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13Anchor bias, autonomy, and 20th‐century bioethicists' blindness to racismBioethics 38 (4): 275-281. 2024.The central thesis of this article is that by anchoring bioethics' core conceptual armamentarium in a four-principled theory emphasizing autonomy and treating justice as a principle of allocation, theorists inadvertently biased 20th-century bioethical scholarship against addressing such subjects as ableism, anti-Black racism, classism, and other forms of discrimination, placing them outside of the scope of bioethics research and scholarship. It is also claimed that these scope limitations can be…Read more
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10A counter history of the birth of bioethics, which focuses on the dissenters and whistleblowers who challenged law and institutions rather than simply the development of new technologies.
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11On scientific and moral revolutions -- Using the dead for the living: the benthamite moral revolution -- Immoralizing and criminalizing abortion: the doctors revolution -- Irredentism and counter-revolutions in geology and abortion -- The american bioethics revolution -- The structure of moral revolutions.
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Bioethics and human rights: a historical perspectiveIn Wanda Teays, John-Stewart Gordon & Alison Dundes Renteln (eds.), Global Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Issues, Rowman & Littlefield. 2014.
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27International Bioethics and Human Rights: Reflections on a Proposed Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human RightsPolitics and Ethics Review 1 (2): 188-196. 2005.
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97From Metaethicist to BioethicistCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 11 (4): 369-379. 2002.I was the graduate student that Albert Jonsen so aptly describes. Bronx born and educated at the City College of New York, I emigrated to the Midwest to study at the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science, where May Brodbeck, Herbert Feigl and other “logical positivists” were engaging in an ongoing dialogue with postpositivists like Paul Feyerabend and Karl Popper. In this environment, I studied philosophy of science, epistemology, and metaethics—the epistemology and logic of ethical con…Read more
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75Bioethics and Human Rights: A Historical PerspectiveCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 10 (3): 241-252. 2001.Bioethics and human rights were conceived in the aftermath of the Holocaust, when moral outrage reenergized the outmoded concepts of and renaming them and to give them new purpose. Originally, the principles of bioethics were a means for protecting human rights, but through a historical accident, bioethical principles came to be considered as fundamental. In this paper I reflect on the parallel development and accidental divorce of bioethics and human rights to urge their reconciliation
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45Why the avandia scandal proves big pharma needs stronger ethical standardsBioethics 24 (8). 2010.
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7The Future of Clinical Ethics Consultation: Avoiding the Dustbin of HistoryAmerican Journal of Bioethics 16 (3): 38-40. 2016.
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25Robert M. Veatch: Hippocratic, Religious, and Secular Medical Ethics: The Points of Conflict. Georgetown University Press, 2012 (review)Bioethics 27 (9): 514-515. 2013.
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28Stem Cell Rhetoric and the Pragmatics of NamingAmerican Journal of Bioethics 2 (1): 52-53. 2002.
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17Race and Bioethics: Bioethical Engagement With a Four-Letter SubjectAmerican Journal of Bioethics 16 (4): 16-18. 2016.
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24Philosophers' Invasion of Clinical Ethics: Historical and Personal ReflectionsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 18 (6): 51-54. 2018.When laypeople learned what decisions physicians were making about laypeople's health they were often appalled. … They discovered that physicians … were making controversial moral moves, choices th...
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7Principles and Duties: A Critique of Common Morality TheoryCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 31 (2): 199-211. 2022.Tom Beauchamp and James Childress‘s revolutionary textbook, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, shaped the field of bioethics in America and around the world. Midway through the Principle’s eight editions, however, the authors jettisoned their attempt to justify the four principles of bioethics —autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice—in terms of ethical theory, replacing it with the idea that these principles are part of a common morality shared by all rational persons committed to morality…Read more
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11On Racist Tools and the Bioethics LexiconAmerican Journal of Bioethics 23 (4): 25-28. 2023.Shen-yi Liao and Vanessa Cabonell’s “Materialized Oppression in Medical Tools and Technologies,” joins the long list of groundbreaking papers whose importance is obscured by an innocuous title. Som...
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11Kübler-Ross and Bioethics: A Cautionary TaleAmerican Journal of Bioethics 19 (12): 48-49. 2019.Volume 19, Issue 12, December 2019, Page 48-49.
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24In Defense of BioethicsJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 37 (1): 83-92. 2009.Although bioethics societies are developing standards for clinical ethicists and a code of ethics, they have been castigated in this journal as “a moral, if not an ethics, disaster” for not having completed this task. Compared with the development of codes of ethics and educational standards in law and medicine, however, the pace of pro-fessionalization in bioethics appears appropriate. Assessed by this metric, none of the charges leveled against bioethics are justified. The specific charges lev…Read more
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114Medical ethics' appropriation of moral philosophy: The case of the sympathetic and the unsympathetic physicianKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 17 (1): 3-22. 2007.Philosophy textbooks typically treat bioethics as a form of "applied ethics"-i.e., an attempt to apply a moral theory, like utilitarianism, to controversial ethical issues in biology and medicine. Historians, however, can find virtually no cases in which applied philosophical moral theory influenced ethical practice in biology or medicine. In light of the absence of historical evidence, the authors of this paper advance an alternative model of the historical relationship between philosophical et…Read more
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39The Story of Bioethics: From Seminal Works to Contemporary Explorations (review)Hastings Center Report 35 (3): 50. 2005.
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84Confidentiality in professional medical ethicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 6 (2). 2006.In his deftly argued, “A Defense of Unqualified Confidentiality” (Kipnis 2006), Kenneth Kipnis challenges the received view that a physician's duty of confidentiality must be balanced against a dut...
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26Balkanizing bioethicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 3 (2). 2003.This Article does not have an abstract
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12Before Bioethics: A History of American Medical Ethics From the Colonial Period to the Bioethics RevolutionOxford University Press. 2013.The first history of American medical ethics published in more than a half century, Before Bioethics tracks the evolution of American medical ethics from colonial midwives and physicians' oaths to current bioethical controversies over abortion, AIDS, animal rights, and physician-assisted suicide.
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42A draft model aggregated code of ethics for bioethicistsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 5 (5). 2005.Bioethicists function in an environment in which their peers - healthcare executives, lawyers, nurses, physicians - assert the integrity of their fields through codes of professional ethics. Is it time for bioethics to assert its integrity by developing a code of ethics? Answering in the affirmative, this paper lays out a case by reviewing the historical nature and function of professional codes of ethics. Arguing that professional codes are aggregative enterprises growing in response to a field…Read more
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42The Cambridge world history of medical ethics (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2009.The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics is the first comprehensive scholarly account of the global history of medical ethics. Offering original interpretations of the field by leading bioethicists and historians of medicine, it will serve as the essential point of departure for future scholarship in the field. The volumes reconceptualize the history of medical ethics through the creation of new categories, including the life cycle; discourses of religion, philosophy, and bioethics; and the…Read more
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11The Significance of the ASBH's Code of Ethics for Healthcare Ethics ConsultantsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 15 (5): 52-54. 2015.A decade ago some members of the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities (ASBH) concluded that the society's reluctance to develop a code of professional ethics, although a tolerable anom...
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6A Developing Timeline for BioethicsHastings Center Report 51 (6). 2021.This brief essay describes the purpose, the content, and the development, by a group of Hastings Center fellows and a scholar at the Center, of the Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline. The timeline covers the wide range of contemporary events pertaining to the intersection of bioethics with the medical and biological sciences, health care, and health policy, as well as the medical arts and medical humanities. A collaborative effort that documents events in a collaborative field, the timeline is m…Read more