Bioethics
Papers
Images of uncertainty: Two cases of neuroimages and what they cannot say. In, Giordano, J. (Editor). Advances in Neurotechnology: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues: volume 1: Philosophical Premises in Application. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. In Press, 2009.
End of Life, year after year after year. Journal Canadian Medical Association 181:11, 868
24 Nov. 2009.
ASBH and its role: a critique. Letter. Nov. 2009. http://www.asbh.org/membership/protected/pdfs/mbrsvoices2.pdf
Learning from the economic crisis: Public Health and private ventures. Journal of Medical Ethics 35, 145-146. 2009.
Down syndrome “deficits”. A reply to Stern: “A Fix for Down Syndrome Brains.” The-Scientist.com http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56154/ 19 Nov. 2009.
Euthanasia and Depression: No Surprise. A response to
Ganzini, L. Goy, E.R. and S.K. Dobscha. 2006. Prevalence
Of Depression and anxiety in patients requesting
physician’s aid in dying. Br. Medical Journal 337: a 1682. 14 Oct. 2008.
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/337/oct07_2/a1682#203438.
The logic of organ payments. A response to Matas, A. J. Should we pay donors to increase the supply of organs for transplantation? Yes. British Medical Journal 336: 18 June 2008. 1342. http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/336/7657/1342#197424
Doctors, religion, and law. A commentary on the
Golubchuk case. (Toronto) Globe and Mail.
19 June 2008.
The Golubchuk case. An Editorial response. Journal of the Canadian Medical Association.
27 April 2008. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/eletters/178/9/1115#19277
Were polio to return today... J. Canadian Medical Association 178: 1244 1 April 2008.
The Body in the world. Journal Canadian Medical Association 178:2, 191-3. 15 January 2008. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/178/2/191 .
Re: Bioethics and the ‘Disabled.’ (Letter) Journal of the Canadian Medical Association. 1 Feb. 2008. Accessed 22 Dec. 2008 at http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/eletters/178/3/360#18435 .
The Doctor in this House: Lessons from TV’s Dr. Gregory House, MD. Journal of the Canadian Medical Association 178.1, 67-8. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/178/1/67 1 January 2008.
Robert Latimer: Bait and switch. Journal Canadian Medical Association.178:3, 360.
29 January 2008.
Bioethics? A Grand Idea. Journal of the Canadian Medical Association 178.1, 116. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/178/1/116 . 1 January 2008.
Review: Is Tom Shakespeare Disabled? Symposium on Tom Shakespeare’s “Disability Rights and Wrongs”. Journal of Medical Ethics 34:1, 18-120 January 2008.
Abwesende Tugenden: Wenn der Wilderer zum Wildhüter wird. In, R Porz. Rehmann-Sutter, C. Scully J C. And M. Zimmermann-Acklin, Ed. Gekauftes Gewissen?: Zur Rolle der Bioethic in Institutionen. Paderborn, Switerland: Mentis. 2007.
Review: Foucault and the government of disability; Disability Rights and Wrongs. Metapsychology, http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=3636 15 May 2007.
"False Truths": Ethics and Mapping as a Profession. Cartographic Perspectives 54, 4-1. July 2006.
Weaponizing Medicine at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay: "Tutti Fratelli," no more. (Editorial) J. of Medical Ethics 32: 249-255, May 2006
Disability and ideology: A reply to Peter Singer. J. Disability Policy Studies 18. Winter 2005.
Bioethics as ideology. J. of Medicine & Philosophy In Press, 2005.
The
ideology of normalcy. The ethics of difference. J. Disability Policy
Studies 16:2, 123-129.
Fall 2005.
The
challenge of Terri Schiavo: Lessons for Bioethics. J. of Medical Ethics
31, 376-378.
Spring 2005.
The difference that difference makes: Bioethics and the challenge of 'disability'. J. Medicine and Philosophy. 29:6, 697-716. Winter, 2004.
The
ideology of Normalcy: The ethics of difference. J. Disability Policy
Studies 15 Oct. 2004.
The difference that difference makes: Bioethics and the challenge of
'disability'. J. Medicine and Philosophy 29:6 Fall, 2004.
Review: Hunting the 1918 Flu. Science and Public Policy Aug. 2004.
First: A Right to Be Born . . . J. Medical Ethics Online,
http://jme.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/28/2/65#72 10 Dec 2003.
Commentary on, J Savulescu, Is there a "right not to be born"? Reproductive
decision making, options and the right to information. J. Medical Ethics
28: 65-67.
2002.
(with Joe Kaufert) Disability or End-of-Life? Competing Narratives in
Bioethics. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 24, 459-469 2003.
Absent Virtues: The Poacher as Gamekeeper. Journal of Medical Ethics
29, 337-342. 2004.
What the clinician taught the ethicist: clinical contributions to ethical
concerns. Medical Science Monitor 9, ET21-27.. 22 Sept. 2003.
Remarks on 'Health disparities': reframing the problem' by Kathleen
E.Fuller. Medical Science Monitor 9:5;
http://www.medscimonit.com/medscimonit/#10 June 2003.
Genetics, eugenics, and discrimination. At the beginning of the end
of the Dark Ages of Social medicine. Gemmological Review, 45-55. May,
2003.
Response to Wrongful Birth Suit, Canadian Down Syndrome Society
Quarterly 16:1, 1:10
Spring, 2003.
Physician-Assisted Death (letter) Hastings Center Report, 5-6, Feb.
2003.
The problem with presumed consent: A reply to Rackoff Am. Soc.
Bioethics and the Humanities Exchange 5:3, 2003.
One principle and three fallacies of disability studies Journal of
Medical Ethics 28:3, June 2002.
Health Care and the Fragile, submission to the Commission on the Future of
Canadian Health Care (Ray Romanow, chair) 12 Mar. 2002.
Listening to the critics: a response to 'Clinical Ethics revisited,'
BMC Medical Ethics 2:2.
http://www.biomedcentral.com Jan. 2002.
A Brief Clarification: Disability and Difference (Letter). Journal of
Medical Ethics Online
12 Feb. 2002.
Disability and difference: Balancing Social and Physical Constructions.
J. Medical Ethics 27,
370-376. 2001.
Difference is beautiful, Canadian Down Syndrome Society Newsletter, Summer and
fall issues, 2001. Text of CDSS Plenary presentation spring, Edmonton, April 2001.
Disabled are not dogs
(commentary on the Robert Latimer case) Vancouver Sun A-15, 7
Feb. 2001. http://www.chninternational.com/tomkoch.htm
Future States: Testing the axioms underlying prospective, future-oriented, health planning instruments. Social Science & Medicine 52:3, 453-466, Feb. 2001.
Life quality vs. the 'quality of life'" assumptions underlying prospective quality of life instruments in health care planning. Social Science & Medicine 51:3, 419-428, May, 2000.
The illusion of paradox: commentary on Albrecht, G.L. and Develiger, P.J The disability paradox: high quality against all odds. Social Science & Medicine 50:6, 757-59, March, 2000.
Euthanasia: The Disability Perspective, In, Eds. K Braun, P. Blanchette and J. Pietsch, Cultural Issues in End-of-Life Decision Making, Newbury, CA: Sage Publications, 563-576, 1999.
(with Kathryn Braun and Jim Pietsch) Social necessity, individual rights, and the needs of the fragile: Euthanasia in the context of end-of-life decision making. Journal of Ethics, Law, and Aging, 5:1, 557-560, Spring, 1999.
The Canadian Question: What's so great about intelligence? Cambridge Quarterly on Healthcare Ethics. 5:2, 307-210, 1996.
Organ Transplantation
Human Organs and Markets. J. Medical Ethics Online,
http://jme.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/29/3/137#70 Commentary
on,A . Erin and John Harris An ethical market in human organ, J.
Med Ethics 2003; 29: 137-138. 10 Dec. 2003.
Organ transplants without borders. National Post, A 13, 30 April, 2001.
(With Ken Denike) Equality versus Efficiency: The equality of solid organ distribution in the USA. Ethics, Place, and Environment 4:1 45-56, 2001.
They might as well be in Bolivia: Race, ethnicity and the problem of solid organ donation. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 20:6, 563-474, Dec. 1999.
The Organ Transplant
Dilemma: What is Fair? What is Equitable? OR/MS Today, 26:1, 22-28,
Feb. 1999.
Organ debate 'transplanted' to pages of OR/MS Today: Different Scales, Modes, and Methodologies. ORMS Today, 26:3, 17-18, June, 1999.
The transplant dilemma. ORMS Today 26:1, 22-28, Feb. 1999.
Transplantation: Fairness vs. efficiency (letter to the editor). OR/MS Today 25:3, 8, Oct. 1998.
A pilot study on transplant eligibility criteria: Valuing the stories in numbers. Pediatric Nursing 23:2, 160-2, Spring, 1997.
Normative and Prescriptive Criteria: The Efficacy of Organ Transplantation Allocation Protocols. Theoretical Medicine 17:1, 75-93, Spring, 1996.
Euthanasia/Humanness
Physician-assisted death for the terminally ill, Hastings Center Report 31:3 (letter) 4, 2001.
(with Kathryn Braun and Jim Pietsch) A Response to: 'Difference and the Delivery of Healthcare' (Special Section: CQ 7:1), Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 9:1, 124-128, Winter, 2000.
Does the "Sanctity of Human Life" Doctrine sanctify humanness, or life? Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 8:4, 557-560, Fall, 1999.
The Myth of loving murder. Reader's Digest. (Canadian Edition). Aug. 1996.
(With Mary Rowell) Response to "Cloning, technology, policy and ethics": Humanness, personhood, and a lamb named dolly. Quarterly of Cambridge Healthcare Ethics 8:2, Spring, 1999.
On the subject(s) of Jack Kevorkian, MD: A Retrospective analysis Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 7:4, 436-441, Fall 1998.
Living VS Dying 'with Dignity' A new perspective on the euthanasia Debate. Cambridge Quarterly on Healthcare Ethics. 5, 50-60, Winter, 1996.
The Myth of Loving Murder. The ase of Jean and Cecil Brush. Toronto Life Magazine. Dec. 1996.
Consensus/Decision Making
Listening to the critics A response to ‘Clinical Ethics revisited’, BMC News and Views 23, (6 July) 2001, accessed 12 July 2001.
(with Mark Ridgley) The Condorcet Jury Theorem in a bioethical context: The dynamics of group decision making. Group Decision and Negotiation 9:5, 379-392, 2000.
(with Mark Ridgley) Consensus in medical decision making: analyzing the environment of discourse ethics. Ethics, Place and Environment 2:2, 201-217, Fall, 1999.
(with Mary Rowell) The Dream of Consensus: Finding common ground in a bioethical context. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 20:3, 261-273, Fall, 1999.
Stillborn Bioethics: 1890-2001, Ethics Law, and Aging Review 6, Ed. Marshall Kapp (NY: Springer), 223-238, 2000.
We live in the city, not in a study. OR/MS Today 27:2, 16-17, April, 2000.
The ethics of the possible in impossible situations. Calyx: Ethical Issues in Pediatrics, 9:1, 3-4. Toronto: Hospital for Sick Children, Spring, 1999.
(with Mark Ridgley) Distanced Perspectives: Aids, Anencephaly, and AHP. Theoretical Medicine. 19:1, 47-58, Winter, 1998.
(with Mark Ridgley) Aids, Anencephaly and AHP: The effect of multicriterion modeling as a catalyst in bioethical decisionmaking. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada, July, 1996.
Notes on "Prison Infirmary Nurses: Professionalism and Principles." Making the Rounds in Health, Faith & Ethics 1:21, 3, Park Ridge Center, Chicago. June, 1996.
Disclosure vs. Confidentiality: When Disaster Strikes, Making the Rounds in Health, Faith & Ethics. 1:16;3 Park Ridge Center Chicago, April, 1996.
Internet/Online Ethics
The Net bridges the gap: "official medicine" and family caregivers. Medicine on the Net. 12-15, May, 1998.
Review of Kenneth W. Goodman, Ethics, Computing, and Medicine. Doody's Review Service (on-line), June, 1998.
The Gulf Between: A Surrogate Faces Decision Making in the Context of Critical Care. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. Vol. 4:2, Spring, 1995.
Principles and Purpose: The Patient Surrogate's Perspective and Role. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 6:3, Fall, 1997.