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7Barriers to Overriding Refusal for Patients Who Lack CapacityAmerican Journal of Bioethics 24 (8): 109-111. 2024.Volume 24, Issue 8, August 2024, Page 109-111.
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26Respect for Autonomy Requires a Mental ModelAmerican Journal of Bioethics 24 (7): 53-55. 2024.Making decisions for incapacitated patients has been a perennial problem in bioethics. Surrogate decision-makers are sometimes expected to use substituted judgment to make such decisions. Applying...
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38Abortion restrictions: the case for conscientious non-compliance on the part of providersJournal of Medical Ethics 50 (3): 185-189. 2024.This paper offers a qualified defence of physician non-compliance with antiabortion legislation in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The paper examines two ethically troubling trends of post-Dobbs legislation: narrow and vague maternal health exemption clauses and mandatory reporting of miscarriages in jurisdictions where patients may criminal prosecution for medically induced abortions. It then examines and defends a professional obligatio…Read more
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30The Place of Bioethics in Philosophy: Toward a Mutually Constructive IntegrationAmerican Journal of Bioethics 22 (12): 54-56. 2022.The critique to which Blumenthal-Barby et al. (2022), respond—that philosophy has little left to do in bioethics—reflects a common assumption that normative theorizing first generates general moral...
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46Firearm Violence in the United States: An Issue of the Highest Moral OrderPublic Health Ethics 15 (3): 301-315. 2022.Firearm violence in the United States produces over 36,000 deaths and 74,000 sustained firearm-related injuries yearly. The paper describes the burden of firearm violence with emphasis on the disproportionate burden on children, racial/ethnic minorities, women and the healthcare system. Second, this paper identifies factors that could mitigate the burden of firearm violence by applying a blend of key ethical theories to support population level interventions and recommendations that may restrict…Read more
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15In this thesis, I defend John Rawls’s assertion that political liberalism does not use the concept of truth. I respond to objections from Joshua Cohen and David Estlund. I argue that Cohen fails to show that public reason needs a minimalist conception of truth, since individuals with a range of conceptions of moral truth can meet the requirements of public reason. I dispute Estlund’s argument that the liberal principle of legitimacy is merely insular. Estlund assumes that the claim that the libe…Read more
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33Reciprocity and the ethics of giving during pandemicsJournal of Social Philosophy 52 (4): 516-535. 2021.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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36Pandemic bioethics. Gregory Pence. Broadview press: Peterborough, on, 2021. 256 pp. isbn 978‐1‐55481‐521‐0 €22 (soft cover) (review)Bioethics 36 (4): 472-473. 2021.Bioethics, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 472-473, May 2022.
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63Against the Public Goods Conception of Public HealthPublic Health Ethics 13 (3): 225-233. 2020.Public health ethicists face two difficult questions. First, what makes something a matter of public health? While protecting citizens from outbreaks of communicable diseases is clearly a matter of public health, is the same true of policies that aim to reduce obesity, gun violence or political corruption? Second, what should the scope of the government’s authority be in promoting public health? May government enact public health policies some citizens reasonably object to or policies that are p…Read more