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    Blocked Exchanges: A Taxonomy
    In David Miller & Michael Walzer (eds.), Pluralism, Justice, and Equality, Oxford University Press. 1995.
    Judith Andre examines the issue of the scope of the market. She offers a framework for thinking about the issue of blocked exchanges that draws upon concepts of ownership, alienation, and the impact of the market on exchanges, interactions, and market participants. She shows where Michael Walzer's notion of dominance fits into her wider taxonomy of the limits of the market.
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    No. 3, Sprinq 2003
    with Barry DeCoster, Leonard Fleck, Tom Tomlinson, J. D. Clayton Thomason, M. A. Libby Bogdan-Lovis, Jan Holmes, and Beth McPhail
    Medical Humanities 24 (3). 2003.
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    Dealing with Naive Relativism in the Philosophy Classroom
    Metaphilosophy 14 (2): 179-182. 2007.
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    Improving our aim
    Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 24 (2). 1999.
    Bioethicists appearing in the media have been accused of "shooting from the hip" (Rachels, 1991). The criticism is sometimes justified. We identify some reasons our interactions with the press can have bad results and suggest remedies. In particular we describe a target (fostering better public dialogue), obstacles to hitting the target (such as intrinsic and accidental defects in our knowledge) and suggest some practical ways to surmont those obstacles (including seeking out ways to write or sp…Read more
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    Beast and Man
    Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 30 257-262. 1984.
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    The Demands of Deontology Are Not So Paradoxical
    Journal of Philosophical Research 16 407-410. 1991.
    The “paradox of deontology” depends partly upon ignoring the special responsibility each person has for her own actions, and partly upon ignoring the essential differences between refraining from X and persuading another to refrain. But only in part; the paradoxical situations schematized by Shaw can occasionally occur. When they do, his pragmatic defense of deontology is sound.
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    Rights, Killing, and Suffering (review)
    Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 31 521-522. 1986.
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    Free Speech (review)
    Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 31 519-521. 1986.
  •  86
    Wickedness (review)
    Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 31 522-523. 1986.
  •  53
    Body Parts: Property Rights and the Ownership of Human Biological Materials
    with E. Richard Gold
    Hastings Center Report 28 (2): 42. 1998.
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    The First BioethicistBioethics as Practice
    with Mark Kuczewski
    Hastings Center Report 33 (5): 45. 2003.
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    Feminist Bioethics
    Biomedical Law and Ethics 4 (2). 2011.
    Overview of feminist bioethics for the journal of the Ewha Women's College, Seoul, South Korea
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    Moral distress in nursing practice in Malawi
    with Veronica Mary Maluwa, Paul Ndebele, and Evelyn Chilemba
    Nursing Ethics 19 (2): 196-207. 2012.
    The aim of this study was to explore the existence of moral distress among nurses in Lilongwe District of Malawi. Qualitative research was conducted in selected health institutions of Lilongwe District in Malawi to assess knowledge and causes of moral distress among nurses and coping mechanisms and sources of support that are used by morally distressed nurses. Data were collected from a purposive sample of 20 nurses through in-depth interviews using a semi-structured interview guide. Thematic an…Read more
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    Business Ethics and medical ethics are in principle compatible: In particular, the tools of business ethics can be useful to those doing healthcare ethics. Health care could be conducted as a business and maintain its moral core.
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    Open Hope as a Civic Virtue
    Social Philosophy Today 29 89-100. 2013.
    Hope as a virtue is an acquired disposition, shaped by reflection; as a civic virtue it must serve the good of the community. Ernst Bloch and Lord Buddha offer help in constructing such a virtue. Using a taxonomy developed by Darren Webb I distinguish open hope from goal-oriented hope, and use each thinker to develop the former. Bloch and Buddha are very different (and notoriously obscure; I do not attempt an exegesis). But they share a metaphysics of change, foundational for making any sense of…Read more
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    Femininity," "Masculinity," and "Androgyny (review)
    Teaching Philosophy 7 (2): 156-157. 1984.
  • Because the medical humanities are multidisciplinary, participants tend to see one another's work through their own disciplinary lens. This can lead to misinterpretations.
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    The Good Wife and Philosophy
    Open Court Publishing. 2013.
    Fifteen philosophers look at the deeper issues raised in the highly popular TV drama, including common morality, legal correctness and legal ethics, discussing the gray areas of legal battles and maneuvering.
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    Role Morality as a Complex Instance of Ordinary Morality
    American Philosophical Quarterly 28 (1). 1991.
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    Learning to see: moral growth during medical training
    Journal of Medical Ethics 18 (3): 148-152. 1992.
    During medical training students and residents reconstruct their view of the world. Patients become bodies; both the faults and the virtues of the medical profession become exaggerated. This reconstruction has moral relevance: it is in part a moral blindness. The pain of medical training, together with its narrowness, contributes substantially to these faulty reconstructions. Possible improvements include teaching more social science, selecting chief residents and faculty for their attitudes, he…Read more
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    Beyond Moral Reasoning
    Teaching Philosophy 14 (4): 359-373. 1991.
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    Moral Distress in Healthcare
    Bioethics Forum 18 (1-2): 44-46. 2002.
    Moral distress is the sense that one must do, or cooperate in, what is wrong. It is paradigmatically faced by nurses, but it is almost a universal occupational hazard.
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    The Equal Moral Weight of Self- and Other-Regarding Acts
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 17 (1): 155-165. 1987.
    Self-regarding acts are frequently classified as non-moral; even more frequently, they are assumed to have less moral weight than parallel other-regarding acts. I argue briefly against the first claim, and at greater length against the second. Our intuitions about the lesser moral weight of self-regarding acts arise from imperfectly recognized, and morally relevant, differences between acts which are ordinarily described in misleadingly parallel phrases. ‘Love of self,’ for instance, and ‘love o…Read more
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    Privacy as a value and as a right
    Journal of Value Inquiry 20 (4): 309-317. 1986.
    Knowledge of others, then, has value; so does immunity from being known. The ability to extend one's knowledge has value; so does the ability to limit other's knowledge of oneself. I have claimed that no interest can count as a right unless it clearly outweighs opposing interests whose presence is logically entailed. I see no way to establish that my interest in not being known, simply as such, outweighs your desire to know about me. I acknowledge the intuitive attractiveness of such a position;…Read more
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    Goals of Ethics Consultation: Toward Clarity, Utility, and Fidelity
    Journal of Clinical Ethics 8 (2): 193-198. 1997.
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    Elderhood—or old age, if one prefers—is a stage of life without much cultural meaning. It is generally viewed simply as a time of regrettable decline. Paying more attention to it, to its special pleasures and developmental achievements, will be helpful not only to elders but to those younger as well. I will argue that three existential tasks are central in elderhood, but also important at every other stage of adult life. I identify three: cherishing the present, accepting the past, and investing…Read more
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    A Larger Space for Moral Reflection
    Ethical Currents (53): 6-8. 1998.
    Margaret Urban Walker argues that hospital ethics committees should think of their task as "keeping moral space open." I develop her suggestion with analogies: Enlarge the windows (i.e., expand what counts as an ethical issue); add rooms and doors (i.e., choose particular issues to engage). Examples include confidentiality defined as information flow, and moral distress in the healthcare workplace.
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    Review essay / disgust, dignity, and a public intellectual
    Criminal Justice Ethics 24 (1): 52-57. 2005.
    Martha C. Nussbaum, Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law. Princeton Nf: Princeton University Press, 2004, xv #;pl 413 pp