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76Why the Old Sexual Morality of the New Natural Law Undermines Traditional MarriageSocial Theory and Practice 34 (4): 591-622. 2008.
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31Patient Autonomy and the Twenty-First Century PhysicianHastings Center Report 41 (5): 3-3. 2011.In this issue of the Report, Daniel Groll suggests new ways to understand old tensions between autonomy and paternalism. He categorizes disagreements between doctors and patients in four ways. Some are about the ends or goals of medical treatment. For these, he claims, patient choices are based upon patient values, and physicians should neither challenge nor assess them. More common are disagreements about the appropriate means to achieve an agreed-upon goal. These subdivide into two distinct ca…Read more
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82Bioethics and the Philosophy of Medicine: A Thirty-Year PerspectiveJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 31 (6): 565-568. 2006.
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41The Ethics of Animal Research: Exploring the Controversy (edited book)Mit Press. 2012.A balanced, accessible discussion of whether and on what grounds animal research can be ethically justified.
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32Collectivizing Rescue Obligations in BioethicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 15 (2): 3-11. 2015.Bioethicists invoke a duty to rescue in a wide range of cases. Indeed, arguably, there exists an entire medical paradigm whereby vast numbers of medical encounters are treated as rescue cases. The intuitive power of the rescue paradigm is considerable, but much of this power stems from the problematic way that rescue cases are conceptualized—namely, as random, unanticipated, unavoidable, interpersonal events for which context is irrelevant and beneficence is the paramount value. In this article,…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |