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6Ethics by Committee: A Textbook on Consultation, Organization, and Education for Hospital Ethics Committees (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2007.While tens of thousands of people across the United States serve on hospital and other healthcare ethics committees , almost no carefully prepared educational material exists for HEC members. Ethics by Committee is a one volume collection of chapters developed exclusively for this educational purpose. Experts in bioethics, clinical consultation, health law, and social psychology from across the country contribute chapters on ethics consultation, education, and policy development
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5Learning about Professional Ethics from Inter-Professional DialogueJournal of Clinical Ethics 32 (3): 224-232. 2021.Our society’s professions, including the health professions, have long overlooked the possibility that one might learn something valuable about one’s own profession’s ethics by studying the ethics of other professions. Reflecting on the preceding article by Ritwik, Patterson, and Alfonzo-Echeverri, one can identify important similarities between dentistry’s professional ethics and the ethics of the other health professions. But there are also important differences between these professions’ ethi…Read more
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26From Solo Decision Maker to Multi-Stakeholder Process: A Defense and RecommendationsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 20 (2): 53-55. 2020.Berger (2019) argues effectively that “representativeness is more aptly understood as a variable that is multidimensional and continuous based on relational moral authority,” and also makes some useful suggestions about how taking this observation seriously might require changes in current patterns of practice regarding surrogates. But the essay raises additional important questions about how the Best Interest Standard (BIS) should be used among unrepresented patients and other patients as well …Read more
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51Ethics Across the Curriculum—Pedagogical PerspectivesSpringer Verlag. 2018.Late in 1990, the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at Illinois Institute of Technology (lIT) received a grant of more than $200,000 from the National Science Foundation to try a campus-wide approach to integrating professional ethics into its technical curriculum.! Enough has now been accomplished to draw some tentative conclusions. I am the grant's principal investigator. In this paper, I shall describe what we at lIT did, what we learned, and what others, especially phil…Read more
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11Review of Thomas Morawetz: The Philosophy of Law: An Introduction (review)Ethics 92 (3): 572-573. 1982.
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26A Review of: “Charlotte McDaniel, Organizational Ethics: Research and Ethical Environments”: Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2004. 198 pp. $79.95, hardback (review)American Journal of Bioethics 6 (4): 77-78. 2006.No abstract
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16Taking the Lead in Developing Institutional PoliciesIn Micah D. Hester (ed.), Ethics by committee: a textbook on consultation, organization, and education for hospital ethics committees, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 249. 2008.
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25Social rules and the actions of groups: Control of physical objects (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 18 (1): 23-34. 1984.
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36Cost containment and physicians' decisions: Rethinking the philosophy of medicineTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 8 (1): 81-84. 1987.
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27Book Review:The Philosophy of Law: An Introduction. Thomas Morawetz (review)Ethics 92 (3): 572-. 1982.
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16""The characteristics of a valid" empirical" slippery-slope argumentJournal of Clinical Ethics 3 (4): 301-302. 1992.
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Pettman, Ralph, "Biopolitics and International Values: Investigating Liberal Norms" (review)Ethics 93 (n/a): 219. 1982.
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55Forgiving and HopingProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 82 163-172. 2008.The word “forgiveness” and its verbal form, “forgiving,” may appear to have one and the same meaning whenever it is used. But the first thesis of this essay is that several distinct kinds of human activity are denominated by this word, and their differences are philosophically important. The second thesis of this essay is that some of the human activities denominated by this word have a close connection with hope, more specifically with hoping-in-a-person. The third thesis of this essay is that,…Read more
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32What should count as basic health care?Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 4 (2). 1983.The concept of basic healt.h care has grown steadily in importance in recent years as more and more of those who reflect on the issue of a right to health care conclude that we need to distinguish between kinds of health care to which people do have a right and others to which they do not have a right. There is little consensus on where to draw this line. But there does seem to be general agreement that, if this distinction is valid, it is so because some kinds of health care are less important,…Read more
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21Social Rules and Patterns of BehaviorPhilosophy Research Archives 3 879-895. 1977.In this paper I clarify the distinction between actions performed under a social rule and a mere pattern of behavior through an examination of two distinctive features of actions performed under a social rule. Developing an argument proposed by H.L.A. Hart in The Concept of Law, I first argue that, where a social rule exists, there nonconformity/conformity to the pattern of behavior set down in the rule count as good reasons for criticism/commendation of actions covered by the rule. Secondly I a…Read more
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112Do corporations have moral rights?Journal of Business Ethics 4 (4). 1985.My aim in this paper is to explore the notion that corporations have moral rights within the context of a constitutive rules model of corporate moral agency. The first part of the paper will briefly introduce the notion of moral rights, identifying the distinctive feature of moral rights, as contrasted with other moral categories, in Vlastos' terms of overridingness. The second part will briefly summarize the constitutive rules approach to the moral agency of corporations (à la French, Smith, Oz…Read more
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An explanation and a method for the ethics of journalismIn Christopher Meyers (ed.), Journalism ethics: a philosophical approach, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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43Three models of group choiceJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 7 (1): 23-34. 1982.The notion of group responsibility has received some very fruitful examination in recent years. But there still remains an important commonsense objection to this notion. Moral responsibility for an action is ordinarily linked to and held to depend upon the action's being the product of an act of choice on the part of the agent. The thrust of the objection here is that it is extremely difficult to understand how intentional acts like acts of choice can be properly attributed to a group. The noti…Read more
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36Reproductive Ethics and Frameworks for Ethics Education (review)Teaching Philosophy 14 (3): 305-311. 1991.
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17Forgiving and HopingProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 82 163-172. 2008.The word “forgiveness” and its verbal form, “forgiving,” may appear to have one and the same meaning whenever it is used. But the first thesis of this essay is that several distinct kinds of human activity are denominated by this word, and their differences are philosophically important. The second thesis of this essay is that some of the human activities denominated by this word have a close connection with hope, more specifically with hoping-in-a-person. The third thesis of this essay is that,…Read more
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72Natural Law and the Right to Know in a DemocracyJournal of Mass Media Ethics 20 (2-3): 121-138. 2005.This article places the concept of "right to know," which is normally associated with law, in a moral framework. It outlines multiple meanings of the concept, emphasizing the institutional nature of "right to know." Then the article imbeds this understanding in moral thinking, including a discussion of the moral elements of rights, and applies that understanding in specific journalistic situations.
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35The Ethics of Teaching EthicsHastings Center Report 20 (4): 17-21. 1990.Concerns of public responsibility and professional certification may sometimes mean it is unethical to teach ethics.
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Stewart, V. Lorne, ed., "Justice and Troubled Children around the World", vol 2 (review)Ethics 93 (n/a): 216. 1982.
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