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9The Obligation of EngagementHastings Center Report 53 (1): 2-2. 2023.As many in the United States feel a need to take a side in the ongoing culture wars, the people who make up the field of bioethics have an obligation to directly engage with those who hold different political views. If bioethics is an academic field, it must also affirm the overall values of the academy to continually challenge central assumptions. If the field wishes to be a part of the development of public policy, it must be able to construct such policies that in some fundamental manner hono…Read more
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The angels and devils of representing ProzacIn Michael J. Hyde & James A. Herrick (eds.), After the genome: a language for our biotechnological future, Baylor University Press. 2013.
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11An All-Too-Human EnterpriseAmerican Journal of Bioethics 22 (7): 33-35. 2022.On reading “Algorithms for Ethical Decision-Making in the Clinical: A Proof of Concept,” I imagined that for some the fundamental problem with the authors' approach is the very...
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Review: Toward the Hypercase; A Right to Die?: The Case of Dax Cowart (Videodisc) (review)Theoretical Medicine 18 (3): 308-318. 1997.
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4Toward the Polyphonic CaseHastings Center Report 49 (6): 10-12. 2019.Can one publish a bioethics case ethically? I suspect that most in bioethics would feel comfortable publishing a case if the subject—the patient—gave explicit permission, the amount of biographical information revealed was under the control of the subject, and the subject fully understood the benefits and risks of publishing the case. Some might add that the subject should have a chance to approve the final representation. I think that the ethics of publishing cases needs to be rethought. And th…Read more
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13On Cute Monkeys and Repulsive MonstersHastings Center Report 48 (6): 12-14. 2018.When I heard that a laboratory in China had cloned two long‐tailed macaques, I thought of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. When academics write about the novel, many point out that the reason the creature becomes a “monster” is not that he has any inherently evil qualities but that Victor Frankenstein, the creature's “mother,” immediately rejects him. All later problems can be traced to the fact that Frankenstein does not take responsibility for his creation. While I do not disagree with this,…Read more
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23Of course I am a relativist and so should you beAmerican Journal of Bioethics: Ajob 1 (4). 2000.
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5Against “We,” or an Argument for a Pluralistic Definition of Personhood in BioethicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 8 (3): 173-174. 2017.
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14Demythologizing Bioethics: The American Monomyth in Clinical Ethics ConsultationsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 18 (6): 57-58. 2018.
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15Telos versus Praxis in BioethicsHastings Center Report 46 (5): 41-42. 2016.The authors of “A Conceptual Model for the Translation of Bioethics Research and Scholarship” argue that bioethics must respond to institutional pressures by demonstrating that it is having an impact in the world. Any impact, the authors observe, must be “informed” by the goals of the discipline of bioethics. The concept of bioethics as a discipline is central to their argument. They begin by citing an essay that Daniel Callahan wrote in the first issue of Hastings Center Studies. Callahan argue…Read more
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12Searching for Narrative and Narrative Ethics in Narrative BioethicsHastings Center Report 44 (3): 3-4. 2014.A commentary on a special report, titled Narrative Ethics: The Role of Stories in Bioethics, that appeared with the January‐February 2014 issue.
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26No Nazis, no space aliens, no slippery slopes and other rules of thumb for clinical ethics teachingJournal of Medical Humanities 16 (3): 189-200. 1995.
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17Root Metaphor and BioethicsPerspectives in Biology and Medicine 59 (3): 311-325. 2016.It is pictures rather than propositions, metaphors rather than statements, which determine most of our philosophical convictions. Bioethics has been particularly attentive to the role of metaphors in the discourse on moral issues in medicine. In The Physician’s Covenant, William May discusses how the various metaphors of the physician influence the manner in which we analyze problems in clinical ethics. Meaghan O’Keefe and colleagues have argued that particular metaphors dominate and in turn med…Read more
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The virtue of attacking the bioethicistIn Lisa A. Eckenwiler & Felicia Cohn (eds.), The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape, Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 281--287. 2007.
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38The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power, and the Care of the Dying, by Jeffrey P. Bishop. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011, 432 pp (review)Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 25 (1): 150-152. 2016.
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16How to do things with AJOB: The case of facial transplantationAmerican Journal of Bioethics 4 (3). 2004.This Article does not have an abstract
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24Taking Bioethics PersonallyNarrative Inquiry in Bioethics 3 (1): 1-3. 2013.This narrative symposium examines the relationship of bioethics practice to personal experiences of illness. A call for stories was developed by Tod Chambers, the symposium editor, and editorial staff and was sent to several commonly used bioethics listservs and posted on the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics website. The call asked authors to relate a personal story of being ill or caring for a person who is ill, and to describe how this affected how they think about bioethical questions and the p…Read more
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12Marking bioethicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 3 (2): 15. 2003.This Article does not have an abstract
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30The Virtue of Incongruity in the Medical HumanitiesJournal of Medical Humanities 30 (3): 151-154. 2009.
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Toward a naturalized narrative bioethicsIn Hilde Lindemann, Marian Verkerk & Margaret Urban Walker (eds.), Naturalized Bioethics: Toward Responsible Knowing and Practice, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
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8Having words with ethicistsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 29 (6). 2004.This Article does not have an abstract
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19Bioethics, religion, and linguistic capitalIn David E. Guinn (ed.), Handbook of Bioethics and Religion, Oxford University Press. 2006.Linguistic capital is what is at issue when we ask who can speak for a religion. But asking who has the linguistic capital to speak for a religious community in public policy forums is different from asking who has linguistic capital within the religious community. The first question forces us to examine the acquisition of linguistic capital in three separate — yet overlapping — fields of social discourse: academia, religion, and government. Each of these requires distinctive ways of earning the…Read more
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12The Fiction of Bioethics: Cases as Literary TextsRoutledge. 1999.Tod Chambers suggests that literary theory is a crucial component in the complete understanding of bioethics. _The Fiction of Bioethics_ explores the medical case study and distills the idea that bioethicists study real-life cases, while philosophers contemplate fictional accounts