• Applied ethics
    In Donald M. Borchert (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Supplement, Simon and Schuster Macmillan. 1996.
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    The Institute of Medicine's Report on Non-Heart-Beating Organ Transplantation
    with John T. Potts and Roger Herdman
    Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 8 (1): 83-90. 1998.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Institute of Medicine’s Report on Non-Heart-Beating Organ TransplantationRoger Herdman (bio), Tom L. Beauchamp (bio), and John T. Potts Jr. (bio)In December 1997, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report on medical and ethical issues in the procurement of non-heart-beating organ donors. This report had been requested in May 1997 by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). We will here describe the genesis of t…Read more
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    Philosophical Books 23 (3): 146-148. 1982.
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    Suicide
    In Tom L. Beauchamp & Tom Regan (eds.), Matters of Life and Death, Temple University Press. 1980.
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    The Human Use of Animals: Case Studies in Ethical Choice
    with F. Barbara Orlans, Rebecca Dresser, David B. Morton, and John P. Gluck
    Oxford University Press USA. 1998.
    The first set of case studies on animal use, this volume offers a thorough, up-to-date exploration of the moral issues related to animal welfare. Its main purpose is to examine how far it is ethically justifiable to harm animals in order to benefit mankind. An excellent introduction provides a framework for the cases and sets the background of philosophical and moral concepts underlying the subject. Sixteen original, previously unpublished essays cover controversies associated with the human use…Read more
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    Ethics and Epidemiology (edited book)
    with Steven Scott Coughlin and Douglas L. Weed
    Oxford University Press. 2009.
    Written by epidemiologists, ethicists and legal scholars, this book provides an in-depth account of the moral problems that often confront epidemiologists, including both theoretical and practical issues. The first edition has sold almost three thousand copies since it was published in 1996. This edition is fully revised and includes three new chapters:Ethical Issues in Public Health Practice, Ethical Issues in Genetic Epidemiology, and Ethical Issues in International Health Research and Epidemi…Read more
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    How not to rethink research ethics
    American Journal of Bioethics 5 (1). 2005.
    This Article does not have an abstract
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    The Upper Limits of Pain and Suffering in Animal Research
    with David B. Morton
    Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 24 (4): 431-447. 2015.
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    Paternalism and Biobehavioral Control
    The Monist 60 (1): 62-80. 1977.
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    Thieves of Virtue: When Bioethics Stole Medicine by Tom Koch (review)
    Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 24 (3): 11-14. 2014.
    The principal thesis in this book is that bioethics emerged—in the 1960s through the 1980s—under the influence of philosophers who claimed to have universally valid principles that could steer medicine and research to the solution of ethical problems, including even those arising at the bedside of patients. Tom Koch contends that these philosophers and their allied bioethicists “stole medicine” and its traditional values, substituting a philosophical discourse generally inaccessible to the avera…Read more
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    Critical notice
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 7 (2): 371-404. 1977.
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    The Belmont Report
    In Ezekiel J. Emanuel (ed.), The Oxford textbook of clinical research ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 149--55. 2008.
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    Autonomy in chimpanzees
    with Victoria Wobber
    Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 35 (2): 117-132. 2014.
    Literature on the mental capacities and cognitive mechanisms of the great apes has been silent about whether they can act autonomously. This paper provides a philosophical theory of autonomy supported by psychological studies of the cognitive mechanisms that underlie chimpanzee behavior to argue that chimpanzees can act autonomously even though their psychological mechanisms differ from those of humans. Chimpanzees satisfy the two basic conditions of autonomy: (1) liberty (the absence of control…Read more
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    Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “The Concept of Voluntary Consent”
    with Robert M. Nelson
    American Journal of Bioethics 11 (8). 2011.
    The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 11, Issue 8, Page W1-W3, August 2011
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    In defense of affirmative action
    The Journal of Ethics 2 (2): 143-158. 1998.
    Affirmative action refers to positive steps taken to hire persons from groups previously and presently discriminated against. Considerable evidence indicates that this discrimination is intractable and cannot be eliminated by the enforcement of laws. Numerical goals and quotas are justified if and only if they are necessary to overcome the discriminatory effects that could not otherwise be eliminated with reasonable efficiency. Many past as well as present policies are justified in this way
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    A Critique of Pure Anarchism
    with Ken Witkowski
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2 (4). 1973.
    In defense of anarchism Robert Paul Wolff contends that the moral autonomy of individuals cannot be made compatible with legitimate political authority. A state is legitimate, he maintains, if authorities in the state have a right to command where subjects correlatively have an obligation to obey. However, he also holds both that all autonomous individuals have a primary obligation to refuse to be ruled by all authorities and that all men are normally obliged to remain autonomous. It allegedly f…Read more
  • Industrial Epidemiology Forum's Conference on Ethics in Epidemiology
    with William E. Fayerweather, John Higginson, and E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Company
    Pergamon Press. 1991.
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    Hume’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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    Rethinking the ethics of research involving nonhuman animals: introduction
    with Hope R. Ferdowsian and John P. Gluck
    Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 35 (2): 91-96. 2014.
    In the relatively short time since 2006—when Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics published an issue on moral issues relevant to the use of nonhuman animals in research [1]—significant changes have occurred for nonhuman animals in many quarters. Public sentiment, new policy initiatives, and scientific studies of nonhuman animals’ capacities have all influenced the ways in which nonhuman animals are perceived and treated in research. Today, a large body of information is available for use in decisi…Read more
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    What can a model professional code for bioethics hope to achieve?
    American Journal of Bioethics 5 (5). 2005.
    This Article does not have an abstract
  • Ethical Issues in Death and Dying
    with Seymour Perlin
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 14 (2): 132-133. 1981.