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Good Bioethics Must Be Feminist BioethicsIn L. Wayne Sumner & Joseph Boyle (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Bioethics, University of Toronto Press. pp. 143-162. 1996.
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1In HB Holmes & LM PurdyIn Helen B. Holmes & Laura Martha Purdy (eds.), Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics, Indiana University Press. pp. 8--13. 1992.
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Children of Choice Whose Children? At What Cost?Washington and Lee Law Review 52 (1): 197-224. 1995.
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What Religious Ethics Can and Cannot Tell us about Reproduction and SexualityIn G. Benagiano, E. Dahl & R. Edwards (eds.), Ethics, Bioscience and Life, . 2008.
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A Feminist View of HealthIn Susan M. Wolf (ed.), Feminism & bioethics: beyond reproduction, Oxford University Press. 1996.
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Feminist perspectives in medical ethicsIn Helen B. Holmes & Laura Martha Purdy (eds.), Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics, Indiana University Press. 1992.
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Politics and the College CurriculumIn Robert L. Simon (ed.), University Neutrality and Academic Ethics, Rowman & Littlefield. 1994.
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9In Their Best Interest?: The Case Against Equal Rights for ChildrenCornell University Press. 1992.Proponents of children's liberation (CL) argue that there are no morally relevant differences between children and adults. Consequently, special protective laws that limit children's freedom are unjustified, and should be abolished. Protectionists reject the premise of this argument, and hence also the conclusion. Proponents of CL mostly fix upon the capacity for instrumental reasoning as the criterion that should separate autonomous from non-autonomous individuals. I argue that most childr…Read more
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13Embodying Bioethics: Recent Feminist Advances (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1999.Medical issues affecting health care have become everyday media events. In response to mounting public concern, growing numbers of bioethicists are being appointed to medical school faculties and public policy panels. However the ideas voiced in these forums are seldom informed by feminist perspectives. In this important book, a distinguished group of feminist scholars and activists discuss crucial bioethics topics in a feminist light. Among the subjects explored are the care/justice debates, tr…Read more
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Educating Gifted ChildrenIn Randall R. Curren (ed.), Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Education Society. 1999.
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Priority Setting for New Technologies in Medicine: A Qualitative StudyBritish Medical Journal 321 1316-1318. 2000.
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19Feminists Healing EthicsHypatia 4 (2). 1989.The field of ethics is enjoying a much-needed renaissance. Traditional theories and approaches are appropriately coming under fire, although not every new idea will stand time's test. Feminist thinking suggests that we at least emphasize the importance of women and their interests, focus on issues specially affecting women, rethink fundamental assumptions, incorporate feminist insights and conclusions from other areas, and be consistent with respect to our concerns about equality by paying atten…Read more
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1Why Children Shouldn't Have Equal RightsInternational Journal of Children's Rights 1 (3): 223-241. 1994.
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66Abortion and the Argument from ConvenienceIn Laura Martha Purdy (ed.), Reproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist Bioethics, Cornell University Press. 1996.
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Should We Add the "Xeno" to "Transplantation"?Politics and the Life Sciences 19 (2): 247-259. 2004.
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5The morality of new reproductive technologiesJournal of Social Philosophy 18 (1): 38-48. 1987.Science is revolutionizing human reproduction. New techniques are already with us, such as artificial insemination, the freezing of sperm, in vitro fertilization and the use of surrogate mothers. Artificial wombs are clearly on the horizon.
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Liberal Parenting and Adolescent Sexuality: A Response to Lainie RossPolitics and the Life Sciences 15 (2): 302-394. 1996.
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Wells CollegeRetired faculty
Aurora, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Feminist Bioethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |