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564Improving our aimJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 24 (2). 1999.Bioethicists appearing in the media have been accused of "shooting from the hip" (Rachels, 1991). The criticism is sometimes justified. We identify some reasons our interactions with the press can have bad results and suggest remedies. In particular we describe a target (fostering better public dialogue), obstacles to hitting the target (such as intrinsic and accidental defects in our knowledge) and suggest some practical ways to surmont those obstacles (including seeking out ways to write or sp…Read more
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20The Demands of Deontology Are Not So ParadoxicalJournal of Philosophical Research 16 407-410. 1991.The “paradox of deontology” depends partly upon ignoring the special responsibility each person has for her own actions, and partly upon ignoring the essential differences between refraining from X and persuading another to refrain. But only in part; the paradoxical situations schematized by Shaw can occasionally occur. When they do, his pragmatic defense of deontology is sound.
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25Body Parts: Property Rights and the Ownership of Human Biological MaterialsHastings Center Report 28 (2): 42. 1998.
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428Respecting Diversity, Respecting ComplexityLaw Review of Michigan State University-Detroit College of Law 2002 (4): 911-916. 2002.A discussion of the ethics of stem cell research, and attempts to regulate it.
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94Role Morality as a Complex Instance of Ordinary MoralityAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 28 (1). 1991.
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814On being genetically "irresponsible"Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 10 (2): 129-146. 2000.: New genetic technologies continue to emerge that allow us to control the genetic endowment of future children. Increasingly the claim is made that it is morally "irresponsible" for parents to fail to use such technologies when they know their possible children are at risk for a serious genetic disorder. We believe such charges are often unwarranted. Our goal in this article is to offer a careful conceptual analysis of the language of irresponsibility in an effort to encourage more care in its …Read more
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Ethics, Professionalism, and Humanities at Michigan State University College of Human MedicineAcademic Medicine 78 (10). 2003.
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31Review essay / regulating offensive actsCriminal Justice Ethics 5 (2): 54-59. 1986.Joel Feinberg, Offense to Others New York: Oxford University Press, 1985, xix + 328 pp
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87The Demands of Deontology Are Not So ParadoxicalJournal of Philosophical Research 16 407-410. 1991.The “paradox of deontology” depends partly upon ignoring the special responsibility each person has for her own actions, and partly upon ignoring the essential differences between refraining from X and persuading another to refrain. But only in part; the paradoxical situations schematized by Shaw can occasionally occur. When they do, his pragmatic defense of deontology is sound.
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Learning to listen : second-order moral perception and the work of bioethicsIn Lisa A. Eckenwiler & Felicia Cohn (eds.), The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape, Johns Hopkins University Press. 2007.
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7Worldly Virtue: Moral Ideals and Contemporary LifeLexington Books. 2015.Worldly Virtue discusses individual virtues in new ways, drawing from faith traditions, feminist analyses, and social science. The book addresses traditional virtues like honesty and generosity and articulates new virtues like those required in aging
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302Remember the NursesApa Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 5 (2): 19-21. 2006.As feminist theory explicates its fundamental principles – justice for the oppressed – it can lose its essential focus on the situation of women. One example is the inattention to nurses within feminist bioethics. Nurses deserve attention because most are women, but also because their lack of power is paradigmatic of patriarchy. Those examining ethics consultations should discuss whether nurses are allowed to request them. But feminists also need to imagine ways in which nurses can be heard wh…Read more
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31Review of Mike W. Martin, From Morality to Mental Health: Virtue and Vice in a Therapeutic Culture (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (10). 2007.
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126Open Hope as a Civic VirtueSocial Philosophy Today 29 89-100. 2013.Hope as a virtue is an acquired disposition, shaped by reflection; as a civic virtue it must serve the good of the community. Ernst Bloch and Lord Buddha offer help in constructing such a virtue. Using a taxonomy developed by Darren Webb I distinguish open hope from goal-oriented hope, and use each thinker to develop the former. Bloch and Buddha are very different (and notoriously obscure; I do not attempt an exegesis). But they share a metaphysics of change, foundational for making any sense of…Read more
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