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    Deflating Parental Rights.James G. Dwyer - 2021 - Law and Philosophy 40 (4):387-418.
    Perhaps the greatest determinant of individual and societal welfare is who raises children and with what degree of discretion. Philosophers have endeavored in myriad ways to provide normative justification for ascribing a right to be a legal parent and to possess particular legal powers as a parent. This Article shows why they fail and offers an alternative theoretical framework for delimiting parental rights. The prevailing tendency in philosophical writing on the topic is to begin with observations and intuitions specific to (...)
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  2. How to connect bioethics and environmental ethics: Health, sustainability, and justice.James Dwyer - 2009 - Bioethics 23 (9):497-502.
    In this paper, I explore one way to bring bioethics and environmental ethics closer together. I focus on a question at the interface of health, sustainability, and justice: How well does a society promote health with the use of no more than a just share of environmental capacity? To address this question, I propose and discuss a mode of assessment that combines a measurement of population health, an estimate of environmental sustainability, and an assumption about what constitutes a fair or (...)
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    Environmental migrants, structural injustice, and moral responsibility.James Dwyer - 2020 - Bioethics 34 (6):562-569.
    Climate change and environmental problems will force or induce millions of people to migrate. In this article, I describe environmental migration and articulate some of the ethical issues. To begin, I give an account of these migrants that overcomes misleading dichotomies. Then, I focus attention on two important ethical issues: justice and responsibility. Although we are all at risk of becoming environmental migrants, we are not equally at risk. Our risk depends on our temporal position, geographical location, social position, and (...)
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  4. What's wrong with the global migration of health care professionals? Individual rights and international justice.James Dwyer - 2007 - Hastings Center Report 37 (5):36-43.
    : When health care workers migrate from poor countries to rich countries, they are exercising an important human right and helping rich countries fulfill obligations of social justice. They are also, however, creating problems of social justice in the countries they leave. Solving these problems requires balancing social needs against individual rights and studying the relationship of social justice to international justice.
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    Responding to the Injustice of Climate Change.James Dwyer - 2023 - Public Health Ethics 16 (1):1-8.
    Climate change continues to have profound impacts on people’s health, lives and life prospects. For the most part, people who are at highest risk from the impacts of climate change have contributed very little to the problem. This is the crux of the injustice. After I discuss the risks and contributions associated with the injustice of climate change, I turn to the issue of responsiveness: of why and how people should respond to this injustice. I avoid discussions of legal liability (...)
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    Primum non tacere: An Ethics of Speaking Up.James Dwyer - 1994 - Hastings Center Report 24 (1):13-18.
    Many medical students are fearful of voicing their concerns about ethically troubling medical practice. Yet they must speak up if they are to meet their responsibilities to patients, colleagues, and the profession of medicine.
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    On flying to ethics conferences: Climate change and moral responsiveness.James Dwyer - 2013 - International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 6 (1):1-18.
    Last year, I flew to two bioethics conferences, one in Europe and one in North America. These were good things to do, or so I thought. But I worry that flying and other activities are contributing to climate changes that will affect the health of vulnerable people, the life prospects of future generations, and the balance of the natural world. Thus, in this paper, I consider how I should respond. To begin, I describe briefly how climate change will impact human (...)
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    Illegal Immigrants, Health Care, and Social Responsibility.James Dwyer - 2004 - Hastings Center Report 34 (1):34-41.
    “Nationalists” argue that illegal immigrants have no claim to health benefits. “Humanists” say access to care is a human right and should be provided to everyone. Neither view is adequate.
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    Teaching Global Bioethics.James Dwyer - 2003 - Bioethics 17 (5-6):432-446.
    ABSTRACT We live in a world with enormous disparities in health. The life expectancy in Japan is 80 years; in Malawi, 40 years. The under‐five mortality in Norway is 4/1000; in Sierra Leone, 316/1000. The situation is actually worse than these figures suggest because average rates tend to mask inequalities within a country. Several presidents of the IAB have urged bioethicists to attend to global disparities and to broaden the scope of bioethics. For the last six years I have tried (...)
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    Global health and justice.James Dwyer - 2005 - Bioethics 19 (5-6):460-475.
    In Australia, Japan, Sweden, and Switzerland, the average life expectancy is now greater than 80 years. But in Angola, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and Zimbabwe, the average life expectancy is less than 40 years. The situation is even worse than these statistics suggest because average figures tend to mask inequalities within countries. What are we to make of a world with such unequal health prospects? What does justice demand in terms of global health? To address these questions, I characterize justice at (...)
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    Moral Status and Human Life: The Case for Children's Superiority.James G. Dwyer - 2010 - Cambridge University Press.
    Are children of equal, lesser, or perhaps even greater moral importance than adults? This work of applied moral philosophy develops a comprehensive account of how adults as moral agents ascribe moral status to beings - ourselves and others - and on the basis of that account identifies multiple criteria for having moral status. It argues that proper application of those criteria should lead us to treat children as of greater moral importance than adults. This conclusion presents a basis for critiquing (...)
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    Rethinking Transplantation between Siblings.James Dwyer & Elizabeth Vig - 1995 - Hastings Center Report 25 (5):7-12.
    The discourse of best interests misdirects attention from the real problem of grasping the implications of particular relationships in particular cases.
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    Why Philosophers Aren't Better People.James Dwyer - unknown
    I begin with an autobiographical account that explains the question: why philosophers are not better people. Philosophy, as it is practiced in most university departments, doesn’t concern itself with how we inhabit and perceive the world. It doesn’t really concern itself with practices that aim to form the kind of people we become. After I discuss why the question still resonates today, I consider one answer, based on some work by John Dewey. His work emphasizes the importance of habits. Since (...)
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    The Duty to Care is Not Dead Yet.Yali Cong & James Dwyer - 2023 - Asian Bioethics Review 15 (4):505-515.
    The COVID-19 pandemic exposed social shortcomings and ethical failures, but it also revealed strengths and successes. In this perspective article, we examine and discuss one strength: the duty to care. We understand this duty in a broad sense, as more than a duty to treat individual patients who could infect health care workers. We understand it as a prima facie duty to work to provide care and promote health in the face of risks, obstacles, and inconveniences. Although at least one (...)
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    Dewey's conception of philosophy.James Dwyer - 1991 - Metaphilosophy 22 (3):190-202.
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    Children's Rights.James G. Dwyer - 2003 - In Randall Curren (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Education. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 443–455.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Basic Principles Concerning Rights Against Parents' Rights Against State or Citizen Rights Formal Characteristics of Children's Rights Conclusion.
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    Case Study: Seventy Ova.Allan Jacobs, James Dwyer & Peter H. Lee - 2001 - Hastings Center Report 31 (4):12.
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    Frameworks and Practices in Bioethics.James Dwyer - unknown
    I begin this essay with an autobiographical introduction to explain why I studied philosophy and how I came to work in bioethics. I then consider three ethical frameworks and practices that I adopted in my work in bioethics. I begin with the framework that John Rawls makes explicit, where the purpose of ethical theory is to set out aims and objectives to guide our responses to the world. Since this approach did not provide the guidance that I was looking for, (...)
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  19. Social Responsibility.James Dwyer - forthcoming - Hastings Center Report.
     
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    Case Study: The VIP Floors.Yali Cong, Linying Hu & James Dwyer - 2005 - Hastings Center Report 35 (1):16.
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    The VIP floors.Yali Cong, Linying Hu & James Dwyer - 2005 - Hastings Center Report 35 (1):16-17.
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    Babel, Justice, and Democracy: Reflections on a Shortage of Interpreters at a Public Hospital.James Dwyer - 2001 - Hastings Center Report 31 (2):31-36.
    When a doctor sees a patient, answers to a few questions can be crucial. So what to do when no one at the hospital speaks the patient's language? Doctors can often devise creative, makeshift ways of communicating with their patients, but the problem calls ultimately for a creative organizational response.
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    Clarifying questions about the nature of rights.James G. Dwyer - 2020 - Jurisprudence 12 (1):47-68.
    This Article critiques the debate over the nature of rights on the grounds that theorists have failed to specify and defend an ultimate aim, predominantly deployed a standard of success–ext...
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    Case Study: One More Pelvic Exam.James Dwyer & Julie Rothstein - 1993 - Hastings Center Report 23 (6):27.
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    Case Study: The Value of a Uterus.James Dwyer, Nina Cerfolio, Thomas H. Murray & Miriam B. Rosenthal - 1996 - Hastings Center Report 26 (2):28.
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  26. 9-11: Experiences And Reflections.James Dwyer - 2002 - Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 12 (2):53-57.
     
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    Green Bioethics and Hope.James Dwyer - 2020 - Hastings Center Report 50 (2):44-45.
    Many environmental problems are now more serious and urgent than ever. In high‐income countries, health care is part of the problem. In Principles of Green Bioethics: Sustainability in Health Care, Cristina Richie focuses on medical developments, techniques, and procedures, and she proposes four principles for green bioethics: distributive justice, resource conservation, simplicity, and ethical economics. Richie is right to emphasize the need for green bioethics, and I admire her aim to bring environmental concerns back into bioethics, but I was disappointed (...)
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    How I Got Pregnant.James Dwyer - 2014 - BioéthiqueOnline 3:3.
    This short story raises ethical issues about a woman’s request for medical assistance to get pregnant. In this fictional account, a 34-year-old woman has been trying to get pregnant for the last year. Her husband would like to keep trying for one more year, but the woman loses patience. She visits an ob-gyn and requests artificial insemination. She does not intend to tell her husband about this medical assistance. The doctor has helped single women, lesbian couples, and married couples with (...)
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    Human Rights, Not Enough.James Dwyer & Jonathan M. Mann - 1998 - Hastings Center Report 28 (1):6.
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    Haiku, Spiritual Exercises, and Bioethics.James Dwyer - 2018 - Canadian Journal of Bioethics/Revue canadienne de bioéthique 1 (2):44-47.
    Pierre Hadot has discussed the deep connections between ancient Western philosophy and spiritual exercises. The author appreciates these connections, but he explains why he explored a different path. He began to write haiku as a form of spiritual practice. He wanted to use these short verses to become more mindful, present, and responsive – in his life and in his work in bioethics. After comparing traditional haiku and modern haiku, the author gives some examples from classical sources. Then he considers (...)
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    Case Study: Ignore the Law.James Dwyer, Lloyd Wasserman & Giles Scofield - 2000 - Hastings Center Report 30 (4):22.
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    One More Pelvic Exam.James Dwyer & Julie Rothstein - 1993 - Hastings Center Report 23 (6):27-29.
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    On Taking Responsibility for Undocumented Migrants.James Dwyer - 2015 - Public Health Ethics 8 (2):139-147.
    Do societies have an ethical responsibility to care for and about the health of undocumented migrants? Some people claim that societies have no responsibility to care for undocumented migrants because these migrants have no legal right to be in the country. But this view tends to ignore ethical responsibilities that are independent of legal status. Other people claim that all human beings, in virtue of their dignity and status as human beings, have a right to the highest standard of health. (...)
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  34. Sars As An Ethical Test.James Dwyer - 2003 - Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 13 (4):142-143.
     
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    The Disasters of March 11th.James Dwyer, Kenzo Hamano & Hsuan Hui Wei - 2012 - Hastings Center Report 42 (4):11-13.
    On March 11, 2011, one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded occurred off the northeast coast of Japan. It destroyed buildings, damaged infrastructure, and killed people in the Tohoku region. The associated tsunami was even more destructive, engulfing coastal areas and obliterating whole towns. The earthquake and the tsunami together occasioned a third disaster: the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Like most people, Dr. Makoto Sato was horrified by the destruction and suffering that he saw. He wanted (...)
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    Van Rensselaer Potter, Climate Change, and Justice.James Dwyer - 2022 - Canadian Journal of Bioethics / Revue canadienne de bioéthique 5 (1).
    When Van Rensselaer Potter coined the English word “bioethics”, he envisioned a field that would bring together biological understanding and ethical values to address global environmental problems. Following Potter’s broad vision of bioethics, I explore ethical ideas that we need to address climate change. However, I develop and emphasize ideas about justice and responsibility in ways that Potter did not. At key points, I contrast the ideas that I develop with those in Potter’s work, but I try to avoid scholarly (...)
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    Setting Limits Fairly. [REVIEW]James Dwyer, Norman Daniels & James Sabin - 2003 - Hastings Center Report 33 (3):46.
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    [Book review] religious schools V. children's rights. [REVIEW]James G. Dwyer - 1999 - Ethics 110 (1).