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169Miracles and God: A Reply to Robert A. H. LarmerDialogue 36 (4): 741. 1997.RésuméJ'ai soutenu dans un article de 1985 que s'il y avait des miracles, cela parlerait contre l'existence du Dieu judéo-chrétien. Dans son livre de 1988 sur le concept de miracle, Robert Larmer propose une critique de mes arguments. J'évalue ici la force de cette critique. Je montre que la redéfinition de «miracle» que propose Larmer est circulaire; que sa distinction est spécieuse entre violer une hi naturelle et la surmonter grâce à la création ou la destruction d'énergie par Dieu; et que sa…Read more
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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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5"Peep Shows and Bedroom Access": Women's Identities and the Practice of OutingAtlantis 23 (1): 30-37. 1998.
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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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89The 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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58Human Reproduction: Principles, Practices, PoliciesOxford University Press. 1993.Who owns frozen human embryos? Are "surrogate motherhood" arrangements dangerous for women? Should access to in vitro fertilization be limited or increased? With the development of complex reproductive technologies and the ensuing controversies in reproductive ethics, there is an urgent need for more careful examination of moral principles, current practices, and social policies pertaining to reproduction. The issues examined in this collection of nine papers focusing of the Canadian experience …Read more
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2Feminism and AtheismIn Michael Martin (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, Cambridge University Press. 2006.
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73Selective 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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56Mysticism, Phenomenalism, and W. T. StaceTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 18 (2). 1982.
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58Conjoined Twins, Embodied Personhood, and Surgical SeparationIn Lisa Tessman (ed.), Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal, Springer. pp. 69--84. 2009.
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4Reflections of a Sceptical BioethicistIn L. Wayne Sumner & Joseph Boyle (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Bioethics, University of Toronto Press. pp. 163-186. 1996.
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Areas of Specialization
| Applied Ethics |
| Philosophy of Religion |
| Social and Political Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
| Animal Ethics |
| Reproductive Ethics |
| Aging |
| Death and Dying |