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36Prioritizing Frontline Workers during the COVID-19 PandemicAmerican Journal of Bioethics 20 (7): 128-132. 2020.Volume 20, Issue 7, July 2020, Page 128-132.
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36Proposed Principles for International Bioethics Conferencing: Anti-Discriminatory, Global, and InclusiveAmerican Journal of Bioethics 24 (4): 13-28. 2023.This paper opens a critical conversation about the ethics of international bioethics conferencing and proposes principles that commit to being anti-discriminatory, global, and inclusive. We launch this conversation in the Section, Case Study, with a case example involving the International Association of Bioethics’ (IAB’s) selection of Qatar to host the 2024 World Congress of Bioethics. IAB’s choice of Qatar sparked controversy. We believe it also may reveal deeper issues of Islamophobia in bioe…Read more
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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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34Health Care Systems: Moral Conflicts in European and American Public PolicyHastings Center Report 19 (6): 46. 1989.Book reviewed in this article: Medicine and Culture: Varieties of Treatment in the United States, England, West Germany, and France. By Lynn Payer. Health Care Systems: Moral Conflicts in European and American Public Policy. Edited by Hans‐Martin Sass and Robert U. Massey.
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33Sex robots for older adults with disabilities: reply to criticsJournal of Medical Ethics 47 (2): 113-114. 2021.In ‘Nothing to Be Ashamed of: Sex Robots for Older Adults with Disabilities,’1 I make the case that the unwanted absence of sex from a person’s life represents not just a loss of physical pleasure, but a loss of dignity. Since people aged 65 and over suffer disproportionately from disabilities that impair sexual functioning, I focus on this population. Drawing on an analysis of dignity developed at greater length elsewhere,2 I argue that sex robots can help older adults with disabilities and tha…Read more
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32Integrating medical ethics with normative theory: Patient advocacy and social responsibilityTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 11 (2). 1990.It is often assumed that the chief responsibility medical professionals bear is patient care and advocacy. The meeting of other duties, such as ensuring a more just distribution of medical resources and promoting the public good, is not considered a legitimate basis for curtailing or slackening beneficial patient services. It is argued that this assumption is often made without sufficient attention to foundational principles of professional ethics; that once core principles are laid bare this as…Read more
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32Justice and global care chains: Lessons from SingaporeDeveloping World Bioethics 19 (3): 155-168. 2018.Growing demand for direct care workers to assist care-dependent elderly people has created an opening for migrant workers from low- income nations to sell their services to middle and high-income nations. Using Singapore as a case example, we draw on capability theory to make the case that receiving nations that import direct care workers should be held to global justice standards that protect workers’ floor level human capabilities. Specifically, we (1) show that Singapore and other receiving n…Read more
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32Global sharing of COVID‐19 vaccines: A duty of justice, not charityDeveloping World Bioethics 23 (1): 5-14. 2022.Global scarcity of COVID-19 vaccines raises ethical questions about their fair allocation between nations. Section I introduces the question and proposes that wealthy nations have a duty of justice to share globally scarce COVID-19 vaccines. Section II distinguishes justice from charity and argues that beneficiaries of unjust structures incur duties of justice when they are systematically advantaged at others expense. Section III gives a case-based argument describing three upstream structural i…Read more
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32Realizing Ubuntu in Global Health: An African Approach to Global Health JusticePublic Health Ethics 15 (3): 256-267. 2022.The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the question, ‘What do we owe each other as members of a global community during a global health crisis?’ In tandem, it has raised underlying concerns about how we should prepare for the next infectious disease outbreak and what we owe to people in other countries during normal times. While the prevailing bioethics literature addresses these questions drawing on values and concepts prominent in the global north, this paper articulates responses prominent in …Read more
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32Endangerment 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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31Aging And Ethics: Philosophical Problems in GerontologySpringer Verlag. 1991.The Aging Self and the Aging Society Ethical issues involving the elderly have recently come to the fore. This should come as no surprise: Since the turn of the century, there has been an eightfold in crease in the number of Americans over the age of sixty five, and almost a tripling of their proportion to the general population. Those over the age of eighty-five- the fastest growing group in the country-are twenty one more times as numerous as in 1900. Demographers expect this trend to accelera…Read more
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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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31Review: Why Is Death Bad and What Makes It Least Bad? (review)Law and Philosophy 14 (3/4). 1995.
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31Insights Pertaining to Patient Assessments of States Worse than DeathJournal of Clinical Ethics 4 (1): 33-41. 1993.
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30Medical Futility and Physician Assisted DeathIn Michael Cholbi & Jukka Varelius (eds.), New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, Springer Verlag. pp. 203-223. 2015.This chapter addresses the close association between withholding and withdrawing futile life-sustaining medical treatments and assisting patients with hastening ending their lives. Section 12.2 sets forth a definition of medical futility and places this concept in the broader context of bioethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence and justice. Section 12.3 draws out futility’s ethical implications and considers the view that physicians are ethically permitted to refrain from me…Read more
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29Too old to save? COVID‐19 and age‐based allocation of lifesaving medical careBioethics 36 (7): 802-808. 2022.Bioethics, Volume 36, Issue 7, Page 802-808, September 2022.
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29Ethical Guidance for Selecting Clinical Trials to Receive Limited Space in an Immunotherapy Production FacilityAmerican Journal of Bioethics 18 (4): 58-67. 2018.Our aims are to set forth a multiprinciple system for selecting among clinical trials competing for limited space in an immunotherapy production facility that supplies products under investigation by scientific investigators; defend this system by appealing to justice principles; and illustrate our proposal by showing how it might be implemented. Our overarching aim is to assist manufacturers of immunotherapeutic products and other potentially breakthrough experimental therapies with the ethical…Read more
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28New Challenges for Ethics Consultation: Combining Feminism, Multiculturalism, and CaringPublic Affairs Quarterly 17 (2): 83-95. 2003.
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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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27Animal subjects research Part I: Do animals have rights?In G. A. van Norman, S. Jackson, S. H. Rosenbaum & S. K. Palmer (eds.), Clinical Ethics in Anesthesiology, Cambridge University Press. pp. 168. 2010.
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26The Abuse of FutilityPerspectives in Biology and Medicine 60 (3): 295-313. 2018.Two recent policy statements by providers of critical care representing the United States and Europe have rejected the concept and language of “medical futility,” on the ground that there is no universal consensus on a definition. They recommend using “potentially inappropriate” or “inappropriate” instead. As Bosslet and colleagues state: The term “potentially inappropriate” should be used, rather than futile, to describe treatments that have at least some chance of accomplishing the effect soug…Read more
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26Calling It Quits: Stopping Futile Treatment and Caring For PatientsJournal of Clinical Ethics 5 (2): 138-142. 1994.
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26Is Refusal of Futile Treatment Unjustified Paternalism?Journal of Clinical Ethics 6 (2): 133-137. 1995.
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26The dignity of work: An ethical argument against mandatory retirementJournal of Social Philosophy 54 (2): 152-168. 2022.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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25What’s yours is ours: waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccinesJournal of Medical Ethics 47 (9): 595-598. 2021.This paper gives an ethical argument for temporarily waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines. It examines two proposals under discussion at the World Trade Organization : the India/South Africa proposal and the WTO Director General proposal. Section I explains the background leading up to the WTO debate. Section II rebuts ethical arguments for retaining current IP protections, which appeal to benefiting society by spurring innovation and protecting rightful ownership. It …Read more
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25Choosing Medical Care in Old Age: What Kind, How Much, When to Stop. Muriel R. Gillick. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1994 (review)Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 4 (4): 553. 1995.
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25What money can’t buy: an argument against paying people to get vaccinatedJournal of Medical Ethics 48 (6): 362-366. 2022.This paper considers the proposal to pay people to get vaccinated against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The first section introduces arguments against the proposal, including less intrusive alternatives, unequal effects on populations and economic conditions that render payment more difficult to refuse. The second section considers arguments favouring payment, including arguments appealing to health equity, consistency, being worth the cost, respect for autonomy, good citizenship, the ends justifying th…Read more
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