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110Death, Posthumous Harm, and BioethicsRoutledge. 2012._Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics_ offers a highly distinctive and original approach to the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics that address end-of-life and post-mortem issues. Taylor defends the controversial Epicurean view that death is not a harm to the person who dies and the neo-Epicurean thesis that persons cannot be affected by events that occur after their deaths, and hence that posthumous harms are impossible. He then extends this arg…Read more
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8Stakes and Kidneys: Why Markets in Human Body Parts Are Morally ImperativePhilosophical Quarterly 56 (225): 627-629. 2006.
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3Personal autonomy, organ sales, and the arguments from market coercionIn Paul Kurtz & David R. Koepsell (eds.), Science and Ethics: Can Science Help Us Make Wise Moral Judgments?, Prometheus Books. 2007.
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18A Review of: “Thomas May. 2002. Bioethics in a Liberal Society: The Political Framework of Bioethics Decision Making”: Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 135 pp. $42.00, hardcover (review)American Journal of Bioethics 5 (1): 92-93. 2005.No abstract
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3Organ Acquisition and Applied Metaphysics: T. M. Wilkinson: Ethics and the Acquisition of Organs. Oxford University Press, New York, 2011 (review)Res Publica 19 (2): 199-203. 2013.
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140Autonomy and informed consent: A much misunderstood relationshipJournal of Value Inquiry 38 (3): 383-391. 2004.
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165In Praise of Big Brother: Why We Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Government SurveillancePublic Affairs Quarterly 19 (3): 227-246. 2005.
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70Vote Buying and Voter PreferencesSocial Theory and Practice 43 (1): 107-124. 2017.A common criticism of plurality voting is that it fails to reflect the degree of intensity with which voters prefer the candidate or policy that they vote for. To rectify this, many critics of plurality voting have argued that vote buying should be allowed. Persons with more intense preferences for a candidate could buy votes from persons with less intense preferences for the opposing candidate and then cast them for the candidate that they intensely support. This paper argues that instead of be…Read more
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56Habilitation, Health, and Agency: A Framework for Basic JusticeBy Lawrence C. BeckerAnalysis 73 (3): 591-592. 2013.
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55The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death: New Essays (edited book)Oup Usa. 2013.The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death brings together original essays that both address the fundamental questions of the metaphysics of death and explore the relationship between those questions and some of the areas of applied ethics in which they play a central role
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52Autonomy, Vote Buying, and Constraining OptionsJournal of Applied Philosophy 34 (5): 711-723. 2016.A common argument used to defend markets in ‘contested commodities’ is based on the value of personal autonomy. Autonomy is of great moral value; removing options from a person's choice set would compromise her ability to exercise her autonomy; hence, there should be a prima facie presumption against removing options from persons’ choice sets; thus, the burden of proof lies with those who wish to prohibit markets in certain goods. Christopher Freiman has developed a version of this argument to d…Read more
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32Review essay: John Meadowcroft, the ethics of the market (review)HEC Forum 19 (2): 177-182. 2007.
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3Practical Autonomy and BioethicsRoutledge. 2009.This is the first volume in which an account of personal autonomy is developed that both captures the contours of this concept as it is used in social philosophy and bioethics, and is theoretically grounded in, and a part of, contemporary autonomy theory. James Stacey Taylor’s account is unique as it is explicitly a political one, recognizing that the attribution of autonomy to agents is dependent in part on their relationships with others and not merely upon their own mental states. The volume …Read more
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3Autonomy inducements and organ salesIn Nafsika Athanassoulis (ed.), Philosophical Reflections on Medical Ethics, Palgrave-macmillan. 2005.
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40Markets in Votes and the Tyranny of WealthRes Publica 23 (3): 313-328. 2017.A standard objection to a market in political votes is that it will enable the rich politically to dominate the poor. If a market in votes was allowed then the poor would be the most likely sellers and the rich the most likely buyers. The rich would thus accumulate the votes of the poor, and so the candidates elected and the policies passed would represent only their interests and not those of the electorate as a whole. To ensure that the poor do not become de facto disenfranchised, then, market…Read more
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12Wtf who?HEC Forum 27 (4): 287-300. 2015.How can healthcare systems gain self-sufficiency in their procurement and distribution of blood and blood products efficiently while maintaining a degree of relatively equitable access for patients? This is a question that, at first look, the World Health Organization has answered in detail by advocating for self-sufficiency through non-remunerated blood donation. This essay serves two purposes. First, it illustrates key differences between the WHO’s policy recommendations and the realities of h…Read more
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46Introduction: Hec forum special issue on privacy and commodification (review)HEC Forum 22 (3): 173-177. 2010.The papers in this special thematic issue of HEC Forum critically and carefully explore key issues at the intersection of patient privacy and commodification. For example, should hospitals be required to secure a person’s consent to any possible uses to which his discarded body parts might be put after his treatment or should it only be concerned with securing his informed consent to his treatment? Should a hospital be required to raise the possibility of the commodification of such body parts, …Read more
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27Titmuss revisited: from tax credits to marketsJournal of Medical Ethics 38 (8): 461-462. 2012.Petersen and Lippert-Rasmussen argue that persons who decide to be organ donors should receive a tax break, and then defend their view against eight possible objections. However, they misunderstand the Titmuss-style concerns that might be raised against their proposal. This does not mean that it should be rejected, but, instead, that when it is reconfigured to meet the Titmuss-style charges against it, they should support legalizing markets in human organs rather than merely offering tax breaks …Read more
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30Executives, Professionals, and the Morality of Single-Sex ClubsBusiness and Professional Ethics Journal 23 (3): 93-105. 2004.