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14Personhood and the Public’s Definitions of a HumanAmerican Journal of Bioethics 24 (1): 49-51. 2024.Blumenthal-Barby (2024) argues that the concept of personhood should not be used in bioethics, and part of her justification is that personhood is not consistent with the public’s values. In this c...
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6Defending the Jurisdiction of the Clinical EthicistJournal of Clinical Ethics 25 (1): 20-31. 2014.In this essay I suggest that the bioethics profession’s jurisdiction over healthcare ethics consultation is in need of reinforcement. I argue that as the profession becomes more successful, competitors will challenge the profession to justify its ethical claims and ask whose ethics the profession represents. This challenge will come more quickly as the profession tries to influence the ethics of healthcare organizations. I propose a method of bolstering jurisdiction that will make the profession…Read more
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4Response to Callahan and WinsladeJournal of Clinical Ethics 25 (1): 41-42. 2014.I respond to commentaries by Daniel Callahan and William J. Winslade on my article, “Defending the Jurisdiction of the Clinical Ethicist,” all of which are in this issue of JCE.
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17Who legitimately Speaks for religion in public bioethics?In David E. Guinn (ed.), Handbook of Bioethics and Religion, Oxford University Press. 2006.This chapter discusses the various meanings of the two critical ideas in this book and compares them. These critical ideas are “religion” and “public bioethics”. The chapter focuses most of all not on the different religious roles, but on what we think “public bioethics” is or should be.
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29The two meanings of how and the Gene patenting debateAmerican Journal of Bioethics 2 (3). 2002.This Article does not have an abstract
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49The theological debate over human enhancement: An empirical case study of a mediating organizationZygon 55 (3): 615-637. 2020.For most theologians, theology should ultimately be used by the laity and/or the public. However, the religion and science debate has not focused on the divide between theologians and the laity. In this case study I examine the debate among theologians about human enhancement. I focus on the extent to which the structure of the debate in a “mediating organization” between the theologians and the public coincides with the structure of the debate among the theologians. I conduct a survey of partic…Read more
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15The Social Context of Religion in the Jurisdictions of BioethicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 20 (12): 1-4. 2020.In this issue, McCarthy, Homan and Rozier make the case for re-stablishing the relationship between theological and secular bioethics. I find MHR to be quite...
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35The Empirical Examination of the Social Process of Genetic Enhancement, Objectification, and MaltreatmentAmerican Journal of Bioethics 19 (7): 32-34. 2019.Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2019, Page 32-34.
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20Power and Representation of the Public's Values in a Social Implications of Research CommissionAmerican Journal of Bioethics 11 (5): 10-11. 2011.
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10New Barriers on the Slippery Slope?American Journal of Bioethics 20 (8): 19-21. 2020.Volume 20, Issue 8, August 2020, Page 19-21.
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31Playing God? Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical DebateJournal of the Society of Christian Ethics 24 (1): 183-217. 2004.
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12The Public’s Ethical Issues with Brain Organoid Research and ApplicationAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 13 (2): 101-103. 2022.Sawai et al. (2022) provide a good summary of the bioethical debate about brain organoids with an eye toward future directions. Like many contemporary texts in bioethics, they call for engagement w...
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57Between technocracy and democratic legitimation: A proposed compromise position for common morality public bioethicsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 31 (3). 2006.In this article I explore the underlying political philosophy of public bioethics by comparing it to technocratic authority, particularly the technocratic authority claimed by economists in Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s. I find that public bioethics - at least in the dominant forms - is implicitly designed for and tries to use technocratic authority. I examine how this type of bioethics emerged and has continued. I finish by arguing that, as claims to technocratic authority go, bioethics is in a…Read more
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23Between Technocracy and Democratic Legitimation: A Proposed Compromise Position for Common Morality Public BioethicsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 31 (3): 213-234. 2006.
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29A Sociological Account of the Growth of PrinciplismHastings Center Report 30 (5): 31-39. 2000.Bioethicists’ attraction to principlism is rooted in a Western view of how matters that affect the public ought to be deliberated and decided: their resolution ought to be so structured and constrained that it can be understood and verified even by those at a remove from the circumstances of the problem. That view of deliberation, itself fostered by the Western view of government, has encouraged principlism to spread from its source in human subjects research into other areas of bioethics discou…Read more
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