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How the past matters: on the foundations of an ethics of remembranceIn Klaus Neumann & Janna Thompson (eds.), Historical justice and memory, The University of Wisconsin Press. 2015.
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16Holding Wrongdoers Responsible contests a number of widely accepted, almost standard, claims about blame and forgiveness in the philosophical literature, and their relationship to each other.
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39The theme of this book is the complex moral psychology of forgiving and remembering in both personal and political contexts. It offers an original account of the moral psychology of interpersonal forgiveness and explores its role in transitional societies. The book also examines the symbolic moral significance of memorialization in these societies and reflects on its relationship to forgiveness.
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76Doing what the patient orders: Maintaining integrity in the doctor‐patient relationshipBioethics 7 (4): 289-314. 1993.No profession has undergone as much scrutiny in the past several decades as that of medicine. Indeed, one might well argue that no profession has ever undergone so much change in so short a time. An essential part of this change has been the growing insistence that competent, adult patients have the right to decide about the course of their own medical treatment. However, the familiar and widely accepted principle of patient self-determination entails a corollary that has received little attenti…Read more
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17Investing in ParenthoodHastings Center Report 48 (5): 37-39. 2018.The recent child custody case Weisberger v Weisberger raises a number of ethical issues concerning the rights and responsibilities of parents. Chavie Weisberger, thirty‐five, and her husband, both members of an ultraorthodox Hasidic community, appeared before a religious court in 2008 to obtain a divorce. There are two sharply contrasting legal rulings in this case. Setting aside the legally significant fact that Chavie had signed the divorce agreement with the clause requiring her to raise her …Read more
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21Multiculturalism and Just Health Care: Taking Pluralism SeriouslyIn Rosamond Rhodes, Margaret P. Battin & Anita Silvers (eds.), Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care, Oxford University Press. pp. 38-52. 2002.The pluralism that democratic regimes foster creates the following serious problem in societies: When people disagree so fundamentally about the good life, where are the grounds of social unity to be found? This is a quite general problem for liberal political theory, but in this chapter I want to focus on a related but narrower set of issues having to do with what justice requires with respect to the provision of health care in modern democratic societies.
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15Urban BioethicsKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 10 (1): 1-20. 2000.Urban bioethics seeks to broaden the traditional focus of bioethics to encompass questions about the interplay of individuals with family, group, community, and society. Urban bioethics will need to deal with cultural diversity, issues of equity, and the conflict between individual rights and the public good. Encouraging a multicultural ethical discernment, fostering an appreciation of the political, economic, sociological, and psychological issues that inform the question of urban moral choice,…Read more
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22The Family in Medical DecisionmakingHastings Center Report 23 (3): 6-13. 1993.Should the authority to make treatment decisions be extended to the competent patient's family? Neither arguments from fairness nor communitarian concerns justify such an infringement on patient autonomy.
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147Forgiveness, commemoration, and restorative justice: The role of moral emotionsMetaphilosophy 41 (4): 582-617. 2010.Abstract: Forgiveness of wrongdoing in response to public apology and amends making seems, on the face of it, to leave little room for the continued commemoration of wrongdoing. This rests on a misunderstanding of forgiveness, however, and we can explain why there need be no incompatibility between them. To do this, I emphasize the role of what I call nonangry negative moral emotions in constituting memories of wrongdoing. Memories so constituted can persist after forgiveness and have important …Read more
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26On the doctrine of parens patriae: Fiduciary obligations and state powerCriminal Justice Ethics 2 (2): 39-47. 1983.
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31When Doctors Break the RulesCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 21 (2): 249-259. 2012.Suppose a primary care physician practicing in an underserved community orders a treatment for one of her indigent patients under the state’s Medicaid program.
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63Principles, virtues, and the morality of personal relationsJournal of Value Inquiry 33 (4): 475-491. 1999.
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36Morality and parenting: An ethical framework for decisions about the treatment of imperiled newbornsTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 9 (1). 1988.This essay is written in the belief that questions relating to the treatment of impaired and imperiled newborns cannot be adequately resolved in the absence of a general moral theory of parent-child relations. The rationale for treatment decisions in these cases should be consistent with principles that ought to govern the normal work of parenting. The first section of this paper briefly examines the social contract theory elaborated by John Rawls in his renowned book A Theory of Justice and ext…Read more
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21Choosing for others as Continuing a Life Story: The Problem of Personal Identity RevisitedJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 27 (1): 20-31. 1999.Philosophically, the most interesting objection to the reliance on advance directives to guide treatment decisions for formerly competent patients is the argument from the loss of personal identity. Starting with a psychological continuity theory of personal identity, the argument concludes that the very conditions that bring an advance directive into play may destroy the conditions necessary for personal identity, and so undercut the authority of the directive. In this article, I concede that i…Read more
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95Criticizing and reforming segregated facilities for persons with disabilitiesJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 5 (2-3): 157-168. 2008.In this paper, we critically appraise institutions for people with disabilities, from residential facilities to outpatient clinics to social organizations. While recognizing that a just and inclusive society would reject virtually all segregated institutional arrangements, we argue that in contemporary American society, some people with disabilities may have needs that at this time can best be met by institutional arrangements. We propose ways of reforming institutions to make them less isolatin…Read more
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51Credentialing ethics consultants: An invitation to collaborationAmerican Journal of Bioethics 7 (2). 2007.This Article does not have an abstract
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97The Moral Demands of MemoryCambridge University Press. 2008.Despite an explosion of studies on memory in historical and cultural studies, there is relatively little in moral philosophy on this subject. In this book, Jeffrey Blustein provides a systematic and philosophically rigorous account of a morality of memory. Drawing on a broad range of philosophical and humanistic literatures, he offers a novel examination of memory and our relations to people and events from our past, the ways in which memory is preserved and transmitted, and the moral responsibi…Read more
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38Human Rights and the Internationalization of MemoryJournal of Social Philosophy 43 (1): 19-32. 2012.
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25[Book review] care and commitment, taking the personal point of view (review)Social Theory and Practice 20 (2): 203-220. 1994.
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24When Doctors Break the RulesCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 21 (2): 249-259. 2012.Suppose a primary care physician practicing in an underserved community orders a treatment for one of her indigent patients under the state’s Medicaid program.
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City College of New York (CUNY)Department of PhilosophyArthur Zitrin Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics
New York City, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |