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3Solving Problems Associated with the Brain Drain: Fair Contracts, Legitimate States, and Appropriate Policy MeasuresMoral Philosophy and Politics 3 (1). 2016.
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29What should be done to address losses associated with ‘medical brain drain’?Journal of Medical Ethics 43 (8): 558-559. 2017.
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On the Moral Importance of NeedsDissertation, Duke University. 1993.What sort of moral importance do people's needs have? Can people's needs defensibly make claims on anyone ? Recent arguments concerning the moral importance of needs adopt a distinctive approach: the importance of needs is evaluated in terms of how needs fare in contests with preferences or desires in distributive contexts. I suggest some explanations for this move, but argue that the moral importance of needs is not best evaluated using this strategy. Rather, whether needs can trump, or in othe…Read more
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84Braybrooke on NeedsEthics 104 (4): 811-823. 1994.In 'Meeting Needs', Braybrooke argues that a new and improved version of utilitarianism can be constructed around making a priority of satisfying needs. In this paper I concentrate on Braybrooke's suggestion about the method for determining needs, and more generally, the method of settling issues concerning matters of need. (This emphasis is chosen since these problems are most devastating to his project as currently formulated.) I argue that Braybrooke's method is seriously flawed. Braybrooke b…Read more
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1International aid and global healthIn S. R. Benatar & Gillian Brock (eds.), Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 184--197. 2011.
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16The health impact fund: how to make new medicines accessible to allIn S. R. Benatar & Gillian Brock (eds.), Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 241--250. 2011.
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4Values in global health governanceIn S. R. Benatar & Gillian Brock (eds.), Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Cambridge University Press. 2011.
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2Global health research: changing the agendaIn S. R. Benatar & Gillian Brock (eds.), Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 285--292. 2011.
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2The state of Global Health in a radically unequal World: patterns and prospectsIn S. R. Benatar & Gillian Brock (eds.), Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Cambridge University Press. 2011.
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3Biotechnology and global healthIn S. R. Benatar & Gillian Brock (eds.), Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Cambridge University Press. 2011.
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6The global crisis and global healthIn S. R. Benatar & Gillian Brock (eds.), Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Cambridge University Press. 2011.
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48International health inequalities and global justice: toward a middle groundIn S. R. Benatar & Gillian Brock (eds.), Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 97--107. 2011.Disturbing international inequalities in health abound. Life expectancy in Swaziland is half that in Japan. A child unfortunate enough to be born in Angola has 73 times as great a chance of dying before age 5 as a child born in Norway. A mother giving birth in southern sub-Saharan Africa has 100 times as great a chance of dying from her labor as one birthing in an industrialized country. For every mile one travels outward toward the Maryland suburbs from downtown Washington, DC on its undergroun…Read more
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50The morality of nationalismAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 79 (3). 2001.Book Information The Morality of Nationalism. Edited by R. McKim and J. McMahan. Oxford University Press. New York. 1997. Pp. xii + 371. Paperback, $42.95.
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3Sarah Fine and Lea Ypi, eds., Migration in Political Theory. Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 37 (4): 144-146. 2017.
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36How Should We Combat Corruption? Lessons from Theory and PracticeEthics and International Affairs 32 (1): 103-117. 2018.
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226Globalizing Justice: The Ethics of Poverty and PowerPhilosophical Review 122 (2): 318-322. 2013.
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13David Miller, Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration. Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 37 (3): 126-128. 2017.
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38Fulfilling Obligations to the Poor: How Should we Decide among Plausible Options?Analysis 74 (1): 90-99. 2014.In Globalization and Global Justice , Nicole Hassoun offers advice on practical ways to fulfill obligations to the poor. Our recommendations must be well informed by empirical evidence, and so important research on poverty that suggests we sometimes focus inadvertently on the wrong objects in our attempted assistance efforts, deserves consideration here. We also need guidelines on how to choose from among plausible policy options on how to help the poor. I offer one and explain why some of Hasso…Read more
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6Feasibility, Nationalism, Migration, Justification, and Global Justice: Some Further Thoughts'Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 4 50-76. 2011.
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26Book ReviewsAndrew Kernohan,. Liberalism, Equality, and Cultural Oppression. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. 130 + xiv. $54. 95 (review)Ethics 111 (2): 414-419. 2001.
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37Debating Brain Drain: May Governments Restrict Emigration?Oup Usa. 2014.Many of the most skilled and educated citizens of developing countries choose to emigrate. How may those societies respond to these facts? May they ever legitimately prevent the emigration of their citizens? Gillian Brock and Michael Blake debate these questions, and offer distinct arguments about the morality of emigration.
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12Review of Stan Van Hooft, Cosmopolitanism: A Philosophy for Global Ethics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (1). 2010.
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36Consumer Complicity and Labor ExploitationCroatian Journal of Philosophy 16 (1): 113-125. 2016.Are consumers in high-income countries complicit in labor exploitation when they buy good produced in sweatshops? To focus attention we consider cases of labor exploitation such as those of exposing workers to very high risks of irreversible diseases, for instance, by failing to provide adequate safety equipment. If I purchase a product made under such conditions, what is my part in this exploitation? Is my contribution one of complicity that is blameworthy? If so, what ought I to do about such …Read more
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131Needs and Global JusticeRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 57 51-72. 2005.In this paper I argue that needs are tremendously salient in developing any plausible account of global justice. I begin by sketching a normative thought experiment that models ideal deliberating conditions. I argue that under such conditions we would choose principles of justice that ensure we are well positioned to be able to meet our needs. Indeed, as the experiment aims to show, any plausible account of distributive justice must make space for the special significance of our needs. I go on t…Read more
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78What do we owe co-nationals and non-nationals? Why the liberal nationalist account fails and how we can do betterJournal of Global Ethics 1 (2). 2005.Liberal nationalists have been trying to argue that a suitably sanitized version of nationalism - namely, one that respects and embodies liberal values - is not only morally defensible, but also of great moral value, especially on grounds liberals should find very appealing. Although there are plausible aspects to the idea and some compelling arguments are offered in defense of this position, one area still proves to be a point of considerable vulnerability for this project and that is the issue…Read more
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23Are Corporations Morally Defensible?Business Ethics Quarterly 8 (4): 703-721. 1998.Are corporations morally defensible sorts of entities? How might we go about showing that they are? Thomas Donaldson offers us the most detailed contractarian justification for the moral defensibility of corporations. In this paper I show how we can significantly develop this sort of justification to yield a more compelling contractarian justification, though one that is importantly conditional. The primary points I take up in this paper are these:1. The question Donaldson poses to generate his …Read more
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