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30Review 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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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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24Review essay / disgust, dignity, and a public intellectualCriminal Justice Ethics 24 (1): 52-57. 2005.Martha C. Nussbaum, Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law. Princeton Nf: Princeton University Press, 2004, xv #;pl 413 pp
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21Body Parts: Property Rights and the Ownership of Human Biological MaterialsHastings Center Report 28 (2): 42. 1998.
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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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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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4Disgust, Dignity, and a Public Intellectual (review)Criminal Justice Ethics 24 (1): 52-57. 2005.Martha Nussbaum’s Hiding from Humanity is eloquent and thought-provoking. I criticize some of her central arguments, particularly her construal of disgust and her exposition of shame. But I applaud the book as a whole. It is possible that richness and engagement are more important in the work of public intellectuals than is technical precision. If so, Nussbaum has fulfilled her role. It is more likely that both qualities are important, but difficult to combine. In that case, we can still …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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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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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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Ethics, Professionalism, and Humanities at Michigan State University College of Human MedicineAcademic Medicine 78 (10). 2003.
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