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    Two models in global health ethics
    Public 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
  • Global Health Responsibilities
    In Helga Kuhse Peter Singer (ed.), A Companion to Bioethics, 2nd ed., Wiley-blackwell. pp. 393-403. 2009.
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    Morality and Justice: Reading Boylan's a Just Society (edited book)
    with John-Stewart Gordon, Michael Boylan, Robert Paul Churchill, James A. Donahue, Marcus Duwell, Dale Jacquette, Tanja Kohen, Seumas Miller, Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, Johann-Christian Poder, Edward H. Spence, Udo Schuklenk, Wanda Teays, and Rosemarie Tong
    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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    Global Health Responsibilities
    In 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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    Global Health and Global Health Ethics
    Philosophical Papers 43 (2): 311-315. 2014.
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    Commentary on Ben Berger’s Attention Deficit Democracy
    Social 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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    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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    Beyond Equality of What: Sen and Neutrality
    Les 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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    Thesis (Ph.D, Philosophy) -- Queen's University, 2009-07-21 10:11:07.921.
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    Perfectionism for Neutralists
    Journal of Social Philosophy 42 (4): 382-402. 2011.
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    Commentary on Ben Berger’s Attention Deficit Democracy
    Social 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