Ethicizing history. Bioethical representations of Nazi medicine.

The article presents and analyzes different approaches of U.S. bioethicists in comprehending the Nazi medical crimes after 1945.

Take Pity: What Disability Rights Can Learn from Religious Charity.

Disability rights advocates have traditionally denigrated charity as politically counterproductive and inherently demeaning. This article argues that this perspective mischaracterizes charity of a religious kind. Religious charity, I argue, must be understood immanently, through an exploration of the virtues cultivated in particular religious organizations.

Removing a Disabled Person from Her Treasured Independent Living.

Ms. X is a person with cerebral palsy and schizophrenia. She has intractable bedsores that are a result of her immobility and to poor wound care related to her delusional thinking.

US Hospice Structure and its Implications for the "Right to Die" Debate : An Interdisciplinary Study of the "Feeling of Being a Burden to Others".

This article is an analysis of the relationship between US hospice structure and the feeling of being a burden to others (FBO). A goal of US hospice care is to reduce the FBO. But in America, hospice is limited in its ability to do so because of the high caregiver burden it places on family members of dying people.

Taking representation seriously: rethinking bioethics through Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby.

In this article, I propose a new model for understanding the function of representation in bioethics. Bioethicists have traditionally judged representations according to a mimetic paradigm, in which representations of bioethical dilemmas are assessed based on their correspondence to the "reality" of bioethics itself. In this article, I argue that this mimetic paradigm obscures the interaction between representation and reality and diverts bioethicists from analyzing the tensions in the representational object itself.