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2Exporting the “Culture of Life”In Michael Boylan (ed.), International Public Health Policy and Ethics, Springer Verlag. pp. 107-122. 2023.The Religious RightReligious right is using every means to impose its restrictive view of sexual and reproductive rights on everyone under the umbrella of a so-called culture of life (CL). The CL prohibits the direct killing of innocents (but not, apparently, letting them die), and requires that all sexual activity be open to procreation, thus restricting access to abortionAbortion and contraception. All this is alleged to be based on God’s will and to constitute the only objective moralityMoral…Read more
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16Embodying Bioethics: Recent Feminist Advances (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1999.Medical issues affecting health care have become everyday media events. In response to mounting public concern, growing numbers of bioethicists are being appointed to medical school faculties and public policy panels. However the ideas voiced in these forums are seldom informed by feminist perspectives. In this important book, a distinguished group of feminist scholars and activists discuss crucial bioethics topics in a feminist light. Among the subjects explored are the care/justice debates, tr…Read more
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8No Gods, Please!In Russell Blackford & Udo Schüklenk (eds.), 50 Voices of Disbelief, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009-09-10.This chapter contains sections titled: Notes.
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28[Book review] children of choice, freedom and the new reproductive technologies (review)Criminal Justice Ethics 15 (1): 67-74. 1996.
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40Pronatalism Is Violence Against Women: The Role of GeneticsIn Wanda Teays (ed.), Analyzing Violence Against Women, Springer. pp. 113-129. 2019.Pronatalism—the social bias toward having children—is at the core of much violence against women. Its chief characteristic, and its moral Achilles heel, is that it undermines autonomous decision-making about childbearing. Together with its soulmates misogyny and geneticism, it harms children, male partners, and humanity as a whole, given the serious environmental challenges now facing us. But, of course, biology requires women to gestate offspring, and women are generally expected to be responsi…Read more
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32Neutrality and the Academic EthicRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1994.In Neutrality and the Academic Ethic, distinguished philosopher Robert L. Simon explores the claim that universities can and should be politically neutral. He examines conceptual questions about the meaning of neutrality, distinguishes different conceptions of what neutrality involves, and considers in what sense, if any, institutional neutrality is both possible and desirable. In Part II, a collection of original and previously published essays provides different views on these and related issu…Read more
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37In tribute to Anne DonchinInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 8 (1): 1-17. 2015.
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21Feminist Perspectives in Medical EthicsHastings Center Report 23 (3): 43. 1993.Book reviewed in this article: No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics & Health Care. By Susan Sherwin Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics. Edited by Helen Bequaert Holmes and Laura M. Purdy.
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9Feminist EthicsHastings Center Report 21 (6): 41. 1991.Book reviewed in this article: Feminist Ethics. Ed. Claudia Card.
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58In Appreciation of Anne Donchin's Life and WorkInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 10 (2): 124-132. 2017.This article is an expansion of comments I was honored to present at a celebration of the life and work of Anne Donchin at the June 2016 meeting of the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics in Edinburgh. It is obviously far from comprehensive, but I hope it gives readers a glimpse of an Anne of whose depths many of us were not fully aware. One of the most difficult parts of talking about someone who has died is highlighting the positive without overdoing it to the extent that…Read more
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10Bioethics, Justice, and Health CareWadsworth Publishing Company. 2001.This new text offers the perspectives necessary for a comprehensive and objective critique of the health care establishment. By including diverse perspectives, students obtain a more accurate sense of the issues and the ethical considerations in a pluralistic society that values justice in its health systems.
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89Reproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist BioethicsCornell University Press. 1996.Controversies about abortion and women's reproductive technologies often seem to reflect personal experience, religious commitment, or emotional response. Laura M. Purdy believes, however, that coherent ethical principles are implicit in these controversies and that feminist bioethics can help clarify the conflicts of interest which often figure in human reproduction. As she defines the underlying issues, Purdy emphasizes the importance of taking women's interests fully into account. Reproducing…Read more
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2Is Preconception Sex Selection Necessarily Sexist?Reproductive Biomedicine Online 15 (Supp. 2): 33-37. 2007.
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A Three-Pronged Approach to Women's StudiesIn Marianne Triplette (ed.), Towards Equitable Education for Women and Men:Models From the Past Decade, Skidmore College. 1983.
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92Medicalization, medical necessity, and feminist medicineBioethics 15 (3). 2001.New and proposed medical technologies continually challenge our vision of what constitutes appropriate medical treatment. As scholars and consumers grapple with the meaning of innovation, one common critical theme to surface is that it constitutes undesirable medicalization. But we are embodied creatures who can often benefit from medical knowledge; in addition, rejection of medicalization may be in some cases based on an untenable appeal to nature. Harnessing the power of medicine for women’s w…Read more
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20Assisted Reproduction, Prenatal Testing, and Sex SelectionIn Helga Kuhse & Peter Singer (eds.), A Companion to Bioethics, Blackwell. 1006.This chapter contains sections titled: General Assessments of Assisted Reproduction Pre‐birth Testing Conclusion References Further reading.
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2Vitoria's Just War Theory: Still Relevant TodayIn R. Joseph Hoffmann (ed.), The Just War and Jihad, Prometheus Press. 2006.
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8From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice. Allen Buchanan, Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels, Daniel WiklerIsis 92 (2): 429-430. 2001.
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SexismIn Stephen G. Post (ed.), Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd edition, Macmillan Reference Usa. 2004.
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64Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics (edited book)Indiana University Press. 1992.The fields of medical ethics, bioethics, and women's studies have experienced unprecedented growth in the last forty years. Along with the rapid pace of development in medicine and biology, and changes in social expectations, moral quandaries about the body and social practices involving it have multiplied. Philosophers are uniquely situated to attempt to clarify and resolves these questions. Yet the subdiscipline of bioethics still in large part reflects mainstream scholars' lack of interest in…Read more
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Wells CollegeRetired faculty
Aurora, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Feminist Bioethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |