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102The Bodily Incorporation of Mechanical Devices: Ethical and Religious IssuesCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 16 (2): 229-239. 2007.A substantial portion of the developed world's population is increasingly dependent on machines to make their way in the everyday world. For certain privileged groups, computers, cell phones, PDAs, Blackberries, and IPODs, all permitting the faster processing of information, are commonplace. In these populations, even exercise can be automated as persons try to achieve good physical fitness by riding stationary bikes, running on treadmills, and working out on cross-trainers that send information…Read more
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81The Bodily Incorporation of Mechanical Devices: Ethical and Religious IssuesCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 16 (3): 268-280. 2007.Mechanical devices implanted in the body present implications for broad themes in religious thought and experience, including the nature and destiny of the human person, the significance of a person's embodied experience, including the experiences of pain and suffering, the person's relationship to ultimate reality, the divine or the sacred, and the vocation of medicine. Community-constituting convictions and narratives inform the method and content of reasoning about such conceptual questions a…Read more
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65Stem cell research: A target article collection part I - Jordan's Banks, a view from the first years of human embryonic stem cell researchAmerican Journal of Bioethics 2 (1). 2002.This essay will address the ethical issues that have emerged in the first considerations of the newly emerging stem cell technology. Many of us in the field of bioethics were deliberating related issues as we first learned of the new science and confronted the ethical issues it raised. In this essay, I will draw on the work of colleagues who were asked to reflect on early stages of the research (members of the IRBs, the Geron Ethicist Advisory Board, and the National Bioethics Advisory Commissio…Read more
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62Don't be chicken: Bioethics and avian fluAmerican Journal of Bioethics 6 (1). 2006.This Article does not have an abstract
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59Like/as: Metaphor and meaning in bioethics narrativeAmerican Journal of Bioethics 8 (6). 2008.Oncofertility is one of the 9 NIH Roadmap Initiatives, federal grants intended to explore previously intractable questions, and it describes a new field that exists in the liminal space between cancer treatment and its sequelae, IVF clinics and their yearning, and basic research in cell growth, biomaterials, and reproductive science and its tempting promises. Cancer diagnoses, which were once thought universally fatal, now often entail management of a chronic disease. Yet the therapies are rigor…Read more
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48Reasonable magic and the nature of alchemy: Jewish reflections on human embryonic stem cell researchKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 12 (1): 65-93. 2002.: The controversy about research on human embryonic stem cells both divides and defines us, raising fundamental ethical and religious questions about the nature of the self and the limits of science. This article uses Jewish sources to articulate fundamental concerns about the forbiddenness of knowledge in general and of knowledge thought of as magical creation. Alchemy, and the turning of elements into gold and into substances for longevity, and magic used for the creation of living beings was …Read more
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47Navigators and captains: Expertise in clinical ethics consultationTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 18 (4). 1997.The debate about what constitutes the discipline of ethics and who qualifies as an ethics consultant is linked unavoidably to a debate that is potentiated by the reality of a rapidly changing and high-stakes health care consultation marketplace. Who we are and what we can offer to the moral gesture that is medicine is shaped by our fundamental understanding of the place of expert knowledge in the transformation of social reality. The struggle for self-definition is particularly freighted since c…Read more
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36Yearning for the long lost home: The lemba and the jewish narrative of genetic returnDeveloping World Bioethics 3 (2). 2003.ABSTRACTThis commentary examines the relationship between genetics and Jewish identity. It focuses especially on the use of Y‐chromosome testing to map the genealogies of the Lemba in southern Africa
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35Limiting Access to Medical Treatment in an Age of Medical Progress: Developing a Catholic Consensus: A Response from Jewish TraditionChristian Bioethics 7 (2): 193-201. 2001.Laurie Zoloth; Limiting Access to Medical Treatment in an Age of Medical Progress: Developing a Catholic Consensus: A Response from Jewish Tradition, Christian
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34The best laid plans: Resistant community and the intrepid vision in the history of managed care medicineJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 24 (5). 1999.In the move to critique managed care, the essential principles that first made it a reasonable alternative to fee-for-service medicine can easily be lost. Careful reflection on the history of early grassroots movements that created managed care, and on selected textual narratives of the founders of the managed care organizations at their inception, offers us insight into which of the critical premises and goals of that effort might be reclaimed as we analyze the current managed care environment.
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33The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy (edited book)MIT Press. 2001.Discusses the ethical issues involved in the use of human embryonic stem cells in regenerative medicine.
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31Keeping Company: Ethics and the Talk in the CommonsCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 11 (1): 52-60. 2002.The field of bioethics is by definition based on the presupposition that questioning, arguing, interruption, and response are the means by which we evaluate the truth claims of medicine and healthcare policy. The field began with the premise that another voice, one of at least critique, if not dissension, was just what was needed in any arena in which hegemonic expertise held sway. The field of the humanities is similarly based on the idea that both the literary and cultural canonare acknowledge…Read more
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31Stem Cell Research: A Target Article Collection Part I - Jordan's Banks, A View from the First Years of Human Embryonic Stem Cell ResearchAmerican Journal of Bioethics 2 (1): 3-11. 2002.This essay will address the ethical issues that have emerged in the first considerations of the newly emerging stem cell technology. Many of us in the field of bioethics were deliberating related issues as we first learned of the new science and confronted the ethical issues it raised. In this essay, I will draw on the work of colleagues who were asked to reflect on early stages of the research as the field debated the issues of consent, moral status, use of animal tissues, abortion, use of feta…Read more
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28Go and Tend the Earth: A Jewish View on an Enhanced WorldJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 36 (1): 10-25. 2008.In this essay, the author considers how one particular faith community, contemporary Judaism, in all its internal diversity, has reflected on the issue of how far the project of genetic intervention ought to go when the subject of the future - embodied, willful, and vulnerable - is at stake. Knowing, naming, and acting to change is not only a narrative of faith traditions; it is a narrative of biological science as well
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27Research with Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Ethical ConsiderationsHastings Center Report 29 (2): 31-36. 2012.
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23Waiting to be born: The ethical implications of the generation of “nuborn” and “nuage” mice from pre-pubertal ovarian tissueAmerican Journal of Bioethics 8 (6). 2008.Oncofertility is one of the 9 NIH Roadmap Initiatives, federal grants intended to explore previously intractable questions, and it describes a new field that exists in the liminal space between cancer treatment and its sequelae, IVF clinics and their yearning, and basic research in cell growth, biomaterials, and reproductive science and its tempting promises. Cancer diagnoses, which were once thought universally fatal, now often entail management of a chronic disease. Yet the therapies are rigor…Read more
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22The Patient as Commodity: Managed Care and the Question of EthicsJournal of Clinical Ethics 6 (4): 339-357. 1995.
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22Clinical Ethics and the Road Less Taken: Mapping the Future by Tracking the PastJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 32 (2): 218-225. 2004.Clinical ethics, like the broader field of bioethics from which it emerged, is at a critical crossroads in its development, with conflicting paths ahead. It can either claim its distinctive place in the clinical arena, insisting unapologetically on certain minimal standards of professional training, practice and competence, addressing head on debates about various models of and methodological approaches to consultation, and establishing a shared vision of the purpose and meaning of the enterpris…Read more
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21Health Care and the Ethics of Encounter: A Jewish Discussion of Social Justice (review)Hastings Center Report 31 (3): 44. 2001.
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21Making the Things of the World: Narrative Construction and the Project of BioethicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 1 (1): 59-61. 2001.(2001). Making the Things of the World: Narrative Construction and the Project of Bioethics. The American Journal of Bioethics: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 59-61
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20Margin of Error: The Ethics of Mistakes in the Practice of MedicineHastings Center Report 31 (4): 48. 2001.
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17Her Work Sings Her PraiseSpiritual Goods 2001 381-401. 2001.Jewish ethics provides resources not only for exotic cases, but also for the practical necessities of everyday business practice, such as sustaining non-profit health care. Non-profit health care presents tough choices for justice because it is motivated by community compassion but must meet the pressures of the marketplace. Feminist ethics offers an "ethics of care" to guide our actions in such conflicts. This article argues that an ethics derived from both ferrlinism and Jewish sources calls f…Read more
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16First-Person Plural: Community and Method in Ethics ConsultationJournal of Clinical Ethics 5 (1): 49-54. 1994.
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16Face to Face, Not Eye to Eye: Further Conversations on Jewish Medical EthicsJournal of Clinical Ethics 6 (3): 222-231. 1995.
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15Justice as cardiovascular therapyAmerican Journal of Bioethics 1 (2). 2001.This Article does not have an abstract
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14She Said/he Said: Ethics Consultation and the Gendered DiscourseJournal of Clinical Ethics 7 (4): 321-332. 1996.
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