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19The Legal Philosophy of H. L. A. Hart: A Critical AppraisalPhilosophical Review 99 (2): 283. 1990.
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7Theory and PracticeNYU Press. 1996.Contributors discuss the work of thinkers such as Cass Sunstein and Jeremy Waldron in their exploration of the relations between philosophical theories and everyday life. They elucidate major attempts to reconcile theory with practice in the Western tradition, from Herodotus to Heidegger, and discuss topics such as the role of theory in judicial decision-making and the political implication of theory. Of interest to philosophers, lawyers, and social scientists. Annotation copyright by Book News,…Read more
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18Innocence Lost: An Examination of Inescapable Moral Wrong-DoingPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 58 (2): 487-490. 1998.
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41Review of Fred M. Frohock: Abortion: A Case Study in Law and Morals (review)Ethics 95 (2): 375-376. 1985.
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The Conceptual Coherence of Privacy As Developed in LawIn Mark Navin & Ann Cudd (eds.), Core Concepts and Contemporary Issues in Privacy, Springer Verlag. 2018.
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Horacio Spector, Autonomy and Rights: The Moral Foundations of Liberalism (review)Philosophy in Review 17 439-441. 1997.
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45[Book review] in pursuit of privacy, law, ethics, and the rise of technology (review)Ethics 109 (2): 437-439. 1999.
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Horacio Spector, Autonomy and Rights: The Moral Foundations of Liberalism Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 17 (6): 439-441. 1997.
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4Unionization in the Academy: Visions and RealitiesRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2003.Unionization in the Academy presents an authoritative, balanced, and comprehensive treatment of academic unions—their history, purpose, and the conflicts they cause
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17Protectors of Privacy: Regulating Personal Data in the Global Economy, Abraham L. Newman , 221 pp., $39.95 cloth (review)Ethics and International Affairs 25 (1): 92-94. 2011.
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23Drug Testing Balancing Privacy and Public SafetyHastings Center Report 24 (2): 17-23. 1994.Although testing for substance abuse can be intrusive, inaccurate, and ineffective at ferreting out those who are a threat to others, it can be morally justified in certain carefully circumscribed cases.
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55The Combat Exclusion and the Role of Women in the MilitaryHypatia 10 (1): 56-73. 1995.I first discuss reasons for feminists to attend to the role of women in the military, despite past emphasis on antimilitarism. I then focus on the exclusion of women from combat duty, reviewing its sanction by the U.S. Supreme Court and the history of its adoption. I present arguments favoring the exclusion, defending strong replies to each, and demonstrate that reasoning from related cases and feminist analyses of equality explain why exclusion remains entrenched
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56The Priority of Privacy for Medical InformationSocial Philosophy and Policy 17 (2): 213. 2000.Individuals care about and guard their privacy intensely in many areas. With respect to patient medical records, people are exceedingly concerned about privacy protection, because they recognize that health care generates the most sensitive sorts of personal information. In an age of advancing technology, with the switch from paper medical files to massive computer databases, privacy protection for medical information poses a dramatic challenge. Given high-speed computers and Internet capabiliti…Read more
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111Free speech and offensive expressionSocial Philosophy and Policy 21 (2): 81-103. 2004.Free speech has historically been viewed as a special and preferred democratic value in the United States, by the public as well as by the legislatures and courts. In 1937, Justice Benjamin Cardozo wrote in Palko v. Connecticut that protection of speech is a “fundamental” liberty due to America's history, political and legal, and he recognized its importance, saying, “[F]reedom of thought and speech” is “the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.” It is likel…Read more
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42Book review: Anita Allen. Why privacy isn't everything: Feminist reflections on personal accountability. Lanham, md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003 (review)Hypatia 21 (1): 227-231. 2006.
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524Moral conflicts and ethical relativismEthics 101 (1): 27-41. 1990.The article focuses on the study on moral conflicts and ethical relativism. There are few theories in the history ethics that stated that a moral dilemma can not be adhered by to moral requirements. According to philosophy professor David Wong, occurrence of irresolvable moral disagreement is one of the normative problems. On the other hand, the author asserted that single-agent moral conflicts do not necessarily fall under the relativism theory
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25Alternatives for protecting privacy while respecting patient care and public health needsEthics and Information Technology 1 (4): 249-255. 1999.This paper begins with a discussion of the value of privacy,especially for medical records in an age of advancing technology.I then examine three alternative approaches to protection ofmedical records: reliance on governmental guidelines, the useof corporate self-regulation, and my own third hybrid view onhow to maintain a presumption in favor of privacy with respectto medical information, safeguarding privacy as vigorously andcomprehensively as possible, without sacrificing the benefitsof new i…Read more
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Book Review (review)Ethics and International Affairs 25 (1). 2011.Abraham Newman has written a thoughtful and provocative book about the protection of privacy and how it has evolved in two dramatically different ways in the European Union and the United States over the past 50 years.
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Normative Ethics |
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