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21Hypothesis and Evidence in Psychoanalysis. Marshall Edelson (review)Philosophy of Science 53 (2): 300-302. 1986.
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5The Standing of Psychoanalysis. B. A. Farrell (review)Philosophy of Science 51 (1): 177-179. 1984.
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Understanding Limits: Morality, Ethics, and Law in PsychologyDissertation, The University of Arizona. 1999.Work by Sales and Lavin has suggested that it is possible to improve the moral and ethical thinking of psychologists. In particular, moral and ethical thinking by psychologists could be improved if psychologists learned to use defensible moral metrics. The usefulness of formal training in ethics and morality, with the implicit condemnation of the moral metrics that might be taught in such training, has been challenged by writers such as Justice Holmes. He has alleged that professionals learn how…Read more
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6How Not to Define Death: Some Objections to Cognitive ApproachesSouthern Journal of Philosophy 23 (3): 313-324. 2010.Offers objections to cognitive definitions of death. Death is a biological concept, and should have biological criteria for its definition.
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30Why we do not have to treat like cases alikeJournal of Value Inquiry 22 (4): 313-318. 1988.Offers reasons for rejecting principle of relevant similarity. Like cases need not be treated alike. I may treat one person better than another simply because I prefer to do so.
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20How not to define death: Some objections to cognitive approachesSouthern Journal of Philosophy 23 (3): 313-324. 1985.
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3Separating Death from Mind and MoralsPublic Affairs Quarterly 3 (3): 35-47. 1989.The definition of death should be framed in biological rather than psychological or moral terms. Loss of personal identity, for example, does not equal death, even if it is a worse fate.
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2Book Reviews : Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis. BY RONALD BAYER. New York: Basic Books, 1981. Pp. 224. $12.95 U.S (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 16 (2): 252-254. 1986.
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21Ulysses ContractsJournal of Applied Philosophy 3 (1): 89-101. 1986.‘Ulysses contracts’ are an instrument through which a psychiatric patient may prearrange involuntary commitments to be put into effect if the patient satisfies certain diagnostic criteria in the future. Proposals for Ulysses contracts typically impose numerous safeguards. This paper argues against the intuitively plausible safeguard which permits only presently remitted patients to contract. Instead of requiring a patient's remission, it is argued that the appropriate safeguard is the patient's …Read more
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50Let the patients smoke: a defence of a patient privilegeJournal of Medical Ethics 16 (3): 136-140. 1990.I examine two kinds of arguments in favour of imposing restrictions on smoking by hospitalised psychiatric patients. First, I look at patient-centered arguments in favour of restrictions. These arguments focus on the benefits that patients will receive if their smoking is stopped or curtailed. Second, I examine arguments that seek to justify restrictions by citing the costs that smokers impose on others. Neither kind of argument justifies any meaningful restrictions on the smoking of hospitalise…Read more
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20Talking the Good Game (review)International Studies in Philosophy 26 (1): 140-141. 1994.Review of Talking a Good Game
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150K.M.W. Fulford: 1989, Moral Theory and Medical Practice, with a Philosophical Foreword by Baroness Mary Warnock, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, xxi+311 pp. $ 54.50; $16.95 (paper) (review)Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 17 (5): 557-561. 1992.
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43Book reviews : Homosexuality and american psychiatry: The politics of diagnosis. By Ronald Bayer. New York: Basic books, 1981. Pp. 224. $12.95 U.s (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 16 (2): 252-254. 1986.
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38Mutilation, deception, and sex changesJournal of Medical Ethics 13 (2): 86-91. 1987.The paper considers and rejects two arguments against the performance of sexual reassignment surgery. First, it is argued that the operation is not mutilating, but functionally enabling. Second, it is argued that the operation is not objectionably deceptive, since, if there is such a thing as our 'real sex', we do not know (ordinarily) what it is. The paper is also intended to shed light on what our sexual identity is and on what matters in sexual relations.
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71What doctors should call their patientsJournal of Medical Ethics 14 (3): 129-131. 1988.The paper discusses the moral difficulties physicians encounter when determining the level of formality they will use when addressing their patients. It is argued that physicians ought not to use a patient's first name unless the patient also uses the physician's first name. In short, physicians and patients should always address each other with the same level of formality. It is argued that this is so even when patients invite physicians to address them informally.
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1Karen Grandstrand Gervais, Redefining Death Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 7 (12): 492-494. 1987.Review of Gervais's Redefining Death
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97Sports and Drugs: Are the Current Bans Justified?Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 14 (1): 34-43. 1987.Current bans on sports and drugs rest on inadequate grounds. Prohibitions on drugs in sports should rely more on what it is permissible to ban, not on what "must" be banned. Further permissible prohibitions should enjoy democratic support at levels.
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29Who Should Be Committable?Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 2 (1): 35-47. 1995.Defends an alternative to danger to self or others as a basis for involuntary treatment. Involuntary hospitalization for treatment should hinge on a patient's competence to refuse treatment
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