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23Biopower and the Liberationist RomanceHastings Center Report 40 (4): 16-20. 2010.In the spirit of summer, and especially summer reading, we asked a few well-read writers for an essay on a book or books exploring bioethics issues through story. The result is a compelling look at how we face our fears and hopes about biotechnology and medicine. A reading list appears at the end. Bioethics lives in the shadow of great structures and practices of power, and yet, it has not been notable for its contributions to an understanding of power.1 Indeed, the narrative that bioethics has …Read more
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22The killing fields: Science and politics at Berkeley, California, USA (review)Agriculture and Human Values 14 (3): 259-271. 1997.Over the past several decades, a group of scholars at the Berkeley campus of the University of California have frequently challenged many of the dominant themes of contemporary agricultural research. In their work, they have organized curricula questioning the assumptions of conventional agriculture and its sciences while encouraging the development of alternative agricultural practices based on principles of ecology. Their collective critique has stimulated an intellectual climate calling forth…Read more
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18Ends and Means of SolidarityAmerican Journal of Bioethics 20 (5): 64-66. 2020.Volume 20, Issue 5, June 2020, Page 64-66.
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15Special Supplement: Ethical Challenges of Chronic IllnessHastings Center Report 18 (1): 1. 1988.
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15Solidarity and care as relational practicesBioethics 32 (9): 553-561. 2018.Many working in bioethics today are engaging in forms of normative interpretation concerning the meaningful contexts of relational agency and institutional structures of power. Using the framework of relational bioethics, this article focuses on two significant social practices that are significant for health policy and public health: the practices of solidarity and the practices of care. The main argument is that the affirming recognition of, and caring attention paid to, persons as moral subje…Read more
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14Public Administration: In Search of Democratic ProfessionalismHastings Center Report 17 (1): 18-20. 1987.
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14Nature as absence : the logic of nature and culture in social contract theoryIn Gregory E. Kaebnick (ed.), The Ideal of Nature: Debates About Biotechnology and the Environment, Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 29. 2011.
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14Civic Learning for a Democracy in CrisisHastings Center Report 51 (S1): 2-4. 2021.This essay introduces a special report from The Hastings Center entitled Democracy in Crisis: Civic Learning and the Reconstruction of Common Purpose, which grew out of a project supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. This multiauthored report offers wide‐ranging assessments of increasing polarization and partisanship in American government and politics, and it proposes constructive responses to this in the provision of objective information, institutional reforms in government…Read more
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13Solidarity and Care Coming of Age: New Reasons in the Politics of Social Welfare PolicyHastings Center Report 48 (S3): 19-24. 2018.Aging brings about the ordeal of coping. Younger people also cope, but for those in old age, the ordeal is so often elegiac, forced upon the self by changing functions within the body and by the outside social world, with its many impediments to the continuity of former roles, pursuits, and self‐identities. Coping with change can be affirming, but when what is being forgone seems more valuable than what lies ahead, it is travail. For most, the coping is managed more moderately by a sense of resi…Read more
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13Redoing the DemosHastings Center Report 51 (S1): 58-63. 2021.Forces including extreme economic inequality, cultural polarization, and the monetizing and privatizing of persons as commodities are undermining the forms of moral recognition and mutuality upon which democratic practices and institutions depend. These underlying factors, together with more direct modes of political corruption, manipulation, and authoritarian nationalism, are undoing Western democracies. This essay identifies and explores some vital underpinnings of democratic citizenship and c…Read more
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13The Moral Imagination of De-extinctionHastings Center Report 47 (S2). 2017.We are living in what is widely considered the sixth major extinction. Most ecologists believe that biodiversity is disappearing at an alarming rate, with up to 150 species going extinct per day according to scientists working with the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. Part of the reason the loss signified by biological extinction feels painful is that it seems irremediable. These creatures are gone, and there's nothing to be done about it. In recent years, however, the possibil…Read more
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13Long-Acting Contraceptives Ethical Guidance for Policymakers and Health Care ProvidersHastings Center Report 25 (1). 1995.
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12Introduction to conceptual issues in health and society: Neglected social and relational experiences and care approachesJournal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 36 (2): 61-63. 2016.
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10Ethics, The Social Sciences, and Policy AnalysisSpringer. 1983.The social sciences playa variety of multifaceted roles in the policymaking process. So varied are these roles, indeed, that it is futile to talk in the singular about the use of social science in policymaking, as if there were one constant relationship between two fixed and stable entities. Instead, to address this issue sensibly one must talk in the plural about uses of dif ferent modes of social scientific inquiry for different kinds of policies under various circumstances. In some cases, the…Read more
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10Gaylin and Jennings tell us that we must change the everyday behavior shaping the landscape of modern American society. Our current culture of autonomy is predicated on rationality as the basis of human conduct. But, we are reminded here, man is not inherently rational; appeals to emotion are far more effective than logical argument in changing our conduct.
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10A Gay Epidemiologist and the DC Commission of Public Health AIDS Advisory CommitteeNarrative Inquiry in Bioethics. forthcoming.
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10Review of Bruce Jennings and Daniel Callahan: Representation and Responsibility: Exploring Legislative Ethics (review)Ethics 97 (2): 485-486. 1987.
Bruce Jennings
Vanderbilt University
Center for Humans and Nature
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Center for Humans and NatureSenior Fellow (Part-time)
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The Hastings CenterSenior Advisor (Part-time)
Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |