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39Falling into the justice gap? Between duties of social and global justiceCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 19 (6): 645-661. 2016.
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816Is There a Right to Surrogacy?Journal of Applied Philosophy 32 (3). 2015.Access to surrogacy is often cast in the language of rights. Here, I examine what form such a right could take. I distinguish between surrogacy as a right to assisted procreation, and surrogacy as a contractual right. I find the first interpretation implausible: it would give rise to claims against the state that no state can fulfil, namely the provision of sufficient surrogates to satisfy the need. Instead, I argue that the right to surrogacy can only be plausibly understood as a contractual ri…Read more
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55Vulnerability, Health Agency and Capability to HealthBioethics 30 (1): 34-40. 2015.One of the defining features of the capability approach to health, as developed in Venkatapuram's book Health Justice, is its aim to enable individual health agency. Furthermore, the CA to health hopes to provide a strong guideline for assessing the health-enabling content of social and political conditions. In this article, I employ the recent literature on the liberal concept of vulnerability to assess the CA. I distinguish two kinds of vulnerability. Considering circumstantial vulnerability, …Read more
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56Is There a Right to Surrogacy?Journal of Applied Philosophy 33 (2): 146-159. 2015.Access to surrogacy is often cast in the language of rights. Here, I examine what form such a right could take. I distinguish between surrogacy as a right to assisted procreation, and surrogacy as a contractual right. I find the first interpretation implausible: it would give rise to claims against the state that no state can fulfil, namely the provision of sufficient surrogates to satisfy the need. Instead, I argue that the right to surrogacy can only be plausibly understood as a contractual ri…Read more
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42Introduction : Territorialité, identité nationale et justice mondialePhilosophiques 39 (2): 337. 2012.
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27Thinking about Protecting the Vulnerable When Thinking about Immigration: Is There a ‘Responsibility to Protect’ in Immigration Regimes?Journal of International Political Theory 8 (1-2): 159-171. 2012.This paper analyses the ‘responsibility to protect’ (RtoP) from a moral cosmopolitan perspective. It argues, first, that RtoP postulates a remedial responsibility on the part of those nations that have the means and capacity to effectively protect individuals against vulnerability and to provide for the means of human security. Second, the paper explains that human security implies access to human development, including access to social and economic rights. Finally, it argues that developed nati…Read more
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15Gillian Brock and Michael Blake, Debating Brain Drain – May Governments Restrict Emigration? New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 312 pp, $ 24; ISBN: 9780199315628 (review)Developing World Bioethics 17 (1): 59-60. 2016.
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78Global solidarity, migration and global health inequityBioethics 26 (7): 382-390. 2012.The grounds for global solidarity have been theorized and conceptualized in recent years, and many have argued that we need a global concept of solidarity. But the question remains: what can motivate efforts of the international community and nation-states? Our focus is the grounding of solidarity with respect to global inequities in health. We explore what considerations could motivate acts of global solidarity in the specific context of health migration, and sketch briefly what form this kind …Read more
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University of OttawaGraduate School of Public and International Affairs
Department of PhilosophyProfessor -
APA Western Division
Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Areas of Specialization
Global Justice |
Moral Contractualism |
Reproductive Ethics |
Kantian Ethics |
Moral Psychology |
Areas of Interest
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Normative Ethics |
Kantian Ethics |
Moral Contractualism |
Distributive Justice |
Global Justice |
Reproductive Ethics |
Moral Psychology |