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= Eric Racine = Born: March 26, 1976, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Nationality: Canadian

Fields: Bioethics

Alma mater: University of Ottawa, Université de Montréal, Stanford University

Institutions: Montreal Clinical Research Institute, Université de Montréal, and McGill University

Website: www.pragmatichealthethics.ca

Eric Racine, PhD, FCAHS is a French Canadian bioethicist and university professor. He is the Director of the Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit based at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute as well as a research professor at the Université de Montréal and the Montreal Clinical Research Institute. Likewise, he is an adjunct professor at the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University.

Education
Racine pursued undergraduate training in philosophy and political science at the University of Ottawa (1995-1999, summa cum laude) with the highest standings of the honors program. He then moved to Montreal to pursue a master’s in philosophy under the supervision of Professor Daniel Laurier (1999-2001) at the Université de Montréal. He proposed an advanced integrative framework to reconcile insights from AI and cognitive science into a pragmatic multi-level emergentist framework. This work was published much later as chapter 9 in Pragmatic Neuroethics.

Eager to develop interdisciplinary research, Racine pursued a PhD in Applied Human Sciences at the Université de Montréal where he was exposed to qualitative research methodologies. He undertook a multi-site field interview-based study of clinical ethics committees under the supervision of Dr. Hubert Doucet, a pioneer of bioethics in Canada. He also published some of his first academic papers on discourse ethics and neuroethics. Intrigued by the ethical and philosophical implications of neuroscience, Racine joined the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (2004-2006) to work under the supervision of neuroethics pioneered by Dr. Judy Illes now based as a Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia and Emeritus Director of the Program in Neuroethics at Stanford. Racine and Illes have published a series of landmark papers in the field of neuroethics             exploring topics related to the public understandings of neuroscience and the ethics of neurotechnology.

During his training, and throughout his career, Racine has received numerous scholarships from private foundations, universities and funding agencies.

Career

 * Full Research Professor and Director, Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit, Montreal Clinical Research Institute.
 * Full Research Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montreal.
 * Full Research Professor, Department of social and preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montreal.
 * Associate Member, Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University.
 * Associate Member, Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine, McGill University.
 * Invited Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University.
 * Affiliate Member, Neuroethics, University of British Columbia.

Research
Racine’s research program furthers pragmatic theory, as developed by renown American philosopher John Dewey (1859-1952). His program relies on agent-based epistemologies alongside participatory and qualitative research methodologies to explore topics related to human flourishing, the latter based on Carol Ryff’s multi-dimensional model. His work touches upon a wide range of topics such as transition care  , addiction             , health-related stigma      and is carried with different health organizations, patient groups and research networks. His work is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and the Fonds de recheche du Québec – Santé. He developed the first center dedicated to neuroethics in Canada which since 2016 has evolved to become the world’s first interdisciplinary center dedicated entirely to pragmatic ethics.

Racine has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and has lectured in academic institutions and political circles across the globe in over 20 countries (Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Israel, Japan, Latvia, Netherlands, Scotland, Portugal, Qatar, Sweden, South Korea, Taiwan, United States).

Media
Isabelle Burgun, Ethics and Neurons, Agence Science Presse, May 19 2006.

Duped. Can brain scans uncover lies? The New Yorker, July 2 2007.

Neurorealism. The 7th Annual Year in Ideas, The New York Times Magazine, December 9 2007 p. 84 in the printed version.

Les erreurs de la presse, Radio-Canada.ca, August 7 2008.

Growing pains for fMRI, Science 2008; 320:1413.

P. Gravel. L'entrevue - Du Ritalin sur les campus, Le Devoir, December 22 2008.

Louise Gendron. Le dopage de l'intellect, L’Actualité, March 15 2009, p. 25 to 29.

Lise-Marie Gervais. Les médecins inquiets de la popularité des stimulants chez les étudiants universitaires, Le Devoir, September 7 2011.

Jessica Nadeau. Où sont les limites de la science ? Le Devoir, April 21 2012.

Christine Bouthillier. Médicaments pour réussir. Journal de Montréal, April 12 2013, p. 5

Nic Fleming. Would you take smart drugs to perform better at work? BBC Future, 12 December 2013:

Washington Post. College students should be allowed to take smart drugs. November 3, 2015:

Todd Bookman, “Smart Drug”. From campus culture to the real world. WHYY, the National Public Radio station in Philadelphia, November 24, 2015,

Linda Givetash, Researchers develop guide to help doctors inform new parents about brain injury, The Canadian Press, published December 4, 2016, 3:10PM EST,

Sophie-André Blondin, Les années lumière, Ramener la conscience d'un patient dans un état végétatif,

Laurie Noreau, Joël Leblanc, Sylvain Lumbroso, Dossier spécial : La mort sous le microscope, Québec Science, March 29 2018,

Quebec urged not to rush expansion of medically assisted death to mental health patients, CBC, January 23, 2020,

Rob Lurie, Health minister mulls expanding access to medically assisted dying, CTV News, January 24, 2020,

Books

 * Racine Eric. Pragmatic neuroethics: Improving treatment and understanding of the mind brain, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010, p. 290.
 * Jox Ralf, Kuehlmeyer Katja, Marckmann Georg, Racine Eric, edit., Vegetative state: A paradigmatic problem of modern societies, Medical, ethical, legal and social perspectives on chronic disorders of consciousness, Berlin, Münster, Wien, Zürich, London: LIT/Verlag, March 2012, p. 288
 * Racine Eric, Aspler John*, edit. Debates about Neuroethics: Perspectives on its Development, Focus and Future, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, May 2017, p. 284
 * Cascio M. Ariel, Racine Eric, edit. Research Involving Participants with Impaired Cognition: Ethics, Autonomy, Inclusion, and Innovation, Oxford (UK): Oxford University, 2019, p. 304.
 * Martineau Joé, Racine Eric, edit. Organizational Neuroethics: Reflections on the contributions of neuroscience to management theories and business practices. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2020, 254 p.
 * Friedrich Orsolya, Wolkenstein Andreas, Bublitz Christoph, Jox Ralf J., Racine Eric, edit. Clinical neurotechnology meets artificial intelligence philosophical, ethical, legal and social implications, Berlin: Springer, 2021, 226 p. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-64590-8.

Awards and honours

 * Emeritus researcher award, FRQ-S
 * Marcel Piché prize, 2019
 * Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, 2020

Notable alumni

 * Cynthia Forlini
 * Veljko Dubljevic
 * Bruce Maxwell
 * Joé Martineau
 * Marjorie Montreuil
 * Sebastian Sattler
 * Aline Bogossian
 * Claudia Barned
 * Matthew Sample