Moral hazard Pharmaceutical marketing Pharmaceutical sales representative Pharmacovigilance Political ethics Revolving door Sponsorship of continuing medical education

Writers	Michael Davis Ben Goldacre Sheldon Krimsky Leemon McHenry Wayne Norman

Cases	Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia Study 329

Legislation, legal cases/principles	Nemo iudex in causa sua R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex p Pinochet (No 2) R v Neil R v Sussex Justices, ex p McCarthy

Media	Bad Pharma Big Pharma Inside Job Side Effects Who Killed the Electric Car?

Categories	Category:Conflict of interest Category:Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 81559317 ISNI: 0000 0000 8160 1844 SUDOC: 031913849 BNF: cb12304019b (data)

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