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    Moral Psychology: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (edited book)
    with Sandra Lee Bartky, Paul Benson, Sue Campbell, Claudia Card, Robin S. Dillon, Jean Harvey, Karen Jones, Charles W. Mills, Margaret Urban Walker, Rebecca Whisnant, and Catherine Wilson
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2004.
    Moral psychology studies the features of cognition, judgement, perception and emotion that make human beings capable of moral action. Perspectives from feminist and race theory immensely enrich moral psychology. Writers who take these perspectives ask questions about mind, feeling, and action in contexts of social difference and unequal power and opportunity. These essays by a distinguished international cast of philosophers explore moral psychology as it connects to social life, scientific stud…Read more
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    Alzheimer's Disease and Socially Extended Mentation
    In Armen T. Marsoobian, Brian J. Huschle, Eric Cavallero, Eva Feder Kittay & Licia Carlson (eds.), Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Semantic Externalism: A Rough Sketch and a Gesture at Motivation Interests, Values, and the Mind's End Beyond Externalism About Mental Contents Acknowledgments References.
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    Families and Bioethics: Old Problems, New Themes
    Journal of Clinical Ethics 16 (4): 299-302. 2005.
  •  2
    A Response to Gill
    with Joel Frader
    Journal of Clinical Ethics 15 (4): 289-291. 2004.
  •  4
    Reasons and Feelings, Duty and Dementia
    Journal of Clinical Ethics 9 (1): 58-65. 1998.
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    Book review (review)
    with Mary Ann Carroll and Nancy S. Jecker
    Journal of Value Inquiry 27 (2): 375-378. 1993.
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    Where families and healthcare meet
    with M. A. Verkerk, Hilde Lindemann, Janice McLaughlin, Jackie Leach Scully, Ulrik Kihlbom, and Jacqueline Chin
    Journal of Medical Ethics 41 (2): 183-185. 2015.
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    From the Editors
    International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 10 (2): 1-3. 2017.
    With this issue of IJFAB, we mark the end of one phase of the journal’s life and take our first steps into the next. It was eleven years ago, in 2007, that the first issue of IJFAB, then based at Stony Brook University and published by Indiana University Press, appeared with Mary Rawlinson as editor. That first issue was made possible by long months of work on the part of Mary and a group of others who were convinced that for feminist bioethics to develop as a field, it needed its own journal wi…Read more
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    The Romance of the Family
    Hastings Center Report 38 (4): 19-21. 2008.
    We should not always expect parents to put their children first.
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    At the Center
    Hastings Center Report 24 (5). 1994.
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    At the Center
    with Hilde Lindemann Nelson
    Hastings Center Report 25 (4). 1995.
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    Doubt, Disorientation, and Death in the Plague Time
    Hastings Center Report 50 (3): 4-4. 2020.
    An account of an experience with contracting an illness that may well have been Covid‐19 gives rise to reflections on doubt and on the art of dying well. The upshot: our mortality remains a fundamentally disorienting condition of our existence. If there's any wisdom to be had concerning our deaths, it likely lies in the direction of accepting their deranging character, rather than in searching for the philosophical insight that will reconcile us to our fate.
  • Book review (review)
    Journal of Value Inquiry 30 (1-2): 375-378. 1996.
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    Taking Nature's Pulse (review)
    Hastings Center Report 23 (5): 44. 1993.
    Book reviewed in this article: Ecosystem Health: New Goals for Environmental Management. Ed. Robert Costanza, Bryan G. Norton, and Benjamin D. Haskell.
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    When Doctors Say No: The Battleground of Medical Futility
    with Susan B. Rubin
    Hastings Center Report 30 (3): 49. 2000.
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    Case Study: Birth Plans and Professional Autonomy
    with Constance Perry and Linda Quinn
    Hastings Center Report 32 (2): 12. 2002.
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    Case Study: But Is It Assisted Suicide?
    with Joseph J. Fins and Milton Viederman
    Hastings Center Report 25 (3): 24. 1995.
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    Is It Ever Right to Do Wrong? (review)
    Hastings Center Report 25 (3): 48-49. 2012.
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    Bioethics Education Expanding the Circle of Participants
    with Barbara C. Thornton and Daniel Callahan
    Hastings Center Report 23 (1): 25. 1993.
    Bioethics education now takes place outside universities as well as within them. How should clinicians, ethics committee members, and policymakers be taught the ethics they need, and how may their progress best be evaluated?
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    Just caring for the elderly
    International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 6 (2): 36-40. 2013.
    Midway in Martha Holstein’s article, these words occur: “[P]eople [should] get the help they need, when they need it, in the way that they would like to receive it, without exploiting family members or imperiling their dignity or self-respect” (24). In an essay that brims over with worrisome news, that this seemingly anodyne sentence appears in the section devoted to utopian thinking is perhaps the most dispiriting thought it conveys. Not that there isn’t keen competition for the role. Holstein …Read more
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    Donation by default? Examining feminist reservations about opt-out organ procurement
    International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 3 (1): 23-42. 2010.
    There is reason to believe that procuring organs from recently dead people who did not explicitly refuse to provide them—here referred to as “opt-out” arrangements—would ease growing shortages, thus extending the lives of many who otherwise would die soon. There is also a simple, apparently powerful argument—the “easy rescue requirement”—for believing that many people have strong moral reason to provide such life-extending support to others, thus bolstering the case for implementing opt-out syst…Read more
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    Progress in bioethics: Science, policy, and politics, edited by Jonathan D. Moreno and Sam Berger
    International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 4 (1): 237-241. 2011.
    Jonathan D. Moreno and Sam Berger, Progress in bioethics: Science, policy, and politics, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010, reviewed by James Lindemann Nelson
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    Relativists and Hypocrites: Earp on Genital Cutting
    Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 26 (2): 165-172. 2016.
    Cutting people’s genitals—at least, when thought of as an exotic practice—seems to interest philosophers chiefly as a source of problem cases for moral relativism. A ready-to-hand example is supplied by Simon Blackburn, in the relativism chapter of his charming little introduction to ethics text, Being Good: “If, as in some North African countries, young girls are terrifyingly and painfully mutilated so that thereafter they cannot enjoy natural and pleasurable human sexuality, that is not OK, an…Read more
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    Medicine and Making Sense of Queer Lives
    Hastings Center Report 44 (s4): 12-16. 2014.
    As practiced, medicine bumps along with the rest of us, doing its level best to cope with the contingencies of this often heartbreaking world. Yet it's a commonplace that much of medicine's self‐image, and a good deal of its cultural heft, come from its connection with the natural sciences and, what's more, from a picture of science that has a touch of the transcendental, highlighting the unmatched rigor of its procedures, its exacting rationality, and the reliability of its results.In contrast,…Read more
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    A Comment on Fry's “The Role of Caring in a Theory of Nursing Ethics”
    with Jeannine Ross Boyer
    Hypatia 5 (3): 153-158. 1990.
    Our response to Sara Fry's paper focuses on the difficulty of understanding her insistence on the fundamental character of caring in a theory of nursing ethics. We discuss a number of problems her text throws in the way of making sense of this idea, and outline our own proposal for how caring's role may be reasonably understood: not as an alternative object of value, competing with autonomy or patient good, but rather as an alternative way of responding toward that which is of value.
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    Philosophizing in a Dissonant Key
    Hypatia 22 (3): 223-233. 2007.