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28Health Care Ethics in Canada (edited book)Harcourt Brace. 2004.The third edition of Health Care Ethics in Canada builds on the commitment to Canadian content established in earlier editions without sacrificing breadth or rigor.
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55Feminist Ethics and In Vitro FertilizationCanadian Journal of Philosophy 17 (sup1): 264-284. 1987.New technology in human reproduction has provoked wide ranging arguments about the desirability and moral justifiability of many of these efforts. Authors of biomedical ethics have ventured into the field to offer the insight of moral theory to these complex moral problems of contemporary life. I believe, however, that the moral theories most widely endorsed today are problematic and that a new approach to ethics is necessary if we are to address the concerns and perspectives identified by femin…Read more
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907Abortion Through a Feminist Ethics LensDialogue 30 (3): 327-. 1991.Abortion has long been a central issue in the arena of applied ethics, but, the distinctive analysis of feminist ethics is generally overlooked in most philosophic discussions. Authors and readers commonly presume a familiarity with the feminist position and equate it with liberal defences of women's right to choose abortion, but, in fact, feminist ethics yields a different analysis of the moral questions surrounding abortion than that usually offered by the more familiar liberal defenders of ab…Read more
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63Whither bioethics? How feminism can help reorient bioethicsInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 1 (1): 7-27. 2008.This paper argues that the various approaches to ethics that bioethicists rely on are not adequate to provide effective moral guidance in how to avoid a series of looming human catastrophes (associated with such threats as environmental degradation, war, extreme poverty, and pandemics). It proposes development of a new approach to ethics, dubbed public ethics, that simultaneously investigates moral responsibilities at multiple levels of human organization from the individual to international bod…Read more
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16Relational existence and termination of lives : When embodiment precludes agencyIn Sue Campbell, Letitia Meynell & Susan Sherwin (eds.), Embodiment and Agency, Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 145--152. 2009.
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36Vulnerable populations in rural areas: Challenges for ethics committees (review)HEC Forum 16 (4): 234-246. 2004.
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81. Introduction: About David BraybrookeIn Susan Sherwin & Peter Schotch (eds.), Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke, University of Toronto Press. pp. 1-20. 2006.
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176A relational account of public health ethicsPublic Health Ethics 1 (3): 196-209. 2008.oise Baylis, 1234 Le Marchant Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3P7. Tel.: (902)-494–2873; Fax: (902)-494-2924; Email: francoise.baylis{at}dal.ca ' + u + '@' + d + ' '//--> . Abstract Recently, there has been a growing interest in public health and public health ethics. Much of this interest has been tied to efforts to draw up national and international plans to deal with a global pandemic. It is common for these plans to state the importance of drawing upon a well-developed ethics framew…Read more
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6FrontmatterIn Susan Sherwin & Peter Schotch (eds.), Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke, University of Toronto Press. 2006.
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63. Determining Health Care Needs after the Human Genome Project: Reflections on Genetic Tests for Breast CancerIn Susan Sherwin & Peter Schotch (eds.), Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke, University of Toronto Press. pp. 51-76. 2006.
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19In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Hypatia 16.3 (2001) 172-176 [Access article in PDF] Book Review Diagnosis: Difference: The Moral Authority of Medicine Diagnosis: Difference: The Moral Authority of Medicine. By Abby L. Wilkerson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. In this compact volume, Abby Wilkerson makes several important contributions to the burgeoning literature of feminist (bio)ethics by providing substantive arguments in support of some of the key intui…Read more
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11Appendix B: David Braybrooke’s Publications 1955-2005In Susan Sherwin & Peter Schotch (eds.), Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke, University of Toronto Press. pp. 373-386. 2006.
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46The feminist health care ethics consultant as architect and advocatePublic Affairs Quarterly 17 (2): 141-158. 2003.
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17Notes on ContributorsIn Susan Sherwin & Peter Schotch (eds.), Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke, University of Toronto Press. pp. 387-390. 2006.
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83Embodiment and Agency (edited book)Pennsylvania State University Press. 2009."A collection of essays in feminist philosophy.
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20Feminist perspectives in medical ethicsIn Helen B. Holmes & Laura Martha Purdy (eds.), Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics, Indiana University Press. 1992.
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2Ethel M. Kersey, Women Philosophers: A Bio-critical Source Book Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 10 (7): 280-282. 1990.
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122The concept of a person in the context of abortionBioethics Quarterly 3 (1): 21-34. 1981.The paper investigates the significance of the question of the fetus's status as a person for resolving the moral issues of abortion. It considers and evaluates several proposed solutions to this question. It also attempts to explain how different questions about the permissibility of abortion are appropriate to discussions at different levels of decision-making: the pregnant woman, the health professional, and the social policy level. The author's own conclusions to all these questions are offe…Read more
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26From, the Editors 493Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 3 (4): 522-532. 1994.Throughout the world, research ethics committees are relied on to prevent unethical research and protect research subjects. Given that reliance, the composition of committees and the manner in which decisions are arrived at by committee members is of critical importance. There have been Instances in which an inadequate review process has resulted in serious harm to research subjects. Deficient committee review was identified as one of the factors In a study in New Zealand which resulted in the s…Read more
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38Looking Backwards, Looking Forward: Hopes for Bioethics' Next Twenty‐Five YearsBioethics 25 (2): 75-82. 2011.I reflect on the past, present, and future of the field of bioethics. In so doing, I offer a very situated overview of where bioethics has been, where it now is, where it seems to be going, where I think we could do better, and where I dearly hope the field will be heading. I also propose three ways of re‐orienting our theoretic tools to guide us in a new direction: (1) adopt an ethics of responsibility; (2) explore the responsibilities of various kinds of actors and relationships among them; (3…Read more
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70Feminist and Medical Ethics: Two Different Approaches to Contextual EthicsHypatia 4 (2): 57-72. 1989.Feminist ethics and medical ethics are critical of contemporary moral theory in several similar respects. There is a shared sense of frustration with the level of abstraction and generality that characterizes traditional philosophic work in ethics and a common commitment to including contextual details and allowing room for the personal aspects of relationships in ethical analysis. This paper explores the ways in which context is appealed to in feminist and medical ethics, the sort of details th…Read more
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Diana T. Meyers, Self, Society, and Personal Choice Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 12 (4): 282-284. 1992.
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3Alison M. Jaggar, Feminist Politics and Human Nature Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 5 (7): 293-295. 1985.
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45The Importance of Ontology for Feminist Policy-making in the Realm of Reproductive TechnologyCanadian Journal of Philosophy 32 (sup1): 273-295. 2002.
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1Normalizing reproductive technologies and the implications for autonomyGlobalizing Feminist Bioethics. forthcoming.
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