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    The Right to Know Genetic Origins: A Harmful Value
    Hastings Center Report 44 (4): 5-6. 2014.
    A commentary on “The Ethics of Anonymous Gamete Donation: Is There a Right to Know One's Genetic Origins?,” by Inmaculada de Melo‐Martin, and “Autonomous Choice and the Right to Know One's Genetic Origins,” by Vardit Ravitsky, bothin the January‐February 2014 issue.
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    To Criticize the Right to Know We Must Question the Value of Genetic Relatedness
    American Journal of Bioethics 13 (5): 54-56. 2013.
    No abstract
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    Accepting Adoption’s Uncertainty: The Limited Ethics of Pre-Adoption Genetic Testing
    Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 11 (2): 245-260. 2014.
    An increasing number of children are adopted in the United States from countries where both medical care and environmental conditions are extremely poor. In response to worries about the accuracy of medical histories, prospective adoptive parents increasingly request genetic testing of children prior to adoption. Though a general consensus on the ethics of pre-adoption genetic testing (PAGT) argues against permitting genetic testing on children available for adoption that is not also permitted f…Read more
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    This dissertation claims that the problem of self-knowledge involves a kind of splitting of the mind or self into a knower and a known, a subject and an object of knowledge. As modern philosophy becomes concerned with the project of certainty, its turn toward the self renders this splitting into a kind of aporia: how can the self know itself when it is at once a subject and an object of its own knowing? The goal of this dissertation is not to develop a paradigm of self-awareness that avoids or e…Read more