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35A Framework for Unrestricted Prenatal Whole-Genome Sequencing: Respecting and Enhancing the Autonomy of Prospective ParentsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 17 (1): 3-18. 2017.Noninvasive, prenatal whole genome sequencing may be a technological reality in the near future, making available a vast array of genetic information early in pregnancy at no risk to the fetus or mother. Many worry that the timing, safety, and ease of the test will lead to informational overload and reproductive consumerism. The prevailing response among commentators has been to restrict conditions eligible for testing based on medical severity, which imposes disputed value judgments and devalue…Read more
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59A Response to Nelson and MahowaldCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 16 (4): 468. 2007.It is gratifying that thoughtful philosophers and bioethicists like Mahowald and Nelson are continuing to address the objections to prenatal testing that have been made by disability scholars and advocates. But it is frustrating to see those objections presented in ways that reflect the doubts of those who reject them more than the intentions of those who make them, in ways that make those objections appear censorious toward pregnant women and prospective parents or naïve about nonverbal express…Read more
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57A More "Inclusive" Approach to Enhancement and DisabilityIn Jessica Flanigan (ed.), The Ethics of Ability and Enhancement, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 25-38. 2017.
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27Research participation: Are we subject to a duty?American Journal of Bioethics 5 (1). 2005.This Article does not have an abstract
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34Species and races, chimeras, and multiracial peopleAmerican Journal of Bioethics 3 (3). 2003.This Article does not have an abstract
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36Reply to NelsonCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 16 (4): 478. 2007.We are gratified by Nelson's response to our commentary. It shows, for the first time, an appreciation of the distinctive character of our criticism of individual decisions to test and terminate for fetal impairment. Although we still find much to disagree with in Nelson's characterization and critique of our views, he has given us a welcome opportunity to clarify and develop them
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73Is Racial Profiling More Benign in Medicine Than Law Enforcement?The Journal of Ethics 15 (1-2). 2011.It might seem that racial profiling by doctors raised few of the same concerns as racial profiling by police, immigration, or airport security. This paper argues that the similarities are greater than first appear. The inappropriate use of racial generalizations by doctors may be as harmful and insulting as their use by law enforcement officials. Indeed, the former may be more problematic in compromising an ideal of individualized treatment that is more applicable to doctors than to police. Yet …Read more
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Ethical constraints on allowing or causing the existence of people with disabilitiesIn Kimberley Brownlee & Adam Cureton (eds.), Disability and Disadvantage, Oxford University Press. pp. 319-51. 2009.
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11Reproductive TechnologyIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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11Adrienne Asch: Memories of a Close Friend and CollaboratorHastings Center Report 44 (2): 15-17. 2014.Adrienne Asch inspired, challenged, and provoked a generation of bioethicists and philosophers who were discovering the subject of disability. For Adrienne, disability was a complex phenomenon that raised universal issues of embodiment, justice, well‐being, and identity. She insisted that bioethicists and philosophers who invoked disability in discussions about these issues first learn something about it, for which her own work provided critical insights. She argued eloquently that those who rel…Read more
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8Understanding the Relationship Between Disability and Well-BeingIn David Wasserman & Adrienne Asch (eds.), Disability and the Good Human Life, . pp. 139-67. 2015.
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11Book Reviews-Disability, Difference, Discrimination: Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public PolicyBioethics 14 (3): 276-278. 2000.
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100Physicians as researchers: Difficulties with the "similarity position"American Journal of Bioethics 6 (4). 2006.This Article does not have an abstract
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492Harms to Future People and Procreative IntentionsIn David Wasserman & Melinda Roberts (eds.), Harming Future Persons: Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem, Springer. pp. 265--285. 2009.
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30Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “A Framework for Unrestricted Prenatal Whole-Genome Sequencing: Respecting and Enhancing the Autonomy of Prospective Parents”American Journal of Bioethics 17 (1): 1-3. 2017.Noninvasive, prenatal whole genome sequencing may be a technological reality in the near future, making available a vast array of genetic information early in pregnancy at no risk to the fetus or mother. Many worry that the timing, safety, and ease of the test will lead to informational overload and reproductive consumerism. The prevailing response among commentators has been to restrict conditions eligible for testing based on medical severity, which imposes disputed value judgments and devalue…Read more
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10A Response To Nelson And MahowaldCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 16 (4): 468-475. 2007.It is gratifying that thoughtful philosophers and bioethicists like Mahowald and Nelson are continuing to address the objections to prenatal testing that have been made by disability scholars and advocates. But it is frustrating to see those objections presented in ways that reflect the doubts of those who reject them more than the intentions of those who make them, in ways that make those objections appear censorious toward pregnant women and prospective parents or naïve about nonverbal express…Read more
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29An Unjustified Exception to an Unjust Law?American Journal of Bioethics 9 (8): 63-65. 2009.No abstract
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Reproductive TechnologyIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The Oxford handbook of practical ethics, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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94Selecting for Disability: Acceptable Lives, Acceptable ReasonsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 12 (8). 2012.The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 12, Issue 8, Page 30-31, August 2012
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34Some moral issues in the correction of impairmentsJournal of Social Philosophy 27 (2): 128-145. 1996.
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32Is There Value in Identifying Individual Genetic Predispositions to violence?Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 32 (1): 24-33. 2004.In this article I want to ask what we should do, either collectively or individually, if we could identify by genetic and family profding the 12% of the male population likely to commit almost half the violent crime in our society. What if we could identify some individuals in that 12% not only at birth, but in utero, or before implantation? I will explain the source of these figures later; for now, I will use them only to provide a concrete example of the kind of predictive claims we can expect…Read more
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He did it on hot dogs and beer : natural excellence in human athletic achievementIn Gregory E. Kaebnick (ed.), The ideal of nature: debates about biotechnology and the environment, Johns Hopkins University Press. 2011.
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25Challenges in a Divided Assessment of the Social Benefits and Risks of ResearchAmerican Journal of Bioethics 11 (5): 12-13. 2011.