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18Do Surgical Trials Meet the Scientific Standards for Clinical TrialsJournal of the American College of Surgeons 215 (5): 722-730. 2012.
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6Intellectual property and biotechnology: the European debateKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 17 (2): 69. 2007.The European patent system allows for the introduction of moral issues into decisions about the granting of patents. This feature has
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82Is Futility a Futile Concept?Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 20 (2): 123-144. 1995.This paper distinguishes four major types of futility (physiological, imminent demise, lethal condition, and qualitative) that have been advocated in the literature either in a patient dependent or a patient independent fashion. It proposes five criteria (precision, prospective, social acceptability, significant number, and non-agreement) that any definition of futility must satisfy if it is to serve as the basis for unilaterally limiting futile care. It then argues that none of the definitions …Read more
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34Methodological and Conceptual Issues in Health Care System Comparisons: Canada, Norway, and the United StatesJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 18 (5): 437-463. 1993.There is a growing interest in comparison of international health care data with the hope that such studies will enable individual systems to learn from other systems. Such comparisons, however, presuppose that there exist common criteria for evaluating health care systems. The main thesis of this paper is that these comparative studies are misleading because they employ inappropriate operationalizations of these criteria because the operarionalizations are based upon mistaken global conceptuali…Read more
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38Reid and Hamilton on PerceptionThe Monist 55 (3): 423-441. 1971.Until a few years ago, the works of Thomas Reid were known only by specialists in the history of philosophy, and, insofar as people did think at all about Reid and his school of common sense philosophy, it was generally thought that Kant had been right in dismissing them as naive thinkers who did not really understand what philosophical skepticism was all about. This attitude about Reid changed very rapidly in recent years. More and more people now realize that Reid was one of the most important…Read more
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6IndexIn Graeme Forbes (ed.), Identity and Essence, Princeton University Press. pp. 163-165. 1981.
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19Quality of scholarship in bioethicsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 15 (2): 161-178. 1990.This paper identifies four major forms of scholarship in bioethics: empirical research, the articulation of mid-level principles of bioethics, the relating of these principles to fundamental moral theories, and discussions of the bioethical implications of legal principles and health delivery policies. It develops a reflective equilibrium approach to the relation between these four forms of scholarship. It then presents, in light of this approach, criteria for quality research in each of these f…Read more
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16The role of philosophy in public policy and bioethics: introductionJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 15 (4): 345-346. 1990.
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27Ethical Questions Raised by the Persistent Vegetative PatientHastings Center Report 18 (1): 33-37. 1988.
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8Bioethics: Readings & CasesPrentice-Hall. 1987.This book is the first systematic integrated analysis of ethical issues in health care which combines an introduction to moral theory, a set of readings in health care ethics, and an extensive set of case studies.
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Three. ImplicationsIn Graeme Forbes (ed.), Identity and Essence, Princeton University Press. pp. 43-70. 1981.
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RSPCA. Jonathan Balcombe has been Associate Director for Education in the Animal Research Issues section of the Humane Society of the United States since 1993. He has degrees from York University and Carleton University, Toronto, and a doctoral degree in ethology from the University of Tennessee (review)In Susan Jean Armstrong & Richard George Botzler (eds.), The animal ethics reader, Routledge. 2003.
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67Kripke on proper namesIn A. French Peter, E. Uehling Theodore, Howard Jr & K. Wettstein (eds.), Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language, University of Minnesota Press. pp. 64-69. 1979.Kripke has argued that proper names, as rigid designators, cannot be equivalent in meaning to definite descriptions. in this paper, i argue that definite descriptions are sometimes used rigidly and that proper names are equivalent to definite descriptions used rigidly
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10Religious, Moral, & Sociological Issues: Some Basic DistinctionsHastings Center Report 8 (4): 13-13. 1978.
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5Which Lives and WhyHastings Center Report 25 (1): 48-49. 1995.Book reviewed in this article: Morality, Mortality: Death and Whom to Save from It. By Frances Kamm.
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10Four. The Theory Of ChangeIn Graeme Forbes (ed.), Identity and Essence, Princeton University Press. pp. 71-83. 1981.
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