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49Why Compliance Programs Fail: Economics, Ethics and the Role of LeadershipHEC Forum 19 (2): 109-123. 2007.
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12The Assisted Reproduction of RaceInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 13 (1): 177-181. 2020.
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1210 Disempowered Women? The Midwifery Model and Medical InterventionIn Sarah LaChance Adams & Caroline R. Lundquist (eds.), Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering, Fordham University Press. pp. 215-238. 2013.
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5Whose Ethics? Making Reproductive Ethics More Inclusive and JustJanus Head 17 (1): 93-122. 2019.As the field of assisted-reproductive technology progresses, bioethicists continue to debate whether and how the availability of this technology creates new moral duties for parents-to-be. It is rare for these debates to seriously engage with questions related to race and class. Camisha Russell asks us to move race from the margins to the center of our discussions of reproductive ethics. She argues that this shift can work as a kind of corrective that will lead to better theory. In this paper, I…Read more
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3The Assisted Reproduction of Race by Camisha RussellInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 13 (1): 177-181. 2020.In The Assisted Reproduction of Race, Camisha Russell states: "My central aim here is to explore how notions of race and racial identity function within assisted reproductive technologies ". The way she does this may surprise some bioethicists. Moving beyond principles and traditional ethical theories, Russell instead draws on the work of critical race theory and the philosophy of technology. By showing the usefulness of these theories, she encourages bioethicists to expand our theoretical toolb…Read more
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9Parents and Virtues: An Analysis of Moral Development and Parental VirtueLexington Books. 2019.This book considers what virtue theory can tell us about parenting in relation to both moral development and specific ethical dilemmas. It is of interest to those who work in virtue theory, applied ethics, and the ethics of parenthood.
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27Whose Values? Whose Risk? Exploring Decision Making About Trial of Labor After CesareanJournal of Medical Humanities 39 (2): 151-164. 2018.In this article, we discuss decision making during labor and delivery, specifically focusing on decision making around offering women a trial of labor after cesarean section. Many have discussed how humans are notoriously bad at assessing risks and how we often distort the nature of various risks surrounding childbirth. We will build on this discussion by showing that physicians make decisions around TOLAC not only based on distortions of risk, but also based on personal values rather than medic…Read more
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44Childbirth Is Not an Emergency: Informed Consent in Labor and DeliveryInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 11 (1): 23-43. 2018.Despite the fact that the requirement to obtain informed consent for medical procedures is deeply enshrined in both U.S. moral and legal doctrine, empirical studies and anecdotal accounts show that women's rights to informed consent and refusal of treatment are routinely undermined and ignored during childbirth. For example, citing the most recent Listening to Mothers survey, Marianne Nieuwenhuijze and Lisa Kane Low state that "a significant number of women said they felt pressure from a caregiv…Read more
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11The moral agency of institutions: effectively using expert nurses to support patient autonomyJournal of Medical Ethics 43 (8): 506-509. 2017.
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33Attunement and Involvement: How Expert Nurses Support Patient AutonomyInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 10 (1): 175-193. 2017.In this essay, I argue that the daily practice of expert nurses goes far toward enacting the kind of patient autonomy feminist bioethicists envision. Nursing theorists often utilize philosophical theories in their work, but bioethicists have not paid much attention to nursing theory and what it means to be an expert nurse. This is unfortunate because expert nurses do much in their daily practice to make the ideals for autonomy put forth by feminist bioethicists a reality. With this in mind, I br…Read more
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23The Ethics of Vaginal Birth after CesareanHastings Center Report 42 (4): 24-27. 2012.The decline in providers and facilities that will allow a trial of labor after cesarean forces many women to choose a repeat cesarean. The choice is frequently not much of a choice, however, since the full range of options are often not on the table. This limited “choice” violates obstetricians' obligations both to respect patients' autonomy and to offer them good care. There has been a vigorous but so far not very fruitful debate in the last few years about the lack of access to a trial of labo…Read more
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72Obstetricians and Violence Against WomenAmerican Journal of Bioethics 11 (12): 51-56. 2011.I argue that the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), as an organization and through its individual members, can and should be a far greater ally in the prevention of violence against women. Specifically, I argue that we need to pay attention to obstetrical practices that inadvertently contribute to the problem of violence against women. While intimate partner violence is a complex phenomenon, I focus on the coercive control of women and adherence to oppressive gender nor…Read more
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54On the Immorality of Lying to Children About Their OriginsPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 18 (2): 22-33. 2011.Using the moral work on trust and lying, I argue that allowing or encouraging children to believe you are their biological parent when you are not is a breach of trust in the parent-child relationship. While other approaches focus on specific harms or the rights of the child, I make a virtue theory argument based on our understanding of trust, lies, and the nature of the parent-child relationship. Drawing heavily on Nancy Potter's virtue theory of trustworthiness, I consider the nature of trust …Read more
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192How Should Feminist Autonomy Theorists Respond to the Problem of Internalized Oppression?Social Theory and Practice 36 (3): 409-428. 2010.In “Autonomy and the Feminist Intuition,” Natalie Stoljar asks whether a procedural or a substantive approach to autonomy is best for addressing feminist concerns. In this paper, I build on Stoljar’s argument that feminists should adopt a strong substantive approach to autonomy. After briefly reviewing the problems with a purely procedural approach, I begin to articulate my own strong substantive theory by focusing specifically on the problem of internalized oppression. In the final section, I b…Read more