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55[Book review] women and children in health care, an unequal majority (review)Hastings Center Report 25 (1): 950-951. 1995.
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27Review of Mary Briody Mahowald: Women and Children in Health Care: An Unequal Majority. (review)Ethics 105 (4): 950-951. 1995.
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On Justifying Paternalistic Interference with AdultsDissertation, University of Maryland, College Park. 1982.Paternalistic reasons for interfering with another's choices or actions are generally taken to be those which appeal exclusively to the welfare of the person interfered with. Paternalism of this sort is problematic because it involves an obvious and compelling conflict between two fundamental moral principles, one which prescribes interfering with another , and one which prescribes protection of another's well-being . My concern in this dissertation is to say when paternalistic interference with…Read more
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28Ethics in Obstetrics and GynecologyHastings Center Report 26 (2): 45. 1996.Book reviewed in this article: Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology. By Laurence B. McCullough and Frank A. Chervenak.
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26Christian science healing: An alternative health care system?Journal of Social Philosophy 26 (3): 105-111. 1995.
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52Paternalism and VoluntarinessCanadian Journal of Philosophy 16 (2). 1986.Among fundamental, widely shared values, there are two which often come into conflict, creating a serious moral dilemma, viz., the value of individual well-being and the value of individual self-direction. These values issue in two fundamental moral principles, one which prescribes the protection of others from harm, and one which proscribes interfering with a person's right to direct his own life and actions. When an individual is doing or choosing something which subjects him to harm or signif…Read more
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82Editors' Introduction to Writing against HeterosexismHypatia 22 (1). 2007.For many of us, entry into motherhood involves an ambiguous visibility and intelligibility, where our acceptance into mainstream spaces as mothers entails a loss of lesbian difference. Mann explores this loss using the work of two philosophers of lesbian difference, Monique Wittig and Judith Butler. She argues that the figure of the lesbian mother is deployed on a broad cultural scale to reinvigorate and renaturaUze the myth of the happy, natural, heterosexual mother.
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30Ensuring a Stillborn: The Ethics of Fetal Lethal Injection in Late AbortionJournal of Clinical Ethics 6 (3): 254-263. 1995.
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22Let's get the lead out: Or why Johnson controls is not an unequivocal victory for womenJournal of Social Philosophy 25 (3): 65-75. 1994.
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75Reproduction, Ethics, and the Law: Feminist Perspectives (edited book)Indiana University Press. 1995.The. Metamorphosis. of. Motherhood. Patricia. Smith. Motherhood, as traditionally understood, is obsolete. It is not yet as obsolete as, say, knighthood, but it is moving just as inevitably in the same direction. No one wants to admit that, but it is ...
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34Evaluating Religious PracticesProfessional Ethics, a Multidisciplinary Journal 3 (2): 37-56. 1994.
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21The Silent ScreamPhilosophy Research Archives 11 181-195. 1985.The Silent Scream, a videotape which includes footage of a real time sonogram of an abortion in progress, has been receiving considerable attention in America as the anti-abortion movement’s latest argument. The tape has been enthusiastically endorsed by President Reagan and has been distributed to every member of Congress and to each of the Supreme Court justices. It is produced and narrated by Bernard N. Nathanson, a practicing obstetrician and gynecologist, and it includes a number of implici…Read more
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46Liberty, beneficence, and involuntary confinementJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 9 (3): 261-294. 1984.My purpose in this paper is to show that current legal criteria for paternalistic involuntary psychiatric confinement of the mentally ill are both too narrow and too broad. I do this by first developing a principle of justified paternalistic interference with adults, which I take to be acceptably protective of individual liberty, but which does not require unnecessary sacrifices of individual welfare. After offering an analysis of current legal criteria for involuntary confinement, 1 argue that …Read more
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63Ethical issues in professional life (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1988.When (if ever) may a professional deceive a client for the client's own good? Under what conditions (if any) is whistle-blowing morally required? These are just some of the questions that scholars as diverse as Michael D. Bayles, Thomas Nagel, Sissela Bok, Jessica Mitford, and Peter A. French confront in this stimulating anthology. Organized around philosophical issues such as the moral foundations of professional ethics, models of the professional-client relationship, deception, informed consen…Read more
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35Symposium: A roundtable on feminism and philosophy in the mid-1990s: Taking stock: IntroductionMetaphilosophy 27 (1-2): 184-188. 1996.Feminist philosophy emerged in earnest in the 1970s. With that emergence and the latest surge of the Women's Movement now a quarter of a century old and with the turn of the century approaching quickly, the Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs and the Pacific Society for Women in Philosophy invited a group of feminist philosophers to reflect on feminism and philosophy as we approach the millennium. A roundtable was held at the 1995 meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophic…Read more
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144Response to Rebecca Dresser's 'involuntary confinement: Legal and psychiatric perspectives'Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 10 (2): 199-202. 1985.
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1Christine Overall, Ethics and Human Reproduction: A Feminist Analysis Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 10 (10): 421-423. 1990.
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52Multiple Gestations: Some Public Policy IssuesHealth Care Analysis 9 (2): 167-185. 2001.Multiple gestations, or multifetal pregnancies,raise a number of significant policy questionsconcerning the well being of women and the wellbeing of the children fetuses might become.Important questions for feminists pertain notonly to multifetal pregnancy itself, but alsoto the medical interventions associated withthese pregnancies. In this paper, we addressthe questions of how many embryos should betransferred in assisted reproduction, how manyfetuses should remain in a multiple gestation,who …Read more
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81Same-Sex Marriage: Why It Matters—At Least for NowHypatia 24 (1): 70-80. 2009.This paper addresses the progressive, feminist critique of same-sex marriage as articulated by Claudia Card. Although agreeing with Card that the institution of marriage as we know it is profoundly morally flawed in its origins and effects, Callahan disagrees with Card's suggestion that queer activists in the United States should not be working for the inclusion of same-sex couples in the institution.
Joan C. Callahan
(1946 - 2019)
Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Philosophy of Law |
Social and Political Philosophy |