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28Competence, voluntariness, and oppressive socialization: A feminist critique of the threshold elements of informed consentInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 8 (1): 67-85. 2015.Feminists have argued that oppressive socialization undermines the liberal model of autonomy. We contend that this argument can also be employed effectively as a challenge to the standard bioethical model of informed consent. We claim that the standard model is inadequate because it relies on presumptions of procedural autonomy and rational choice that overlook the problem of how agents are often socialized so that they adopt and internalize oppressive norms as part of their motivational structu…Read more
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21Clinical Wisdom in Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Philosophical and Qualitative AnalysisJournal of Clinical Ethics 23 (1): 13-27. 2012.To precisely define wisdom has been an ongoing task of philosophers for millennia. Investigations into the psychological dimensions of wisdom have revealed several features that make exemplary persons “wise.” Contemporary bioethicists took up this concept as they retrieved and adapted Aristotle’s intellectual virtue of phronesis for applications in medical contexts. In this article, we build on scholarship in both psychology and medical ethics by providing an account of clinical wisdom qua phron…Read more
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42Practical Decision Making in Health Care Ethics (review)Teaching Philosophy 29 (3): 261-263. 2006.
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17Research Moratoria and Off-Label Use of KetamineAmerican Journal of Bioethics 16 (4): 60-61. 2016.We wish to point out an additional consequence of the Catch-22 described by Andreae and colleagues (Andreae et al. 2016). The decades-long research gridlock of controlled drugs has unintentionally...
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20Deceiving Without Debriefing: A Pragmatic Overreach?American Journal of Bioethics 13 (11): 50-52. 2013.No abstract
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44Clinical Wisdom in Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Philosophical and Qualitative AnalysisJournal of Clinical Ethics 23 (1): 13-27. 2012.To precisely define wisdom has been an ongoing task of philosophers for millennia. Investigations into the psychological dimensions of wisdom have revealed several features that make exemplary persons "wise." Contemporary bioethicists took up this concept as they retrieved and adapted Aristotle's intellectual virtue of phronesis for applications in medical contexts. In this article, we build on scholarship in both psychology and medical ethics by providing an account of clinical wisdom qua phron…Read more
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23Health and Disease: Conceptual Perspectives and Ethical ImplicationsIn Vardit Ravitsky, Autumn Fiester & Arthur L. Caplan (eds.), The Penn Center Guide to Bioethics, Springer Publishing Company. pp. 59. 2009.
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41Assessing Decision-Making Capacity: A Primer for the Development of Hospital Practice GuidelinesHEC Forum 26 (2): 159-168. 2014.Decision making capacity (DMC) is a fundamental concept grounding the principle of respect for autonomy and the practice of obtaining informed consent. DMC must be determined and documented every time a patient undergoes a hospital procedure and for routine care when there is reason to believe decision making ability is compromised. In this paper we explore a path toward ethically informed development and implementation of a hospital policy related to DMC assessment. We begin with a review of th…Read more
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University of PennsylvaniaRegular Faculty
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |