•  4
    Dear Bonzo
    with Britt Elliot and Carl Elliot
    Journal of Clinical Ethics 14 (4): 308-310. 2003.
  •  4
    The Obligation of Engagement
    Hastings 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
  • The angels and devils of representing Prozac
    In Michael J. Hyde & James A. Herrick (eds.), After the genome: a language for our biotechnological future, Baylor University Press. 2013.
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    An All-Too-Human Enterprise
    American 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...
  •  1
    Reflecting on the Pathography
    Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 63 (4): 708-717. 2020.
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  •  4
    Toward the Polyphonic Case
    Hastings 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
  •  8
    On Cute Monkeys and Repulsive Monsters
    Hastings 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
  •  21
    Of course I am a relativist and so should you be
    American Journal of Bioethics: Ajob 1 (4). 2000.
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    Comment: Toward Thick Reading
    Journal of Clinical Ethics 12 (2): 131-133. 2001.
  •  5
    Against “We,” or an Argument for a Pluralistic Definition of Personhood in Bioethics
    American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 8 (3): 173-174. 2017.
  •  9
    Telos versus Praxis in Bioethics
    Hastings 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
  •  8
    Searching for Narrative and Narrative Ethics in Narrative Bioethics
    Hastings 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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    The Illusion of Transparency
    American Journal of Bioethics 17 (6): 32-33. 2017.
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    Root Metaphor and Bioethics
    Perspectives 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
  •  21
    Plot: Framing contingency and choice in bioethics (review)
    with Kathryn Montgomery
    HEC Forum 11 (1): 38-45. 1999.
  •  7
    Why Ethicists Should Stop Writing Cases
    Journal of Clinical Ethics 11 (3): 206-212. 2000.
  •  19
    The art of bioethics
    Hastings Center Report 35 (2): 3-3. 2005.
  •  13
    It's narrative all the way down
    American Journal of Bioethics 7 (8). 2007.
    No abstract
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    Centering Bioethics
    Hastings Center Report 30 (1): 22-29. 2000.
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    The Fiction of Bioethics: A Précis
    American 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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    Review: 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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    Good guys don't wear white
    American 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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    Index to Volume 21
    with Howard Brody, Rita Charon, Mary Williams Clark, Dwight Davis, Richard Martinez, Robert M. Nelson, and Mark J. Cherry
    Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 21 681-684. 1996.
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    Practicing Euthanasia: The Perspective of Physicians
    with Keith L. Obstein and Gerrit Kimsma
    Journal of Clinical Ethics 15 (3): 223-231. 2004.
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    Theory and the organic bioethicist
    Theoretical 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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    Metaphors as Equipment for Living
    American Journal of Bioethics 16 (10): 12-13. 2016.