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123The ethics of voluntary ethics standardsBusiness and Society Review 129 (1): 50-71. 2024.Many nongovernmental forms of business regulation aim at reducing ethical violations in commerce. We argue that such nongovernmental ethics standards, while often laudable, raise their own ethical challenges. In particular, when such standards place burdens upon vulnerable market participants (often, though not always, SMEs), they do so without the backing of traditional legitimate political authority. We argue that this constitutes a structural analogy to wars of humanitarian intervention. More…Read more
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19The Power of Critical Thinking (6th Canadian Edition) (edited book, 6th ed.)Oxford University Press. 2023.Learn to think critically with the leading introduction to reasoning and argumentation. Highlights In clear, reader-friendly language, The Power of Critical Thinking provides an engaging introduction to argumentation, deductive and inductive reasoning, inferencing, and evaluating scientific theories New Critical Thinking and the Media boxes in each chapter apply the principles of critical thinking to the realms of media, advertising, and news New content on "fake news," the COVID-19 pandemic, an…Read more
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20Guarded Optimism about Positive Examples - Rising Above Sweatshops: Innovative Approaches to Global Labor ChallengesLaura P. Hartman, Denis G. Arnold, and Richard E. Wokutch, eds. Praeger Publishers, 2003. 440 pages (review)Business Ethics Quarterly 16 (4): 623-628. 2006.
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23Broadcasting Operation Iraqi Freedom: The People Behind Cable News Ethics, Decisions, and Gender DifferencesJournal of Business Ethics 84 (S1): 115-134. 2009.In March 2003, President Bush declared the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the anticipated commencement of intensive American-led military operations in Iraq. With this declaration, the media began intense coverage of military operations from the field. For the first time, viewers were able to see images of actual events. This was due to three developments: the advancement of technology allowing immediate transmission of text and images, the actual presence of journalists identified as "embedd…Read more
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16Genetically Engineered Oil Seed Crops and Novel Terrestrial Nutrients: Ethical ConsiderationsScience and Engineering Ethics 25 (5): 1485-1497. 2019.Genetically engineered organisms have been at the center of ethical debates among the public and regulators over their potential risks and benefits to the environment and society. Unlike the currently commercial GE crops that express resistance or tolerance to pesticides or herbicides, a new GE crop produces two bioactive nutrients and docosahexaenoic acid ) that heretofore have largely been produced only in aquatic environments. This represents a novel category of risk to ecosystem functioning.…Read more
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21Professionalism and the social role of medicineAmerican Journal of Bioethics 4 (2). 2004.This Article does not have an abstract
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30Deep Disagreement and Rawlsian “Public Reasons”American Journal of Bioethics 5 (6): 62-63. 2005.We share Nelson and Meyer's (2005) frustration with the dearth of meaningful debate evidenced in the President's Council on Bioethics's (PCB's) Report, Human Cloning and Human Dignity. But we disag...
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55Conflict of interest policies at canadian universities: Clarity and content (review)Journal of Academic Ethics 6 (1): 79-90. 2008.Discussions of conflict of interest (COI) in the university have tended to focus on financial interests in the context of medical research; much less attention has been given to COI in general or to the policies that seek to manage COI. Are university COI policies accessible and understandable? To whom are these policies addressed (faculty, staff, students)? Is COI clearly defined in these policies and are procedures laid out for avoiding or remedying such situations? To begin tackling these imp…Read more
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74Beastly Contractarianism?Essays in Philosophy 5 (2): 474-486. 2004.Social Contract theorists and animal advocates seem to have agreed to go their separate ways. Contractarians have avoided attempting to address an issue that seems destined to prove embarrassing for the theory given the current political climate. It is largely thought that contractarianism affirms the meager moral standing commonly attributed to most animals. In the face of this consensus, animal advocates who feel the need to philosophically ground the moral status of animals have turned to oth…Read more
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24The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism, by Arun Sundararajan. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-0262034579 (review)Business Ethics Quarterly 28 (4): 501-505. 2018.
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24Will the "Secular Priests" of Bioethics Work Among the Sinners?American Journal of Bioethics 3 (2): 36-39. 2003.In this paper, I explore briefly the "secular priesthood" metaphor often applied to bioethicists. I next ask: if, despite our discomfort with the metaphor, we were to embrace the best aspects of the priesthood(s) ? which I identify as the missionaries' willingness to work among sinners and lepers, at their own peril ? would we be able to live up to that standard of bravery? I then draw a parallel with the fears of contagion currently be voiced (by Carl Elliott and others), with regard to bioethi…Read more
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4Conflicts of interestIn George G. Brenkert & Tom L. Beauchamp (eds.), The Oxford handbook of business ethics, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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17The Perverse Consequences of a Proposed Global Tax on ResearchAmerican Journal of Bioethics 10 (6): 46-47. 2010.
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11Stem Cell Ethics and the Forgotten Corporate ContextAmerican Journal of Bioethics 2 (1): 54-56. 2002.
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83Rescuing the Baby From the Triple-Bottom-LineBusiness Ethics Quarterly 17 (1): 111-114. 2007.We respond to Moses Pava’s defense of the “Triple Bottom Line” (3BL) concept against our earlier criticisms. We argue that, pacePava, the multiplicity of measures (and units of measure) that go into evaluating ethical performance cannot reasonably be compared to the handful of standard methods for evaluating financial performance. We also question Pava’s claim that usage of the term “3BL” is somehow intended to be ironical or subversive.
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23A Response to “Getting to the Bottom of ‘Triple Bottom Line’”Business Ethics Quarterly 17 (1): 105-110. 2007.Wayne Norman and Chris MacDonald launch a strong attack against Triple Bottom Line or 3BL accounting in their article “Gettingto the Bottom of ‘Triple Bottom Line’” (2004). This response suggests that, while limitations to 3BL accounting do exist, the critique of Norman and MacDonald is deeply flawed.
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153Nothing New Under the Sun: Policy & Clinical Implications of NanomedicineBioéthiqueOnline 1 11. 2012.Nanotechnology research is beginning to see widespread coverage in the media and popular science literatures, but discussions of hopes and fears about nanotechnology have already become polarised into utopian and dystopian visions. More moderate discussions focus on the near-term applications of nanotechnologies, and on potential benefits and harms. However, in exploring the social and ethical implications of nanotechnology, important lessons should be learned from experiences in other fields. I…Read more
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25Reinventing the Wheel: Honesty versus Advocacy in the ProfessionsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 4 (4): 78-79. 2004.Werner et al. (2004) provide an interesting look at the degree to which misrepresentation is condoned by both parties to doctor-patient relationships. We feel that it would be useful, however, to s...
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19Pediatric Neuroenhancement: Full Steam Ahead, In a Leaky Boat?American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 1 (1): 33-35. 2010.
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126Nurse Autonomy as RelationalNursing Ethics 9 (2): 194-201. 2002.This article seeks an improved understanding of nurse autonomy by looking at nursing through the lens of what recent feminist scholars have called ‘relational’ autonomy. A relational understanding of autonomy means a shift away from older views focused on individuals achieving independence, towards a view that seeks meaningful self-direction within a context of interdependency. The main claim made here is that nurse autonomy is, indeed, relational. The article begins with an explanation of the n…Read more
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23Personal Genomics: Democratization, or Empowerment, or 'Something'American Journal of Bioethics 9 (6-7): 46-48. 2009.No abstract
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254Ethics and genetics: Susceptibility testing in the workplaceJournal of Business Ethics 35 (3): 235-241. 2002.Genetic testing in the workplace is a technology both full of promise and fraught with ethical peril. Though not yet common, it is likely to become increasingly so. We survey the key arguments in favour of such testing, along with the most significant ethical worries. We further propose a set of pragmatic criteria, which, if met, would make it permissible for employers to offer (but not to require) workplace genetic testing.
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28Corporate ethics in the life sciences: Can bioethics help? Should it? (review)HEC Forum 17 (2): 122-134. 2005.
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35Ethical issues in the biotechnology industry: Introduction to the special issue (review)Journal of Business Ethics 77 (1). 2008.
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9Commercialisation of genetic services: the role of genetic counsellorsHuman Reproduction and Genetic Ethics 8 (1): 1. 2002.
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14Ethical Issues in the Biotechnology Industry: Introduction to the Special IssueJournal of Business Ethics 77 (1): 1-3. 2008.
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