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7Beijing is the venue of the 2006 international association of bioethics world congressBioethics 20 (3). 2006.
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18On the role of religion in articles this journal seeks to publishDeveloping World Bioethics 18 (3): 207-207. 2018.
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36Enforcing Conscientious Objection to Abortion in Medical Emergency Circumstances: Criminal and UnethicalAmerican Journal of Bioethics 18 (7): 60-61. 2018.Lawrence Nelson discusses cases in which abortion is necessary due to a life-threatening medical emergency. He argues that under American law, health care providers who conscientiously refuse to pe...
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6The ethics of reproductive and therapeutic cloningMonash Bioethics Review 19 (2): 33-44. 2000.In this article we argue that we have no good ethical reasons to prevent research on both, reproductive and therapeutic cloning. Our strategy is for each type of cloning research to demonstrate that no harms will occur to any person if such research goes ahead. Furthermore, we show that there is substantial interest in the continuation of this research, and the availability of reproductive human cloning technologies. We argue that satisfying these interests, in the absence of any identifiable ha…Read more
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11Clinical standards of care and the Declaration of Helsinki: The battle is over, or is it?Monash Bioethics Review 20 (1). 2001.This article briefly reviews the discussion over changes to the Declaration of Helsinki. It suggests that the final product the World Medical Association has adopted as its guiding research ethics document is superior to the version it has replaced, but falls short of what would be ethically desirable.
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43Public health ethics and obesity prevention: the trouble with data and ethicsMonash Bioethics Review 32 (1-2): 121-140. 2014.In recent years policy makers and public health professionals have described obesity and its associated diseases as a major global public health problem. Bioethicists have tried to address the normative implications of proposed public health interventions by developing guidelines or proposing ethical principles that ethically grounded health policy responses should take into consideration. We are reviewing here relevant literature and conclude that while there are clearly health implications res…Read more
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45Conscientious objection and compromising the patient: Response to HughesBioethics 32 (7): 473-476. 2018.Hughes offers a consequentialist response to our rejection of accommodation of conscientious objection in medicine. We argue here that his compromise proposition has been tried in many jurisdictions and has failed to deliver unimpeded access to care for eligible patients. The compromise position, entailing an accommodation of conscientious objection provided there is unimpeded access, fails to grasp that the objectors are both determined not to provide services they object to as well as to subve…Read more
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5Women and Aids: The Ethics of Exaggerated HarmBioethics 10 (2): 93-113. 1996.This article examines the way in which some biomedical ethicists have constructed sexually transmitted AIDS as a significant threat to women's health. We demonstrate that the familiar claim that‘women are the fastest growing group'— whether of HIV‐infected or of AIDS patients — is misleading because it obscures the distinction between proportional rate of growth and absolute increase. Feminist ethicists have suggested that misogyny of a male dominated health care system has led to underreporting…Read more
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40Against the accommodation of subjective healthcare provider beliefs in medicine: counteracting supporters of conscientious objector accommodation argumentsJournal of Medical Ethics 43 (4): 253-256. 2017.We respond in this paper to various counter arguments advanced against our stance on conscientious objection accommodation. Contra Maclure and Dumont, we show that it is impossible to develop reliable tests for conscientious objectors' claims with regard to the reasonableness of the ideological basis of their convictions, and, indeed, with regard to whether they actually hold they views they claim to hold. We demonstrate furthermore that, within the Canadian legal context, the refusal to accommo…Read more
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29Ethical Issues in Drug Testing, Approval and Pricing: The Clot-Dissolving DrugsBioethics 12 (1): 79-81. 1998.
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8Privacy, abortion, resource allocation and other ethical issues: the Thandi caseDeveloping World Bioethics 1 (1): 70-82. 2001.
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13The trouble with Public Health: HIV/AIDS in Canada as a case in pointBioethics 32 (2): 82-82. 2018.
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1On the Ethics of Using Non‐Certified Health ‘Remedies’ in Resource Poor ContextsDeveloping World Bioethics 13 (3): 170-170. 2013.
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13How can we ensure that the global south benefits from and contributes to the field of bioethics?Developing World Bioethics 18 (1): 2-3. 2018.
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23Women and Aids: The Ethics of Exaggerated HarmBioethics 10 (2): 93-113. 1996.This article examines the way in which some biomedical ethicists have constructed sexually transmitted AIDS as a significant threat to women's health. We demonstrate that the familiar claim that‘women are the fastest growing group'— whether of HIV‐infected or of AIDS patients — is misleading because it obscures the distinction between proportional rate of growth and absolute increase. Feminist ethicists have suggested that misogyny of a male dominated health care system has led to underreporting…Read more
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1350 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2009.50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists presents a collection of original essays drawn from an international group of prominent voices in the fields of academia, science, literature, media and politics who offer carefully considered statements of why they are atheists. Features a truly international cast of contributors, ranging from public intellectuals such as Peter Singer, Susan Blackmore, and A.C. Grayling, novelists, such as Joe Haldeman, and heavyweight philosophers of religion, includ…Read more
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450 Great Myths About Atheism (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2013.Tackling a host of myths and prejudices commonly leveled at atheism, this captivating volume bursts with sparkling, eloquent arguments on every page. The authors rebut claims that range from atheism being just another religion to the alleged atrocities committed in its name. An accessible yet scholarly commentary on hot-button issues in the debate over religious belief Teaches critical thinking skills through detailed, rational argument Objectively considers each myth on its merits Includes a hi…Read more
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Drugs and Responsibility--The Foundations and Methods of Pharma-ethicsBioethics 10 (2): 170-172. 1996.