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10Critical Interests and Sources of Familial Decision-Making Authority for Incapacitated PatientsJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 23 (2): 143-148. 1995.How ought we to understand the sources and limits of the authority of family members to make health care decisions for their decisionally incapacitated relatives? This question is becoming increasingly crucial as the population ages and the power of medical technology waxes. It is also becoming increasingly contested, as faith in advance directives shows signs of waning, and the moral complexities of intimate relationship become more theoretically patent.This last point—the newly visible moral r…Read more
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44Cutting Motherhood in Two: Some Suspicions Concerning SurrogacyHypatia 4 (3): 85-94. 1989.Surrogate motherhood-at least if carefully structured to protect the interests of the women involved-seems defensible along standard liberal lines which place great stress on free agreements as moral bedrocks. But feminist theories have tended to be suspicious about the importance assigned to this notion by mainstream ethics, and in this paper, we develop implications of those suspicions for surrogacy. We argue that the practice is inconsistent with duties parents owe to children and that it com…Read more
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7Familiar Interests and Strange Analogies: Baergen and Woodhouse on Extra-Familial InterestsJournal of Clinical Ethics 24 (4): 338-342. 2013.The article by Professor Baergen and Dr. Woodhouse makes a succinct and serious contribution to progress in bioethical understanding of deciding for others. They begin with what is by now a familiar claim: family proxy decision makers may sometimes make decisions on behalf of incapacitated relatives that depart from what might be optimal from the patient’s point of view, since the well-being of family members, or of the family as such, may be substantially affected by the direction of a patient’…Read more
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51Odd Complaints and Doubtful Conditions: Norms of Hypochondria in Jane Austen and Catherine BellingJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 11 (2): 193-200. 2014.In her final fragmentary novel Sanditon, Jane Austen develops a theme that pervades her work from her juvenilia onward: illness, and in particular, illness imagined, invented, or self-inflicted. While the “invention of odd complaints” is characteristically a token of folly or weakness throughout her writing, in this last work imagined illness is also both a symbol and a cause of how selves and societies degenerate. In the shifting world of Sanditon, hypochondria is the lubricant for a society be…Read more
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17Animal Models in'Exemplary'Medical Research: Diabetes as a Case StudyBetween the Species 5 (4): 4. 1989.
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11The Patient in the Family: An Ethics of Medicine and FamiliesRoutledge. 1995.The Patient in the Family diagnoses the ways in which the worlds of home and hospital misunderstand each other. The authors explore how medicine, through its new reproductive technologies, is altering the stucture of families, how families can participate more fully in medical decision-making, and how to understand the impact on families of medical advances to extend life but not vitality
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12The Social Situation of Sincerity: Austen's Emma and Lovibond's Ethical FormationIn Peggy DesAutels & Margaret Urban Walker (eds.), Moral Psychology: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, Rowman & Littlefield. 2004.
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5Fluid Families: The Role of ChildrenIn Hilde Lindemann (ed.), Feminism and Families, Routledge. 1997.
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1Constructing Feelings: Jane Austen and Naomi Scheman on the Moral Role of EmotionsIn Peggy Desautels, Joanne Waugh, Margaret Urban Walker, Uma Narayan, Diana Tietjens Meyers & Hilde Lindemann Nelson (eds.), Feminists Doing Ethics, Feminist Constructions. 2001.
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Fluid families: The role of children in custody arrangementsIn Hilde Lindemann (ed.), Feminism and Families, Routledge. 1997.
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15Semantic Externalism: A Rough Sketch and a Gesture at Motivation The 1960s and 70s saw the development of a picture of reference in which the link between the speaker and the spoken of was provided not, or not solely, by beliefs entertained by the speaker but by causal, historical, and social relationships extending among the speaker and other members of (review)In Eva Feder Kittay & Licia Carlson (eds.), Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.
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47Parental obligations and the ethics of surrogacy: a causal perspectivePublic Affairs Quarterly 5 (1): 49-61. 1991.
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5Carl Schneider’s The Practice of Autonomy: A PrécisJournal of Clinical Ethics 13 (1): 54-56. 2002.
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11Brain Trauma and Surrogate Decision Making: Dogmas, Challenges, and ResponseJournal of Clinical Ethics 15 (4): 264-276. 2004.
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15Trusting Families: Responding to Mary Ann Meeker, “Responsive Care Management: Family Decision Makers in Advanced Cancer”Journal of Clinical Ethics 22 (2): 123-127. 2011.Mary Ann Meeker’s article admirably reminds readers that family members are involved in—or “responsively manage”—the care of relatives with severe illness in ways that run considerably beyond the stereotypes at play in many bioethical discussions of advance directives. Her observations thus make thinking about the role of families in healthcare provision more adequate to the facts, and this is an important contribution. There’s reason to be worried, however, that one explicit aim of the article—…Read more
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45Forming Professional Bioethicists: The Program at the University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 9 (3): 418-423. 2000.As a way of contributing to bioethics' understanding of itself, and, more particularly, to invigorate conversation about how we can best educate future colleagues, we present here a sketch of the quarter-century-old graduate concentration in medical ethics housed in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Our hope is to incite other programs to share their histories, strategies, problems, and aspirations, so as to help the field as a whole get a clearer sense of h…Read more
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11Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics (review)International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 4 (1): 237-241. 2011.
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