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Do New Reproductive Technologies Benefit or Harm Children?In Donna Dickenson (ed.), Ethical Issues in Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Cambridge University Press. 2002.
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Reproductive Technology and the Future of the FamilyIn Greta Hofman Nemiroff (ed.), Women and Men: Interdisciplinary Readings on Gender, Fitzhenry & Whiteside. 1987.
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Introduction: Philosophy All Through the DayEidos: The Canadian Graduate Journal of Philosophy 19 3-17. 2005.
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11Perspectives on AIDS: Ethical and Social Issues (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1991.Aimed at undergraduate courses dealing with contemporary and/or sexual ethics, this collection of essays examines the culture and context of AIDS, as well as specific ethical and social issues. Topics include HIV testing and confidentiality, ethics and religion, and individual rights.
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47The Nature of Mystical ExperienceReligious Studies 18 (1). 1982.In the philosophy of mysticism, an important and foundational problem concerns the nature of mystical experience. The problem is both significant and basic because an understanding of the nature of mystical experience is a necessary precondition for the evaluation of its epistemological, ontological, and ethical significance, and will in fact influence that evaluation. In other words, our ideas about the nature of mystical experience are premises for our conclusions about the role of mystical ex…Read more
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8Critical Notice of The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability (review)Canadian Journal of Philosophy 28 (3): 435-452. 1998.
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43Reply to “Overall and Larmer on Miracles as Evidence for the Existence of God” by Frank JankunisDialogue 53 (4): 601-609. 2014.Dans cette réplique à l’article de Frank Jankunis, «Overall and Larmer on Miracles as Evidence for the Existence of God», je traite du concept de miracle comme violation de la loi naturelle. Je soutiens que, s’il advenait un miracle, ce serait un mal épistémique, ontique et moral, et, par conséquent, une preuve qu’il n’existe pas de Dieu parfait.
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5Gender, Aspirational Identity, and PassingIn Dennis R. Cooley & Kelby Harrison (eds.), Passing/Out: Sexual Identity Veiled and Revealed, Ashgate Press. 2012.
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Mary O'Brien, Reproducing the World: Essays in Feminist Theory (review)Philosophy in Review 9 420-423. 1989.
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Life Enhancement Technologies And the Significance of Social Category MembershipIn Julian Savulescu & Nick Bostrom (eds.), Human Enhancement, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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15Biological Mothers and the Disposition of Fetuses After AbortionIn James Humber & Robert Almeder (eds.), Bioethics and the Fetus, Humana Press. pp. 39--57. 1991.
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1Role Models: A CritiqueIn Kathleen Storrie (ed.), Women—Isolation and Bonding: Readings in the Ecology of Gender, Methuen. 1987.
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111Why Have Children?: The Ethical DebateMIT Press. 2012.In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more careful justification and reasoning than the choice not to. Arguing that the choice to have children is not just a prudential or pragmatic decision but one with ethical repercussions, Overall offers a wide-…Read more
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Optimism, Pessimism, and the Desire for Longer Life (review)The Gerontologist 44 (6): 847-852. 2004.
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82Transsexualism and “Transracialism”Social Philosophy Today 20 183-193. 2004.This paper explores, from a feminist perspective, the justification of major surgical reshaping of the body. I define “transracialism” as the use of surgery to assist individuals to “cross” from being a member of one race to being a member of another. If transsexualism, involving the use of surgery to assist individuals to “cross” from female to male or from male to female, is morally acceptable, and if providing the medical and social resources to enable sex crossing is not morally problematic,…Read more
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Life Enhancement Technologies: Significance of Social Category MembershipIn Julian Savulescu & Nick Bostrom (eds.), Human Enhancement, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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10A Feminist I: Reflections From AcademiaBroadview Press. 1998.Our universities are the locus of ongoing debates over the politics of gender, of class, of disadvantage and disability—and over the issue of “political correctness.” In _A Feminist I_ Christine Overall offers wide-ranging reflections from a first-person point of view on these issues, and on the politics of the modern university itself. In doing so she continually returns to underlying epistemological concerns. What are our assumptions about the ways in which knowledge is constructed? To what de…Read more
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119Rethinking Abortion, Ectogenesis, and Fetal DeathJournal of Social Philosophy 46 (1): 126-140. 2015.
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2Feminism, Ontology, and ‘Other Minds’In Lorraine Code, Sheila Mullett & Christine Overall (eds.), Feminist Perspectives: Philosophical Essays on Method and Morals, University of Toronto Press. 1988.
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11The Future of Human Reproduction (edited book)Women's Press. 1989.Reproductive technology has become virtually synonymous with new reproductive choices for women. We are led to believe these technological practices will primarily enable women to conceive and bear the children they previously could not. The presentation of this as fact urges us to support the advancement of reproductive technology so that future techniques may be perfected. The Future of Human Reproduction critically assesses the social, moral, legal, and political impact of reproductive techno…Read more
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125Miracles, Evidence, Evil, and God: A Twenty-Year DebateDialogue 45 (2): 355-366. 2006.This paper is the latest in a debate with Robert Larmer as to whether the occurrence of a miracle would provide evidence for the existence of God or against the existence of God. Whereas Larmer’s view is categorical (miracles occur and are evidence for the existence of God), mine is hypothetical (if the events typically described as miracles were to occur -- although I do not believe they do -- they would be evidence against the existence of God). The reason is that miracles, if they were to occ…Read more
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52Ethics and Human Reproduction: A Feminist AnalysisAllen & Unwin. 1987.This book should be essential reading for anyone interested in the new reproductive technologies, biomedical ethics, and women's health.
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1Return to Gender, Address Unknown: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of the Concept of Gender in Feminist Theory and PracticeIn Yolanda Estes, Arnold Lorenzo Farr, Patricia Smith & Clelia Smyth (eds.), Marginal Groups and Mainstream American Cultures, University Press of Kansas. 2000.
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2John P. Lizza, Persons, Humanity, and the Definition of Death Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 27 (1): 46-48. 2007.
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AIDS and Women: The (Hetero)Sexual Politics of HIV InfectionIn Christine Overall & William P. Zion (eds.), Perspectives on AIDS: Ethical and Social Issues, Oxford University Press. 1991.
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