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22African 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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17Advance 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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40The 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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65A 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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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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19What 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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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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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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1Deciding Together: Bioethics and Moral Consensus, by Jonathan D. Moreno, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 159 pp (review)Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 6 (3): 358-359. 1997.
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74Justice 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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