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7Healthcare Ethics Consultation as Public PhilosophyIn Lee C. McIntyre, Nancy Arden McHugh & Ian Olasov (eds.), A companion to public philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2022.Healthcare ethics consultation is therefore one of the most consequential, institutionally accepted, and widespread forms of public philosophy in the United States. In this chapter, the authors begin with an overview of the development of healthcare ethics and its emergence as a concrete practice embedded in healthcare settings. They then describe the core ethical principles that inform the everyday practice of ethics consultations and the generally accepted steps involved in conducting a consul…Read more
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23Incarcerated Patients and Equitability: The Ethical Obligation to Treat Them DifferentlyJournal of Clinical Ethics 28 (4): 308-313. 2017.Prisoners are legally categorized as a vulnerable group for the purposes of medical research, but their vulnerability is not limited to the research context. Prisoner-patients may experience lower standards of care, fewer options for treatment, violations of privacy, and the use of inappropriate surrogates as a result of their status. This case study highlights some of the ways in which a prisoner-patient’s vulnerable status impacted the care he received. The article argues the following: (1) Pr…Read more
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1061Priority-setting in international non-governmental organizations: it is not as easy as ABCDJournal of Global Ethics 8 (1): 5-17. 2012.Recently theorists have demonstrated a growing interest in the ethical aspects of resource allocation in international non-governmental humanitarian, development and human rights organizations (INGOs). This article provides an analysis of Thomas Pogge's proposal for how international human rights organizations ought to choose which projects to fund. Pogge's allocation principle states that an INGO should govern its decision making about candidate projects by such rules and procedures as are expe…Read more
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20Gender Equity and Social Support for TransplantsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 19 (11): 48-49. 2019.Volume 19, Issue 11, November 2019, Page 48-49.
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232International trade and labor standards: A proposal for linkage - by Christian Barry and Sanjay G. Reddy (review)Ethics and International Affairs 23 (1): 75-78. 2009.No Abstract
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421Burdened Societies and Transitional JusticeEthical Theory and Moral Practice 15 (3): 369-386. 2012.Following John Rawls, nonideal theory is typically divided into: (1) “partial-compliance theory” and (2) “transitional theory." The former is concerned with those circumstances in which individuals and political regimes do not fully comply with the requirements of justice, such as when people break the law or some individuals do not do their fair share within a distributive scheme. The latter is concerned with circumstances in which background institutions may be unjust or may not exist at all. …Read more
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1097Poverty relief, global institutions, and the problem of complianceJournal of Moral Philosophy 2 (3): 285-297. 2005.Thomas Pogge and Andrew Kuper suggest that we should promote an ‘institutional’ solution to global poverty. They advocate the institutional solution because they think that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can never be the primary agents of justice in the long run. They provide several standard criticisms of NGO aid in support of this claim. However, there is a more serious problem for institutional solutions: how to generate enough goodwill among rich nation-states that they would be willi…Read more
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463Joan McGregor argues that “colleges and universities should adopt as part of their core mission the development of skills of civil discourse” rather than engaging in the practice of restricting controversial speakers from making presentations on campuses. I agree with McGregor concerning the need for increased civil discourse. However, this does not mean universities should welcome speakers to publicly present any material they wish without restriction or oversight. In this paper, I make three m…Read more
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584Justified Commitments? Considering Resource Allocation and Fairness in Médecins Sans Frontières‐HollandDeveloping World Bioethics 6 (2): 59-70. 2006.Non‐governmental aid programs are an important source of health care for many people in the developing world. Despite the central role non‐governmental organizations play in the delivery of these vital services, for the most part they either lack formal systems of accountability to their recipients altogether, or have only very weak requirements in this regard. This is because most NGOs are both self‐mandating and self‐regulating. What is needed in terms of accountability is some means by which …Read more
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761Heroism, Meaning and Organ Donation: A Reply to FruhAmerican Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine 15 (2): 27-29. 2016.
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697International NGO Health Programs in a Non-Ideal World: Imperialism, Respect & Procedural JusticeIn E. Emanuel J. Millum (ed.), Global Justice and Bioethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 213-240. 2012.Many people in the developing world access essential health services either partially or primarily through programs run by international non-governmental organizations (INGOs). Given that such programs are typically designed and run by Westerners, and funded by Western countries and their citizens, it is not surprising that such programs are regarded by many as vehicles for Western cultural imperialism. In this chapter, I consider this phenomenon as it emerges in the context of development and h…Read more
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1143Knowing Their Own Good: Preferences & Liberty in Global EthicsIn Thom Brooks (ed.), New Waves in Ethics, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 210--230. 2011.Citizens of liberal, affluent societies are regularly encouraged to support reforms meant to improve conditions for badly-off people in the developing world. Our economic and political support is solicited for causes such as: banning child labor, implementing universal primary education, closing down sweatshops and brothels, etc. But what if the relevant populations or individuals in the developing world do not support these particular reforms or aid programs? What if they would strongly prefer…Read more
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599Policy, Advocacy, and Activism: On Bioethicists' Role in Combating RacismAmerican Journal of Bioethics 16 (4): 29-31. 2016.
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