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  1. Disability, Difference, Discrimination: Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public Policy.Anita Silvers, David Wasserman, Mary B. Mahowald & Lawrence C. Becker - 1998 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    How should we respond to individuals with disabilities? What does it mean to be disabled? Over fifty million Americans, from neonates to the fragile elderly, are disabled. Some people say they have the right to full social participation, while others repudiate such claims as delusive or dangerous. In this compelling book, three experts in ethics, medicine, and the law address pressing disability questions in bioethics and public policy. Anita Silvers, David Wasserman, and Mary B. Mahowald test important theories of justice (...)
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  2. (1 other version)Thinking about the good: Reconfiguring liberal metaphysics (or not) for people with cognitive disabilities.Anita Silvers & Leslie Pickering Francis - 2009 - Metaphilosophy 40 (3-4):475-498.
    Liberalism welcomes diversity in substantive ideas of the good but not in the process whereby these ideas are formed. Ideas of the good acquire weight on the presumption that each is a person's own, formed independently. But people differ in their capacities to conceptualize. Some, appropriately characterized as cerebral, are proficient in and profoundly involved with conceptualizing. Others, labeled cognitively disabled, range from individuals with mild limitations to those so unable to express themselves that we cannot be sure whether their (...)
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  3. Reconciling Equality to Difference: Caring (F)or Justice for People with Disabilities.Anita Silvers - 1995 - Hypatia 10 (1):30 - 55.
    A feminist ethics that bases morality on dependence or vulnerability challenges the moral priority of uniform over disparate treatment. Persons with disabilities resist equality's homogenization of moral personhood. But displacing equality in favor of caring or trust reprises the repression of those already marginalized. The ethics of difference proves an ineffective remedy for the negative consequences attendant on how historically marginalized groups are different. An historicized conception of equality resolves the dilemma.
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  4. Justice through trust: Disability and the “outlier problem” in social contract theory.Anita Silvers & Leslie Pickering Francis - 2005 - Ethics 116 (1):40-76.
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    Disability, Difference, and Discrimination: Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public Policy.Anita Silvers, David Wasserman & Mary B. Mahowald - 2002 - Hypatia 17 (1):209-213.
  6. On the possibility and desirability of constructing a neutral conception of disability.Anita Silvers - 2003 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 24 (6):471-487.
    Disagreement about the properattitude toward disability proliferates. Yetlittle attention has been paid to an importantmeta-question, namely, whether ``disability'' isan essentially contested concept. If so, recentdebates between bioethicists and the disabilitymovement leadership cannot be resolved. Inthis essay I identify some of the presumptionsthat make their encounters so contentious. Much more must happen, I argue, for anydiscussions about disability policy andpolitics to be productive. Progress depends onconstructing a neutral conception ofdisability, one that neither devaluesdisability nor implies that persons withdisabilities are inadequate. So, (...)
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  7. Liberalism and Individually Scripted Ideas of the Good.Leslie Pickering Francis & Anita Silvers - 2007 - Social Theory and Practice 33 (2):311-334.
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    Beyond cultural stereotyping: views on end-of-life decision making among religious and secular persons in the USA, Germany, and Israel.Mark Schweda, Silke Schicktanz, Aviad Raz & Anita Silvers - 2017 - BMC Medical Ethics 18 (1):13.
    End-of-life decision making constitutes a major challenge for bioethical deliberation and political governance in modern democracies: On the one hand, it touches upon fundamental convictions about life, death, and the human condition. On the other, it is deeply rooted in religious traditions and historical experiences and thus shows great socio-cultural diversity. The bioethical discussion of such cultural issues oscillates between liberal individualism and cultural stereotyping. Our paper confronts the bioethical expert discourse with public moral attitudes. The paper is based on (...)
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    Historical Vulnerability and Special Scrutiny: Precautions against Discrimination in Medical Research.Anita Silvers - 2004 - American Journal of Bioethics 4 (3):56-57.
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  10. Aesthetic "akrasia": On disliking good art.Anita Silvers - 1972 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 31 (2):227-234.
  11. No talent? Beyond the worst off!: A diverse theory of justice for disability.Anita Silvers - 2009 - In Kimberley Brownlee & Adam Cureton (eds.), Disability and Disadvantage. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press. pp. 163--99.
     
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  12. “defective” Agents: Equality, Difference And The Tyranny Of The Normal: equality,normality and ability.Anita Silvers - 1994 - Journal of Social Philosophy 25 (s1):154-175.
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    The story of art is the test of time.Anita Silvers - 1991 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 49 (3):211-224.
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    Cloudy crystal balls do not “gray” babies make.Anita Silvers & Leslie Francis - 2011 - American Journal of Bioethics 11 (2):36 - 38.
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    Medicine and Social Justice:Essays on the Distribution of Health Care: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care.Rosamond Rhodes, Margaret P. Battin & Anita Silvers (eds.) - 2002 - Oup Usa.
    Because medicine can preserve and restore health and function, it is widely acknowledged as a basic good that a just society owes its members. Yet there is controversy over the scope of what should be provided, to whom, how, when and why. This comprehensive and authoritative book - by well-known philosophers, doctors, lawyers, political scientists, and economists - lays a theoretical foundation for understanding the debate, assesses how health care is distributed in different countries and to various social groups, and (...)
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    Book Reviews-Disability, Difference, Discrimination: Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public Policy.Anita Silvers, David Wasserman, Mary B. Mahowald & Lynn Gillam - 2000 - Bioethics 14 (3):276-278.
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    Human Rights and Genetic Discrimination: Protecting Genomics' Promise for Public Health.Anita Silvers & Michael Ashley Stein - 2003 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 31 (3):377-389.
    The potential power of predictive genetic testing as a risk regulator is impressive. By identifying asymptomatic individuals who are at risk of becoming ill, predictive genetic testing may enable those individuals to take prophylactic measures. As new therapies become available, the usefulness of genetic testing undoubtedly will increase. Further, when a person's family medical history indicates a propensity towards a particular genetic disease, a negative test result may open up otherwise denied opportunities by showing that this person has not inherited (...)
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  18. Philosophy and Disability: What Should Philosophy Do?Anita Silvers - 2016 - Res Philosophica 93 (4):843-863.
    Elizabeth Barnes’s recently proposed value-neutral model for disability provoked a familiar storm of oft-made objections from philosophers who appear committed to equating being disabled with being intrinsically or inescapably disadvantaged. Their narrow framing of the options for disabled people is influenced, I suggest, by purposes to which “disability” (on my analysis, a term of art) now is put. But there are both epistemic and moral reasons to refrain from importing the normative narrowness imposed by these purposes into our philosophical investigation (...)
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  19. Disability and normality.Anita Silvers - 2016 - In Miriam Solomon, Jeremy R. Simon & Harold Kincaid (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine. New York, NY: Routledge.
     
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  20. The artwork discarded.Anita Silvers - 1976 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 34 (4):441-454.
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    A Neutral Ethical Framework for Understanding the Role of Disability in the Life Cycle.Anita Silvers - 2001 - American Journal of Bioethics 1 (3):57-58.
    (2001). A Neutral Ethical Framework for Understanding the Role of Disability in the Life Cycle. The American Journal of Bioethics: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 57-58.
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    Going to School to Die: Equal Treatment for Well and Ill Children.Anita Silvers - 2005 - American Journal of Bioethics 5 (1):69-71.
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    (In) equality, (ab) normality, and the americans with disabilities act.Anita Silvers - 1996 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 21 (2):209-224.
    The 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act enacted a conceptual shift in the meaning of ‘disability.’ Rather than defining ‘disability’ as a disadvantageous physical or mental deficit of persons, it codifies the understanding of ‘disability’ as a defective state of society which disadvantages these persons. In contrast, the standard medical model incorrectly conceptualizes disabled persons as biologically inferior, and thus confines them to the role of recipients of benevolence or care. Turning to an ethic of caring yields counter-intuitive results that conflict (...)
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    Infanticide, moral status and moral reasons: the importance of context.Leslie Francis & Anita Silvers - 2013 - Journal of Medical Ethics 39 (5):289-292.
    Giubilini and Minerva ask why birth should be a critical dividing line between acceptable and unacceptable reasons for terminating existence. Their argument is that birth does not change moral status in the sense that is relevant: the ability to be harmed by interruption of one's aims. Rather than question the plausibility of their position or the argument they give, we ask instead about the importance to scholarship or policy of publishing the article: does it to any extent make a novel (...)
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  25. Feminism: An overview.Anita Silvers - 1998 - In Michael Kelly (ed.), Encyclopedia of aesthetics. New York: Oxford University Press.
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    Disability.Anita Silvers - 1998 - In Alison M. Jaggar & Iris Marion Young (eds.), A companion to feminist philosophy. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. pp. 330–340.
    As both the promise and the influence of feminism have grown, women with disabilities have, with increasing intensity, pronounced themselves to be disregarded within the women's movement to an extent little different from how patriarchal society devalues them.
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    Letting the sunshine in: Has analysis made aesthetics clear?Anita Silvers - 1987 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 46:137-149.
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    Respecting the Dignity of Children with Disabilities in Clinical Practice.Adam Cureton & Anita Silvers - 2017 - HEC Forum 29 (3):257-276.
    Prevailing philosophies about parental and other caregiver responsibilities toward children tend to be protectionist, grounded in informed benevolence in a way that countenances rather than circumvents intrusive paternalism. And among the kinds of children an adult might be called upon to parent or otherwise care for, children with disabilities figure among those for whom the strongest and snuggest shielding is supposed be deployed. In this article, we examine whether this equation of securing well-being with sheltering by protective parents and other (...)
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    Metaphors in the Management of Extremely Preterm Birth.Anita Silvers & Leslie Pickering Francis - 2017 - American Journal of Bioethics 17 (8):37-39.
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    The right not to be normal as the essence of freedom.Anita Silvers - 2008 - Journal of Evolution and Technology 18 (1):79-85.
    Proponents of using medical technology for enhancement sometimes misunderstand how the biology of enhancement works. Appreciation of biological diversity supports a program of enhancement. Acknowledging a liberty right to be biologically different addresses worries abut enhancement’s being undemocratic. Doing so also suggests changes in emphasis to strengthen the case for enhancement.
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    Predictive Genetic Testing: Congruence of Disability Insurers' Interests with the Public Interest.Anita Silvers - 2007 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 35 (S2):52-58.
    The idea that disability insurers would benefit if the use of predictive genetic testing expands may seem little short of obvious. If individuals with higher than species-typical genetic propensities for illness or disease are identified, and barred or discouraged from participating in disability insurance programs, is it not obvious that the amount that disability insurers pay out will decrease? Is there any reason to doubt that insurers thus would gain advantage by promoting genetic testing? Writers on this subject typically have (...)
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    Sociobiology and Human Nature.Michael Steven Gregory & Anita Silvers (eds.) - 1978 - Jossey-Bass.
    Result of a conference, "Sociobiology: implications for human studies", held at San Francisco State University on June 14-15, 1977. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 295-316.
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    (1 other version)From the Crooked Timber of Humanity, Beautiful Things Can Be Made.Anita Silvers - 2000 - In Peg Zeglin Brand (ed.), Beauty Matters. Indiana University Press. pp. 197-221.
    Why is it commonplace for us to contemplate distorted depictions of faces with eagerness and enjoyment, but to be repelled by real people whose physiognomies resemble the depicted ones? More generally, what makes perceiving pictured physically anomalous individuals so different from perceiving physically anomalous people themselves? . . . I will suggest how we can theorize human beauty, as we do beauty in art, so as to savor, rather than rebuff, novelty, disproportionateness, and even crookedness in the human shape. For (...)
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    The Aesthetic Point of View: Selected Essays.Anita Silvers - 1983 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 42 (2):213-217.
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    Becoming Mrs. Mayberry: Dependency and the Right to be Free.Anita Silvers - 2015 - Hypatia 30 (1):292-299.
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    On Not Iterating Women's Disability: A Crossover Perspective on Genetic Dilemmas.Anita Silvers - 1998 - In Anne Donchin & Laura Purdy (eds.), Embodying Bioethics: Feminist Advances. Lanham.
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    Philosophy and Disability.Anita Silvers - 2000 - Philosophy Now 30:38-41.
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    Primary care physicians and the duty to inform about genetic discrimination.Anita Silvers - 2001 - American Journal of Bioethics 1 (3):1 – 2.
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    People with disabilities.Anita Silvers - 2003 - In Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The Oxford Hndbk of Practical Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press UK. pp. 300--318.
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  40. The Canon in Aesthetics.Anita Silvers - 1998 - In Michael Kelly (ed.), Encyclopedia of aesthetics. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 334--338.
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  41. Disabled Rights: No Dogs or Philosophers Allowed.Ken Knisely, Anita Silvers, Patrick Sullivan & John Loughney - forthcoming - DVD.
    Can the rights of the disabled be justified by John Locke's theory of natural rights? Does an "ethics of caring" offer a better framework for considering these rights? When can we end a human life? With Anita Silvers, Patrick Sullivan, and John Loughney.
     
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  42. (1 other version)Feminism and disability.Anita Silvers - 2006 - In Kittay Eva Feder & Martín Alcoff Linda (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
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    How to avoid resting journalistic ethics on a mistake.Anita Silvers - 1985 - Journal of Social Philosophy 16 (3):20-35.
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    Puzzles about Art: An Aesthetics Casebook.Margaret Battin, John Fisher, Ronald Moore & Anita Silvers - 1990 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48 (3):265-266.
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    Achieving Meaningful Access to Medicaid.Leslie Francis & Anita Silvers - 2019 - Hastings Center Report 49 (2):3-3.
    Federal and state budgetary constraints continually challenge Medicaid. The effects of benefit cuts are common: long waiting lists for community‐based services, skeletonized drug formularies with unstable access to long‐term prescriptions, no psychiatric therapy for people immobilized by depression, and no more than fourteen days of acute hospitalization. Reimbursements may be so low that providers cannot hire qualified staff and must reduce services, close facilities, or refuse to take Medicaid altogether. Misguided efficiency policies may afflict some groups of patients as well. (...)
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    A Wrongful Case for Parental Tort Liability.Leslie Pickering Francis & Anita Silvers - 2012 - American Journal of Bioethics 12 (4):15-17.
    The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 12, Issue 4, Page 15-17, April 2012.
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    Continuous Surveillance of Persons with Disabilities: Conflicts and Compatibilities of Personal and Public Goods.Anita Ho, Anita Silvers & Tim Stainton - 2014 - Journal of Social Philosophy 45 (3):348-368.
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    The individual rights of the difficult patient.Roy R. Reeves, Sharon P. Douglas, Rosa T. Garner, Marti D. Reynolds & Anita Silvers - 2007 - Hastings Center Report 37 (2):13-15.
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    Introduction.Rosamond Rhodes, Leslie P. Francis & Anita Silvers - 2007 - In Rosamond Rhodes, Leslie P. Francis & Anita Silvers (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 1–14.
    The prelims comprise: Part I Part II Note.
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    The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics.Rosamond Rhodes, Leslie P. Francis & Anita Silvers (eds.) - 2007 - Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
    _The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics_ is a guide to the complex literature written on the increasingly dense topic of ethics in relation to the new technologies of medicine. Examines the key ethical issues and debates which have resulted from the rapid advances in biomedical technology Brings together the leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, medicine, theology and law, to discuss these issues Tackles such topics as ending life, patient choice, selling body parts, resourcing and confidentiality (...)
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