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98The Origins and Drafting of the Belmont ReportPerspectives in Biology and Medicine 63 (2): 240-250. 2020.The Belmont Report of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research was essentially mandated in a public law on July 12, 1974. The publications of this Commission have turned out to be the most influential of all US ethics and bioethics commissions on US public policy and federal regulation. The reason for its influence is that this Commission was allowed—indeed required—to draft federal regulations governing research with vulnerable subjects …Read more
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13Lucky Me: The Amiable and Weighty Influences on My CareerJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 45 (4-5): 396-409. 2020.This autobiographical sketch is being published 50 years after I started as an assistant professor at Georgetown University in 1970. In this presentation, I cannot tell the full story of these 50 years. I write only about the formative years both before and after I was hired at Georgetown, and I emphasize two subjects. The first is the importance of the individuals who were massive influences on my intellectual development and aspirations. The second is the great importance of multidisciplinary …Read more
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30Response to CommentariesJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 45 (4-5): 560-579. 2020.After expressing our gratitude to the commentators for their valuable analyses and assessments of Principles of Biomedical Ethics, we respond to several particular critiques raised by the commentators under the following rubrics: the compatibility of different sets of principles and rules; challenges to the principle of respect for autonomy; connecting principles to cases and resolving their conflicts; the value of and compatibility of virtues and principles; common morality theory; and moral st…Read more
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68Principles of Animal Research EthicsOup Usa. 2020.This volume presents a framework of general principles for animal research ethics together with an analysis of the principles' meaning and moral requirements. Tom L. Beauchamp and David DeGrazia's comprehensive framework addresses ethical requirements pertaining to societal benefit and features a thorough, ethically defensible program of animal welfare. The book also features commentaries on the framework of principles by eminent figures in animal research ethics from an array of relevant discip…Read more
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34On Rhodes’s failure to appreciate the connections between common morality theory and professional biomedical ethicsJournal of Medical Ethics 45 (12): 790-791. 2019.Two positions that Rosamund Rhodes puts forward are the proper starting point for this commentary: 1. Medical ethics based on the common morality that uses a body of abstract principles or rules are not ‘an adequate and appropriate guide for physicians’ actions’. 2. We need, but do not have, a true professional medical ethics for physicians, which must be ‘distinctly different’ from ethics based on common morality. I will argue that both positions are mistaken. Rhodes does not analyse what she m…Read more
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102Principles of Biomedical Ethics: Marking Its Fortieth AnniversaryAmerican Journal of Bioethics 19 (11): 9-12. 2019.Volume 19, Issue 11, November 2019, Page 9-12.
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44Hume’s Reason (review)Philosophical Review 112 (4): 572-575. 2003.Hume is widely regarded as an antirationalist and skeptic about reason. Yet he often appeals to reason. He also treats “understanding” and “reason” as virtually synonymous and ascribes seemingly cognitive functions to the imagination and the passions—functions that he elsewhere attributes to reason. What, then, is reason and how is it connected to reasoning in Hume's philosophy?
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1A Defense of Universal Principles in Biomedical EthicsIn Juan Lecaros & Erick Valdés (eds.), Biolaw and Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Building Answers for New Questions, Springer Verlag. 2019.
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6Virtuous and Tender Sentiments (review)Hastings Center Report 25 (4): 36. 1995.Book reviewed in this article: Moral Prejudices: Essays on Ethics. By Annette Baier.
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63Principles of Biomedical EthicsHastings Center Report 25 (4): 37. 1995.Book reviewed in this article: Principles of Biomedical Ethics. By Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress.
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21The Ethics of Social Research: Surveys and ExperimentsHastings Center Report 13 (2): 44. 1983.Book reviewed in this article: Ethical Issues in Social Research. Edited by Tom L. Beauchamp, Ruth R. Faden, R. Jay Wallace, Jr., and LeRoy Walters. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. xii + 436 pp. $25.00 (hardcover); $8.95 (paper). Ethics of Human Subject Research. Edited by Allan J. Kimmel, Jr. San Francisco: Jossey‐Bass, 1981. 106 pp. $6.95 (paper). Social Research Ethics. Edited by Martin Bulmer. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1982. xiv + 284 pp. $39.50 (hardcover); $14.50 (pape…Read more
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41The Idea of a “Standard View” of Informed ConsentAmerican Journal of Bioethics 17 (12): 1-2. 2017.
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18Comments on Durante’s account of multiculturalismJournal of Medical Ethics 44 (2): 84-85. 2018.Chris Durante’s comments on my article about the compatibility of universal morality, particular moralities and multiculturalism indicate that we have very different approaches to and understandings of these three notions. Durante investigates multiculturalism from the perspective of political philosophy, whereas my approach is grounded in moral rather than political philosophy. Since he refers to his framework as an ‘ethico-political theory’, he may regard his account as a synthesis of moral an…Read more
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21Personal IdentityThe Monist 61 (2): 326-339. 1978.In the third of his Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, Reid devotes the fourth chapter to the concept of‘identity’, and the sixth chapter to Locke’s theory of ‘personal identity’. This latter chapter is widely regarded as a definitive refutation of the thesis that personal identity is no more than memories of a certain sort. It is interesting that the terms ‘identity’ and ‘personal identity’ do not appear as chapter or section titles elsewhere in any of Reid’s works; and Hume is neither m…Read more
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81The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2011.Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways. The nature of these animals and the justifiability or unjustifiabilitly of human uses of them are the subject matter of this volume.Philosophers have long been intrigued by animal minds and vegetarianism, but only around the last quarter of the twentieth century did a significant philosophical literature begin to be developed on both the scientific study of animals and the ethics of human uses of animals. This literature had a primar…Read more
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8The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics: 1750 to the Present (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2009.Business ethics raises many important philosophical issues. A first set of issues concerns the methodology of business ethics. What is the role of ethical theory in business ethics? To what extent, if at all, can thinking in business ethics be enhanced by philosophy, so as to provide real moral guidance? Another set of issues involves questions regarding markets, capitalism, and economic justice. There are related concerns about the nature of business organizations and the responsibilities they …Read more
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12An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: A Critical Edition (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 1998.About HumeDavid Hume is one of the greatest of philosophers. Today he probably ranks highest of all British philosophers in terms of influence and philosophical standing. His philosophical work ranges across morals, the mind, metaphysics, epistemology, and aesthetics; he had broad interests not only in philosophy as it is now conceived but in history, politics, economics, religion, and the arts. He was a master of English prose. The Clarendon Hume Edition General Editors: Professor T. L. Beaucha…Read more
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El concepto de consentimiento informadoBeauchamp T. And Walters L., Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, Dickenson Publishing Company, Usa. forthcoming.
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263The 'four principles' approach to health care ethicsIn Richard E. Ashcroft (ed.), Principles of Health Care Ethics, Wiley. 2007.
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20Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics. (edited book)Oup Usa. 2011.Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways. The nature of these animals and the justifiability or unjustifiabilitly of human uses of them are the subject matter of this volume.
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