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905Relational Solidarity and Climate ChangeIn Cheryl Macpherson (ed.), Climate Change and Health: Bioethical Insights into Values and Policy, Springer. pp. 79-88. 2016.The evidence is overwhelming that members of particularly wealthy and industry-owning segments of Western societies have much larger carbon footprints than most other humans, and thereby contribute far more than their “fair share” to the enormous problem of climate change. Nonetheless, in this paper we shall counsel against a strategy focused primarily on blaming and shaming and propose, instead, a change in the ethical conversation about climate change. We recommend a shift in the ethical frame…Read more
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889Abortion 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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234Relational Autonomy, Self-Trust, and Health Care for Patients Who Are OppressedIn Catriona Mackenzie & Natalie Stoljar (eds.), Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency, and the Social Self, Oxford University Press. 2000.
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204No longer patient: feminist ethics and health careTemple University Press. 1992.Her careful building of positions, her unique approaches to analyzing problems, and her excellent insights make this an important work for feminists, those ...
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170A 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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119The 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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105Feminist ethics and the metaphor of AIDSJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 26 (4). 2001.This paper looks at a range of metaphors used within HIV/AIDS discussions and research in support of the claim that bioethicists should pay serious attention to metaphors. Metaphors shape the ways we think about problems and the types of solutions we investigate. HIV/AIDS is an especially rich field for the investigation of metaphor, since the struggles for dominance among different metaphorical options has been very evident. In the field of medical resarch as well as in the area of public polic…Read more
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99The Myth of the Gendered Chromosome: Sex Selection and the Social InterestCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 16 (1): 7-19. 2007.Sex selection technologies have become increasingly prevalent and accessible. We can find them advertised widely across the Internet and discussed in the popular media—an entry for “sex selection services” on Google generated 859,000 sites in April 2004. The available services fall into three main types: preconception sperm sorting followed either by intrauterine insemination of selected sperm or by in vitro fertilization ; preimplantation genetic diagnosis, by which embryos created by IVF are t…Read more
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85Whither 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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83Embodiment and Agency (edited book)Pennsylvania State University Press. 2009."A collection of essays in feminist philosophy.
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79Whither Bioethics Now? The Promise of Relational TheoryInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 10 (1): 7-29. 2017.This article reflects on the work of feminist bioethicists over the past ten years, reviewing how effective feminists have been in using relational theory to reorient bioethics and where we hope it will go from here. Feminist bioethicists have made significant achievements using relational theory to shape the notion of autonomy, bringing to light the relevance of patients' social circumstances and where they are situated within systems of privilege and oppression. But there is much work to be do…Read more
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78Looking 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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75Genetic enhancement, sports and relational autonomySport, Ethics and Philosophy 1 (2). 2007.This paper explores the question of what attitude we should take towards efforts to develop the technology required to allow genetic enhancement of individuals in order to improve performance in sports: specifically, should we (a) welcome such innovations, (b) resign ourselves to their inevitable appearance or (c) actively resist their development and widespread adoption? Much of the literature on this topic leans towards options (a) or (b). I argue against both (a) and (b) and appeal to the con…Read more
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66Feminist 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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52Feminist 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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49Women in Clinical Studies: A Feminist ViewCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 3 (4): 533. 1994.There is significant evidence that the health needs of women and minorities have been neglected by a medical research community whose agendas and protocols tend to focus on more advantaged segments of society. In response, the National Institutes of Health and Food and Drug Administration in the United States have recently issued new policies aimed at increasing the utilization of women in clinical studies. As well, the U.S. Congress passed the NIH Revitalization Act of 1993, which specifically …Read more
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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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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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33Vulnerable populations in rural areas: Challenges for ethics committees (review)HEC Forum 16 (4): 234-246. 2004.
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29Moral perception and global visionsBioethics 15 (3). 2001.Because moral perception plays an essential role in guiding morally responsible behaviour, agents have a responsibility to develop their capacities in this area. There are several strategies agents can (and should) pursue in order to improve their skills at moral perception. I appeal to insights derived from the work of feminist epistomologists and philosophers of science to argue that feminist approaches to multiculturalism are particularly valuable tools for improving moral perception.
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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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24From, 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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23CommentaryCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 7 (4): 366-370. 1998.According to the present argument, worries that some individuals might make premature or unnecessary choices for themselves regarding euthanasia should further motivate and help shape our discussions about healthcare system reform. The reason for this is that in some cases individuals with chronic or terminal illnesses may have their lives made more unbearable than they otherwise might have been by the failure of the healthcare system to respond appropriately to their needs. Until these apparent…Read more
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21Feminist Perspectives in Medical EthicsHastings Center Report 23 (3): 43. 1993.Book reviewed in this article: No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics & Health Care. By Susan Sherwin Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics. Edited by Helen Bequaert Holmes and Laura M. Purdy.
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20Feminist perspectives in medical ethicsIn Helen B. Holmes & Laura Purdy (eds.), Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics, Indiana University Press. 1992.
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