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69Two models in global health ethicsPublic Health Ethics 2 (3): 276-284. 2009.This paper examines two strategies aimed at demonstrating that moral obligations to improve global health exist. The ‘humanitarian model’ stresses that all human beings, regardless of affluence or global location, are fundamentally the same in terms of moral status. This model argues that affluent global citizens’ moral obligations to assist less fortunate ones follow from the desirability of reducing disease and suffering in the world. The ‘political model’ stresses that the lives of the world'…Read more
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Global Health ResponsibilitiesIn Helga Kuhse Peter Singer (ed.), A Companion to Bioethics, 2nd ed., Wiley-blackwell. pp. 393-403. 2009.
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38Morality and Justice: Reading Boylan's a Just Society (edited book)Lexington Books. 2009.The essays in this book engage the original and controversial claims from Michael Boylan's A Just Society. Each essay discusses Boylan's claims from a particular chapter and offers a critical analysis of these claims. Boylan responds to the essays in his lengthy and philosophically rich reply.
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12Global Health ResponsibilitiesIn Helga Kuhse & Peter Singer (eds.), A Companion to Bioethics, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Doubts About Libertarianism Obligations Conclusions References Further reading.
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29Commentary on Ben Berger’s Attention Deficit DemocracySocial Philosophy Today 29 153-158. 2013.In this review I argue that while Berger makes out a good argument that the language of civic engagement covers too much (and hence too little) and that education plays a vital role in developing civic-minded sensibilities, I am less sanguine that the strategies for the reform of our “attention deficit democracy” will achieve the desired effect in a political society dominated by the corrupting influence of corporations who actively seek to undermine just such sensibilities as anathema to their …Read more
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47Terminal illness and access to phase 1 experimental agents, surgeries and devices: Reviewing the ethical argumentsBritish Medical Bulletin 89 (1): 7-22. 2009.Background: The advent of AIDS brought about a group of patients unwilling to accept crucial aspects of the methodological standards for clinical research investigating Phase 1 drugs, surgeries or devices. Their arguments against placebo controls in trials, which depended-at the time-on the terminal status of patient volunteers led to a renewed discussion of the ethics of denying patients with catastrophic illnesses access to last-chance experimental drugs, surgeries or devices. Sources of data:…Read more
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10Justice and Global HealthIn John-Stewart Gordon (ed.), Morality and Justice: Reading Boylan's a Just Society, Lexington Books. pp. 161-177. 2009.
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325Beyond Equality of What: Sen and NeutralityLes Ateliers de L’Ethique 4 (2): 226-235. 2009.Based on a close reading of the debate between Rawls and Sen on primary goods versus capabilities, I argue that liberal theory cannot adequately respond to Sen’s critique within a conventionally neutralist framework. In support of the capability approach, I explain why and how it defends a more robust conception of opportunity and freedom, along with public debate on substantive questions about well-being and the good life. My aims are: to show that Sen’s capability approach is at odds with Rawl…Read more
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3Thesis (Ph.D, Philosophy) -- Queen's University, 2009-07-21 10:11:07.921.
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20Right Answer, Wrong Question: Special Access, Knowledge Generation, and Clinical Trial LegitimacyAmerican Journal of Bioethics 14 (11): 22-24. 2014.
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33Commentary on Ben Berger’s Attention Deficit DemocracySocial Philosophy Today 29 153-158. 2013.In this review I argue that while Berger makes out a good argument that the language of civic engagement covers too much (and hence too little) and that education plays a vital role in developing civic-minded sensibilities, I am less sanguine that the strategies for the reform of our “attention deficit democracy” will achieve the desired effect in a political society dominated by the corrupting influence of corporations who actively seek to undermine just such sensibilities as anathema to their …Read more
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