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Justice Kennedy's Jurisprudence of Dignity: From Sovereign Immunity to Gay RightsAmerican Journal of Legal History 4 (63). 2023.Although this article uses Obergefell v Hodges (2015) as its frame, it aims to bring out some distinctive features of Justice Kennedy’s jurisprudence of dignity more broadly. There are two reasons why such an investigation is important. The first is important to those interested in the legal case. Indeed, in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health (2022), the Court now argues that the relevant ‘test’ for determining whether a right is protected under the Due Process Clause is whether the right is found t…Read more
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24What Do Rights Have to Do with It?American Journal of Bioethics 24 (3): 31-33. 2024.Rising temperatures, increased frequency and intensity of storms, and other extreme climate events clearly indicate that we are living in an era of dramatic climate change. The impacts of pollution...
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18Dignitary Harms and Abortion LawAmerican Journal of Bioethics 22 (8): 85-87. 2022.In Planned Parenthood v. Casey the Court argued that the Fourteenth Amendment protected “choices central to personal dignity and autonomy”. In...
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11Black Dignity: The Struggle against Domination. Vincent W.Lloyd, 2022. New Haven, Yale University Press. 208 pp, £17.99 (hb) (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 40 (4): 760-762. 2023.
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20Response to commentaries on Powell/Scarffe feature articleJournal of Medical Ethics 45 (9): 597-598. 2019.We are grateful for the thoughtful attention the commentators and editors have given our paper. They raise many substantive points that warrant a response, but for reasons of journal space our reply must be brief. In our paper, we argue for an amended hybrid account of ‘disease’ in human medicine that takes normative ethics seriously, guards against pernicious classifications of disease and reconnects the concept with the goals of healthcare institutions in which disease diagnosis is embedded. C…Read more
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59Rethinking “Disease”: a fresh diagnosis and a new philosophical treatmentJournal of Medical Ethics 45 (9): 579-588. 2019.Despite several decades of debate, the concept of disease remains hotly contested. The debate is typically cast as one between naturalism and normativism, with a hybrid view that combines elements of each staked out in between. In light of a number of widely discussed problems with existing accounts, some theorists argue that the concept of disease is beyond repair and thus recommend eliminating it in a wide range of practical medical contexts. Any attempt to reframe the ‘disease’ discussion sho…Read more
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44Rehabilitating Disease: Function, Value, and Objectivity in MedicinePhilosophy of Science 86 (5): 1168-1178. 2019.The concept of disease remains hotly contested. In light of problems with existing accounts, some theorists argue that the disease concept ought to be eliminated. We answer this skeptical challenge by reframing the discussion in terms of the role that the disease concept plays in the complex network of health-care institutions in which it is deployed. We argue that while prevailing accounts do not suffer from the particular defects that critics have identified, they do suffer from other deficits…Read more
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31Toward a Dignity-Based Account of International lawJus Cogens 4 (3): 207-236. 2022.Once limited to issues in maritime and trade law, today the most recognizable examples of international law govern issues such as human rights, intellectual property, crimes against humanity and international armed conflicts. In many ways, this proliferation has been a welcomed development. However, when coupled with international law’s decentralized structure, this rapid proliferation has also posed problems for how we (and in particular judges) identify if, when, and where international law ex…Read more