Dr. Austin Due is a Lecturer of Philosophy at ETSU as of Fall 2024. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2022. His research is primarily in the philosophy and ethics of medicine, especially the development, regulation, and clinical practice guidelines regarding pharmaceutical drugs. He has published on how we ought to define ‘side effects’ in medicine, how ‘evidence-based’ medicine creates barriers to discovering side effects, how patients could be ethically involved in side effect discovery research, and whether or not certain kinds of patient participation in medicine are really as empowering as often motivated or marketed. He has also published on general questions in the philosophy of science and experimentation looking at drug trials. His ongoing research investigates questions around side effects in talk therapies, ‘gentle’ or non-pharmaceutical-first approaches to medicine, how negative patient expectations can create false-positive in pharmacovigilance databases, and general questions about how private industry and conflicts of interest affect scientific practices and science communication. Since 2016 he has taught a variety of courses at multiple universities including logic and critical thinking, social ethics, philosophy of science, philosophy of pharmaceutical drugs, bioethics, philosophy of psychiatry, and now at ETSU Science and the Modern World, Intro to Philosophy, and Bioethics.