• Integrity and Commitment
    Dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1990.
    I examine three accounts of integrity and argue that each fails to provide an adequate analysis of the type of commitments needed for integrity. I argue that unless one is committed to some principle or project primarily because one judges it to be valuable independent of oneself, such a commitment cannot ground one's integrity. While the inclusion of this independence criterion does not eliminate the immoral as possible possessors of integrity, it does rule out those whose primary motivation fo…Read more
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    The Attitude of Canadian Nurses Towards Advance Directives
    with D. Blondeau, M. Lavoie, P. Valois, E. W. Keyserlingk, and I. Martineau
    Nursing Ethics 7 (5): 399-411. 2000.
    This article seeks to shed light on the beliefs that influence nurses’ intention of respecting or not respecting an advance directive document, namely a living will or a durable power of attorney. Nurses’ beliefs were measured using a 44-statement questionnaire. The sample was made up of 306 nurses working either in a long-term care centre or in a hospital centre offering general and specialized care in the province of Québec. The results indicate that nurses have a strong intention of complying…Read more