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13Judgment and the Art of CompromiseThinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 10 (1): 2-7. 1992.
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1334Ethics in nursingOxford University Press. 1981.Written by a nurse and a philosopher, Ethics in Nursing blends the concrete detail of recurring problems in nursing practice with the perspectives, methods, and resources of philosophical ethics. It stresses the aspects of the nurses role and relations with others -- physicians, patients, administrators, other nurses -- that give ethical problems in nursing their special focus. Among the issues addressed are deception, parentalism, confidentiality, conscientious refusal, nurse autonomy, compromi…Read more
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33Lay obligations in professional relationsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 10 (1): 85-103. 1985.Little has been written recently about the obligations of lay people in professional relationships. Yet the Code of Medical Ethics adopted by the American Medical Association in 1847 included an extensive statement on ‘Obligations of patients to their physicians’. After critically examining the philosophical foundations of this statement, I provide an alternative account of lay obligations in professional relationships. Based on a hypothetical social contract and included in a full specification…Read more
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73Ethics in nursing: cases, principles, and reasoningOxford University Press. 2010.Moral dilemmas and ethical inquiry -- Unavoidable topics in ethical theory -- Nurses and clients -- Recurring ethical issues in interprofessional relationships -- Ethical dilemmas among nurses -- Personal responsibility for institutional and public policy -- Cost containment, justice, and rationing.
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30Expanding the scope of nursing ethics: cost containment, justice and rationingBioethics Forum 9 (4): 16-21. 1992.
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20Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction, Third Edition, by Harry J. Gensler (review)Teaching Philosophy 43 (1): 95-98. 2020.
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8Ethics in Nursing Practice: Basic Principles and their ApplicationPhilosophical Books 31 (3): 171-172. 1990.
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5Dialogues with Children (review)Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 6 (1): 48-49. 1985.
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52[Book review] splitting the difference, compromise and integrity in ethics and politics (review)Hastings Center Report 21 (1): 36-37. 1991.
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20Anencephalic Infants as Sources of Transplantable OrgansHastings Center Report 18 (5): 28-30. 1988.
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15Between Subway and Spaceship: Practical Ethics at the Outset of the Twenty‐first CenturyHastings Center Report 31 (4): 24-31. 2001.Moral deliberation involves a constant interplay among specific judgments, general moral values and principles, and background beliefs about the world. We may also construct broad moral theories to explain how our judgments and general commitments hang together, but there is little hope of settling on any one comprehensive moral theory.
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8Review of Arthur L. Caplan: If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas? And Other Essays on the Ethics of Health Care. (review)Ethics 104 (2): 406-408. 1994.
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CompromiseIn Lawrence C. Becker & Charlotte B. Becker (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ethics, Garland Publishing. pp. 189--191. 1992.