https://www.austindue.org/home-om daily 1.0 2026-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8af6d0506fbef07bfcd04e/3b8535c6-5903-4dca-98d4-5efd7bfe8a5a/IMG_4693.jpg Home - Hello! I’m Austin, and I work on the philosophy of medicine and biomedical ethics. I am a Professor of Practice in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at East Tennessee State University (ETSU). My work focuses on epistemic, social, and ethical issues with contemporary medical practice and research with an emphasis on the development, regulation, use, and consequences of medical interventions like pharmaceutical drugs. I earned my Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in 2022 where my doctoral work examined how we define and discover pharmaceutical side effects. I argued for a novel, patient-relative account of ‘side effect’ that cleanly differentiates it from other clinical outcomes like ‘adverse events’ and placebo effects, as well as fixes issues in definitions given by health authorities like the CDC, WHO, and FDA. I also highlighted how post-market ‘phase 4’ trials complicate philosophical accounts of ‘exploration’ in science, and that commitments to core tenets of ‘evidence-based’ medicine are partially at fault for our lack of knowledge about side effects. Finally, I offered a bioethical framework for patient involvement in the side effect discovery process. My work since then has included issues with psychiatry and psychotherapeutic side effects, genomic medicine, ‘active’ drug surveillance, and means-ends reasoning in prescribing practices. I also have interests in tech ethics, specifically, regulation and oversight. I’m broadly interested in any issues where research, practice, and patients overlap in medical contexts. I am fundamentally committed to a practice-informed, problem-centric, and cross-disciplinary approach to social, ethical, and epistemic issues in contemporary medicine. You can reach me at: austinjdue@gmail.com or duea01@etsu.edu https://www.austindue.org/about daily 0.75 2025-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8af6d0506fbef07bfcd04e/7bfd4816-86b2-4e39-a82c-3ebc11a37178/IMG_0384.jpg About San Joaquin Valley, California https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b8af6d0506fbef07bfcd04e/1631900618020-3O94HAWVB27N0KWDY2Z8/Screen+Shot+2020-04-10+at+1.54.01+PM.png About Ankole-Watusi/Texas Longhorn Hybrid (specifically, ‘Olive the Cow’) https://www.austindue.org/pagecv daily 0.75 2026-06-15 https://www.austindue.org/research daily 0.75 2025-07-03