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132Deconstructing welfare: Reflections on Stephen Darwall's welfare and rational careUtilitas 18 (4): 415-426. 2006.In his book Welfare and Rational Care, Stephen Darwall proposes to give an account of human welfare. Or rather, he offers two accounts, a metaethical and a normative account. The two accounts, he suggests, are somewhat supportive of each other though they are logically independent
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65The Challenge of Informed Consent and Return of Results in Translational Genomics: Empirical Analysis and RecommendationsJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 42 (3): 344-355. 2014.Large-scale sequencing tests, including whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing, are rapidly moving into clinical use. Sequencing is already being used clinically to identify therapeutic opportunities for cancer patients who have run out of conventional treatment options, to help diagnose children with puzzling neurodevelopmental conditions, and to clarify appropriate drug choices and dosing in individuals. To evaluate and support clinical applications of these technologies, the National Human G…Read more
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106The Moral of Moral LuckPhilosophic Exchange 31 (1). 2001.This essay is primarily concerned with one type of moral luck – luck in how things turn out. Do acts that actually lead to harm deserve the same treatment as similar acts that, by chance, do not lead to harm? This paper argues that we must recognize the truth in two, opposing tendencies in such cases.
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315Responsibility, Moral and OtherwiseInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 58 (2): 127-142. 2015.Philosophers frequently distinguish between causal responsibility and moral responsibility, but that distinction is either ambiguous or confused. We can distinguish between causal responsibility and a deeper kind of responsibility, that licenses reactive attitudes and judgments that a merely causal connection would not, and we can distinguish between holding people accountable for their moral qualities and holding people accountable for their nonmoral qualities. But, because we sometimes hold pe…Read more
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11INTRODUCTION: Return of Research Results: What About the Family?Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 43 (3): 437-439. 2015.
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42Book Review:Surrogate Motherhood: Politics and Privacy. Larry Gostin (review)Ethics 102 (3): 671-. 1992.
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79Feminism & bioethics: beyond reproduction (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1996.Bioethics has paid surprisingly little attention to the special problems faced by women and to feminist analyses of current health care issues other than ...
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126The Deflation of Moral Philosophy:Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy. Bernard WilliamsEthics 97 (4): 821-. 1987.
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12What Adrienne Knew: Living BioethicsHastings Center Report 44 (2): 17-19. 2014.Adrienne Asch pioneered a way of doing bioethics that few are brave enough to attempt. In addition to summoning logic, arguing values, and applying reasoning to cases, Adrienne lived bioethics. Without compromising the strength of her analysis, she grounded that analysis explicitly in her own lived experience of disability. Hers was the view from somewhere—a deep invitation to others to rethink everything from embryo selection to end‐of‐life decisions through the lens of lived disability.
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395Meaning and moralityProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 97 (3). 1997.Susan Wolf; XV*—Meaning and Morality1, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 97, Issue 1, 1 June 1997, Pages 299–316, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-926.
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277Character and ResponsibilityJournal of Philosophy 112 (7): 356-372. 2015.Many philosophers have been persuaded that if we don’t create our own characters, we cannot be responsible for acts that flow from our characters; they also raise doubts about whether acts that do not flow from our characters can fairly be attributed to us. Both these concerns, however, reflect a simplistic and implausible conception of character and of its relation to our actions and our selves. I suggest a different relationship between character and responsibility: We can be responsible for a…Read more
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15International Policies on Sharing Genomic Research Results with Relatives: Approaches to Balancing Privacy with AccessJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 43 (3): 576-593. 2015.Returning genetic research results to relatives raises complex issues. In order to inform the U.S. debate, this paper analyzes international law and policies governing the sharing of genetic research results with relatives and identifies key themes and lessons. The laws and policies from other countries demonstrate a range of approaches to balancing individual privacy and autonomy with family access for health benefit, offering important lessons for further development of approaches in the Unite…Read more
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3The legal and moral responsibility of organizationsIn J. Roland Pennock & John William Chapman (eds.), Criminal Justice, New York University Press. pp. 27. 1985.
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105Neurolaw: The big questionAmerican Journal of Bioethics 8 (1). 2008.This Article does not have an abstract
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8901Good-for-nothingsProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 85 (2): 47-64. 2010.Many academic works as well as many works of art are such that if they had never been produced, no one would be worse off. Yet it is hard to resist the judgment that some such works are good nonetheless. We are rightly grateful that these works were created; we rightly admire them, appreciate them, and take pains to preserve them. And the authors and artists who produced them have reason to be proud. This should lead us to question the view that in order for a thing to be good, in a sense wh…Read more
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