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407An Institutional Solution to Conflicts of Conscience in Medicine (review)Hastings Center Report 40 (6): 41-42. 2010.A review of Holly Fernandez Lynch's book Conflicts of Conscience in Medicine (MIT Press, 2008).
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145The Stem Cell Debate Continues: The Buying and Selling of Eggs for ResearchJournal of Medical Ethics 33 (12): 726-731. 2007.Now that stem cell scientists are clamouring for human eggs for cloning-based stem cell research, there is vigorous debate about the ethics of paying women for their eggs. Generally speaking, some claim that women should be paid a fair wage for their reproductive labour or tissues, while others argue against the further commodification of reproductive labour or tissues and worry about voluntariness among potential egg providers. Siding mainly with those who believe that women should be financial…Read more
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68Understanding TrustIn Francoise Baylis, Jocelyn Downie, Barry Hoffmaster & Susan Sherwin (eds.), Health Care Ethics in Canada, Harcourt Brace. pp. 186--92. 2004.
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56Rich Discussion About Reproductive AutonomyBioethics 23 (1). 2008.An introduction to a special issue of Bioethics edited by McLeod and called Understanding and Protecting Reproductive Autonomy.
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509Harm or Mere Inconvenience? Denying Women Emergency ContraceptionHypatia 25 (1): 11-30. 2010.This paper addresses the likely impact on women of being denied emergency contraception (EC) by pharmacists who conscientiously refuse to provide it. A common view—defended by Elizabeth Fenton and Loren Lomasky, among others—is that these refusals inconvenience rather than harm women so long as the women can easily get EC somewhere else nearby. I argue from a feminist perspective that the refusals harm women even when they can easily get EC somewhere else nearby.
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18Does Gift Language Elevate Devalued Forms of Motherhood? (review)Medical Humanities Review 15 (1): 2001. 2001.A review of Transformative Motherhood: On Giving and Getting in a Consumer Culture, edited by L. Layne (NYU Press, 1999).
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437Moving Forward with a Clear Conscience: A Model Conscientious Objection Policy for Canadian Colleges of Physicians and SurgeonsHealth Law Review 21 (3): 28-32. 2013.A model policy for conscientious objection in medicine.
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25My Gender Made Me Do it: Gender Identities and the Genetics of AlcoholismThe Bioethics Examiner 4 (1). 2000.
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32Let Conscience Be Their Guide? Conscientious Refusals in Health CareBioethics 28 (1). 2013.The introduction to a special issue of the journal Bioethics that we edited.
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23A Review of A Feminist I: Reflections from Academia, by Christine Overall (review)Resources for Feminist Research 29 (1/2): 141-144. 2001.
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18A Review of Genes, Women, Equality, by Mary Briody Mahowald (review)International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Newsletter 8 (1): 13-14. 2000.
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494Can a Right to Reproduce Justify the Status Quo on Parental Licensing?In Richard Vernon, Sarah Hannan & Samantha Brennan (eds.), Permissible Progeny: The Morality of Procreation and Parenting, Oxford University Press. pp. 184-207. 2015.The status quo on parental licensing in most Western jurisdictions is that licensing is required in the case of adoption but not in the case of assisted or unassisted biological reproduction. To have a child via adoption, one must fulfill licensing requirements, which, beyond the usual home study, can include mandatory participation in parenting classes. One is exempt from these requirements, however, if one has a child via biological reproduction, including assisted reproduction involving donor…Read more
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17A Review of Diagnosis Difference: The Moral Authority of Medicine, by Abby Wilkerson (review)Ethics 111 (3): 670. 2001.
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741Referral in the Wake of Conscientious Objection to AbortionHypatia 23 (4). 2008.Currently, the preferred accommodation for conscientious objection to abortion in medicine is to allow the objector to refuse to accede to the patient’s request so long as the objector refers the patient to a physician who performs abortions. The referral part of this arrangement is controversial, however. Pro-life advocates claim that referrals make objectors complicit in the performance of acts that they, the objectors, find morally offensive. McLeod argues that the referral requirement is jus…Read more
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155How to Distinguish Autonomy from IntegrityCanadian Journal of Philosophy 35 (1). 2005.The article aims to distinguish autonomy from integrity. I claim that integrity is different from a form of autonomy at least, but that integrity and autonomy overlap considerably. Integrity itself is a form of autonomy: what ethicists call moral autonomy. (They tend to distinguish between personal and moral autonomy.) Autonomy is the genus, one might say, with integrity (i.e., moral autonomy) and personal autonomy being species of it.
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17Dependency Relations as a Starting Point for Justice (review)Hastings Center Report 30 (5): 44-45. 2000.A review of Eva Kittay's Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (Routledge, 1999).
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32Authenticity and the Hijacked BrainAmerican Journal of Bioethics 2 (2): 62-63. 2002.A review of Louis Charland's paper, "Cynthia's Dilemma: Consenting to Heroin Prescription," American Journal of Bioethics 2(2), 2002: 37-47.
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5Morally Justifying Oncofertility ResearchIn Teresa Woodruff, Lori Zoloth, Lisa Campo-Engelstein & Susan Rodriguez (eds.), Oncofertility: Reflections from the Humanities and Social Sciences, Springer. pp. 187-194. 2010.Is research aimed at preserving the fertility of cancer patients morally justified? A satisfying answer to this question is missing from the literature on oncofertility. Rather than providing an answer, which is impossible to do in a short space, this chapter explains what it would take to provide such justification.
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23A Review of Dilemmas of Trust, by Trudy Govier (review)The Dalhousie Review 79 (1): 130-132. 1999.
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101Mere and Partial Means: The Full Range of the Objectification of WomenCanadian Journal of Philosophy 32 (Supplement): 219-244. 2002.The main aims of the paper are to explain how objectification admits of degrees and why a significant portion of the objectification of women in contemporary Western society - objectification that contributes to their oppression - is what I call "partial objectification." To acknowledge the full range of objectification in women's lives, feminists need a theory of how objectification can be degreed. They need to be able to say that women can be both bosom and legitimate job candidate, both breed…Read more
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74Family Making: Contemporary Ethical Challenges (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2014.This book concerns the ethics of having children through adoption or technologically-assisted reproduction. Some people who choose between these methods struggle between them. Others do not agonize in this way, perhaps because they have a profound desire for a genetic link to the child(ren) they will parent and so prefer assisted reproduction, they view adoption as the only morally decent choice in an overcrowded world, or for some other reason. This book critically examines moral choices that i…Read more
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382Conscientious Refusal and Access to Abortion and ContraceptionIn John Arras, Elizabeth Fenton & Rebecca Kukla (eds.), Routledge Companion to Bioethics, Routledge. pp. 343-356. 2015.An overview of the philosophical and bioethics literature on conscientious refusals by health care professionals to provide abortion and contraceptive services.
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61Licensing Parents in International Contract PregnanciesJournal of Applied Philosophy 33 (2): 178-196. 2015.The Hague Conference on Private International Law currently has a Parentage/Surrogacy Project, which evaluates the legal status of children in cross-border situations, including situations involving international contract pregnancy. Should a convention focusing on international contract pregnancy emerge from this project, it will need to be consistent with the Hague convention on Intercountry Adoption. The latter convention prohibits adoptions unless, among other things, ‘the competent authoriti…Read more
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50The 'Healthy' Embryo: Social, Biomedical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.Public attention on embryo research has never been greater. Modern reproductive medicine technology and the use of embryos to generate stem cells ensure that this will continue to be a topic of debate and research across many disciplines. This multidisciplinary book explores the concept of a 'healthy' embryo, its implications on the health of children and adults, and how perceptions of what constitutes child and adult health influence the concept of embryo 'health'. The concept of human embryo h…Read more
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1421Justification for Conscience Exemptions in Health CareBioethics 27 (8): 16-23. 2013.Some bioethicists argue that conscientious objectors in health care should have to justify themselves, just as objectors in the military do. They should have to provide reasons that explain why they should be exempt from offering the services that they find offensive. There are two versions of this view in the literature, each giving different standards of justification. We show these views are each either too permissive (i.e. would result in problematic exemptions based on conscience) or too re…Read more
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58Referral in the Wake of Conscientious Objection to AbortionHypatia 23 (4): 30-47. 2008.Currently, the preferred accommodation for conscientious objection to abortion in medicine is to allow the objector to refuse to accede to the patient’s request so long as the objector refers the patient to a physician who performs abortions. The referral part of this arrangement is controversial, however. Pro-life advocates claim that referrals make objectors complicit in the performance of acts that they, the objectors, find morally offensive. I argue that the referral requirement is justifiab…Read more
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