BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

I studied medicine at the University of Cape Town Medical School (1988-1993) and obtained a PhD in philosophy with The University of Chicago’s Committee for the History of Culture (1998-2006).

I completed a Fellowship at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics (2001-2003), and have subsequently worked as a clinical medical ethicist in Paris and Montreal.

I have also completed Postdoctoral Fellowships in Neuroethics with McGill University’s Biomedical Ethics Unit and Religious Studies Faculty (2008-2011).

 

My current research focuses on phenomenology, cognition and moral reasoning. Research topics in which I am interested include: empathy, social cognition, pain, and autism. My research mines the relevance of neuropsychological and neurophysiological insights for Neuroethics reflection.  

As a certified Feldenkrais practitioner I complement my Neuroethics research with hands-on work in Neurorehabilitation (2013), and specialize in working with infants with neurodevelopmental problems.

As an editor of the International Feldenkrais Federation Research Journal I actively promotes research integrating somatics education, neuroscience and philosophy.

My awards include a Mellon Foundation-University of Chicago Dissertation-Year Fellowship and a European Neuroscience Network Visiting Exchange Grant (ENSN), at the Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen.

In 2011 I moved to Israel, where I live with wife and children. I am currently Director of Research with the Mifne Center dedicated to the early intervention in the treatment of autism for the infant and family.

 

 

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Writing

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​Books​​
2012
Intuition in Medicine: A Philosophical Defense of Clinical Reasoning. The University of Chicago Press.

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​Book Chapters
“Clinical Reasoning and Knowing.” In Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine, Edited by James Marcum, Bloomsbury Press. (Forthcoming)

 

“Enhancing Cognition in the ‘Brain Nation.’ In Cognitive Enhancement: Ethical and Policy Implications in International Perspectives, Edited by Fabrice Jotterand and Veljko Dubljevic, Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming)

 

Hillel D. Braude and Jean Decety, “The Affective Limits of Medical Empathy.” In Fundamental Transdisciplinary Questions on Suffering and Pain, Edited by Smadar Bustan. Springer Publishing: New York. (Forthcoming)

 

“Affecting the Body and Transforming Desire: The Treatment of Suffering as the End of Medicine.” Republished in Creative Dialogues: Narrative and Medicine, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (Forthcoming)

 

2015

“Somatics Affecting: Transforming the Precognitive Sensibility of the Other,” in Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch, Edited by Sondra Fraleigh, Indiana University Press. (In Press)

2010
“Between and Beyond: Medicine and Narrative in Dick Zaner’s Phenomenology.” In Clinical Ethics and the Necessity for Stories: Essays in Honor of Richard M. Zaner, Osborne P. Wiggins and Annette Allen, eds. Springer Press: 119-138.

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​​Journal Articles

2013

“Human All Too Human Reasoning: Comparing Clinical and Phenomenological Intuition,” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.doi: 10.1093/jmp/jhs057.

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2012

"Unraveling the Knot of Suffering: Combining Neurobiological and Hermeneutic Approaches," 19, vol. 4: 291-294. DOI: 10.1353/ppp.2012.0056.

 

“Affecting the Body and Transforming Desire: The Treatment of Suffering as the End of Medicine,”Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, 19, vol. 4: 265-278. DOI: 10.1353/ppp.2012.0048.

“Conciliating Cognition and Consciousness: The Perceptual Foundations of Clinical Reasoning,” Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, vol. 18: 945-950. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2753.2012.01898.x

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Hillel Braude and Jonathan Kimmelman. “The Ethics of Managing Affective and Emotional States to Improve Informed Consent: Autonomy, Comprehension and Voluntariness,” Bioethics, vol. 23(3):149-156.

 “Normativity Unbound: Liminality in Palliative Care Ethics, Theoretical Medicine & Bioethics, vol. 33(2): 107-122. DOI:10.1007/s11017-011-9200-2.

2009
 “Clinical Intuition Versus Statistics: Different Modes of Tacit Knowledge in Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine,” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, vol. 30(3): 181-98

 “Colonialism, Biko and AIDS: The Principle of Beneficence in South African Bioethics,” Social Science & Medicine, vol. 68: 2053-2060.

2008
Hillel Braude, Neil McDonald, Martin Chasen, “Healing and Survivorship: What Makes a Difference?” Current Oncology, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 20-22

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​Article Responses
2011
“Tacit-Clues and the Science of Clinical Judgement.” Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, vol. 17: 940-943.

“Evaluating Moral Intuitions in Neuroethics: A Neurophenomenological Perspective.” American Journal of Bioethics, vol. 2, no.2, pp. 22-24.
 

2009
Amir Raz, Cory Harris, Veronica de Jong, and Hillel Braude. “Is There a Place for (Deceptive) Placebos Within Clinical Practice?” American Journal of Bioethics, Vol. 9 (12): 52-54.

“The Target of the Self and the Arrows of Volition and Self-Representation,” American Journal of Bioethics, vol. 9 (1): 46-7.

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​Book Reviews
2015

Review of “The Nature of Clinical Medicine: The Return of the Clinician.” Oxford University Press. Theoretical Medicine & Bioethics, 2015.

 

2012
Review of “Illness: The Art of Living.” Acumen Press (Hebrew Translation by Smadar Bustan). Neurologia, Journal of the Israeli Neurological Association. 2012, (12): 44-5.

2010

Amir Raz and Hillel Braude. “Differentiating Neuroethics from Neurophilosophy,” – Review of Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives in Neuroethics, PsycCRITIQUES.​

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2009

"The Healing Power of Literature." Review of Suburban Shaman by Cecil Helman

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2008

"Faith Based Science": A Review of Intuition by Allegra Goodman

2002
Review of Eric J. Chaisson’s "Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature," in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 307-309, The Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Invited Commentary:

"Clinical Intuition and Human Rationality." Annals of Family Medicine. Published January 24, 2013.

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​Awards and Fellowships​​

May 2011

Best Student Presentation, Brain Matters2 Conference, Montreal
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April 2011-April 2012
Visiting Researcher, Neuroethics Research Unit, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montreal (IRCM)
Member McGill Center for Research on Religion (CREOR)
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September –December 2010
Visiting Researcher, European Neuroscience Network Visiting Exchange Grant (ENSN), Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen
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September 2006-March 2007
Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy and Applied Ethics Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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December 2004-September 2005
Research Residency at the University of Chicago Paris Center
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2003-2004
​​​​​​​​​​Mellon Foundation-University of Chicago Dissertation-Year Fellowship
Affiliated Doctoral Fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago
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2002-2003
Fellowship Northwestern University of Chicago’s Medical Ethics and Humanities Program
Fellowship Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine, University of Chicago​

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1998-2002
University of Chicago University Fellowship
 

Martin Marty Center Junior Fellowship, University of Chicago
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1998-2002
University of Chicago University Fellowship