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    Learning about Professional Ethics from Inter-Professional Dialogue
    Journal 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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    From Solo Decision Maker to Multi-Stakeholder Process: A Defense and Recommendations
    with Joseph Vukov, Kit Rempala, and Rohan Meda
    American 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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    Ethics Across the Curriculum—Pedagogical Perspectives
    with Elaine E. Englehardt, Michael S. Pritchard, Robert Baker, Michael D. Burroughs, José A. Cruz-Cruz, Randall Curren, Michael Davis, Aine Donovan, Deni Elliott, Karin D. Ellison, Challie Facemire, William J. Frey, Joseph R. Herkert, Karlana June, Robert F. Ladenson, Christopher Meyers, Glen Miller, Deborah S. Mower, Lisa H. Newton, Alan A. Preti, Wade L. Robison, Brian Schrag, Alan Tomhave, Phyllis Vandenberg, Mark Vopat, Sandy Woodson, Daniel E. Wueste, and Qin Zhu
    Springer 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
  • The Concept of Owning
    Dissertation, Yale University. 1974.
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    Profession and professional ethics
    Encyclopedia of Bioethics 4 2103-2112. 1995.
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    Dental Ethics at Chairside: Professional Principles and Practical Applications
    with David J. Sokol
    Mosby Elsevier Health Science. 1994.
    Case presentations, esthetics, insurance considerations, communicable diseases, referral questions, dental phobia, and legal concerns all play a role in doctor-patient relationships. These topics, and many others, are the subject of this one-of-a-kind resource, designed to show dental students and practitioners how to approach patient relationships.
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    Teaching ethics on Rounds: The ethicist as teacher, consultant, and decision-Maker
    with Jacqueline J. Glover and David C. Thomasma
    Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 7 (1). 1986.
    This paper explores the relationship between teaching and consulting in clinical ethics teaching and the role of the ethics teacher in clinical decision-making. Three roles of the clinical ethics teacher are discussed and illustrated with examples from the authors' experience. Two models of the ethics consultant are contrasted, with an argument presented for the ethics consultant as decision facilitator. A concluding section points to some of the challenges of clinical ethics teaching.
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    Teaching Philosophy and Teaching Values
    Teaching Philosophy 2 (3-4): 237-245. 1977.
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    Social ethics, the philosophy of medicine, and professional responsibility
    Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 6 (3). 1985.
    The social ethics of medicine is the study and ethical analysis of social structures which impact on the provision of health care by physicians. There are many such social structures. Not all these structures are responsive to the influence of physicians as health professionals. But some social structures which impact on health care are prompted by or supported by important preconceptions of medical practice. In this article, three such elements of the philosophy of medicine are examined in term…Read more
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    A Sample Course in Morality and Medicine
    The Monist 60 (1): 108-120. 1977.
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    Infinity (edited book)
    with Daniel O. Dahlstrom and Leo Sweeney
    National Office of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Catholic University of America. 1981.
    Based on the Fifty-fifth Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, held at the Chase-Park Plaza Hotel in St. Louis, April 3-5, 1981. Includes bibliographical references.
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    The Case Against Thawing Unused Frozen Embryos
    Hastings Center Report 15 (4): 7-12. 1985.
    Whether one believes that the embryo has rights from the instant of conception, or that the embryo has no moral rights at all, the conclusion about the fate of unused frozen embryos is the same: they ought to be preserved in their frozen state until they are implanted in a woman's womb or are no longer able to survive implantation.
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    Health care is not merely a matter of individual encounters between patients and physicians or other health care personnel. For patients and those who provide health care come to these encounters already possessed of learned habits of perception and judgment, valuation and action, which define their roles in relation to one another and affect every aspect of their encounter. So the presuppositions of these encounters must be examined if our understanding of patients' autonomy is to be complete. …Read more
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    Exploring Ethics (review)
    Teaching Philosophy 10 (4): 362-364. 1987.
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    Commentary on “Hospital Ethics”
    with Paul B. Hofmann and William A. Atchley
    Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 1 (3): 210. 1992.
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    Learning a Lot in Ethics Courses
    The Society for Business Ethics Newsletter 1 (2): 10-12. 1990.
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    ""The characteristics of a valid" empirical" slippery-slope argument
    Journal of Clinical Ethics 3 (4): 301-302. 1992.
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    Forgiving and Hoping
    Proceedings 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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    Teaching Ethics: Right to Refuse?
    with Angela R. Holder, James D. Gagnon, J. Richard Durnan, and Mary Ellen Waithe
    Hastings Center Report 21 (3): 39-40. 1991.
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    What 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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    Social Rules and Patterns of Behavior
    Philosophy 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