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36Morality and parenting: An ethical framework for decisions about the treatment of imperiled newbornsTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 9 (1). 1988.This essay is written in the belief that questions relating to the treatment of impaired and imperiled newborns cannot be adequately resolved in the absence of a general moral theory of parent-child relations. The rationale for treatment decisions in these cases should be consistent with principles that ought to govern the normal work of parenting. The first section of this paper briefly examines the social contract theory elaborated by John Rawls in his renowned book A Theory of Justice and ext…Read more
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21Choosing for others as Continuing a Life Story: The Problem of Personal Identity RevisitedJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 27 (1): 20-31. 1999.Philosophically, the most interesting objection to the reliance on advance directives to guide treatment decisions for formerly competent patients is the argument from the loss of personal identity. Starting with a psychological continuity theory of personal identity, the argument concludes that the very conditions that bring an advance directive into play may destroy the conditions necessary for personal identity, and so undercut the authority of the directive. In this article, I concede that i…Read more
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22Criticizing and reforming segregated facilities for persons with disabilitiesJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 5 (2-3): 157-168. 2008.In this paper, we critically appraise institutions for people with disabilities, from residential facilities to outpatient clinics to social organizations. While recognizing that a just and inclusive society would reject virtually all segregated institutional arrangements, we argue that in contemporary American society, some people with disabilities may have needs that at this time can best be met by institutional arrangements. We propose ways of reforming institutions to make them less isolatin…Read more
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11Credentialing ethics consultants: An invitation to collaborationAmerican Journal of Bioethics 7 (2). 2007.This Article does not have an abstract
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97The Moral Demands of MemoryCambridge University Press. 2008.Despite an explosion of studies on memory in historical and cultural studies, there is relatively little in moral philosophy on this subject. In this book, Jeffrey Blustein provides a systematic and philosophically rigorous account of a morality of memory. Drawing on a broad range of philosophical and humanistic literatures, he offers a novel examination of memory and our relations to people and events from our past, the ways in which memory is preserved and transmitted, and the moral responsibi…Read more
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5Human Rights and the Internationalization of MemoryJournal of Social Philosophy 43 (1): 19-32. 2012.
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25[Book review] care and commitment, taking the personal point of view (review)Social Theory and Practice 20 (2): 203-220. 1994.
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24When Doctors Break the RulesCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 21 (2): 249-259. 2012.Suppose a primary care physician practicing in an underserved community orders a treatment for one of her indigent patients under the state’s Medicaid program.
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16Self-Conceptions, Agency, and the Value of Individual PersonsDialogue 38 (1): 3-. 1999.RÉSUMÉ: J'examine ici trois façons de défendre l'idée que les personnes ont individuellement une valeur. Je pars de la thèse selon laquelle la valeur des individus tient à la valeur de leurs qualités particulières. Je m'arrête alors sur l'objection que pour comprendre ce qui fait la valeur individuelle des personnes, il nous faut accorder une place distinctive à leurs conceptions d'elles-mêmes. L'approche par la conception de soi qui résulte de ces considérations se révèle problématique à l'exam…Read more
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7Introduction: The Doctor-Proxy Relationship: An Untapped ResourceJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 27 (1): 5-12. 1999.
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Doctoring and self-forgivenessIn Rebecca L. Walker & Philip J. Ivanhoe (eds.), Working virtue: virtue ethics and contemporary moral problems, Oxford University Press. pp. 87--112. 2007.
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10Adolescence and Criminal ResponsibilityInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 2 (4): 1-17. 1985.
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29Human Relationships: A Philosophical Introduction.Care and Commitment: Taking the Personal Point of ViewPhilosophical Quarterly 43 (170): 112-114. 1993.
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6The Pro‐Life Maternal‐Fetal Medicine Physician A Problem of IntegrityHastings Center Report 25 (1): 22-26. 1995.If the practice of maternal‐fetal medicine sometimes results in abortion, can a physician strongly opposed to abortion maintain his own integrity and still practice in this field?
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12Philosophical and Ethical Issues in DisabilityJournal of Moral Philosophy 9 (4): 573-587. 2012.What is a disability? What sorts of limitations do persons with disabilities or impairments experience? What is there about having a disability or impairment that makes it disadvantageous for the individuals with it? Are persons with severe cognitive impairments capable of making autonomous decisions? What role should disability play in the construction of theories of justice? Is it ever ethical for parents to seek to create a child with an impairment? This anthology addresses these and other qu…Read more
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40Care and Commitment: Taking the Personal Point of ViewOup Usa. 1991.Despite the current popularity of what is commonly referred to as an `ethics of care', no one has yet undertaken a systematic philosophical study of `care' itself. In this book, Jeffrey Blustein presents the first such study, offering a detailed exploration of human `care' in its various guises: concern for and commitment to individuals, ideals, and causes. Blustein focuses on the nature and value of personal integrity and intimacy, and on the questions they raise for traditional moral theory.
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8[Access article in HTML]Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 10 (1): 1-20. 2000.: Urban bioethics seeks to broaden the traditional focus of bioethics to encompass questions about the interplay of individuals with family, group, community, and society. Urban bioethics will need to deal with cultural diversity, issues of equity, and the conflict between individual rights and the public good. Encouraging a multicultural ethical discernment, fostering an appreciation of the political, economic, sociological, and psychological issues that inform the question of urban moral choic…Read more
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18Self-Conceptions, Agency, and the Value of Individual PersonsDialogue 38 (1): 3-26. 1999.RÉSUMÉ: J'examine ici trois façons de défendre l'idée que les personnes ont individuellement une valeur. Je pars de la thèse selon laquelle la valeur des individus tient à la valeur de leurs qualités particulières. Je m'arrête alors sur l'objection que pour comprendre ce qui fait la valeur individuelle des personnes, il nous faut accorder une place distinctive à leurs conceptions d'elles-mêmes. L'approche par la conception de soi qui résulte de ces considérations se révèle problématique à l'exam…Read more
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9On children and proxy consentJournal of Medical Ethics 4 (3): 138-140. 1978.The meaning of valid proxy consent for children has recently been the subject of an important debate between Richard McCormick and Paul Ramsey on the ethics of experimenting with children. Ramsey is willing to agree with McCormick that parental consent for a child to undergo some medical procedure is valid only if parents consider what the child would consent to if he could. But beyond this, Ramsey has a fundamentally different conception of the child from McCormick, and therefore gives a very d…Read more
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City College of New York (CUNY)Department of PhilosophyArthur Zitrin Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics
New York City, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |