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1Professionalization of Clinical Ethics Consultants: A Need for Liability Protection?HEC Forum 1-17. forthcoming.Clinical Ethics Consultation (CEC) has grown significantly in the last decade, and efforts are being made to professionalize the practice. The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) has been instrumental in this process, having published the _Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibilities for Healthcare Ethics Consultants_ and founded and endorsed the creation of the _Healthcare Ethics Consultant Certified (HCEC) Certification Commission._ The ASBH also published “core competenci…Read more
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95Celestial Motions in the Late Middle AgesEarly Science and Medicine 2 (2): 129-148. 1997.With the introduction of Greco-Islamic science and natural philosophy, medieval natural philosophers were confronted with three distinct astronomical systems: Aristotelian, Ptolemaic, and the system of al-Bitruji. A fundamental problem that each had to confront was how to explain simultaneous contrary motions in the heavens -for example, the sun's motion, which moves east to west with a daily motion while simultaneously moving west to east along the ecliptic- within an Aristotelian physical syst…Read more
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58Scientific imagination in the middle agesPerspectives on Science 12 (4): 394-423. 2004.: Following Aristotle, medieval natural philosophers believed that knowledge was ultimately based on perception and observation; and like Aristotle, they also believed that observation could not explain the "why" of any perception. To arrive at the "why," natural philosophers offered theoretical explanations that required the use of the imagination. This was, however, only the starting point. Not only did they apply their imaginations to real phenomena, but expended even more intellectual energy…Read more
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22Opera quadrivialia, 1: Opera Petri Philomenae; 2: Opera Petri de Sancto Audomaro (review)Speculum 61 (1): 248-248. 1986.
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33How Theology, Imagination, and the Spirit of Inquiry Shaped Natural Philosophy in the Late Middle AgesHistory of Science 49 (1): 89-108. 2011.
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43God and Natural Philosophy: the Late Middle Ages and Sir Isaac NewtonEarly Science and Medicine 5 (3): 279-298. 2000.
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14Celestial Motions in the Late Middle AgesEarly Science and Medicine 1 (2): 129-148. 1997.With the introduction of Greco-Islamic science and natural philosophy, medieval natural philosophers were confronted with three distinct astronomical systems: Aristotelian, Ptolemaic, and the system of al-Bitruji. A fundamental problem that each had to confront was how to explain simultaneous contrary motions in the heavens -for example, the sun's motion, which moves east to west with a daily motion while simultaneously moving west to east along the ecliptic- within an Aristotelian physical syst…Read more
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28Medical Futility: Legal and Ethical AspectsJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 20 (4): 330-335. 1992.
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32The Fate of Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy in the Middle AgesReview of Metaphysics 61 (3): 503-526. 2008.
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The "Small Beginnings" of Euthanasia: Examining the Erosion in Legal Prohibitions Against Mercy-KillingNotre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy 2 (2): 585-634. 1986.
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Georgetown UniversityOther (Part-time)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Applied Ethics |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |