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3Exporting 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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17Embodying 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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9No 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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35[Book review] children of choice, freedom and the new reproductive technologies (review)Criminal Justice Ethics 15 (1): 67-74. 1996.
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43Pronatalism 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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33Neutrality 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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2Reply to TollefsenIn Arthur L. Caplan & Robert Arp (eds.), Contemporary debates in bioethics, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 25--460. 2014.
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39In tribute to Anne DonchinInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 8 (1): 1-17. 2015.
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27Feminist 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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12Feminist EthicsHastings Center Report 21 (6): 41. 1991.Book reviewed in this article: Feminist Ethics. Ed. Claudia Card.
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61In 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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566Abortion and the Argument from ConvenienceIn Laura Martha Purdy (ed.), Reproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist Bioethics, Cornell University Press. 1996.
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Should We Add the "Xeno" to "Transplantation"?Politics and the Life Sciences 19 (2): 247-259. 2004.
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32The morality of new reproductive technologiesJournal of Social Philosophy 18 (1): 38-48. 1987.Science is revolutionizing human reproduction. New techniques are already with us, such as artificial insemination, the freezing of sperm, in vitro fertilization and the use of surrogate mothers. Artificial wombs are clearly on the horizon.
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Liberal Parenting and Adolescent Sexuality: A Response to Lainie RossPolitics and the Life Sciences 15 (2): 302-394. 1996.
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10Is Abortion Murder?In R. L. Perkins (ed.), Abortion: Pro and Con, Schenkman. 1974.This essay deals with the morality of abortion. We argue that abortion is morally unobjectionable and that society benefits if abortion is available on demand. We begin by setting out a preliminary case in support of the practice of abortion. We then examine moral objections to abortion and show why those objections are unsound. We conclude by considering what properties something needs in order to have a serious right to life, and we show that a human fetus does not possess those properties. Th…Read more
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17Genetic Diseases: Can Having Children Be Immoral?In John L. Buckley (ed.), Genetics Now, University Press of America. pp. 26. 1978.
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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 |