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11Infinity (edited book)National Office of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Catholic University of America. 1981.Based on the Fifty-fifth Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, held at the Chase-Park Plaza Hotel in St. Louis, April 3-5, 1981. Includes bibliographical references.
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31The Case Against Thawing Unused Frozen EmbryosHastings Center Report 15 (4): 7-12. 1985.Whether one believes that the embryo has rights from the instant of conception, or that the embryo has no moral rights at all, the conclusion about the fate of unused frozen embryos is the same: they ought to be preserved in their frozen state until they are implanted in a woman's womb or are no longer able to survive implantation.
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69Patients' autonomy: Three models of the professional-lay relationship in medicineTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 5 (1). 1984.Health care is not merely a matter of individual encounters between patients and physicians or other health care personnel. For patients and those who provide health care come to these encounters already possessed of learned habits of perception and judgment, valuation and action, which define their roles in relation to one another and affect every aspect of their encounter. So the presuppositions of these encounters must be examined if our understanding of patients' autonomy is to be complete. …Read more
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16Taking the Lead in Developing Institutional PoliciesIn Micah D. Hester (ed.), Ethics by committee: a textbook on consultation, organization, and education for hospital ethics committees, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 249. 2008.
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23Social rules and the actions of groups: Control of physical objects (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 18 (1): 23-34. 1984.
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36Cost containment and physicians' decisions: Rethinking the philosophy of medicineTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 8 (1): 81-84. 1987.
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