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5Childhood Interests: what they are and why it mattersPerspectives in Biology and Medicine 67 (2): 197-208. 2024.This paper examines the concept and moral significance of “childhood interests.” This concept is important in medical decision-making for children and more broadly in the field of pediatric ethics. The authors argue that childhood interests are identifiable components of childhood well-being that carry moral weight. Parents have a special role in protecting and promoting these interests and special obligations to do so. These parental obligations are grounded by the independent interests of the …Read more
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How the past matters: on the foundations of an ethics of remembranceIn Klaus Neumann & Janna Thompson (eds.), Historical justice and memory, The University of Wisconsin Press. 2015.
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17Holding Wrongdoers Responsible contests a number of widely accepted, almost standard, claims about blame and forgiveness in the philosophical literature, and their relationship to each other.
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40The theme of this book is the complex moral psychology of forgiving and remembering in both personal and political contexts. It offers an original account of the moral psychology of interpersonal forgiveness and explores its role in transitional societies. The book also examines the symbolic moral significance of memorialization in these societies and reflects on its relationship to forgiveness.
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76Doing what the patient orders: Maintaining integrity in the doctor‐patient relationshipBioethics 7 (4): 289-314. 1993.No profession has undergone as much scrutiny in the past several decades as that of medicine. Indeed, one might well argue that no profession has ever undergone so much change in so short a time. An essential part of this change has been the growing insistence that competent, adult patients have the right to decide about the course of their own medical treatment. However, the familiar and widely accepted principle of patient self-determination entails a corollary that has received little attenti…Read more
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17Investing in ParenthoodHastings Center Report 48 (5): 37-39. 2018.The recent child custody case Weisberger v Weisberger raises a number of ethical issues concerning the rights and responsibilities of parents. Chavie Weisberger, thirty‐five, and her husband, both members of an ultraorthodox Hasidic community, appeared before a religious court in 2008 to obtain a divorce. There are two sharply contrasting legal rulings in this case. Setting aside the legally significant fact that Chavie had signed the divorce agreement with the clause requiring her to raise her …Read more
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21Multiculturalism and Just Health Care: Taking Pluralism SeriouslyIn Rosamond Rhodes, Margaret P. Battin & Anita Silvers (eds.), Medicine and Social Justice:Essays on the Distribution of Health Care: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care, Oup Usa. pp. 38-52. 2002.The pluralism that democratic regimes foster creates the following serious problem in societies: When people disagree so fundamentally about the good life, where are the grounds of social unity to be found? This is a quite general problem for liberal political theory, but in this chapter I want to focus on a related but narrower set of issues having to do with what justice requires with respect to the provision of health care in modern democratic societies.
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38Human 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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53Self-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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43Introduction: 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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25Human Relationships: A Philosophical Introduction.Care and Commitment: Taking the Personal Point of ViewPhilosophical Quarterly 43 (170): 112-114. 1993.
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30Adolescence and Criminal ResponsibilityInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 2 (4): 1-17. 1985.
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21The 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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132Philosophical 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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32[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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22On 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 |