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    The Invisibility of Gender: A Feminist Commentary on Age-based Healthcare Rationing
    Journal of Philosophical Research 30 (S2): 263-274. 2005.
    It is fairly easy to charge intergenerational justice accounts that recommend a distribution of healthcare resources favoring the young as being ageist. Clearly, such policies strongly privilege the interests of one age group over those of another. In a time of tight resources, the elderly are to get the short end of the stick, though for reasons that some theorists believe are ethically justifiable. What is not as immediately clear, however, is the sexist nature of rationing healthcare resources…Read more
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    Moral Injury and Relational Harm: Analyzing Rape in Darfur
    Journal of Social Philosophy 40 (4): 504-523. 2009.
    Rather than focusing on the legal and political questions that surround genocidal rape, in this paper I treat a vital area of inquiry that has received much less attention: the moral significance of genocidal rape. My aim is to augment existing moral accounts of rape in order to address the specific contexts of genocidal rape. I move beyond understanding rape primarily as a violation of an individual's interests or agential abilities. The account I offer builds on these approaches (as well as o…Read more
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    This essay demonstrates that Beauvoir's La Vieillesse is a phenomenological study of old age indebted to Husserl's phenomenology of the body. Beauvoir's depiction of the doubling in the lived experience of the elderly--a division between outsiders' awareness of the elderly's decline and the elderly's own inner understanding of old age--serves as a specific illustration of Beauvoir's particular method of description and analysis.
  • Risky Business: When Patient Preferences Seem Irrational
    with James Blankenship
    Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions 82. 2013.
    Interventional cardiologists are commonly faced with patients who prefer percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) rather than coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG). Many prefer PCI even when CABG is recommended. Doctors may wonder whether (as the cardiac surgeons suspect) they consciously or unconsciously influence patients to choose PCI. We consider reasons why patient preferences in this context are not irrational.
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    Editor’s Introduction
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 46 (S1): 5-5. 2008.
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    The Invisibility of Gender
    Journal of Philosophical Research 30 (9999): 263-274. 2005.
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    Mother Time (review)
    Teaching Philosophy 25 (2): 178-182. 2002.