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70Our Attitude Towards the Motivation of Those We TrustSouthern Journal of Philosophy 38 (3): 465-479. 2000.
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57A Perfect Storm for Epistemic InjusticeFeminist Philosophy Quarterly 8 (3). 2022.Over the past decade, feminist philosophers have gone a long way toward identifying and explaining the phenomenon that has come to be known as epistemic injustice. Epistemic injustice is injustice occurring within the domain of knowledge (e.g., knowledge production and transmission), which typically impacts structurally marginalized social groups. In this paper, we argue that, as they currently work, algorithms on social media exacerbate the problem of epistemic injustice and related problems of…Read more
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17A Summary of Conscience in Reproductive Health Care: Prioritizing Patient InterestsInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 15 (2): 131-136. 2022.At the 2022 Central American Philosophical Association meeting, there was an Author-Meets-Critics session on Carolyn McLeod’s book, Conscience in Reproductive Health Care: Prioritizing Patient Interests. The event was organized and chaired by Heather Stewart and sponsored by the APA Committee on the Status of Women and Kate Norlock, chair of that committee. There were four speakers, including McLeod and three “critics”: Javiera Perez Gomez, Alison Reinheld, and Jennifer Parks, who were all gener…Read more
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18Responding to My “Critics”International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 15 (2): 161-166. 2022.A response to comments, published in this issue, on McLeod’s book, Conscience in Reproductive Health Care: Prioritizing Patient Interests (Oxford 2020).
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7The Right to ReproduceIn Wendy A. Rogers, Catherine Mills & Jackie Leach Scully (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Feminist Bioethics, Routledge. forthcoming.The reproductive rights of women have been a central topic in feminist bioethics. The focus has been predominantly on the right not to reproduce, and so not to be subject to pronatalist social forces that make motherhood compulsory for women. That is the case despite many women and other members of marginalized groups experiencing anti-natalism, or in other words, social pressure to avoid biological reproduction. For these groups, the right to reproduce is as important, if not more important, th…Read more
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Review of Frances Latchford’s Steeped in Blood: Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family (review)Adoption and Culture 9 138-142. 2021.
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30Justified Asymmetries: Positive and Negative Claims to Conscience in Reproductive Health CareAmerican Journal of Bioethics 21 (8): 60-62. 2021.A peer commentary on an AJOB article by Kyle Fritz called "Unjustified Asymmetry: Positive Claims of Conscience and Heartbeat Bills."
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20Choice in Fertility Preservation in Girls and Adolescent Women with CancerCancer 107 (S7): 1686-1689. 2006.With the cure rate for many pediatric malignancies now between 70% and 90%, infertility becomes an increasingly important issue. Strategies for preserving fertility in girls and adolescent women occur in two distinct phases. The first phase includes oophorectomy and cryopreservation of ovarian cortex slices or individual oocytes; ultrasound-guided needle aspiration of oocytes, with or without in vitro maturation, followed by cryopreservation; and ovarian autografting to a distant site. The secon…Read more
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11Review of Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics by Onora O'Neill (review)American Journal of Medical Genetics 121 (1): 85-87. 2003.
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39My Relational Autonomy and My Relationship with Susan SherwinInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 13 (2): 9-11. 2020.I want to get both personal and philosophical in this piece. I want to reflect on how my relationship with Sue Sherwin has fostered my own relational autonomy. At the same time, I want to discuss what theories of relational autonomy, like Sue's, add to the bioethics literature on autonomy. With this second objective, I hope to begin clearing up some confusion that I see in this literature about the nature of relational autonomy.Sue was my PhD supervisor, but more than that, she has been my mento…Read more
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44Parental Licensing and DiscriminationIn Anca Gheaus, Gideon Calder & Jurgen de Wispelaere (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children, Routledge. pp. 202-212. 2018.Philosophical theories about parental licensing tend to pay insufficient attention to forms of discrimination that may be inherent in, or result from, a system of parental licensing. By situating these theories in relation to the status quo on parental licensing, we aim to show how many of them reinforce what philosophers have called “biologism”: the privileging of families formed through biological reproduction over families formed in other ways. Much of our discussion focuses on biologism, alt…Read more
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25Feminist Approaches to Moral LuckIn R. Hartmann, Hartmann R. ian M. Church, Ian M. Church & Robert Hartmann (eds.), Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck, Routledge. pp. 426-35. 2019.To a large extent, what we do and the circumstances we find ourselves in are beyond our control. Yet this fact presents a problem for the common view that we can be held responsible only for what we have direct control over. If we have control over very little, if anything at all, then to what extent can we be held responsible? A typical response by feminist philosophers is to accept the absence of control—or in other words, the presence of luck—but to insist that responsibility remains often e…Read more
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132For Dignity or Money: Feminists on the Commodification of Women’s Reproductive LabourIn Bonnie Steinbock (ed.), The Oxford handbook of bioethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 258-281. 2007.This article aims to lay out the ‘for money’ and ‘for dignity’ arguments that feminist ethicists have given about the reproductive labour women perform in providing oocytes or in getting pregnant for others. Feminist arguments about the morality of these two practices overlap significantly because, from a feminist perspective, the morally relevant facts about them are quite similar. Still, there are dissimilarities, stemming from the obvious fact that one practice involves giving up oocytes whil…Read more
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21Commentary on ‘Four types of gender bias affecting women surgeons, and their cumulative impact’ by Hutchison (review)Journal of Medical Ethics 46 (4): 242-243. 2020.The central concerns of Hutchison’s paper are the under-representation and unequal pay of women in surgery and the role that subtle gender biases play in explaining these phenomena. My comments focus on how well executed and important this work is and also why we need more of it to fully understand the gravity of the situation for women in surgery and how it compares with similar situations for women in other fields.
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121Trust, Autonomy, and the Fiduciary RelationshipIn Paul Miller & Matthew Harding (eds.), Fiduciaries and Trust: Ethics, Politics, Economics, and Law, . pp. 74-86. 2020.Some accounts of the fiduciary relationship place trust and autonomy at odds with one another, so that trusting a fiduciary to act on one’s behalf reduces one’s ability to be autonomous. In this chapter, we critique this view of the fiduciary relationship (particularly bilateral instances of this relationship) using contemporary work on autonomy and ‘relational autonomy’. Theories of relational autonomy emphasize the role that interpersonal trust and social relationships play in supporting or ha…Read more
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28Conscience in Reproductive Health Care: Prioritizing Patient InterestsOxford University Press. 2020.Conscience in Reproductive Health Care responds to the growing worldwide trend of health care professionals conscientiously refusing to provide abortions and similar reproductive health services in countries where these services are legal and professionally accepted. Carolyn McLeod argues that conscientious objectors in health care should prioritize the interests of patients in receiving care over their own interest in acting on their conscience. She defends this "prioritizing approach" to consc…Read more
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523Does Reproductive Justice Demand Insurance Coverage for IVF? Reflections on the Work of Anne DonchinInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 10 (2): 133-143. 2017.This paper comes out of a panel honoring the work of Anne Donchin (1940-2014), which took place at the 2016 Congress of the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) in Edinburgh. My general aim is to highlight the contributions Anne made to feminist bioethics, and to feminist reproductive ethics in particular. My more specific aim, however, is to have a kind of conversation with Anne, through her work, about whether reproductive justice could demand insurance coverage for …Read more
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457Moving 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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26My Gender Made Me Do it: Gender Identities and the Genetics of AlcoholismThe Bioethics Examiner 4 (1). 2000.
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35Let 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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24A 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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20A Review of Diagnosis Difference: The Moral Authority of Medicine, by Abby Wilkerson (review)Ethics 111 (3): 670. 2001.
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495Can 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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753Referral 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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159How 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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26A Review of Dilemmas of Trust, by Trudy Govier (review)The Dalhousie Review 79 (1): 130-132. 1999.
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