Publications

Academic Research

Books

Boumans, M., Goldenberg MJ, Leonelli S. Understanding Misinformation. Cambridge University Press (in press).

Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021.

★ Winner of the Philosophy of Science Association Prize in Feminist Philosophy of Science, 2022

Articles & Chapters

Goldenberg, M. J. “Science Denial, Post-Trust, and Epistemic Blame: A Review of Contessa’s Science Denial.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (2026).

Fields, M., Abdulwasi, M., Osman, R., Barned, C., Goldenberg, M. J., McKay, S. M., et al. “‘We Should Be Able to Make Our Own Decision’: Transparency, Dialogue, and Equity as Key Values of Ontario-Based Personal Support Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” BMC Health Services Research 26:471 (2026).

Boumans, M., Ferwerda, J., Goldenberg, M. J., Leonelli, S., Russo, F., et al. “Fostering Trustworthy Information: Countering Disinformation When There Are No Bare Facts.” Royal Society Open Science 12:6 (2025): 250654.

Goldenberg, M. J. “A Discussion of ‘The Strange New Politics of Science’ by M. Anthony Mills and Price Sinclair.” Issues in Science and Technology XLI:4 (Summer 2025): 5, 8.

Goldenberg, M. J. “Controversies in Vaccine Policy.” In The Routledge Handbook of Values and Science, 363–393, eds. K. C. Elliott and T. Richards. Routledge, 2025.

Goldenberg, M. J. “Medical Expertise.” In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Medicine, 427–447, ed. A. Broadbent. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Goldenberg, M. J., & Papazoglou, A. “Vaccine Hesitancy and Trust.” In Science, Pseudoscience, Anti-Science, Truth, 89–102, ed. A. Morgan. Bigg Books, 2024.

Furman, K., & Goldenberg, M. J. “Disagreement in Public Health.” In Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Disagreement, 497–507, eds. M. Baghramian, J. A. Carter, and R. Rowland.
Routledge, 2024.

Krastev, S., et al. “Navigating the Uncertainty: A Novel Taxonomy of Vaccine Hesitancy in the Context of COVID-19.” PLOS ONE 18:12 (2023): e0295912.

Krastev, S., et al. “Institutional Trust Is a Distinct Construct Related to Vaccine Hesitancy and Refusal.” BMC Public Health 23:2481 (2023).

Corsten, C., et al. “Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Canada.” Vaccine 41:48 (2023): 7274–7280.

Goldenberg, M. J., Adhikari, B., von Seidlein, L., Cheah, P. K., & Larson, H. J. “Vaccine Mandates and Public Trust Do Not Have to Be Antagonistic.” Nature Human Behaviour 7:10 (2023): 1605–1606.

Goldenberg, M. J. “Public Trust in Science.” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 48:2 (2023): 366–378.

Goldenberg, M. J. “[Book Forum] Vaccine Hesitancy: Reply by the Author.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 96 (2022): 121–124.

Snyder, J., Goldenberg, M. J., Crooks, V. A., & Katz, R. “Crowdfunding Narratives and the Valuation of Vaccines for COVID-19.” Vaccine 40:36 (2022): 5295–5298.

Goldenberg, M. J. “Author Meets Critics: An Introduction.” International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 15:2 (2022): 92.

Goldenberg, M. J. “Normative Theory and the COVID Pandemic: Author’s Response to Miriam Solomon and Inmaculada de Melo-Martin.” International Journal of Feminist Approaches to
Bioethics 15:2 (2022): 116–130.

Clase, C. M., et al. “Can Peer Review Be Kinder? Supportive Peer Review: A Re-Commitment to Kindness and a Call to Action.” Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease 9 (2022).

Goldenberg, M. J. “A Feminist Take on Vaccine Hesitancy.” International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 15:1 (2022): 180–182.

O’Doherty, K., et al. “Deliberation on Childhood Vaccination in Canada: Public Input on Ethical Trade-Offs in Vaccination Policy.” AJOB Empirical Bioethics 12:4 (2021): 253–265.

Upshur, R., & Goldenberg, M. J. “Countering Medical Nihilism by Reconnecting Facts and Values.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 84 (2020): 75–83.

Goldenberg, M. J. “Rethinking Debates about Pediatric Vaccine Safety: A Feminist View.” In Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science, 423–434. Routledge, 2019.

Goldenberg, M. J. “Vaccines, Values, and Science.” Canadian Medical Association Journal 19:14 (2019): E397–E398.

Goldenberg, M. J., & McCron, C. “‘The Science Is Clear!’ Media Uptake of Health Research into Vaccine Hesitancy.” In Knowing and Acting in Medicine, 113–132, ed. R. Bluhm. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.

Goldenberg, M. J. “Public Misunderstanding of Science? Reframing the Problem of Vaccine Hesitancy.” Perspectives on Science 24:5 (2016): 552–581.

Goldenberg, M. J. “Whose Social Values? Evaluating Canada’s ‘Death of Evidence’ Controversy.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 45:3 (2015): 404–424.

Goldenberg, M. J. “The Placebo Orthodoxy and the Double Standard of Care in Multinational Clinical Research.” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 36:1 (2015): 7–23.

Goldenberg, M. J. “How Can Feminist Theories of Evidence Assist Clinical Reasoning and Decision-Making?” Social Epistemology 29:1 (2015): 3–33.

Goldenberg, M. J. “Diversity in Epistemic Communities: A Response to Clough.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 3:5 (2014): 25–30.

Goldenberg, M. J. “Evidence-Based Medicine.” In Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

Goldenberg, M. J. “Is ‘Scientifically-Informed Yet Humanistic Medicine’ the Solution to the Crisis of Modern Medicine?” European Journal of Person-Centered Healthcare 2:1 (2014): 106–113.

Goldenberg, M. J. “Defining ‘Quality of Care’ Persuasively.” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 33:4 (2012): 243–261.

Goldenberg, M. J. “Innovating Medical Knowledge: Understanding Evidence-Based Medicine as a Socio-Medical Phenomenon.” In Evidence-Based Medicine, 11–28, ed. N. Sitaram. InTech, 2012.

Goldenberg, M. J. “Perspectives on Evidence-Based Healthcare for Women.” Journal of Women’s Health 19:7 (2010): 1235–1238.

Goldenberg, M. J. “Clinical Evidence and the Absent Body in Medical Epistemology.” International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 3:1 (2010): 43–71.

Goldenberg, M. J. “Iconoclast or Creed? Objectivism and Pragmatism in Evidence-Based Medicine’s Hierarchy of Evidence.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 52:2 (2009):
168–187.

Goldenberg, M. J. “The Problem of Exclusion in Feminist Theory and Politics.” Journal of Gender Studies 16:2 (2007): 139–153.

Secker, B., Goldenberg, M. J., et al. “Just Regionalisation: Rehabilitating Care for People with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses.” BMC Medical Ethics 7:9 (2006).

Goldenberg, M. J. “On Evidence and Evidence-Based Medicine.” Social Science & Medicine 62:11 (2006): 2621–2632.

Goldenberg, M. J. “Evidence-Based Ethics?” BMC Medical Ethics 6:11 (2005).