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5001The role of consent in sado-masochistic practicesRes Publica 8 (2): 141-155. 2002.In 1993 the Law Lords upheld the original conviction of five men under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act for participating in sado-masochistic practices. Although the five men were fully consenting adults, the Law Lords held that consent did not constitute a defence to acts of violence within a sado-masochistic context. This paper examines the judgements in this case and argues that sado-masochistic practices are no different from the known exceptions cited by the court to the idea that c…Read more
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22Morality, moral luck, and responsibility: fortune's webPalgrave-Macmillan. 2005.This book considers two different approaches to moral luck--the Aristotelian vulnerability to factors outside the agent's control and the Kantian ambition to make morality immune to luck--and concludes that both approaches have more in common than previously thought. At the same time, it also considers recent developments in the field of virtue ethics and neo-kantianism
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769A virtue ethical account of making decisions about riskJournal of Risk Research 13 (2): 217. 2010.Abstract Most discussions of risk are developed in broadly consequentialist terms, focusing on the outcomes of risks as such. This paper will provide an alternative account of risk from a virtue ethical perspective, shifting the focus to the decision to take the risk. Making ethical decisions about risk is, we will argue, not fundamentally about the actual chain of events that the decision sets in process, but about the reasonableness of the decision to take the risk in the first place. A virtu…Read more
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786When is deception in research ethical?Clinical Ethics 4 (1): 44-49. 2009.This article examines when deceptive withholding of information is ethically acceptable in research. The first half analyses the concept of deception. We argue that there are two types of accounts of deception: normative and non-normative, and argue that non-normative accounts are preferable. The second half of the article argues that the relevant ethical question which ethics committees should focus on is not whether the person from whom the information is withheld will be deceived, but rather …Read more
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245Review of Margaret Pabst Battin, Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (1). 2006.
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437Educating for virtueIn S. van Hooft, N. Athanassoulis, J. Kawall, J. Oakley & L. van Zyl (eds.), The handbook of virtue ethics, Acumen Publishing. 2014.
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307Training good professionalsIn Richard E. Ashcroft (ed.), Principles of Health Care Ethics, . 2007.
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256The treatment that leaves something to luckIn Philosophical Reflections on Medical Ethics, Palgrave-macmillan. 2005.
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15Philosophical reflections on medical ethics (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2005.This collection brings together original essays demonstrating the cutting edge of philosophical research in medical ethics. With contributions from a range of established and up-and-coming authors, it examines topics at the forefront of medical technology, such as ethical issues raised by developments in how we research stem cells and genetic engineering, as well as new questions raised by methodological changes in how we approach medical ethics.
Nafsika Athanassoulis
Athens College
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