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35A Framework for Analyzing the Ethics of Disclosing Genetic Research FindingsJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 42 (2): 190-207. 2014.Over the past decade, there has been an extensive debate about whether researchers have an obligation to disclose genetic research findings, including primary and secondary findings. There appears to be an emerging (but disputed) view that researchers have some obligation to disclose some genetic findings to some research participants. The contours of this obligation, however, remain unclear. As this paper will explore, much of this confusion is definitional or conceptual in nature. The exten…Read more
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12For Whom the Burden Tolls: Gender and the Unequal Management of Fetal Risks and Parental ExpectationsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 16 (2): 17-19. 2016.
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19Reframing the Ethical Debate Regarding Incidental Findings in Genetic ResearchAmerican Journal of Bioethics 13 (2): 44-46. 2013.No abstract
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9Beyond Harms and Benefits: Rethinking Duties to Disclose Misattributed ParentageHastings Center Report 45 (4): 37-38. 2015.In this issue of the Hastings Center Report, Amulya Mandava, Joseph Millum, and Benjamin E. Berkman revisit an old conundrum—whether to disclose incidental findings of misattributed parentage—in light of new developments in genomic sequencing that will make that conundrum both more complex and more common. While the authors’ defense of nondisclosure as the appropriate default action in genomic research aligns with prior thinking and practice, their exploration of philosophical foundations is ref…Read more
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136Utilitarianism, vegetarianism, and human health: A response to the causal impotence objectionJournal of Applied Philosophy 24 (3). 2007.abstract It is generally assumed that the link between utilitarianism and vegetarianism is relatively straightforward. However, a familiar objection to utility‐based vegetarianism maintains that, given the massive scale of animal agribusiness, any given person is causally impotent in reducing the overall number of animals raised for food and, thus, in reducing the unfathomably high quantity of disutility engendered thereby. Utilitarians have frequently responded to this objection in two ways: fi…Read more
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21Marriage unhitched from the state: a defensePublic Affairs Quarterly 23 (2): 161-180. 2009.In 1970, President Richard Nixon expressed his unambiguous support for interracial marriage; as for same-sex marriage, he exclaimed, "I can't go that far—that's the year 2000" . Nixon's prescient remark, made shortly after the Supreme Court's 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia to overturn anti-miscegenation laws, expresses at once hesitancy for, yet resigned acceptance of, the inevitable expansion of civil marriage to include more and more kinds of loving partnerships. Nearly forty years later,…Read more
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