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Selected Publications

Papers:
  • "A Man by Nothing is So Well Betrayed as by His Manners?: Politeness as a Virtue," Midwest Studies in Philosophy XIII (1988): 250-58; revised and reprinted in J. Heil (ed.), Rationality, Morality and Self-Interest: Essays Honoring Mark Carl Overvold (Rowman & Littlefield, 1993): 151-61; and in David Benatar (ed.), Ethics for Everyday (McGraw-Hill, 2001): 778-87.
  • "The Significance of a Wish," Hastings Center Report, July 1991: 27-29, reprinted in C. Levine (ed.), Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues, 5th ed. (Dushkin, 1993), in J. Arras and B. Steinbock (eds.), Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, 4th ed., (Mayfield, 1995): 288-91, and in Robert F. Card ( ed.), Critically Thinking about Medical Ethics (Prentice Hall, forthcoming 2004).
  • "Goldilocks and Mrs. Ilych: A Critical Look at the 'Philosophy of Hospice'," Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 1997 (6), 314-24, reprinted in part under the title "Hospice Care May Not Benefit the Terminally Ill," in M. E. Williams (ed.), Terminal Illness (Greenhaven Press, 2001) 27-35, and under the title "Hospice Care is Not Appropriate for All Terminally Ill Patients" in James Haley (ed.), Opposing Viewpoints: Death and Dying (Greenhaven Press, 2003) 28-38.
  • "Late in the Quest: The Study of Malory's Morte Darthur as a New Direction in Philosophy", in H.K. Wettstein and P. French (eds.), Midwest Studies in Philosophy XXIII: New Directions in Philosophy (Blackwell, 1999): 312-342.

  • "For Now Have I My Death': The 'Duty to Die' vs. The Duty to Help the Ill Stay Alive," Midwest Studies in Philosophy XXIV (2000): 172-85; reprinted in B. Steinbock, et al. (eds.) Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, 6th edn. (McGraw-Hill, 2002): 426-34.
  • Stories:

  • "A Man by Nothing is So Well Betrayed as by His Manners," Mid-American Review, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1986): 1-12, revised and reprinted in J. Heil (ed.), Rationality, Morality, and Self-Interest: Essays Honoring Mark Carl Overvold (Rowman & Littlefield), 1993: 135-49, also in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine, Fall 1995: 72-77.
  • "What Would You Like to Know?" Playgirl, September 1987: 96-99.
  • "The Forecasting Game", Commentary, December 1988: 49-56, reprinted in Inside, September 1989: 94-9 and 152-4, in W. Abrahams (ed.), Prize Stories 1990: The O. Henry Awards (Doubleday) 315-35, and in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine, Fall 1992: 80-6.

  • "Flourish Your Heart in This World", in M. Nussbaum and C. Sunstein (eds.), Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies About Human Cloning (Norton, 1998), 310-31, reprinted in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine, Spring 1999: 134-40.

  • "Entertain the Thought," Witness, Spring 2002: 42-53.
  • Online Papers:

  • "For Now I have my Death": The "Duty to Die" versus the Duty to Help the Ill Stay Alive(PDF)

  • Midwest Studies in Philosophy 24 (2000):172-185

  • "Always to do ladies, damosels, and gentlewomen succor": Women and the Chivalric Code in Malory's Morte Darthur (PDF)

  • Midwest Studies in Philosophy 26 (2002):1-12



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