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54Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary ReadingsRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2007.This book's thirty essays explore philosophically the nature and morality of sexual perversion, cybersex, masturbation, homosexuality, contraception, same-sex marriage, promiscuity, pedophilia, date rape, sexual objectification, teacher-student relationships, pornography, and prostitution. Authors include Martha Nussbaum, Thomas Nagel, Alan Goldman, John Finnis, Sallie Tisdale, Robin West, Alan Wertheimer, John Corvino, Cheshire Calhoun, Jerome Neu, and Alan Soble, among others. A valuable resou…Read more
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22ExploitationPrinceton University Press. 1996.What is the basis for arguing that a volunteer army exploits citizens who lack civilian career opportunities? How do we determine that a doctor who has sex with his patients is exploiting them? In this book, Alan Wertheimer seeks to identify when a transaction or relationship can be properly regarded as exploitative--and not oppressive, manipulative, or morally deficient in some other way--and explores the moral weight of taking unfair advantage. Among the first political philosophers to examine…Read more
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687Standing by our principles: Meaningful guidance, moral foundations, and multi-principle methodology in medical scarcityAmerican Journal of Bioethics 10 (4). 2010.In this short response to Kerstein and Bognar, we clarify three aspects of the complete lives system, which we propose as a system of allocating scarce medical interventions. We argue that the complete lives system provides meaningful guidance even though it does not provide an algorithm. We also defend the investment modification to the complete lives system, which prioritizes adolescents and older children over younger children; argue that sickest-first allocation remains flawed when scarcity …Read more
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27Non-completion and informed consentJournal of Medical Ethics 40 (2): 127-130. 2014.There is a good deal of biomedical research that does not produce scientifically useful data because it fails to recruit a sufficient number of subjects. This fact is typically not disclosed to prospective subjects. In general, the guidance about consent concerns the information required to make intelligent self-interested decisions and ignores some of the information required for intelligent altruistic decisions. Bioethics has worried about the ‘therapeutic misconception’, but has ignored the ‘…Read more
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409The Obligation to Participate in Biomedical ResearchJournal of the American Medical Association 302 (1): 67-72. 2009.The current prevailing view is that participation in biomedical research is above and beyond the call of duty. While some commentators have offered reasons against this, we propose a novel public goods argument for an obligation to participate in biomedical research. Biomedical knowledge is a public good, available to any individual even if that individual does not contribute to it. Participation in research is a critical way to support an important public good. Consequently, all have a duty to …Read more
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4On Being Freeby BergmannFrithjof. South Bend, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1977. Pp. 238. $10.00Political Theory 6 (4): 561-564. 1978.
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158The fair transaction model of informed consent: An alternative to autonomous authorizationKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 21 (3): 201-218. 2011.Prevailing ethical thinking about informed consent to clinical research is characterized by theoretical confidence and practical disquiet. On the one hand, bioethicists are confident that informed consent is a fundamental norm. And, for the most part, they are confident that what makes consent to research valid is that it constitutes an autonomous authorization by the research participant. On the other hand, bioethicists are uneasy about the quality of consent in practice. One major source of th…Read more
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193ExploitationPrinceton University Press. 1996.In this book, Alan Wertheimer seeks to identify when a transaction or relationship can be properly regarded as exploitative--and not oppressive, manipulative, or morally deficient in some other way--and explores the moral weight of taking ...
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111Review of Ruth Sample, Exploitation: What it is and why it's wrong (review)Utilitas 19 (2): 259--261. 2007.
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58Forgiveness and public deliberation: The practice of restorative justiceCriminal Justice Ethics 21 (1): 3-20. 2002.No abstract
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64Consent to Sexual RelationsCambridge University Press. 2003.When does a woman give valid consent to sexual relations? When does her consent render it morally or legally permissible for a man to have sexual relations with her? Why is sexual consent generally regarded as an issue about female consent? And what is the moral significance of consent? These are some of the questions discussed in this important book, which will appeal to a wide readership in philosophy, law, and the social sciences. Alan Wertheimer develops a theory of consent to sexual relatio…Read more
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133Ruth J. Sample, exploitation: What it is and why it's wrong (lanham, md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), pp. XIV + 197Utilitas 19 (2): 259-261. 2007.
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38Why is Coerced Consent Worse Than No Consent and Deceived Consent?Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 42 (2): 114-131. 2017.The Standard View in research ethics maintains that, under certain conditions, investigators may deceive subjects and may enroll subjects without their consent. In contrast, it is always impermissible to coerce subjects to enroll, even when the same conditions are satisfied. This view raises a question that, as far as we are aware, has received no attention in the literature. Why is it always impermissible to undermine the validity of subjects’ consent through coercion, but it can be permissible…Read more
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15Liberty, coercion, and the limits of the stateIn Robert L. Simon (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy, Blackwell. 2002.The prelims comprise: Liberty and Coercion Liberty‐Limiting Principles The Harm Principle The Offense Principle Legal Paternalism Legal Moralism Justice Need Conclusion Bibliography.
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30Three. Torts: Assumed risk and informed consentIn Coercion, Princeton University Press. pp. 54-70. 1990.
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71No Exceptionalism Needed to Treat TerroristsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 9 (10): 53-54. 2009.Gesundheit and colleagues offer dramatic examples of the medical treatment of terrorists but then pose the suggestion that those who engage in terrorism forfeit their right to medical care, and, consequently, that physicians have no obligation to treat them. Their argument presupposes that a physician’s obligation to provide medical care depends on the patients’ right to health care. Therefore, someone who commits heinous and abhorrent acts thereby waives the right to health care and the phy…Read more