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It’s a girl, if we accept it: Reply to Rajendra Kal, “It’s a girl could be a death sentence,”
Journal of the Canadian Medical Association. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/eletters/cmaj.120021v1#680477

18 Jan. 2012

Re: Panel recommends that assisted suicide be legalized in Canada.
British Medical Journal Online http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d7496?tab=responses

23 Nov. 2011

Confusing the issue: physician assisted termination and the BC Supreme Court.
Toronto Star http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1088163-confusing-the-issue#article

16 Nov. 2011

Images of Uncertainty: Two Cases of Neuroimaging and What They Cannot Say.
In, Advances in Neurotechnology: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues: Volume 1: Philosophical Premises in Application. Giordano, J. (Editor). CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 47-58

2012

Eugenics and the “Genetic Challenge,” Again: All Dressed Up and Just Everywhere To Go. Special Issue: Review of Matti Häyry’s Rationality and the Genetic Challenge.
J. Cogan, Editor. Cambridge Q. of Healthcare Ethics 20,1910-203

Spring 2011

Care, Compassion, or Cost: Redefining the Basis of Treatment in Ethics and Law.
Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics. 39:2, 130-139

June 2011

Law on Assisted Dying Versus Assisted Living (Letter).
British Medical Journal 342, 3184. http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmj.d3184?ijkey=6OFCVSQ874Oz2oZ&keytype=ref

25 May 2011

Half Truths About Dying BMJ 22 December 2010. A Response to Tony Delamothe.
British Medical Journal Online 14 Jan. at: http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c7282/reply#bmj_el_247875

Jan. 2011

Enhancing Who? Enhancing What? Ethics, Bioethics, and Transhumanism.
Journal of Medicine & Philosophy 35:6, 685-699.

Dec. 2010

How To Think Like an Ethicist…Think Like a Cop. A Response to D.K. Sokol. “How To Think Like an Ethicist.”
British Medical Journal 341: ce702.

21 July 2010

The Ethical Professional as Endangered Person: Blog Notes on Doctor-Patient Relationships (With Sarah Jones).
Journal of Medical Ethics 36: 371-374. http://jme.bmj.com/content/36/6/371.full.html

June 2010

Poisonous Cures: A Review of, Chrichton-Harris, A.
Poison in Small Measure: Dr. Christopherson and the Cure for Bilharzia. J. Canadian Medical Association. doi:10.1503/cmaj.100655.

May 2011

ASBH and its Role: a Critique.
Letter. http://www.asbh.org/membership/protected/pdfs/mbrsvoices2.pdf

Nov. 2009

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. http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/337/oct07_2/a1682#203438

14 Oct. 2008

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

18 June 2008

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. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/eletters/178/9/1115#19277

27 April 2008

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. http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/178/2/191

15 Jan. 2008

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

1 Feb. 2008

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 Jan. 2008

Robert Latimer: Bait and Switch.
Journal Canadian Medical Association.178:3, 360.

29 Jan. 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 Jan. 2008

Review: Is Tom Shakespeare Disabled?
Symposium on Tom Shakespeare’s “Disability Rights and Wrongs”. Journal of Medical Ethics 34:1, 18-120

Jan. 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

Disability or End-of-Life?
Competing Narratives in Bioethics (with Joe Kaufert). 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 200

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 http://www.chninternational.com/tomkoch.htm

Feb. 2001

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

Social Necessity, Individual Rights, and the Needs of the Fragile:
Euthanasia in the context of end-of-life decision making. (with Kathryn Braun and Jim Pietsch). 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.
Commentary on, A . Erin and John Harris An ethical market in human organ, J. Med Ethics 2003; 29: 137-138. http://jme.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/29/3/137#70

10 Dec. 2003

Organ transplants without borders.
National Post, A 13,

30 April, 2001

Equality Versus Efficiency:
The equality of solid organ distribution in the USA. (With Ken Denike) 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

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

A Response to: 'Difference and the Delivery of Healthcare'
(Special Section: CQ 7:1), (with Kathryn Braun and Jim Pietsch) 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

Response to "Cloning, Technology, Policy and Ethics":
Humanness, personhood, and a lamb named dolly (With Mary Rowell). 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 Case 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., accessed 12 July 2001.

6, July 2001

The Condorcet Jury Theorem in a Bioethical Context:
The dynamics of group decision making (With Mark Ridgley). Group Decision and Negotiation 9:5, 379-392,

2000

Consensus in Medical Decision Making:
Analyzing the environment of discourse ethics (with Mark Ridgley). Ethics, Place and Environment 2:2, 201-217,

Fall, 1999

The Dream of Consensus: Finding Common Ground in a Bioethical Context (with Mary Rowell).
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

Distanced Perspectives: Aids, Anencephaly, and AHP (with Mark Ridgley).
Theoretical Medicine. 19:1, 47-58.

Winter, 1998

Aids, Anencephaly and AHP:
The effect of multicriterion modeling as a catalyst in bioethical decisionmaking (with Mark Ridgley). 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

June 2010

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