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6Ethics by Committee: A Textbook on Consultation, Organization, and Education for Hospital Ethics Committees (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2007.While tens of thousands of people across the United States serve on hospital and other healthcare ethics committees , almost no carefully prepared educational material exists for HEC members. Ethics by Committee is a one volume collection of chapters developed exclusively for this educational purpose. Experts in bioethics, clinical consultation, health law, and social psychology from across the country contribute chapters on ethics consultation, education, and policy development
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5Learning about Professional Ethics from Inter-Professional DialogueJournal of Clinical Ethics 32 (3): 224-232. 2021.Our society’s professions, including the health professions, have long overlooked the possibility that one might learn something valuable about one’s own profession’s ethics by studying the ethics of other professions. Reflecting on the preceding article by Ritwik, Patterson, and Alfonzo-Echeverri, one can identify important similarities between dentistry’s professional ethics and the ethics of the other health professions. But there are also important differences between these professions’ ethi…Read more
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26From Solo Decision Maker to Multi-Stakeholder Process: A Defense and RecommendationsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 20 (2): 53-55. 2020.Berger (2019) argues effectively that “representativeness is more aptly understood as a variable that is multidimensional and continuous based on relational moral authority,” and also makes some useful suggestions about how taking this observation seriously might require changes in current patterns of practice regarding surrogates. But the essay raises additional important questions about how the Best Interest Standard (BIS) should be used among unrepresented patients and other patients as well …Read more
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51Ethics Across the Curriculum—Pedagogical PerspectivesSpringer Verlag. 2018.Late in 1990, the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at Illinois Institute of Technology (lIT) received a grant of more than $200,000 from the National Science Foundation to try a campus-wide approach to integrating professional ethics into its technical curriculum.! Enough has now been accomplished to draw some tentative conclusions. I am the grant's principal investigator. In this paper, I shall describe what we at lIT did, what we learned, and what others, especially phil…Read more
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11Review of Thomas Morawetz: The Philosophy of Law: An Introduction (review)Ethics 92 (3): 572-573. 1982.
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26A Review of: “Charlotte McDaniel, Organizational Ethics: Research and Ethical Environments”: Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2004. 198 pp. $79.95, hardback (review)American Journal of Bioethics 6 (4): 77-78. 2006.No abstract
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33Social ethics, the philosophy of medicine, and professional responsibilityTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 6 (3). 1985.The social ethics of medicine is the study and ethical analysis of social structures which impact on the provision of health care by physicians. There are many such social structures. Not all these structures are responsive to the influence of physicians as health professionals. But some social structures which impact on health care are prompted by or supported by important preconceptions of medical practice. In this article, three such elements of the philosophy of medicine are examined in term…Read more
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2Kai Nielsen and Steven C. Patten, eds., New Essays in Ethics and Public Policy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 5 (8): 352-354. 1985.
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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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34The 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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25Social 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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27Book Review:The Philosophy of Law: An Introduction. Thomas Morawetz (review)Ethics 92 (3): 572-. 1982.
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16""The characteristics of a valid" empirical" slippery-slope argumentJournal of Clinical Ethics 3 (4): 301-302. 1992.
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Pettman, Ralph, "Biopolitics and International Values: Investigating Liberal Norms" (review)Ethics 93 (n/a): 219. 1982.
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55Forgiving and HopingProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 82 163-172. 2008.The word “forgiveness” and its verbal form, “forgiving,” may appear to have one and the same meaning whenever it is used. But the first thesis of this essay is that several distinct kinds of human activity are denominated by this word, and their differences are philosophically important. The second thesis of this essay is that some of the human activities denominated by this word have a close connection with hope, more specifically with hoping-in-a-person. The third thesis of this essay is that,…Read more
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32What should count as basic health care?Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 4 (2). 1983.The concept of basic healt.h care has grown steadily in importance in recent years as more and more of those who reflect on the issue of a right to health care conclude that we need to distinguish between kinds of health care to which people do have a right and others to which they do not have a right. There is little consensus on where to draw this line. But there does seem to be general agreement that, if this distinction is valid, it is so because some kinds of health care are less important,…Read more
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21Social Rules and Patterns of BehaviorPhilosophy Research Archives 3 879-895. 1977.In this paper I clarify the distinction between actions performed under a social rule and a mere pattern of behavior through an examination of two distinctive features of actions performed under a social rule. Developing an argument proposed by H.L.A. Hart in The Concept of Law, I first argue that, where a social rule exists, there nonconformity/conformity to the pattern of behavior set down in the rule count as good reasons for criticism/commendation of actions covered by the rule. Secondly I a…Read more
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112Do corporations have moral rights?Journal of Business Ethics 4 (4). 1985.My aim in this paper is to explore the notion that corporations have moral rights within the context of a constitutive rules model of corporate moral agency. The first part of the paper will briefly introduce the notion of moral rights, identifying the distinctive feature of moral rights, as contrasted with other moral categories, in Vlastos' terms of overridingness. The second part will briefly summarize the constitutive rules approach to the moral agency of corporations (à la French, Smith, Oz…Read more
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An explanation and a method for the ethics of journalismIn Christopher Meyers (ed.), Journalism ethics: a philosophical approach, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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