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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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8Beyond 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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40Bioethics and the philosophy of medicine: A thirty-year perspectiveJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 31 (6). 2006.This Article does not have an abstract
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19Engaging Pediatric Health Professionals in Interactive Online Ethics EducationHastings Center Report 44 (6): 15-20. 2014.Bioethical decision‐making in pediatrics diverges from similar decisions in other medical domains because the young child is not an autonomous decision‐maker, while the teen is developing—and should be encouraged to develop—autonomy and decisional capacity. Thus the balance between autonomy and beneficence is fundamentally different in pediatrics than in adult medicine. While ethical dilemmas that reflect these fundamental issues are common, many pediatric physician and nursing training programs…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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Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |