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    Show Me How to Do Like You: Co-mentoring as Feminist Pedagogy
    with Jane Rinehart and Mary Jo Bona
    Feminist Teacher 9 116-124. 1995.
    Three professors reflect on the experience of creating a learning community of 22 students by linking courses in Literature and Ethics. The project demonstrates practical strategies for incorporating feminist scholarship and pedagogy into the core curriculum and for integrating core courses from diverse disciplines.
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    Birth Fathers: Unequal Power and Myth in the Terry Achance Case
    Pediatric Nursing 40 (Mar/Apr): 99-102. 2014.
    In the Terry Achane case, a birth father who was in the military was not notified when his child's birth mother put up their child for adoption. Birth fathers are often stereotyped as uninvolved and irresponsible, especially when they are not married to the birth mother. Terry Achane was married. The adoption agency made little effort to contact him, raising ethical issues about the roles played by the race, economic status, and perhaps religious beliefs of the adopting parents.
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    As the boundaries of health care continually expand, health care ethics are continually challenged and developed. Ethics is a dynamic conversation among people who live and work together in community. As participants in discussions about health care ethics, nurses discover that individual and communities draw upon a variety of ethical concepts and traditions. This book explores three traditions: Rule Based Ethics, Virtue Ethics, and Feminist Ethics. The text presents the historical-cultural cont…Read more
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    The role of healthcare ethics committee networks in shaping healthcare policy and practices
    with Anita J. Tarzian, Diane E. Hoffmann, and Judy L. Meyers
    HEC Forum 18 (1): 85-94. 2006.
    As national and state health care policy -making becomes contentious and complex, there is a need for a forum to debate and explore public concerns and values in health care, give voice to local citizens, to facilitate consensus among various stakeholders, and provide feedback and direction to health care institutions and policy makers. This paper explores the role that regional health care ethics committees can play and provides two contrasting examples of Networks involved in facilitation of p…Read more
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    Friendship: Mutual apprenticeship in moral development
    Journal of Value Inquiry 24 (4): 301-314. 1987.
    In the 19 th century shift from virtue ethics to duty-oriented ethics, friendship and its role in ethics was marginalized. This paper explores the reason to this and examines the nature of friendship as a mutual intention of goodwill which depends upon a concrete context of particulars. This focus on contingent particulars makes friendship incompatible with Enlightenment ethics, but enables friendship to play two significant roles in moral development. These roles are explored as is the place of…Read more