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    The Ethics of Pandemics (edited book)
    Broadview Press. 2020.
    _A portion of the revenue from this book’s sales will be donated to Doctors Without Borders to assist in the fight against COVID-19._ The rapid spread of COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact on modern health-care systems and has given rise to a number of complex ethical issues. This collection of readings and case studies offers an overview of some of the most pressing of these issues, such as the allocation of ventilators and other scarce resources, the curtailing of standard privacy measur…Read more
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    Trust and Responsibility in Health Policy
    Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2 (2): 116-133. 2009.
    Discussions of both personal responsibility and the importance of trust in health-care settings are increasingly prominent in the bioethics literature. In this paper I link the two discussions and argue that health policies that include personal responsibility ought to address climates of social trust. Trust is a social good that is not always fairly distributed. Disadvantaged social groups often face default distrust. I suggest that agent-centered models in which responsibilities are negotiated…Read more
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    “The Welsh E.coli Outbreak—A Failure in Regulatory and Professional Ethics,” Population and Public Health Ethics Casebook, (edited book)
    with Thomas Tenkate and eds Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Institute of Population and Public Health
    University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. 2013.
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    Trust and responsibility in health policy
    International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2 (2): 116-133. 2009.
    Discussions of both personal responsibility and the importance of trust in health-care settings are increasingly prominent in the bioethics literature. In this paper I link the two discussions and argue that health policies that include personal responsibility ought to address climates of social trust. Trust is a social good that is not always fairly distributed. Disadvantaged social groups often face default distrust. I suggest that agent-centered models in which responsibilities are negotiated…Read more
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    This book fills an important gap in existing health care ethics literature by describing an egalitarian conception of moral respect which applies to autonomous and non-autonomous patients alike. It reframes questions about respect, from its target to the role that respect plays in our moral lives. Taking into account various forms of objectification, it suggests that the unique role of moral respect is to recognize a person as more than a mere object; to recognize them as an equally intrinsicall…Read more
  • “Growing Concerns: Prenatal Genetic Risks and Trust” in Risk and Trust: Including or Excluding Citizens? (edited book)
    with The Law Commission of Canada eds
    Fernwood Publishers. 2007.