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When Hope Unblooms: Chance And Moral Luck In The Fiction Of Thomas Hardy, Jil Larson Nov 2001

When Hope Unblooms: Chance And Moral Luck In The Fiction Of Thomas Hardy, Jil Larson

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Paper presented at the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University, September 20, 2001.


Who Should Foot The Bill For Continuing Review Of Research?, Charles Weijer Oct 2001

Who Should Foot The Bill For Continuing Review Of Research?, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 3, Issue 1, [2001], Case Western Reserve University Oct 2001

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 3, Issue 1, [2001], Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

  • Helping Others to Help Yourself: The Value of Community Service
  • Director's Corner: One Tough Guy by Robert P. Lawry
  • We Do! We Can't? A Discussion of Same Sex Marriage
  • Tom Anderson, Ethics Fellow: Teacher for All Seasons
  • Volume 3, Number 1: News, Notes, and Future Events


Minimal Risk And Its Implications, Charles Weijer Aug 2001

Minimal Risk And Its Implications, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


[Book Review Of] The Healer's Calling: A Spirituality For Physicians And Other Health Care Professionals, By Daniel P. Sulmasy, Paul Flaman Aug 2001

[Book Review Of] The Healer's Calling: A Spirituality For Physicians And Other Health Care Professionals, By Daniel P. Sulmasy, Paul Flaman

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.


Should Physicians Accept Gifts From Their Patients? No: Gifts Debase The True Value Of Care, Charles Weijer Jul 2001

Should Physicians Accept Gifts From Their Patients? No: Gifts Debase The True Value Of Care, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Ethics As Therapy: Philosophical Counseling And Psychological Health, Mike W. Martin Jul 2001

Ethics As Therapy: Philosophical Counseling And Psychological Health, Mike W. Martin

Philosophy Faculty Articles and Research

From the inception of philosophical counseling an attempt was made to distinguish it from (psychological) therapy by insisting that therapy could not be more misleading. It is true that philosophical counselors should not pretend to be able to heal major mental illness; nevertheless they do contribute to positive health—health understood as something more than the absence of mental disease. This thesis is developed by critiquing Lou Marinoff’s book, Plato not Prozac!, but also by ranging more widely in the literature on philosophical counseling. I also interpret philosophical counseling as a form of philosophical ethics.


Informing Patients Of Uncertainty In Clinical Trials, S. Halpern, J. Karlawish, Charles Weijer Jun 2001

Informing Patients Of Uncertainty In Clinical Trials, S. Halpern, J. Karlawish, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


The Mind-Body Problem: A Tuberculosis/Tobacco Example, Ibpp Editor May 2001

The Mind-Body Problem: A Tuberculosis/Tobacco Example, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article illustrates two conflicts between what is, perhaps, best for the mind and best for the body.


Continuing Review Of Research Approved By Canadian Research Ethics Boards, Charles Weijer Apr 2001

Continuing Review Of Research Approved By Canadian Research Ethics Boards, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


The Ethics Wars: Disputes Over International Research, Charles Weijer, James Anderson Apr 2001

The Ethics Wars: Disputes Over International Research, Charles Weijer, James Anderson

Charles Weijer

The effort to revise the Declaration of Helsinki and the CIOMS Guidelines has sparked a sometimes vitriolic debate centering on the use of placebo controls.


Is Science Ever Science? The Politics Of Child Care, Ibpp Editor Apr 2001

Is Science Ever Science? The Politics Of Child Care, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article explores the political behavior of psychologists in the carrying out of scientific tasks.


Capitalism And The Value Of Life: Foot-And-Mouth And The Culling Of Herds, Ibpp Editor Apr 2001

Capitalism And The Value Of Life: Foot-And-Mouth And The Culling Of Herds, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes some psychological implications of culling as an intervention to help combat the spread of foot-and-mouth disease.


The Ethics Of Making The Body Beautiful: Lessons From Cosmetic Surgery For A Future Of Cosmetic Genetics, Sara Goering Apr 2001

The Ethics Of Making The Body Beautiful: Lessons From Cosmetic Surgery For A Future Of Cosmetic Genetics, Sara Goering

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

This piece was originally published in the Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, Spring 2001 issue (from the Maryland Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy).


Morality And God, John Hare Feb 2001

Morality And God, John Hare

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Paper presented at the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University, January 18,2001 with the title, "Does Morality Need God?"


The Image Of Paul Robeson:Role Model For The Student And Athlete, Keith Harrison Jan 2001

The Image Of Paul Robeson:Role Model For The Student And Athlete, Keith Harrison

Dr. C. Keith Harrison

No abstract provided.


Rights Of Inequality: Rawlsian Justice, Equal Opportunity, And The Status Of The Family, Justin Schwartz Jan 2001

Rights Of Inequality: Rawlsian Justice, Equal Opportunity, And The Status Of The Family, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

Is the family subject to principles of justice? In A Theory of Justice, John Rawls includes the (monogamous) family along with the market and the government as among the "basic institutions of society" to which principles of justice apply. Justice, he famously insists, is primary in politics as truth is in science: the only excuse for tolerating injustice is that no lesser injustice is possible. The point of the present paper is that Rawls doesn't actually mean this. When it comes to the family, and in particular its impact on fair equal opportunity (the first part of the the Difference …


Psychoanalytic Praxis And The Truth Of Pain, William J. Richardson Jan 2001

Psychoanalytic Praxis And The Truth Of Pain, William J. Richardson

Research Resources

William J. Richardson’s, “Psychoanalytic Praxis and the Truth of Pain” critically reviews Lacan’s conception of science, truth, and language above all. For Lacan, speaking of the “subject of science,” it is as if the entire scientific enterprise – its history, its institutions and all the virulence of its burgeoning power – may be conceived as the function of a single hypostasized, egoless subject: the “correlate” of science as such, taken as a whole. Reading Lacan’s essay “Science and Truth,” Richardson offers a philosophical outline of the strengths of Lacan’s analysis along with its limitations, including a discussion of Heidegger's aletheia …


Rec Approval, Charles Weijer Dec 2000

Rec Approval, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


The Research Subject As Entrepreneur, James Anderson, Charles Weijer Dec 2000

The Research Subject As Entrepreneur, James Anderson, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Hospital Policy On Appropriate Use Of Life-Sustaining Treatment, Peter Singer, Geoff Barker, Kerry Bowman, Christine Harrison, Philip Kernerman, Judy Kopelow, Neil Lazar, Charles Weijer, Stephen Workman Dec 2000

Hospital Policy On Appropriate Use Of Life-Sustaining Treatment, Peter Singer, Geoff Barker, Kerry Bowman, Christine Harrison, Philip Kernerman, Judy Kopelow, Neil Lazar, Charles Weijer, Stephen Workman

Charles Weijer

OBJECTIVE: To describe the issues faced, and how they were addressed, by the University of Toronto Critical Care Medicine Program/Joint Centre for Bioethics Task Force on Appropriate Use of Life-Sustaining Treatment. The clinical problem addressed by the Task Force was dealing with requests by patients or substitute decision makers for life-sustaining treatment that their healthcare providers believe is inappropriate.

DESIGN: Case study.

SETTING: The University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics/Critical Care Medicine Program Task Force on Appropriate Use of Life-Sustaining Treatment.

PARTICIPANTS: The 24-member Task Force included physician and nursing leaders from five critical care units, bioethicists, a legal …


Misrepresenting Research: Commentary, Charles Weijer Dec 2000

Misrepresenting Research: Commentary, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Trial By Error, Charles Weijer Dec 2000

Trial By Error, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.