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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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296Remember 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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123Open 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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1677Moral distress in nursing practice in MalawiNursing Ethics 19 (2): 196-207. 2012.The aim of this study was to explore the existence of moral distress among nurses in Lilongwe District of Malawi. Qualitative research was conducted in selected health institutions of Lilongwe District in Malawi to assess knowledge and causes of moral distress among nurses and coping mechanisms and sources of support that are used by morally distressed nurses. Data were collected from a purposive sample of 20 nurses through in-depth interviews using a semi-structured interview guide. Thematic an…Read more
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49The Equal Moral Weight of Self- and Other-Regarding ActsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 17 (1): 155-165. 1987.Self-regarding acts are frequently classified as non-moral; even more frequently, they are assumed to have less moral weight than parallel other-regarding acts. I argue briefly against the first claim, and at greater length against the second. Our intuitions about the lesser moral weight of self-regarding acts arise from imperfectly recognized, and morally relevant, differences between acts which are ordinarily described in misleadingly parallel phrases. ‘Love of self,’ for instance, and ‘love o…Read more
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1Feminist BioethicsBiomedical Law and Ethics 4 (2). 2011.Overview of feminist bioethics for the journal of the Ewha Women's College, Seoul, South Korea
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285Poole on obscenity and censorshipEthics 94 (3): 496-500. 1984.HOWARD POOLE ARGUES THAT "THERE IS A RATIONAL NECESSITY LINKING NEGATIVE ATTITUDES TO PORNOGRAPHY WITH A READINESS TO IMPOSE CENSORSHIP." HIS ARGUMENT HAS THREE PREMISES: FIRST, THAT TO CALL SOMETHING OBSCENE IS TO EXPRESS STRONG BUT OFTEN NONMORAL DISAPPROVAL; SECOND, THAT THIS STRONG DISAPPROVAL COMMITS ONE TO SEEK LEGISLATION KEEPING THE MATERIAL FROM CHILDREN; THIRD, THAT SUCH LEGISLATION IS A FORM OF CENSORSHIP. I QUESTION EACH PREMISE.
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38Learning to see: moral growth during medical trainingJournal of Medical Ethics 18 (3): 148-152. 1992.During medical training students and residents reconstruct their view of the world. Patients become bodies; both the faults and the virtues of the medical profession become exaggerated. This reconstruction has moral relevance: it is in part a moral blindness. The pain of medical training, together with its narrowness, contributes substantially to these faulty reconstructions. Possible improvements include teaching more social science, selecting chief residents and faculty for their attitudes, he…Read more
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42Burdened Virtues Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles by Lisa TessmanHypatia 23 (2): 193-196. 2008.
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86The Good Wife and PhilosophyOpen Court Publishing. 2013.Fifteen philosophers look at the deeper issues raised in the highly popular TV drama, including common morality, legal correctness and legal ethics, discussing the gray areas of legal battles and maneuvering. Original.
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The Medical Humanities as an Elephant Seen by Blind MenMedical Humanities Review. 2001.Because the medical humanities are multidisciplinary, participants tend to see one another's work through their own disciplinary lens. This can lead to misinterpretations.
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309A Larger Space for Moral ReflectionEthical Currents (53): 6-8. 1998.Margaret Urban Walker argues that hospital ethics committees should think of their task as "keeping moral space open." I develop her suggestion with analogies: Enlarge the windows (i.e., expand what counts as an ethical issue); add rooms and doors (i.e., choose particular issues to engage). Examples include confidentiality defined as information flow, and moral distress in the healthcare workplace.
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28Open 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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26Goals of Ethics Consultation: Toward Clarity, Utility, and FidelityJournal of Clinical Ethics 8 (2): 193-198. 1997.
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472Moral Distress in HealthcareBioethics Forum 18 (1-2): 44-46. 2002.Moral distress is the sense that one must do, or cooperate in, what is wrong. It is paradigmatically faced by nurses, but it is almost a universal occupational hazard.
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