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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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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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15Critical 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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14Medicine and Making Sense of Queer LivesHastings Center Report 44 (s4): 12-16. 2014.As practiced, medicine bumps along with the rest of us, doing its level best to cope with the contingencies of this often heartbreaking world. Yet it's a commonplace that much of medicine's self‐image, and a good deal of its cultural heft, come from its connection with the natural sciences and, what's more, from a picture of science that has a touch of the transcendental, highlighting the unmatched rigor of its procedures, its exacting rationality, and the reliability of its results.In contrast,…Read more
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13The 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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13Cutting Motherhood in Two: Some Suspicions Concerning SurrogacyIn Helen B. Holmes & Laura Purdy (eds.), Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics, Indiana University Press. pp. 257. 1992.
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13Taking Nature's Pulse (review)Hastings Center Report 23 (5): 44. 1993.Book reviewed in this article: Ecosystem Health: New Goals for Environmental Management. Ed. Robert Costanza, Bryan G. Norton, and Benjamin D. Haskell.
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13“Yet the Body Is His Book”: Plastinated Bodies and the Book of Common BioethicsHastings Center Report 43 (3): 46-47. 2013.John Donne, poet laureate of the human body, was much troubled by its fate. Scorning Plato's picture of the body as the soul's prison, Donne imagined souls as leaving their bodies reluctantly and as yearning to return to the very one from which they had departed. In poems like “The Ecstasy,” he depicts the union of lovers’ souls, hints at a similar love of souls for bodies, and suggests that it is through the body—“his book”—that the lover comes to know love's spiritual mysteries. John Lantos al…Read more
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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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11From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice (review)American Journal of Bioethics 1 (2): 70-72. 2001.
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11From the EditorsInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 10 (2): 1-3. 2017.With this issue of IJFAB, we mark the end of one phase of the journal’s life and take our first steps into the next. It was eleven years ago, in 2007, that the first issue of IJFAB, then based at Stony Brook University and published by Indiana University Press, appeared with Mary Rawlinson as editor. That first issue was made possible by long months of work on the part of Mary and a group of others who were convinced that for feminist bioethics to develop as a field, it needed its own journal wi…Read more
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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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11Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics (review)International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 4 (1): 237-241. 2011.
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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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9What Families Say about Surrogacy: A Response to “Autonomy and the Family as (In)appropriate Surrogates for DNR Decisions”Journal of Clinical Ethics 18 (3): 219-226. 2007.
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7Meaning and medicine: a reader in the philosophy of health care (edited book)Routledge. 1999.Most available resources for teachers and students in biomedical ethics are based on a notion of medicine and of how to understand and illuminate its ethical problems that is at least two decades old. Meaning and Medicine dramatically expands the repertoire of resources for teachers and students of bioethics. In addition to providing fresh perspectives on both traditional and emerging questions in bioethics, this Reader focuses on questions in social philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysics as …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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