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34Test-Tube Babies: A Guide to Moral Questions, Present Techniques and Future PossibilitiesWilliam A. W. Walters and Peter Singer, editors Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. 165. $16.95 cloth: $8.95 paper - Test-Tube Women: What Future for Motherhood?Rita Arditti, Renate Duelli Klein, and Shelley Minden, editors London: Pandora Press, 1984. Pp. x, 482. $8.95 (review)Dialogue 24 (4): 728-730. 1985.
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12Feminist Perspectives: Philosophical Essays on Method and Morals (edited book)University of Toronto Press. 1988.
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12Thinking Like a Woman: Personal Life and Political IdeasSumach Press. 2001.ago that thinking (along with speaking and acting) “like a woman” was taken as a matter of shame and weakness. The phrase remains an insult to any man who is accused of being “like a woman” in any respect. But the only reason the phrase ...
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2Robert Lee and Derek Morgan, eds., Birthrights: Law and Ethics at the Beginnings of Life (review)Philosophy in Review 9 (9): 371-373. 1989.
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120Monogamy, Nonmonogamy, and IdentityHypatia 13 (4). 1998.After a brief discussion of the terms "monogamy" and "nonmonogamy," I evaluate explanations offered by different theorists for the pain that nonmonogamy can cause to the partner (especially a female partner) of a nonmonogamous person (of either sex). My suggestion is that the self, especially the female self, is conventionally defined in terms of sexual partners. I present and reply to a possible objection to this explanation, and then discuss my theory's normative implications.
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2Ethical Imagination or Ethical Reasoning (review)Journal of Canadian Studies 41 (3): 185-192. 2007.
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"Peep Shows and Bedroom Access": Women's Identities and the Practice of OutingAtlantis 23 (1): 30-37. 1998.
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John P. Lizza, Persons, Humanity, and the Definition of DeathPhilosophy in Review 27 (1): 46. 2007.
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46The Politics of Communities A Review of H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.'s The Foundations of BioethicsHypatia 4 (2): 179-185. 1989.This review essay examines H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.'s The Foundations of Bioethics, a contemporary nonfeminist text in mainstream biomedical ethics. it fo-cuses upon a central concept, Engelhardt's idea of the moral community and argues that the most serious problem in the book is its failure to take account of the political and social structures of moral communities, structures which deeply affect issues in biomedical ethics.
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2'Nowhere at Home’: Toward a Phenomenology of Working Class ConsciousnessIn C. L. Barney Dewes & Carolyn Leste Law (eds.), This Fine Place So Far From Home: Voices of Academics From the Working Class, Temple University Press. 1995.
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26Concepts of Life Span and Life-Stages: Implications for EthicsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 32 (sup1): 298-318. 2002.
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6Indirect Indoctrination, Internalized Religion, and Parental ResponsibilityIn Peter Caws & Stefani Jones (eds.), Religious Upbringing and the Costs of Freedom: Personal and Philosophical Essays, Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 11-26. 2010.
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26Surrogate MotherhoodCanadian Journal of Philosophy 17 (sup1): 285-305. 1987.This paper will explore some moral and conceptual aspects of the practice of surrogate motherhood. Although I put forward a number of criticisms of existing ideas about this subject, I do not claim to offer a fully developed position. Instead what I have tried to do is to call into question what seem to be some generally accepted assumptions about surrogate motherhood, and to lend plausibility to my view that surrogate motherhood may be morally troubling for reasons not always fully recognized b…Read more
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‘‘Frozen Embryos and ‘Fathers’ Rights’: Parenthood and Decision Making in the Cryopreservation of EmbryosIn Joan C. Callahan (ed.), Reproduction, Ethics, and the Law: Feminist Perspectives, Indiana University Press. 1995.
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18Selective Termination of Pregnancy and Women's Reproductive AutonomyHastings Center Report 20 (3): 6-11. 1990.The “demand” for selective termination of pregnancy is a socially constructed response to prior medical interventions in women's reproductive processes, themselves dependent on cultural views of infertility.
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42New reproductive technology: Some implications for the abortion issue (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 19 (4): 279-292. 1985.New reproductive technology permits a distinction between two different aspects of abortion: (1) the (premature) emptying of the uterus (the expulsion of the fetus) and (2) causing the death of the fetus. The paper argues that the fetus has not right to occupancy of its mother's (or any other woman's) uterus, And that the mother (or anyone else) has not right to kill the fetus. Some implications of these claims are discussed
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Reflections of a Sceptical BioethicistIn L. W. Sumner & Joseph M. Boyle (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Bioethics, University of Toronto Press. pp. 163-186. 1996.
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25Miracles as Evidence Against the Existence of GodSouthern Journal of Philosophy 23 (3): 347-353. 2010.
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7Dying in Public: Living with Metastatic Breast CancerMichael Grass House. 2012.As a university professor, an environmentalist, and a world-traveller, Sue Hendler was thriving. Then she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. She had to give up her job, make hard decisions about medical treatment, and drastically shorten her vision of the future. As her cancer spread, she ironically acquired a new identity as a cancer "survivor." Compelled to find meaning in her "new normal" of life with a fatal disease, she decided to write for a wider audience. In Dying in Public: Li…Read more
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1Philosophy and the Canadian Public: Which Philosophy? Which Public? Why Canada? (review)Journal of Canadian Studies 42 (3): 208-215. 2008.
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25Innovation and Injustice: Commentary on ‘I’m Not a Guinea Pig’Teaching Philosophy 9 (4): 354-358. 1986.
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9Life Span Extension: Metaphysical Basis and Ethical OutcomesIn Julian Savulescu, Ruud ter Meulen & Guy Kahane (eds.), Enhancing Human Capacities, Blackwell. pp. 386. 2011.Any inquiry into the meaning and implications of the prolongation of the human lifespan requires an investigation of its metaphysical basis and its ethical outcomes. This chapter explains a series of metaphysical and ethical claims about lifespan extension. It highlights a number of arguments that are typically put forward against these claims, and shows the ways in which they are mistaken. Two such claims given in the chapter are: (1) aging and life stages are neither wholly constituted by biol…Read more
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Life Enhancement Technologies: Significance of Social Category MembershipIn Nick Bostrom & Julian Savulesu (eds.), Human Enhancement, Oxford University Press. pp. 327-340. 2009.
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Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Reproductive Rights in CanadaIn Constance Backhouse & David Flaherty (eds.), Challenging Times: The Women’s Movement in Canada and the United States, Mcgill Queen’s University Press. 1992.
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Philosophy of Religion |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Animal Ethics |
Reproductive Ethics |
Aging |
Death and Dying |