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    What, If Anything, Should Count as Elder Abuse?
    In Michael Boylan (ed.), International Public Health Policy and Ethics, Springer Verlag. pp. 309-318. 2023.
    The concept of elder abuseElder abuse has become increasingly prominent in public health. It raises problems that call for critical discussion, especially in light of the COVID pandemic. This essay offers such discussion, including discussion of whether the concept is worth retaining at all.
  • Midwest Studies in Philosophy (edited book)
    Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1981.
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    Using Fictive Narrative to Teach Ethics/Philosophy
    with Michael Boylan, Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, Sybol Cook Anderson, and Edward Spence
    Teaching Ethics 12 (1): 61-94. 2011.
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    Lucinda Among the Bioethicists
    American Journal of Bioethics 7 (6): 61-62. 2007.
    No abstract
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    This article deals both with greatly extended finite life and with immortality and uses the term ‘greatly extended life’ to cover both. Except where indicated, it proceeds from some assumptions adapted from Christine Overall. First, people would know the life expectancy in their society or would know that they were immortal. Second, everyone would have the opportunity to choose greatly extended life. Third, greatly extended life would not be mandatory; people would be able to opt out at any poin…Read more
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    Commentary on ‘expressivism at the beginning and end of life’
    Journal of Medical Ethics 46 (8): 548-549. 2020.
    Death can be good— I’ll tell you how. Just have it come Decades from now.1 Full disclosure: The above poem expresses my outlook, and I have trouble empathising with people who want to die. But that does not make me unable to evaluate objections to the expressivist argument against PAS. Reed sets forth the expressivist argument as follows: ‘[W]hen we allow PAS for individuals who are terminally ill or facing some severe disease or disability, we send a message of disrespect to all individuals who…Read more
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    More about More Life
    Hastings Center Report 33 (6): 5. 2003.
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    Coronavirus Is a Curse; Discrimination Makes it Worse
    Ethics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine 11 (1): 9-16. 2020.
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    Coronavirus Is a Curse / Discrimination Makes It Worse
    Ethics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine: An International Journal. forthcoming.
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    “I Support the Right to Die. You Go First”: Bias and Physician-Assisted Suicide
    In David Boonin, Katrina L. Sifferd, Tyler K. Fagan, Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Michael Huemer, Daniel Wodak, Derk Pereboom, Stephen J. Morse, Sarah Tyson, Mark Zelcer, Garrett VanPelt, Devin Casey, Philip E. Devine, David K. Chan, Maarten Boudry, Christopher Freiman, Hrishikesh Joshi, Shelley Wilcox, Jason Brennan, Eric Wiland, Ryan Muldoon, Mark Alfano, Philip Robichaud, Kevin Timpe, David Livingstone Smith, Francis J. Beckwith, Dan Hooley, Russell Blackford, John Corvino, Corey McCall, Dan Demetriou, Ajume Wingo, Michael Shermer, Ole Martin Moen, Aksel Braanen Sterri, Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, Jeppe von Platz, John Thrasher, Mary Hawkesworth, William MacAskill, Daniel Halliday, Janine O’Flynn, Yoaav Isaacs, Jason Iuliano, Claire Pickard, Arvin M. Gouw, Tina Rulli, Justin Caouette, Allen Habib, Brian D. Earp, Andrew Vierra, Subrena E. Smith, Danielle M. Wenner, Lisa Diependaele, Sigrid Sterckx, G. Owen Schaefer, Markus K. Labude, Harisan Unais Nasir, Udo Schuklenk, Benjamin Zolf & Woolwine (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy, Springer Verlag. pp. 703-715. 2018.
    Consider these three positions about physician-assisted suicide:Physician-assisted suicide should be illegal for everyone.Physician-assisted suicide should be legal for only the terminally ill.Physician-assisted suicide should be legal for all competent adults.So far, the debate in America has been primarily between positions 1 and 2. I think it should be between positions 1 and 3. Both those positions embody reasonable viewpoints, and I will not try to decide between them in this chapter. But I…Read more
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    “I’ve Been Bad”: Using Light Verse in Teaching Philosophy
    Journal of Aesthetic Education 53 (3): 3-13. 2019.
    . Conventional wisdom in our society is that a good death involves accepting it as natural rather than striving to stave it off as long as possible. An alternative view is “Death can be good / I’ll show you how / Just have it come / decades from now.” In this essay, I discuss how I use this poem and other light verses of mine in teaching philosophy. These poems offer unusual viewpoints in several additional areas of philosophical and bioethical interest, including growth through adversity, old a…Read more
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    Longer Living through Technology: In Favor of Life-Prolonging Biomedical Technology for Old People
    Ethics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine 6 (3-4): 163-171. 2015.
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    You see now that it is at any rate possible
    Teaching Ethics 17 (1): 93-101. 2017.
    Fiction can help make students better thinkers about some philosophical issues, but this does not mean it will make them morally better people.
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    More Merriment: A Rejoinder to Overall
    Dialogue 48 (2): 423-429. 2009.
  • Letters to the Editor
    Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 79 (2): 5-6. 2005.
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    Letter to the Editor
    Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 60 (5): 873-873. 1987.
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    Goldilocks and Mrs. Ilych: A Critical Look at the “Philosophy of Hospice”
    Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 6 (3): 314-324. 1997.
    Anyone who thinks contemporary American society is hopelessly contentious and lacking in shared values has probably not been paying attention to the way the popular media portray the hospice movement. Over and over, we are told such things as that “Humane care costs less than high-tech care and is what patients want and need,” that hospices are “the most effective and least expensive route to a dignified death,” that hospice personnel are “heroic,” that their “compassion and dedication seem inex…Read more
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    The More the Merrier
    Dialogue 45 (3): 549-558. 2006.
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    Glorification of Suffering
    Hastings Center Report 32 (6): 4. 2002.
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    Analysis and its paradoxes
    In Edna Ullmann-Margalit (ed.), The Scientific Enterprise, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 169--178. 1992.
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    Letter to the Editor
    Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 80 (5). 2007.
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    Patient and family decisions about life-extension and death
    In Rosamond Rhodes, Leslie Francis & Anita Silvers (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics, Blackwell. 2007.
    The prelims comprise: Rationality Morality Advance Directives Conclusion Notes References Suggested Further Reading.
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    The More the Merrier
    Dialogue 45 (3): 549-558. 2006.
  • Strawberry Ice Cream for Breakfast
    Free Inquiry 29 60-60. 2009.
  • Roots and consequences
    with Of Vagueness
    Philosophical Perspectives 8 129. 1994.