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6Patient InterpretationIn Sarah K. Hansen (ed.), New forms of revolt: essays on Kristeva's intimate politics, Suny Press. pp. 107-125. 2017.
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DisabilityIn Ezio Di Nucci, Ji-Young Lee & Isaac A. Wagner (eds.), The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Bioethics, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2022.
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1Second Thoughts on Disability and EnhancementIn Adam Cureton & David Wasserman (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability, Oxford University Press, Usa. pp. 633-650. 2018.Transhumanist arguments in support of radical human enhancement are inimical to disability justice projects. Transhumanist thinkers, the strongest promoters of human enhancement, and fellow travelers who claim enhancement is a moral obligation, make arguments that rely on the denigration of disabled embodiment and lives. These arguments link disability with risk. The promotion of human enhancement is therefore open to significant disability critique despite transhumanism’s claims to allyship wit…Read more
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40Reconciling the disability critique and reproductive liberty: The case of negative genetic selectionInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 6 (1): 121-143. 2013.The disability critique of negative genetic selection is frequently accused of threatening reproductive liberty. This paper describes the disability critique and defends it against that objection. It also contends that the critique can work to deflate belief in genetic determinism. Recognizing the influence of genetic determinism helps advocate for existing persons in the disability community and protects reproductive liberty. The disability critique can point to genetic determinism but does not…Read more
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49Obscured Social Construction as Epistemic HarmJournal of Social Philosophy 48 (3): 344-358. 2017.
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36"Patient Interpretation: Kristeva's Model for the Caregiver"In Sarah Hansen & Rebecca Tuvel (eds.), New Forms of Revolt: Essays on Kristeva's Intimate Politics, Suny Press. pp. 107-125. 2017.
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226The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and BiopoliticsLexington Books. 2016.In a critical intervention into the bioethics debate over human enhancement, philosopher Melinda Hall tackles the claim that the expansion and development of human capacities is a moral obligation. Hall draws on French philosopher Michel Foucault to reveal and challenge the ways disability is central to the conversation. The Bioethics of Enhancement includes a close reading and analysis of the last century of enhancement thinking and contemporary transhumanist thinkers, the strongest promoters o…Read more
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63Horrible Heroes: Liberating Alternative Visions of Disability in HorrorThe Disability Studies Quarterly 36 (1). 2016.Understanding disability requires understanding its social construction, and social construction can be read in cultural products. In this essay, I look to one major locus for images of persons with disabilities—horror. Horror films and fiction use disability imagery to create and augment horror. I first situate my understanding of disability imagery in the horror genre using a case study read through the work of Julia Kristeva. But, I go on to argue that trademark moves in the horror genre, whi…Read more
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77Continental Approaches in BioethicsPhilosophy Compass 10 (3): 161-172. 2015.Bioethics influences public policy, scientific research, and clinical practice. Thinkers in Continental traditions have increasingly contributed scholarship to this field, and their approaches allow new insights and alternative normative guidance. In this essay, examples of the following Continental approaches in bioethics are presented and considered: phenomenology and existentialism; deconstruction; Foucauldian methodologies; and biopolitical analyses. Also highlighted are Continental feminism…Read more
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23Picturing Disability: Beggar, Freak, Citizen, and Other Photographic Rhetoric (review)Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 8 (1): 121-124. 2014.
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25This paper calls fresh attention to ethical problems surrounding prenatal testing by focusing on genetic knowledge gained through evolving testing procedures. Advances in reproductive and prenatal genetic testing include non-invasive tests, such as Verifi and Materniti21, designed to gather detailed information regarding fetal DNA as early as 10 weeks. Meanwhile, a new method of chromosomal microarray has proved more reliable than karyotyping in detecting fetal abnormality. This method detects a…Read more
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29Vile Sovereigns in Bioethical DebateDisability Studies Quarterly 33 (4). 2013.In this paper, I critically assess transhumanist philosophy and its influence in bioethics by turning to resources in the work of Michel Foucault. I begin by outlining transhumanism and drawing out some of the primary goals of transhumanist philosophy. In order to do so, I focus on the work of Nick Bostrom and Julian Savulescu, two prominent contributors to this thinking. I then move to explicate Foucault’s work, in the early iterations of the Abnormal lecture series, on the concept of vile sove…Read more
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74Reconciling the Disability Critique and Reproductive Liberty: The Case of Negative Genetic SelectionInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 6 (1): 121-143. 2013.The following is dedicated to promoting a version of the disability critique of negative genetic selection while navigating claims that launching such a critique threatens reproductive liberty or is unavoidably antichoice. I highlight problematic conceptual assumptions regarding genetics and choice made by proponents and opponents of selection alike and bring out the underlying ableist values of the prevailing conversation. Ableism is discrimination against persons on the basis of perceived disa…Read more
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