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11When is an objection to hybrid stem cell research a moral objection?American Journal of Bioethics 8 (12). 2008.No abstract
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11Response to “Cloning and Infertility” by Carson Strong - Entitlement to CloningCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 8 (3): 364-368. 1999.Carson Strong has argued that if human cloning were safe it should be available to some infertile couples as a matter of ethics and law. He holds that cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer should be available as a reproductive option for infertile couples who could not otherwise have a child genetically related to one member of the couple. In this analysis, Strong overlooks an important category of people to whom his argument might apply, couples he has not failed to consider elsewhere. In th…Read more
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10The ethics of HIV testing by physiciansJournal of Medical Humanities 14 (3): 123-135. 1993.This essay argues that informed consent remains desirable for both moral and practical reasons in regard to HIV testing by physicians. At the very least, respect for consent preserves patient control over treatment and affords the opportunity for education about the nature of HIV-related disorders. Nevertheless, there do appear to be circumstances under which involuntary testing may occur especially when health care workers may have become occupationally exposed to risk of HIV infection. To elim…Read more
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10Gay Ethics: Controversies in Outing, Civil Rights, and Sexual Science (edited book)Harrington Park Press. 1994.Gay Ethics is an anthology that addresses ethical questions involving key moral issues of today--sexual morality, outing, gay and lesbian marriages, military service, anti-discrimination laws, affirmative action policies, the moral significance of sexual orientation research, and the legacy of homophobia in health care. It focuses on these issues within the social context of the lives of gay men and lesbians and makes evident the ways in which ethics can and should be reclaimed to pursue the mor…Read more
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10Better Bioethics Through Literature?American Journal of Bioethics 4 (3): 125-127. 2004.No abstract
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9Perspective: Dead Sperm Donors or World Hunger: Are Bioethicists Studying the Right Stuff?Hastings Center Report 35 (2). 2005.
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9Sperm Harvesting and Postmortem FatherhoodBioethics 9 (4): 380-398. 1995.The motives and consequences of harvesting sperm from brain dead males for the purpose of effecting post mortem fatherhood are examined. I argue that sperm harvesting and post mortem fatherhood raise no harms of a magnitude that would justify forbidding the practice outright. Dead men are not obviously harmed by the practice; children need not be harmed by this kind of birth; and the practice enlarges rather than diminishes the reproductive choices of surviving partners. Certain ethical and lega…Read more
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9Adoption first? The disposition of human embryosJournal of Medical Ethics 40 (6): 392-395. 2014.Anja Karnein has suggested that because of the importance of respect for persons, law and policy should require some human embryos created in vitro to be available for adoption for a period of time. If no one comes forward to adopt the embryos during that time, they may be destroyed or used in research. This adoption option would increase the number of embryos available for couples looking for help in having children, but that effect is less important—Karnein argues—than the observance of respec…Read more
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9Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies (edited book)2000, Fitzroy Dearborn. 2013 Routledge.. 2000.The Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Literature identifies key resources for topics important to the theory and practice of lesbian and gay politics, literature, religion, and more. The book contains hundreds of entries that summarize key issues at stake and then identify (mostly) book-length analysis of this topics. The topics range from activism, to age of consent, to legal history as well as individual entries on key authors and regional areas.
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9Theorizing the Meaning of Health in Abortion LawAmerican Journal of Bioethics 22 (8): 77-79. 2022.Paltrow, Harris and Marshall argue that understanding Roe v. Wade as a decision that only protects the right to terminate a pregnancy misconstrues its larger implications. The striking down of Roe...
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6Degendering Parents on Birth CertificatesPerspectives in Biology and Medicine 66 (4): 579-594. 2023.Abstractabstract:Birth certificates typically designate parents as "mothers" or "fathers," although some US states offer nongendered designations. The authors argue that gendered characterizations offer scant legal or moral value and that states should move to degender parental status on birth certificates but retain that information in registrations of birth. Registrations of birth identify the person giving birth to a child, when, and where, and they report demographic and health information u…Read more
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5Hospital Ethics Committees and Research with Human BeingsIn Micah D. Hester (ed.), Ethics by committee: a textbook on consultation, organization, and education for hospital ethics committees, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 215. 2008.
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2Assumption of Risk in HIV InfectionHastings Center Report 44 (2): 4-5. 2014.A commentary on “Time to Decriminalize HIV Status,” from the September‐October 2013 issue.
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1Teaching the Dance: Nietzsche as EducatorDissertation, Boston College. 1982.This dissertation shows that Nietzsche considered himself a philosopher, not because he specifically engaged in metaphysics or epistemology, but because he attempted educating humanity about various patterns of living. Consequently, he is to be taken seriously as a philosopher because he instructed in the art of human living. Towards a demonstration of these claims, various commentators are investigated for the reasons they elevate Nietzsche to the level of philosopher. Nietzsche's remarks on un…Read more
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Richard D. Mohr, Gays/Justice. A Study in Society, Ethics, and Law Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 8 (10): 409-411. 1988.
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CQ Reviews (review)Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 19 (2): 261. 2010.Review of: War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases, 2003–2007. Falls Church, VA: Office of the Surgeon General, United States Army; Washington, DC: Borden Institute: Walter Reed Army Medical Center; 2008.
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Richard D. Mohr, Gays/Justice. A Study in Society, Ethics, and Law (review)Philosophy in Review 8 409-411. 1988.
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Value Theory |
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Value Theory |