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1In HB Holmes & LM PurdyIn Helen B. Holmes & Laura 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 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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95In 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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43Feminists 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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7Why Children Shouldn't Have Equal RightsInternational Journal of Children's Rights 1 (3): 223-241. 1994.
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562Abortion and the Argument from ConvenienceIn Reproducing Persons, 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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Liberal Parenting and Adolescent Sexuality: A Response to Lainie RossPolitics and the Life Sciences 15 (2): 302-394. 1996.
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32The 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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17Genetic Diseases: Can Having Children Be Immoral?In John L. Buckley (ed.), Genetics Now, University Press of America. pp. 26. 1978.
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10Is Abortion Murder?In Robert L. Perkins (ed.), Abortion: Pro and Con, Schenkman. 1974.This essay deals with the morality of abortion. We argue that abortion is morally unobjectionable and that society benefits if abortion is available on demand. We begin by setting out a preliminary case in support of the practice of abortion. We then examine moral objections to abortion and show why those objections are unsound. We conclude by considering what properties something needs in order to have a serious right to life, and we show that a human fetus does not possess those properties. Th…Read more
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Sex, Lies, and the Religious Right: "Culture of Life" or Culture of Misery?CSER Review 1 (2). 2005.
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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 |