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777Bioethics and the Hypothesis of Extended HealthKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 28 (3): 341-376. 2018.Dominant views about the nature of health and disease in bioethics and the philosophy of medicine have presumed the existence of a fixed, stable, individual organism as the bearer of health and disease states, and as such, the appropriate target of medical therapy and ethical concern. However, recent developments in microbial biology, neuroscience, the philosophy of cognitive science, and social and personality psychology (Ickes...
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1Derrida’s Structure Of Law And Its Political ApplicationStudia Philosophica 1. 2008.It has often been said that deconstruction leaves Derrida with nothing positive to say about politics. Critics of Derrida think that the application of deconstruction to politics fails because it overlooks the distinctiveness of political structures. By framing this paper from a case study into the theory of aporias in law and politics and back to the question of apartheid, I argue for a way in which Derrida’s deconstruction is at play both only on a theoretical level and also on a practical lev…Read more
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306Introduction to Foucault Studies (April 2014), Special Issue on Foucault and DeleuzeFoucault Studies 17 4-10. 2014.
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17The Porosity of Autonomy: (Some) Replies to Open Peer Commentaries on “The Porosity of Autonomy: Social and Biological Constitution of the Patient in Biomedicine”American Journal of Bioethics 16 (4): 4-6. 2016.Autonomy isn't going anywhere. Yet challenges to autonomy's place of privilege atop the mantle of bioethics are similarly perennial. From our perspective, the emerging literature of microbial biolo...
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26Interconnectedness and Interdependence: Challenges for Public Health EthicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 17 (9): 19-21. 2017.An increasing number of contemporary voices in both bioethics and environmental ethics have grown dissatisfied with the schisms, abysses, and raging torrents that continue to flow between those two...
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883I Eat, Therefore I Am: Disgust and the Intersection of Food and IdentityIn Anne Barnhill, Mark Budolfson & Tyler Doggett (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2017.
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487Toward an Ecological BioethicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 16 (5): 35-37. 2016.Peer commentary on: Blumenthal-Barby, J. S. (2016). Biases and heuristics in decision making and their impact on autonomy. The American Journal of Bioethics, 16(5), 5-15.
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1191The Porosity of Autonomy: Social and Biological Constitution of the Patient in BiomedicineAmerican Journal of Bioethics 16 (2): 34-45. 2016.The nature and role of the patient in biomedicine comprise issues central to bioethical inquiry. Given its developmental history grounded firmly in a backlash against 20th-century cases of egregious human subjects abuse, contemporary medical bioethics has come to rely on a fundamental assumption: the unit of care is the autonomous self-directing patient. In this article we examine first the structure of the feminist social critique of autonomy. Then we show that a parallel argument can be made a…Read more
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158Biodiversity at Twenty-Five Years: Revolution Or Red Herring?Ethics, Policy and Environment 18 (1): 16-29. 2015.A quarter of a century ago, a group of scientists and conservationists introduced ‘biodiversity’ as a media buzzword with the explicit intent of galvanizing public and political support for environ...
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54The Birth of the Concept of Biopolitics – A Critical Notice of Lemke's Biopolitics (review)Theory and Event 15 (4). 2012.
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695The Gay Science, Interview with Michel Foucault by Jean Le BitouxCritical Inquiry 37 (3): 385-403. 2011.
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52Implicit Cognition and Gifts: How Does social Psychology help Us Think Differently about Medical Practice?Hastings Center Report 46 (3): 33-43. 2016.This article takes the following two assumptions for granted: first, that gifts influence physicians and, second, that the influences gifts have on physicians may be harmful for patients. These assumptions are common in the applied ethics literature, and they prompt an obvious practical question, namely, what is the best way to mitigate the negative effects? We examine the negative effects of gift giving in depth, considering how the influence occurs, and we assert that the ethical debate surrou…Read more
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437"The Human Microbiome: Ethical, Legal, and Social Concerns" edited by Rosamond Rhodes, Nada Gligorov, and Abraham Paul Schwab (review)Environmental Philosophy 11 (2): 362-366. 2014.
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139Against the Yuck Factor: On the Ideal Role of Disgust in SocietyUtilitas 26 (2): 153-177. 2014.The view we defend is that in virtue of its nature, disgust is not fit to do any moral or social work whatsoever, and that there are no defensible uses for disgust in legal or political institutions. We first describe our favoured empirical theory of the nature of disgust. Turning from descriptive to normative issues, we address the best arguments in favour of granting disgust the power to justify certain judgements, and to serve as a social tool, respectively. Daniel Kahan advances a pair of th…Read more
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761Nudging and the Ecological and Social Roots of Human AgencyAmerican Journal of Bioethics 16 (11): 15-17. 2016.
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79Bioethics and the Challenge of the Ecological IndividualEnvironmental Philosophy 13 (2): 215-238. 2016.Questions of individuality are traditionally predicated upon recognizing discrete entities whose behavior can be measured and whose value and agency can be meaningfully ascribed. We consider a series of challenges to the metaphysical concept of individuality as the ground of the self. We argue that an ecological conception of individuality renders ascriptions of autonomy to selves highly improbable. We find conceptual resources in the work of environmental philosopher Arne Naess, whose distincti…Read more
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