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70David Barnard, Anna Towers, Patricia boston, and yAnna lambrinidou, crossing over: Narratives of palliative careTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 22 (4): 369-373. 2001.
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49Practicing Euthanasia: The Perspective of PhysiciansJournal of Clinical Ethics 15 (3): 223-231. 2004.
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46Theory and the organic bioethicistTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 22 (2): 123-134. 2001.This article argues for the importance of theoreticalreflections that originate from patients' experiences.Traditionally academic philosophers have linked their ability totheorize about the moral basis of medical practice to their roleas outside observer. The author contends that recently a new typeof reflection has come from within particular patientpopulations. Drawing upon a distinction created by AntonioGramsci, it is argued that one can distinguish the theorygenerated by traditional bioethi…Read more
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41The Fiction of Bioethics: A PrécisAmerican Journal of Bioethics 1 (1): 40-43. 2001.Recently, bioethics has become interested in engaging with narrative, but in this engagement, narrative is usually viewed as a mere helpmate to philosophy. In this precis to his book The Fiction of Bioethics, Tod Chambers argues that narrative theory should not be simply a helpful addition to medical ethics but instead should be thought of as being as vital and important to the discipline as moral theory itself. The reason we need to rethink the relationship of medical ethics to narrative is tha…Read more
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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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36Review: Toward the hypercase; a right to die?: The case of Dax Cowart (videodisc) (review)Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 18 (3): 308-318. 1997.
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31The Virtue of Incongruity in the Medical HumanitiesJournal of Medical Humanities 30 (3): 151-154. 2009.
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27No 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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25Taking 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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24Of course I am a relativist and so should you beAmerican Journal of Bioethics: Ajob 1 (4). 2000.
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20Demythologizing Bioethics: The American Monomyth in Clinical Ethics ConsultationsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 18 (6): 57-58. 2018.
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20Bioethics, 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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18Participation as commodity, participation as giftAmerican Journal of Bioethics 1 (2): 48. 2001.This Article does not have an abstract
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18Good guys don't wear whiteAmerican Journal of Bioethics 8 (7). 2008.Professors of philosophy do from time to time seek to wear the clothes of relevanceAlasdair MacIntyre (1984, 36)I recall one of the first bioethics conferences I ever attended. During the question–...
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18How 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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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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17From the Ethicist's Point of View: The Literary Nature of Ethical InquiryHastings Center Report 26 (1): 25-32. 1996.Contra those bioethicists who think that their cases are based on “real” events and thus not motivated by any particular ethical theory, Chambers explores how case narratives are constructed and thus the extent to which they are driven by particular theories.
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16Telos 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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16On 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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14Searching 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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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
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12Marking bioethicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 3 (2): 15. 2003.This Article does not have an abstract