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11Bioethics: Concepts, conflicts, and controversiesJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 30 (3). 2005.This Article does not have an abstract
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10Against Multiplying Clinical Ethics Standards without Necessity: The Case for Parsimony in Evaluating Decision-making CapacityAmerican Journal of Bioethics 22 (11): 87-89. 2022.Decision-making capacity (DMC) is, in many ways, a central organizing concept of modern health care ethics. Patients with DMC have the moral—if not always the legal—authority to make all manner of...
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9The Poverty of Value Clarification: Using Ethical Theory to Critique and Transcend the “Givens” of Clinical Ethics ConsultationAmerican Journal of Bioethics 16 (9): 48-51. 2016.
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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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9Two Agendas for Bioethics: Critique and IntegrationBioethics 29 (6): 440-447. 2014.Many bioethicists view the primary task of bioethics as ‘value clarification’. In this article, I argue that the field must embrace two more ambitious agendas that go beyond mere clarification. The first agenda, critique, involves unmasking, interrogating, and challenging the presuppositions that underlie bioethical discourse. These largely unarticulated premises establish the boundaries within which problems can be conceptualized and solutions can be imagined. The function of critique, then, is…Read more
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8Addressing the Burdens That Newborn Screening Imposes on Underserved CommunitiesAmerican Journal of Bioethics 23 (7): 79-82. 2023.Newborn screening (NBS) began in the 1960s by testing all newborns for a single condition—phenylketonuria, or PKU—which, when identified and treated early, significantly reduces morbidity. Over the...
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Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |