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4Exploring the Philosophical Foundations of the Human Rights Approach to International Public Health EthicsIn Michael Boylan (ed.), International Public Health Policy and Ethics, Springer Verlag. pp. 47-59. 2023.This chapter has four main points. First, I argue that the human rightsHuman rights approach to public health ethicsEthics, championed by Jonathan MannMann, Jonathan and others, needs to engage with philosophical accounts of moral human rights. Second, I argue that, while both interest-based and agencyAgency accounts of moralRightshumanhuman rightsHuman rights are defensible as philosophical accounts of human rights, and both have advantages as the foundation for a human rights approach toRights…Read more
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16Feminist Human Rights: A Political ApproachLexington Books. 2023.Kristen Hessler argues that philosophy can best contribute to understanding human rights by exploring the full range of their use in practice. Her approach emphasizes how human rights activism and adjudication can both reveal and dismantle unjust social hierarchies. The result is an innovative vision of interdisciplinary human rights scholarship.
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1Theory, politics, and practice : methodological pluralism in the philosophy of human rightsIn Reidar Maliks & Johan Karlsson Schaffer (eds.), Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights: Implications for Theory and Practice, Cambridge University Press. 2017.
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12Gender imbalance on the international bench: Is normative legitimacy at stake?Journal of Social Philosophy 52 (4): 430-435. 2021.Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 430-435, Winter 2021.
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13Women judges or feminist judges?: Gender representation and feminist values in International CourtsJournal of Social Philosophy 52 (4): 459-472. 2021.Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 459-472, Winter 2021.
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12Gender imbalance on the international bench: Is normative legitimacy at stake?Journal of Social Philosophy 52 (4): 430-435. 2021.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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16Women judges or feminist judges?: Gender representation and feminist values in International CourtsJournal of Social Philosophy 52 (4): 459-472. 2021.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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28A Human Rights Approach to Health DisparitiesAmerican Journal of Bioethics 18 (10): 33-34. 2018.
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A Theory of Interpretation for International Human Rights LawDissertation, The University of Arizona. 2001.A complete theory of interpretation for human rights law must answer two kinds of questions. First: Who should interpret international human rights law? Second: What principles should guide the interpretation of human rights law? ;Individual governments frequently claim the right to interpret international law as it applies to them, but this claim is contested by many United Nations subgroups and by nongovernmental organizations like Amnesty International. I argue that international institutions…Read more
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3State sovereignty as an obstacle to international criminal lawIn Larry May & Zachary Hoskins (eds.), International Criminal Law and Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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27Swinging on the Pendulum: Shifting Views of Justice in Human Subjects ResearchHastings Center Report 31 (3): 22-24. 2012.Federal policies on human subjects research have undergone a progressive transformation. In the early decades of the twentieth century, federal policies largely relied on the discretion of investigators to decide when and how to conduct research. This approach gradually gave way to policies that augmented investigator discretion with externally imposed protections. We may now be entering an era of even more stringent external protections. Whether the new policies effectively absolve investigator…Read more
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21Exploring the philosophical foundations of the human rights approach to international public health ethicsIn Michael Boylan (ed.), International Public Health Policy & Ethics, Dordrecht. pp. 31--43. 2008.
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1152Genetically Modified Foods: Golden RiceIn Gary Comstock (ed.), Life Science Ethics, 2nd ed, Springer. pp. 387-397. 2010.
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61Resolving interpretive conflicts in international human rights lawJournal of Political Philosophy 13 (1). 2005.
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58Agricultural Biotechnology and Environmental JusticeEnvironmental Ethics 33 (3): 267-282. 2011.Agricultural biotechnology has long been criticized from an environmental justice perspective. However, an analysis, using golden rice as a case study, shows that golden rice is not susceptible to the main criticisms that are appropriate when directed at most products of agricultural biotechnology, and that golden rice has important humanitarian potential. For these reasons, an environmental justice evaluation of golden rice may need to be more nuanced and complex than a more traditional environ…Read more
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47Hard Cases: Philosophy, Public Health, and Women’s Human RightsJournal of Value Inquiry 47 (4): 375-390. 2013.
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