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35Conceiving A Child to Save A Child: Reproductive and Filial EthicsJournal of Clinical Ethics 1 (2): 99-103. 1990.
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31Futility and Fairness: A Defense of the Texas Advance Directive LawAmerican Journal of Bioethics 15 (8): 43-46. 2015.Debates about medical futility first emerged in the scholarly literature during the 1990s after empirical studies showed the widespread use of medical interventions offering no reasonable chance of...
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50Can we wrong a robot?AI and Society 38 (1): 259-268. 2023.With the development of increasingly sophisticated sociable robots, robot-human relationships are being transformed. Not only can sociable robots furnish emotional support and companionship for humans, humans can also form relationships with robots that they value highly. It is natural to ask, do robots that stand in close relationships with us have any moral standing over and above their purely instrumental value as means to human ends. We might ask our question this way, ‘Are there ways we can…Read more
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25African Conceptions of Age‐Based Moral Standing: Anchoring Values to Regional RealitiesHastings Center Report 50 (2): 35-43. 2020.Is age discrimination ethically objectionable? One puzzle is that we sometimes assume that the target of both age discrimination and ageism must be older people, yet in poorer nations, older people are generally shown more respect. This article explores the ethical question. It looks first at ethical arguments favoring age discrimination toward younger people in low‐income, less industrialized countries of the global South, using sub‐Saharan Africa as an illustration. It contrasts these with arg…Read more
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37Anencephalic infants and special relationshipsTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 11 (4). 1990.This paper investigates the scope and limits of parents' and physicians' obligations to anencephalic newborns. Special attention is paid to the permissibility of harvesting anencephalic organs for transplant. My starting point is to identify the general justification for treating patients in order to benefit third parties. This analysis reveals that the presence of a close relationship between patients and beneficiaries is often crucial to justifying treating in these cases. In particular, the p…Read more
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14By Jacqueline Chin Caring for Older People in an Aging Society: a Singapore Bioethics Casebook, Volume II: Singapore: Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore, 2017. *pp. ISBN (review)Asian Bioethics Review 9 (3): 273-275. 2017.
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18Advance Care Planning: What Gives Prior Wishes Normative Force?Asian Bioethics Review 8 (3): 195-210. 2016.The conventional wisdom about advance care planning holds that the normative force of my prior wishes is simply that they are mine. It is their connection to me that matters. This paper challenges conventional thinking. I propose that the normative force of prior wishes does not depend exclusively on personal identity. Instead, it sometimes depends on a special relationship that exists between a prior, capacitated person and a now incapacitated person. I consider what normative guidance governs …Read more
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55Age‐related inequalities in health and healthcare: the life stages approachDeveloping World Bioethics 18 (2): 144-155. 2018.How should healthcare systems prepare to care for growing numbers and proportions of older people? Older people generally suffer worse health than younger people do. Should societies take steps to reduce age-related health inequalities? Some express concern that doing so would increase age-related inequalities in healthcare. This paper addresses this debate by presenting an argument in support of three principles for distributing scarce resources between age groups; framing these principles of a…Read more
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25Bioethics in Africa: A contextually enlightened analysis of three casesDeveloping World Bioethics 22 (2): 112-122. 2021.Developing World Bioethics, Volume 22, Issue 2, Page 112-122, June 2022.
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51Applying Ethical Reasoning: Philosophical, Clinical, and Cultural ChallengesBioethics. forthcoming.
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28Animal subjects research Part I: Do animals have rights?In Gail A. Van Norman, Stephen Jackson, Stanley H. Rosenbaum & Susan K. Palmer (eds.), Clinical Ethics in Anesthesiology: A Case-Based Textbook, Cambridge University Press. pp. 168. 2010.
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28Doing Academia Differently: “I Needed Self-Help Less Than I Needed a Fair Society”Feminist Studies 46 (1): 130-157. 2020.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:130 Feminist Studies 46, no. 1. © 2020 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Laura Bisaillon, Alana Cattapan, Annelieke Driessen, Esther van Duin, Shannon Spruit, Lorena Anton, and Nancy S. Jecker Doing Academia Differently: “I Needed Self-Help Less Than I Needed a Fair Society” A great deal of harm is being done by belief in the virtuousness of work. — Bertrand Russell, “In Praise of Idleness” We are committed to doing academia in particular wa…Read more
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20What are considered ‘good facts’?Journal of Medical Ethics 45 (7): 473-475. 2019.In the January edition of the Journal of Medical Ethics, Fujita and Tabuchi responded that we misunderstood the ‘facts’ in our previous article. Our article’s method was twofold. First, it appealed to normative analysis and publicly accessible materials, and second, it targeted a policy-making approach to public funding. We specifically did not focus on the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application or induced pluripotent stem stock projects. The Authors raised five criticisms, including trans…Read more
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33Endangerment of the iPSC stock project in Japan: on the ethics of public funding policiesJournal of Medical Ethics 44 (10): 700-702. 2018.We examined the ethical justification for a national policy governing public funding for the induced pluripotent stem cell stock project in Japan and argue that the initiation of the iPSC stock project in 2012, when no clinical trial using iPSC-derived products had yet succeeded, was premature and unethical. Our analysis considers a generally accepted justice criterion and shows it fails to justify public funding of the iPSC stock project. We also raise concerns related to the massive amounts of…Read more
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41The Moral Orientations of Justice and Care among Young PhysiciansCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 12 (1): 54-60. 2003.High moral standards and adherence to a moral code have long been strong tenets of the profession of medicine, even though there have been occasional lapses that have led to renewed calls for a revitalization of moral integrity in medicine. Certainly, a moral component has generally been held to be an important aspect of the concept of a physician
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14A world away and here at home: a prioritisation framework for US international patient programmesJournal of Medical Ethics 48 (8): 557-565. 2022.Programmes serving international patients are increasingly common throughout the USA. These programmes aim to expand access to resources and clinical expertise not readily available in the requesting patients’ home country. However, they exist within the US healthcare system where domestic healthcare needs are unmet for many children. Focusing our analysis on US children’s hospitals that have a societal mandate to provide medical care to a defined geographic population while simultaneously offer…Read more
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69A broader view of justiceAmerican Journal of Bioethics 8 (10). 2008.In this paper I argue that a narrow view of justice dominates the bioethics literature. I urge a broader view. As bioethicists, we often conceive of justice using a medical model. This model focuses attention at a particular point in time, namely, when someone who is already sick seeks access to scarce or expensive services. A medical model asks how we can fairly distribute those services. The broader view I endorse requires looking upstream, and asking how disease and suffering came about. In c…Read more
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89Justice between Age GoupsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 14 (10). 2018.A society is said to age when its number of older members increases in relation to its number of younger members. The societies in most of the world’s industrialized nations have been aging since at least 1800. In 1800 the demographic makeup of developed countries was similar to that of many Third World countries in the early 1990s with roughly half the population under the age of 16 and very few people living beyond age of 60. Since that time, increases in life expectancy, combined with decline…Read more
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19Morality (review)Review of Metaphysics 43 (3): 631-633. 1990.This book is a revised, expanded, and improved version of Gert's 1970 work
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6Ethics by Committee: A Textbook on Consultation, Organization, and Education for Hospital Ethics Committees (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2007.While tens of thousands of people across the United States serve on hospital and other healthcare ethics committees , almost no carefully prepared educational material exists for HEC members. Ethics by Committee is a one volume collection of chapters developed exclusively for this educational purpose. Experts in bioethics, clinical consultation, health law, and social psychology from across the country contribute chapters on ethics consultation, education, and policy development
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18Out of Africa: A Solidarity‐Based Approach to Vaccine AllocationHastings Center Report 51 (3): 27-36. 2021.This article sets forth a solidaristic approach to global distribution of vaccines against the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus. Our approach draws inspiration from African ethics and from the characterization of the Covid‐19 crisis as a syndemic, a convergence of biosocial forces that interact with one another to produce and exacerbate clinical disease and prognosis. The first section elaborates the twin ideas of syndemic and solidarity. The second section argues that these ideas lend support to global health …Read more
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