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Research Interests
- Bioethics
- Hobbes
- Aristotle
- Kant
- Rawls
Courses Recently Taught
- Public Health Policy, Medicine, and Social Justice (Spring 2014)
- Bioethics, Policies & Cases: Justice and Medicine (Spring 2013)
- Research Ethics (Fall 2012, Fall 2010)
- Medicine and Social Justice (Spring 2010)
Representative Publications
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The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics (Blackwell, 2007)
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Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care (Oxford, 2002).
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Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate, (Routledge, 1998).
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"Reading Rawls and Hearing Hobbes." Philosophical Forum, 2002, Winter; 33(4): 393-412.
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"Obligation and Assent in Hobbes's Moral Philosophy." Hobbes Studies, 2002; XV: 45-67.
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"Rethinking Research Ethics." American Journal of Bioethics 2005; 5(1): 7-28.
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"Justice in Medicine and Public Health." Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2005; 14(1): 13-26.
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"Why Test Children for Adult-Onset Genetic Diseases." The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine 2006 May; 73(3): 609-16.
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"Justice in Organ Allocation," chapter in A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship, Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, and Peter Guarnaccia, eds., University of North Carolina Press, 2006; 158-79.
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"Molding Professional Character," chapter in Lost Virtue: Professional Character Development and Medical Education, Nuala Kenny and Wayne Shelton, eds., Elsevier Press, 2006; 99-115.
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"Abortion and Assent," Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (vol.8, no.4, fall 1999; 416-427).
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"Genetic Links, Family Ties, and Social Bonds: Rights and Responsibilities in the Face of Genetic Knowledge," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. (vol.23, no.1, 1998; 10-30).
