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    Letter to the Editor
    Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 48 (1): 232-232. 2020.
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    Volume 20, Issue 4, May 2020, Page 97-99.
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    Sometimes, we operate as though we live in the center of our brains at the top of the tower that is our bodies. We are aware of our bodies as instrumental to accomplishing various pragmatic tasks, but we are unaware or forgetful about how the body constitutes our conscious experience of self and world. The deeper nature and significance of our lived bodily experience is hidden, and it is challenging to discover and describe adequately. Nonetheless, during periods of sickness and injury, we are f…Read more
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    “Aging and Disasters,” is an effort to tell a consistent and compelling story about the elderly amidst catastrophic disaster, and to then develop an ethical analysis and practical strategy for addressing the unique situation of the elderly. In the first portion of the chapter I make the case that the elderly are routinely overlooked amidst catastrophic disasters, and thereby often suffer disproportionately relative to the general population. More than being just a vulnerable population of people…Read more
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    Status Update
    Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 18 (3): 243-247. 2014.
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    This article utilizes the case of Ms H. to examine the contrasting ways that surrogate decision makers move from simply hearing information about the patient to actually knowing and understanding the patient’s medical condition. The focus of the case is on a family’s request to actually see the patient’s wounds instead of being told about the wounds, and the role of clinical ethicists in facilitating this request. We argue that clinical ethicists have an important role to play in the work of con…Read more
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    An Ethicist's Scope of Practice: Equipping Stakeholders for Closure
    with Patrick Schmitt and Paul J. Ford
    American Journal of Bioethics 15 (1): 37-38. 2015.
    An ethics consultant’s scope of practice is best understood as equipping stakeholders to achieve closure over time following after the ethics consultation. This is in contrast to Autumn Fiester’s position in the article, “Neglected Ends: Clinical Ethics Consultation and the Prospects for Closure,” where she claims that moral closure is a necessary condition for the proper completion of an ethics consultation case.