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13Ethics, 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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9Darwin, Marx and Freud: Their Influence on Moral TheorySpringer. 1984.hope of obtaining a comprehensive and coherent understand ing of the human condition, we must somehow weave together the biological, sociological, and psychological components of human nature and experience. And this cannot be done indeed, it is difficult to even make sense of an attempt to do it-without first settling our accounts with Darwin, Marx, and Freud. The legacy of these three thinkers continues to haunt us in other ways as well. Whatever their substantive philosophical differences in …Read more
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Applied ethics and the vocation of social scienceIn Joseph P. DeMarco, Richard M. Fox & Michael D. Bayles (eds.), New Directions in Ethics: The Challenge of Applied Ethics, Routledge and Kegan Paul. pp. 205--217. 1986.
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30Relational Ethics for Public Health: Interpreting Solidarity and CareHealth Care Analysis 27 (1): 4-12. 2019.This article defends ‘relational theorizing’ in bioethics and public health ethics and describes its importance. It then offers an interpretation of solidarity and care understood as normatively patterned and psychologically and socially structured modes of relationality; in a word, solidarity and care understood as ‘practices.’ Solidarity is characterized as affirming the moral standing of others and their membership in a community of equal dignity and respect. Care is characterized as paying a…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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18Solidarity 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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30De-extinction and ConservationHastings 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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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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16Introduction 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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23Special Supplement: Ethics and Trusteeship for Health Care: Hospital Board Service in Turbulent TimesHastings Center Report 32 (4). 2002.
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11Review of Bruce Jennings and Daniel Callahan: Representation and Responsibility: Exploring Legislative Ethics (review)Ethics 97 (2): 485-486. 1987.
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29Nudging for health and the predicament of agency: The relational ecology of autonomy and careJournal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 36 (2): 81-99. 2016.This article reflects on the implications of the concept of health and the questions it poses for moral philosophy, psychology, and the panoply of professions that are involved in the practices of care and in the ethics of individual rights, dignity, and autonomy. Significant among these questions is what we call “the predicament of agency.” The predicament involves the ethical tensions—arising within the broad concept of health and flourishing, but also in concrete everyday practices and relati…Read more
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34Special Supplement: New Directions in Nursing Home EthicsHastings Center Report 21 (2): 1. 1991.
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4Public Health and Civic Republicanism: Towards an Alternative Framework for Public Health EthicsIn Angus Dawson & Marcel Verweij (eds.), Ethics, Prevention, and Public Health, Clarendon Press. 2007.
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33Hospice and Alzheimer disease: a study in access and simple justiceHastings Center Report. forthcoming.
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2Beyond the harm principle : From autonomy to civic responsibilityIn Andrew R. Cecil & W. Lawson Taitte (eds.), Moral Values: The Challenge of the Twenty-First Century, The University of Texas Press. 1996.
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28Unreconcilable Differences?Hastings Center Report 41 (4): 4-9. 2012.To the Editor: The sensitive discussion by Courtney Campbell and Jessica Cox on hospice care and physician-assisted death (“Hospice and Physician-Assisted Death: Collaboration, Compliance, and Complicity,” September-October 2010) is a model blend of ethical analysis, empirical study, and policy assessment in bioethics. The legalization of physician aid in dying has raised important ethical issues for hospice that go to the broader question of its evolving mission and its place in the landscape o…Read more
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38Agency and moral relationship in dementiaMetaphilosophy 40 (3-4): 425-437. 2009.This essay examines the goals of care and the exercise of guardianship authority in the long-term care of persons with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of chronic, progressive dementia. It counters philosophical views that deny both agency and personhood to individuals with Alzheimer's on definitional or analytic conceptual grounds. It develops a specific conception of the quality of life and offers a critique of hedonic conceptions of quality of life and models of guardianship that are based…Read more
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46Pharmaceutical research involving the homelessJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 27 (5). 2002.Discussions of research involving vulnerable populations have left the homeless comparatively ignored. Participation by these subjects in drug studies has the potential to be upsetting, inconvenient, or unpleasant. Participation occasionally produces injury, health emergencies, and chronic health problems. Nonetheless, no ethical justification exists for the categorical exclusion of homeless persons from research. The appropriate framework for informed consent for these subjects of pharmaceutica…Read more
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42Right Relation and Right Recognition in Public Health Ethics: Thinking Through the Republic of HealthPublic Health Ethics 9 (2): 168-177. 2016.The further development of public health ethics will be assisted by a more direct engagement with political theory. In this way, the moral vocabulary of the liberal tradition should be supplemented—but not supplanted—by different conceptual and normative resources available from other traditions of political and social thought. This article discusses four lines of further development that the normative conceptual discourse of public health ethics might take. The relational turn. The implications…Read more
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6Contested terrain for competing visions of american liberalismIn Catherine Myser (ed.), Bioethics Around the Globe, Oxford University Press. pp. 269. 2011.
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32The Quest to reform end of life care: Rethinking assumptions and setting new directionsHastings Center Report 35 (6). 2005.
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Bioethics between two worlds : the politics of ethics in Central EuropeIn Catherine Myser (ed.), Bioethics Around the Globe, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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 |