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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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120The 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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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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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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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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Diana T. Meyers, Self, Society, and Personal Choice Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 12 (4): 282-284. 1992.
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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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3Alison M. Jaggar, Feminist Politics and Human Nature Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 5 (7): 293-295. 1985.
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1Normalizing reproductive technologies and the implications for autonomyGlobalizing Feminist Bioethics. forthcoming.
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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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Ethel M. Kersey, Women Philosophers: A Bio-critical Source Book (review)Philosophy in Review 10 280-282. 1990.
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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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8ContentsIn Susan Sherwin & Peter Schotch (eds.), Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke, University of Toronto Press. 2006.
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16 Resisting the emergence of Bio-AmazonsIn Claudio Marcello Tamburrini & Torbjörn Tännsjö (eds.), Genetic Technology and Sport: Ethical Questions, Routledge. pp. 199. 2005.
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4AcknowledgmentsIn Susan Sherwin & Peter Schotch (eds.), Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke, University of Toronto Press. 2006.
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9From theory, to practice, to policyIn Ruth F. Chadwick & Doris Schroeder (eds.), Applied Ethics: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 1--140. 2002.
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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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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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2Theory versus practice in ethics: A feminist perspective on justice in health careIn Wayne L. Sumner & Joseph Boyle (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Bioethics, University of Toronto Press. pp. 187--209. 1996.
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9ReferencesIn Susan Sherwin & Peter Schotch (eds.), Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke, University of Toronto Press. pp. 391-412. 2006.
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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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8IndexIn Susan Sherwin & Peter Schotch (eds.), Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke, University of Toronto Press. pp. 413-425. 2006.
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9Engaged Philosophy: Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke (edited book)University of Toronto Press. 2006.
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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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