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    Live Kidney Donations and the Ethic of Care
    with Grace Clement and Mary Kane
    Journal of Medical Humanities 29 (3): 173-188. 2008.
    In this paper, we seek to re-conceptualize the ethical framework through which ethicists and medical professionals view the practice of live kidney donations. The ethics of organ donation has been understood primarily within the framework of individual rights and impartiality, but we show that the ethic of care captures the moral situation of live kidney donations in a more coherent and comprehensive way, and offers guidance for practitioners that is more attentive to the actual moral transactio…Read more
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    The Absent Patient: A Meditation on a Chardin Painting
    Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 9 (1): 7-16. 2000.
    That remark, by a long forgotten critic, was meant as a rebuke for the painter who did not work from sketches. Jean Simeon Chardin's counter
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    Keeping Elizabeth Bouvia Alive For the Public Good
    Hastings Center Report 15 (6): 5-8. 1985.
    The case of Elizabeth Bouvia, a handicapped woman who wanted doctors to assist her in dying, reveals that autonomy is insufficient as the sole or even the most important public policy principle. Where the community is asked to endorse a course of action by granting medical and financial assistance, considerations of autonomy must give way to the broader notion of the public good, which gives primacy to the respect for life.
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    Peitho and the Polis
    Philosophy and Rhetoric 19 (2). 1986.
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    Book Review (review)
    Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2 (3): 385-387. 1993.
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    Neither beasts nor gods: civic life and the public good
    Southern Methodist University Press. 1998.
    Contemporary Americans often view politics as a necessary evil. This cogent and original work uses the ancient philosophical/political tradition of the West to rehabilitate the high vocation of the politician and the citizen in the modern world. Kane seeks to locate human beings and such philosophical notions as the public good, public virtue, public speech, and public action in the complicated middle between the bestial and the divine. To live as best we can on that middle path is, he believes,…Read more
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    Book Review (review)
    Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 1 (3): 279-281. 1992.