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15Battlefield Euthanasia: Ethics and the LawIn Daniel Messelken & David Winkler (eds.), Health Care in Contexts of Risk, Uncertainty, and Hybridity, Springer. pp. 115-128. 2021.After briefly narrating the evolution of Western ethical reflections on suicide and euthanasia, I argue that because people have a prima facie right not to be killed, it is usually unethical to kill anyone who poses no imminent lethal threat to others or who has not committed a capital crime. But I’m also persuaded that some instances of mercy killing in war are not only morally justifiable, they can be more ethical than allowing someone to die in agony and distress from their wounds. Thus I am …Read more
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35Challenging the Conception of Care in NursingHastings Center Report 28 (5): 44-45. 1998.An examination of Helga Kuhse, Caring: Nurses, Women and Ethics (1997).
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5Some misconceptions about cloning, the brain, and immortalitySan Jose Mercury News (December). 1999.If I clone my brain, will my mind survive the destruction of my current brain, or would I rather be creating a twin with a different mind?
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9Guest Editors’ IntroductionJournal of Business Ethics 38 (1-2). 2002.Introduction to a collection of articles originally presented at a February 2001 conference hosted by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University.
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15Should Convicted Criminals Receive Heart Transplants?Santa Clara Magazine (Fall). 2002.According to the United Network for Organ Sharing http://www.unos.org), over 4,100 Americans are currently candidates for heart transplants, meaning that they desperately need them, they satisfy the criteria for "medical utility" (i.e., a transplant will probably keep them alive), and they have adequate insurance or other funding to cover their cost. Unfortunately the supply of hearts in this country doesn't even come close to meeting the demand: only 2,202 heart transplants were performed last …Read more
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43Ambiguities in the 'War on Terror'Journal of Military Ethics 4 (1): 44-51. 2005.Kasher and Yadlin make significant contributions to the literature on counter-terrorism, (1) in their fine-tuned distinctions among degrees of individual involvement in terrorist activities, and (2) in weighing (a) obligations to minimize harm to one's own noncombatants and combatants against (b) the duty to limit harm to non-citizen noncombatants. But the authors? analysis is hampered by some ambiguous definitions, some unwieldy terms, and some questionable moral assumptions and arguments
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Review (review)Ethics and International Affairs (March). 2005.Review of an anthology of articles on interrogation and torture.
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1Some Unsettling Ethical Reflections on InterrogationInternational Journal of Intelligence Ethics 1 (1). 2010.An examination of ethical and legal issues in intelligence interrogation tactics.
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9Battlefield Euthanasia: Should Mercy-Killings Be Allowed?Parameters 44 (4). 2014.Analysis of ethical and legal issues in battlefield euthanasia or military mercy-killing.
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35The ability to keep someone alive by replacing one or more of their major organs is an astounding achievement of 20th-century medicine. Unfortunately, the current supply of transplant organs is much lower than the need or demand for them, which means that thousands of people die every year in the U.S. alone for lack of a replacement organ.
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Review (review)Parameters (Spring). 2004.Review of a book on comparative military ethics across several cultures.
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The Problem of Total War in Judaism, Christianity, and IslamJournal of Lutheran Ethics 2 (11). 2002.A comparative analysis of pacifism, just/limited war and total/indiscriminate war in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
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14Partly Cloudy: Ethics in War, Espionage, Covert Action, and Interrogation, 2nd ed.Rowman & Littlefield. 2016.Ethics in war, espionage, covert action, interrogation, targeted killing. Prima facie duties. Professional ethics. Just war theory. CIA. KGB.
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35Partly cloudy: ethics in war, espionage, covert action, and interrogationScarecrow Press. 2009.An introduction to ethical reasoning -- Comparative religious perspectives on war -- Just and unjust war in Shakespeare's Henry V -- Anticipating and preventing atrocities in war -- The CIA's original "social contract" -- The KGB: CIA's traditional adversary -- Espionage -- Covert action -- Interrogation -- Concluding reflections.
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Review (review)Philosophical Explorations. (October). 2006.Review of a book on religious ethics, interrogation tactics, and torture.
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Why Hearts and Minds Matter: Chivalry and Humanity, Even in Counterinsurgency, Are Not ObsoleteArmed Forces Journal (September). 2006.Just war theory applied to counterinsurgency.
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Review of Henry Shue, Fighting Hurt: Rule and Exception in Torture and WarParameters 46 (3). 2016.Review of Henry Shue, Fighting Hurt: Rule and Exception in Torture and War
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