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31Time for Bioethics to End Talk of Personhood (But Only in the Philosophers’ Sense)American Journal of Bioethics 24 (1): 32-35. 2024.In her excellent essay, Blumenthal-Barby (2024) argues that it is “time for bioethics to end talk of personhood.” She is concerned, more specifically, with “the philosophical concept of personhood,...
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26Coordination and expertise foster legal textualismProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119 (44). 2022.A cross-cultural survey experiment revealed a dominant tendency to rely on a rule’s letter over its spirit when deciding which behaviors violate the rule. This tendency varied markedly across (k = 15) countries, owing to variation in the impact of moral appraisals on judgments of rule violation. Compared with laypeople, legal experts were more inclined to disregard their moral evaluations of the acts altogether and consequently exhibited stronger textualist tendencies. Finally, we evaluated a pl…Read more
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21Sexual citizenship: defending society’s most disadvantagedTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 2023 (1): 1-4. 2023.
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17The place of sexuality in society: misplaced grand theorising will sideline disabled people’s sexual rightsTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 44 (4): 405-409. 2023.
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16Is “terminally ill self-killing” suicide?Clinical Ethics. forthcoming.When a terminally ill patient kills herself, using a drug prescribed by a physician for this purpose, in bioethical literature this would be described as a case of physician-assisted suicide. This would also be a case of suicide according to the standard account of suicide in the philosophical literature. However, in recent years, some authors have argued that terminally ill self-killing in fact should not be considered suicide. In this paper, we don’t try to address the philosophical merits of …Read more
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19Anent the theoretical justification of a sex doula programTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 44 (2): 125-140. 2023.The Human Condition is neither a well-defined nor well-described concept—nevertheless, it is generally agreed that human sexuality is a fundamental and constituent part of it. For most able-bodied persons, accessing and expressing one's sexuality is a (relatively) trouble-free process. However, many disabled persons experience difficulty in accessing their sexuality, while others experience such significant barriers that they are often precluded from sexual citizenship altogether. Recognising th…Read more
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Coordination and expertise foster legal textualismProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (44). 2022.A cross-cultural survey experiment revealed a widespread tendency to rely on a rule’s letter over its spirit when deciding which acts violate the rule. This tendency’s strength varied markedly across (k = 15) field sites, owing to cultural variation in the impact of moral appraisals on judgments of rule violation. Compared to laypeople, legal experts were more inclined to disregard their moral evaluations of the acts altogether, and consequently exhibited more pronounced textualist tendencies. F…Read more
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39Minds, brains, and hearts: an empirical study on pluralism concerning death determinationMonash Bioethics Review 38 (1): 35-48. 2020.Several authors in bioethics literature have expressed the view that a whole brain conception of death is philosophically indefensible. If they are right, what are the alternatives? Some authors have suggested that we should go back to the old cardiopulmonary criterion of death and abandon the so-called Dead Donor Rule. Others argue for a pluralist solution. For example, Robert Veatch has defended a view that competent persons should be free to decide which criterion of death should be used to d…Read more
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29In defense of a pluralistic policy on the determination of deathEthics and Bioethics (in Central Europe) 8 (3-4): 179-188. 2018.In his paper “The challenge of brain death for the sanctity of life ethic”, Peter Singer advocates two options for dealing with death criteria in a way that is compatible with efficient organ transplantation policy. He suggests that we should either redefine death as cortical death or go back to the old cardiopulmonary criterion and scrap the Dead Donor Rule. We welcome Singer’s line of argument but raise some concerns about the practicability of the two alternatives advocated by him. We propose…Read more
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46Truth-telling and the Asymmetry of the Attitude to Truth-telling to Dying Patients in LatviaStudia Philosophica Estonica 6 (2): 55-78. 2013.