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    Zones of Consensus and Zones of Conflict: Questioning the "Common Morality" Presumption in Bioethics.Leigh Turner - 2003 - Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 13 (3):193-218.
    : Many bioethicists assume that morality is in a state of wide reflective equilibrium. According to this model of moral deliberation, public policymaking can build upon a core common morality that is pretheoretical and provides a basis for practical reasoning. Proponents of the common morality approach to moral deliberation make three assumptions that deserve to be viewed with skepticism. First, they commonly assume that there is a universal, transhistorical common morality that can serve as a normative baseline for judging various (...)
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    Bioethics and Social Studies of Medicine: Overlapping Concerns.Leigh Turner - 2009 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 18 (1):36.
    Polemicists and disciplinary puritans commonly make a sharp distinction between the normative, “prescriptive,” philosophical work of bioethicists and the empirical, “descriptive” work of anthropologists and sociologists studying medicine, healthcare, and illness. Though few contemporary medical anthropologists and sociologists of health and illness subscribe to positivism, the legacy of positivist thought persists in some areas of the social sciences. It is still quite common for social scientists to insist that their work does not contain explicit normative analysis, offers no practical recommendations (...)
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    Anthropological and sociological critiques of bioethics.Leigh Turner - 2009 - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 6 (1):83-98.
    Anthropologists and sociologists offer numerous critiques of bioethics. Social scientists criticize bioethicists for their arm-chair philosophizing and socially ungrounded pontificating, offering philosophical abstractions in response to particular instances of suffering, making all-encompassing universalistic claims that fail to acknowledge cultural differences, fostering individualism and neglecting the importance of families and communities, and insinuating themselves within the “belly” of biomedicine. Although numerous aspects of bioethics warrant critique and reform, all too frequently social scientists offer ungrounded, exaggerated criticisms of bioethics. Anthropological and sociological (...)
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    Bioethics in pluralistic societies.Leigh Turner - 2004 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 7 (2):201-208.
    Contemporary liberal democracies contain multiple cultural, religious, and philosophical traditions. Within these societies, different interpretive communities provide divergent models for understanding health, illness, and moral obligations. Bioethicists commonly draw upon models of moral reasoning that presume the existence of shared moral intuitions. Principlist bioethics, case-based models of moral deliberation, intuitionist frameworks, and cost-benefit analyses all emphasise the uniformity of moral reasoning. However, religious and cultural differences challenge assumptions about common modes of moral deliberation. Too often, bioethicists minimize or ignore the (...)
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    From the local to the global: Bioethics and the concept of culture.Leigh Turner - 2005 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 30 (3):305 – 320.
    Cultural models of health, illness, and moral reasoning are receiving increasing attention in bioethics scholarship. Drawing upon research tools from medical and cultural anthropology, numerous researchers explore cultural variations in attitudes toward truth telling, informed consent, pain relief, and planning for end-of-life care. However, culture should not simply be equated with ethnicity. Rather, the concept of culture can serve as an heuristic device at various levels of analysis. In addition to considering how participation in particular ethnic groups and religious traditions (...)
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    Bioethics and Religions: Religious Traditions and Understandings of Morality, Health, and Illness.Leigh Turner - 2003 - Health Care Analysis 11 (3):181-197.
    For many individuals, religious traditions provide important resources for moral deliberation. While contemporary philosophical approaches in bioethics draw upon secular presumptions, religion continues to play an important role in both personal moral reasoning and public debate. In this analysis, I consider the connections between religious traditions and understandings of morality, medicine, illness, suffering, and the body. The discussion is not intended to provide a theological analysis within the intellectual constraints of a particular religious tradition. Rather, I offer an interpretive analysis (...)
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    Bioethics, Public Health, and Firearm-Related Violence: Missing Links between Bioethics and Public Health.Leigh Turner - 1997 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 25 (1):42-48.
    Open any standard bioethics textbook, and therein can be found a host of subjects ranging from the abortion rights controversy to the morality of xenographic tissue transplantation. Just as there is a wide scope to the subject matter of bioethics, its practitioners come from a multitude of disciplines, including law, medicine, nursing, theology, philosophy, sociology, and anthropology. And yet, despite a rich variety of investigators and methods, bioethicists overlook numerous subjects that deserve to be addressed. In particular, they neglect issues (...)
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    The US Direct-to-Consumer Marketplace for Autologous Stem Cell Interventions.Leigh Turner - 2018 - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 61 (1):7-24.
    When journalists and health researchers address the subject of patients in the United States undergoing unproven stem cell–based interventions, they have historically crafted narratives about "stem cell tourism" to facilities located in such countries as China, India, Mexico, Panama, and Thailand. These latter nations often are depicted as jurisdictions where clinics providing access to SCBIs operate without meaningful oversight, relevant regulations are nonexistent or have significant loopholes, and regulatory bodies are underfunded, understaffed, corrupt, or otherwise unable to provide effective oversight (...)
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    Life Extension Research: Health, Illness, and Death.Leigh Turner - 2004 - Health Care Analysis 12 (2):117-129.
    Scientists, bioethicists, and policy makers are currently engaged in a contentious debate about the scientific prospects and morality of efforts to increase human longevity. Some demographers and geneticists suggest that there is little reason to think that it will be possible to significantly extend the human lifespan. Other biodemographers and geneticists argue that there might well be increases in both life expectancy and lifespan. Bioethicists and policy makers are currently addressing many of the ethical, social, and economic issues raised by (...)
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    The Greening of Bioethics: Corporate Funding of Bioethics Research.Leigh Turner - 1998 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 7 (3):326-328.
    Bioethicists recognize the conflicts of interest that can arise for clinicians and scientists. However, few scholars exploring the moral dimensions of medicine and the sciences publicly address potential conflicts of interest concerning their own research. Increasingly, however, bioethicists will be confronted with difficult choices in which opportunities to obtain funding will sometimes conflict with the pursuit of critical, rigorous scholarship conducted without regard for corporate interests.
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    Commercial Organ Transplantation in the Philippines.Leigh Turner - 2009 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 18 (2):192.
    Countries throughout Asia promote themselves as leading destinations for international travelers seeking inexpensive healthcare. India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, and Thailand are all trying to attract greater numbers of what their promotional campaigns call “medical tourists.” Government tourism initiatives, hospital associations, medical tourism companies, and individual hospitals advertise hip and knee replacements, spinal surgery, cosmetic surgery, and other medical procedures. In contrast to most nations marketing treatments to international patients, the Philippines differentiates itself by selling “all inclusive” kidney transplant (...)
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    Politics, bioethics, and science policy.Leigh Turner - 2008 - HEC Forum 20 (1):29-47.
  13. Global health inequalities and bioethics.Leigh Turner - 2007 - In Lisa A. Eckenwiler & Felicia Cohn (eds.), The ethics of bioethics: mapping the moral landscape. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
     
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    (1 other version)Transnational Medical Travel.Leigh Turner - 2013 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 22 (2):170-180.
  15. Anderson-Shaw, Lisa, meadow, William with policy?Wendy Austin, Gillian Lemermeyer, Miriam Brouillet & Leigh Turner - 2005 - HEC Forum 17 (4):327-329.
     
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    Research notes.Eve DeVaro & Leigh Turner - 1997 - Hastings Center Report 27 (1):48-48.
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    Bioethics, Social Class, and the Sociological Imagination.Leigh Turner - 2005 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 14 (4):374-378.
    Last year I published a short article urging bioethicists to carefully examine the question of what ought to constitute the canonical issues topics and questions driving research and teaching in bioethics. Why some subjects dominate the field whereas other topics are regarded as matters for scholars in other disciplines is a question that has intrigued me for nearly a decade. How are the boundaries of bioethics established? What factors influence research agendas and the creation of bioethics curricula? How do funding (...)
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    Bioethics and anthropology: Bridges and barriers to transdisciplinary research.Leigh Turner - 2003 - Monash Bioethics Review 22 (3):12-17.
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    Life extension technologies: Economic, psychological, and social considerations.Leigh Turner - 2003 - HEC Forum 15 (3):258-273.
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    News Media Reports of Patient Deaths Following ‘Medical Tourism’ for Cosmetic Surgery and Bariatric Surgery.Leigh Turner - 2012 - Developing World Bioethics 12 (1):21-34.
    Contemporary scholarship examining clinical outcomes in medical travel for cosmetic surgery identifies cases in which patients traveled abroad for medical procedures and subsequently returned home with infections and other surgical complications. Though there are peer‐reviewed articles identifying patient deaths in cases where patients traveled abroad for commercial kidney transplantation or stem cell injections, no scholarly publications document deaths of patients who traveled abroad for cosmetic surgery or bariatric surgery. Drawing upon news media reports extending from 1993 to 2011, this article (...)
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    Narrative, Thick Description, and Bioethics: Cases, Stories, and Simone de Beauvoir’s A Very Easy Death.Leigh Turner - 2001 - Journal of Clinical Ethics 12 (2):122-130.
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    Public goods, private goods.Leigh Turner - 2005 - Journal of Value Inquiry 39 (1):131-137.
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    Republicanism.Leigh Turner - 2004 - Journal of Value Inquiry 38 (2):273-279.
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    The English Surgeon – Directed and Produced by Geoffrey Smith.Leigh G. Turner - 2010 - Developing World Bioethics 10 (3):173-174.
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    Bioethics in a Multicultural World: Medicine and Morality in Pluralistic Settings. [REVIEW]Leigh Turner - 2003 - Health Care Analysis 11 (2):99-117.
    Current approaches in bioethics largely overlook the multicultural social environment within which most contemporary ethical issues unfold. For example, principlists argue that the common morality of society supports four basic ethical principles. These principles, and the common morality more generally, are supposed to be a matter of shared common sense. Defenders of case-based approaches to moral reasoning similarly assume that moral reasoning proceeds on the basis of common moral intuitions. Both of these approaches fail to recognize the existence of multiple (...)
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    Doffing the mask: Why manuscript reviewers ought to be identifiable. [REVIEW]Leigh Turner - 2003 - Journal of Academic Ethics 1 (1):41-48.
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    Issues and Challenges in Research on the Ethics of Medical Tourism: Reflections from a Conference. [REVIEW]Jeremy Snyder, Valorie Crooks & Leigh Turner - 2011 - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 8 (1):3-6.
    The authors co-organized (Snyder and Crooks) and gave a keynote presentation at (Turner) a conference on ethical issues in medical tourism. Medical tourism involves travel across international borders with the intention of receiving medical care. This care is typically paid for out-of-pocket and is motivated by an interest in cost savings and/or avoiding wait times for care in the patient’s home country. This practice raises numerous ethical concerns, including potentially exacerbating health inequities in destination and source countries and disrupting continuity (...)
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    Bioethics, religion, and democratic deliberation: Policy formation and embryonic stem cell research. [REVIEW]Miriam Brouillet & Leigh Turner - 2005 - HEC Forum 17 (1):49-63.