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32Annihilation: The sense and significance of death – by Christopher BelshawJournal of Applied Philosophy 27 (2): 218-219. 2010.No Abstract
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43A Scandal in GenevaInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 28 (2): 219-234. 2014.In 2013 the World Health Organization published a Report in which it was argued that countries should become self-sufficient in safe blood and blood products, and that these should be secured through voluntary non-remunerated donation. These two claims were putatively supported by a wealth of citations to peer-reviewed academic papers, the results of Royal Commissions and Public Inquiries in both Canada and the United Kingdom, and data collected from Non-Government Organizations. Yet not only do…Read more
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21A Review of: “Thomas May. 2002. Bioethics in a Liberal Society: The Political Framework of Bioethics Decision Making”: Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 135 pp. $42.00, hardcover (review)American Journal of Bioethics 5 (1): 92-93. 2005.
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18A Review of: “Thomas May. 2002. Bioethics in a Liberal Society: The Political Framework of Bioethics Decision Making”: Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 135 pp. $42.00, hardcover (review)American Journal of Bioethics 5 (1): 92-93. 2005.No abstract
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86Autonomy, Responsibility, and Women’s Obligation to Resist Sexual HarrassmentInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 21 (1): 55-63. 2007.In a recent paper Carol Hay has argued for the conclusion that “a woman who has been sexually harassed has a moral obligation to confront her harasser.” I will argue in this paper that Hay’s arguments for her conclusion are unsound, for they rest on both a misconstrual of the nature of personal autonomy, and a misunderstanding of its relationship to moral responsibility. However, even though Hay’s own arguments do not support her conclusion that women have a duty to resist sexual harassment this…Read more
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77Autonomy, constraining options, and organ salesJournal of Applied Philosophy 19 (3). 2002.We should try to alleviate it through allowing a current market in them continues to be morally condemned, usually on the grounds tha
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25Blinkered objections to bioethics: a response to BenatarJournal of Medical Ethics 31 (3): 179-181. 2005.In a recent commentary, S R Benatar criticised the debates over organ donation and kidney selling for being located within a “narrow and inadequate framework”. Benatar levels four charges against those who engage in the current organs debate: that they myopically focus on saving lives; that they accept the dominance of market orientated approaches to health care; that they reify individualism, and that they engage in limited moral arguments. Given the importance of the organs debate it is impera…Read more
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24A Full-blooded Defence Of Full-blooded Epicureanism: responses to my criticsJournal of Medical Ethics 40 (9): 642-643. 2014.I cannot fully respond here to all of the subtle and sophisticated criticisms of my full-blooded Epicureanism that have been advanced by Frederik Kaufman, Stephan Blatti, TM Wilkinson and Walter Glannon.1–4 Accordingly, I will focus on correcting some misunderstandings of my position and on responding to some of the most pressing objections.Kaufman holds that the implications of my full-blooded Epicureanism are ‘startling,’ since if I am right “killing or being killed in war will be morally inco…Read more
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23Avoiding Harms to Kidney Vendors through Legal, Regulated MarketsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 14 (10): 21-22. 2014.No abstract
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