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    Principles of Biomedical Ethics.Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Tom L. Beauchamp & James F. Childress - 1995 - Hastings Center Report 25 (4):37.
    Book reviewed in this article: Principles of Biomedical Ethics. By Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress.
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  2. Public Health Ethics: Mapping the Terrain.James F. Childress, Ruth R. Faden, Ruth D. Gaare, Lawrence O. Gostin, Jeffrey Kahn, Richard J. Bonnie, Nancy E. Kass, Anna C. Mastroianni, Jonathan D. Moreno & Phillip Nieburg - 2002 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 30 (2):170-178.
    Public health ethics, like the field of public health it addresses, traditionally has focused more on practice and particular cases than on theory, with the result that some concepts, methods, and boundaries remain largely undefined. This paper attempts to provide a rough conceptual map of the terrain of public health ethics. We begin by briefly defining public health and identifying general features of the field that are particularly relevant for a discussion of public health ethics.Public health is primarily concerned with (...)
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    Playing God? Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate.John Berkman, Stanley Hauerwas, Jeffrey Stout, Gilbert Meilaender, James F. Childress & John H. Evans - 2004 - Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 24 (1):183-217.
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    Thick (Concepts of) Autonomy: Personal Autonomy in Ethics and Bioethics.James F. Childress & Michael Quante (eds.) - 2021 - Springer Verlag.
    This book explores, in rich and rigorous ways, the possibilities and limitations of “thick” autonomy in light of contemporary debates in philosophy, ethics, and bioethics. Many standard ethical theories and practices, particularly in domains such as biomedical ethics, incorporate minimal, formal, procedural concepts of personal autonomy and autonomous decisions and actions. Over the last three decades, concerns about the problems and limitations of these “thin” concepts have led to the formulation of “thick” concepts that highlight the mental, corporeal, biographical and (...)
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    Common Morality Principles in Biomedical Ethics: Responses to Critics.James F. Childress & Tom L. Beauchamp - 2022 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 31 (2):164-176.
    After briefly sketching common-morality principlism, as presented in Principles of Biomedical Ethics, this paper responds to two recent sets of challenges to this framework. The first challenge claims that medical ethics is autonomous and unique and thus not a form of, or justified or guided by, a common morality or by any external morality or moral theory. The second challenge denies that there is a common morality and insists that futile efforts to develop common-morality approaches to bioethics limit diversity and (...)
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    Respecting Personal Autonomy in Bioethics: Relational Autonomy as a Corrective?James F. Childress - 2021 - In James F. Childress & Michael Quante (eds.), Thick (Concepts of) Autonomy: Personal Autonomy in Ethics and Bioethics. Springer Verlag. pp. 135-149.
    Focusing mainly on respect for autonomy, particularly autonomous choices and actions in bioethical decisions, I examine several complexities of enacting this respect through the case of a fourteen-year-old boy who died after being allowed to refuse a necessary blood transfusion on religious grounds. I argue that thicker concepts of autonomy, closely connected with relational autonomy, direct our attention to aspects of respect for autonomy that are often neglected or underappreciated in much bioethical theory and practice. In particular, they illuminate the (...)
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  7. The Place of Autonomy in Bioethics.James F. Childress - 1990 - Hastings Center Report 20 (1):12-17.
  8. Appeals to conscience.James F. Childress - 1979 - Ethics 89 (4):315-335.
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    Who should decide?: Paternalism in health care.James F. Childress - 1982 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    "A very good book indeed: there is scarcely an issue anyone has thought to raise about the topic which Childress fails to treat with sensitivity and good judgement....Future discussions of paternalism in health care will have to come to terms with the contentions of this book, which must be reckoned the best existing treatment of its subject."--Ethics. "A clear, scholarly and balanced analysis....This is a book I can recommend to physicians, ethicists, students of both fields, and to those most affected--the (...)
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    Civil disobedience, conscientious objection, and evasive noncompliance: A framework for the analysis and assessment of illegal actions in health care.James F. Childress - 1985 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 10 (1):63-84.
    This essay explores some of the conceptual and moral issues raised by illegal actions in health care. The author first identifies several types of illegal action, concentrating on civil disobedience, conscientious objection or refusal, and evasive noncompliance. Then he sketches a framework for the moral justification of these types of illegal action. Finally, he applies the conceptual and normative frameworks to several major cases of illegal action in health care, such as "mercy killing" and some decisions not to treat incompetent (...)
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    Response to Commentaries.Tom L. Beauchamp & James F. Childress - 2020 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 45 (4-5):560-579.
    After expressing our gratitude to the commentators for their valuable analyses and assessments of Principles of Biomedical Ethics, we respond to several particular critiques raised by the commentators under the following rubrics: the compatibility of different sets of principles and rules; challenges to the principle of respect for autonomy; connecting principles to cases and resolving their conflicts; the value of and compatibility of virtues and principles; common morality theory; and moral status. We point to areas where we see common agreement (...)
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    Needed: A More Rigorous Analysis of Models of Decision Making and a Richer Account of Respect for Autonomy.James F. Childress - 2017 - American Journal of Bioethics 17 (11):52-54.
    I, for one, am grateful to Peter Ubel, Karen Scherr, and Angela Fagerlin (2017) for their important and illuminating reflections on medical decision making, particularly in the context of preferenc...
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  13. Metaphors and models of doctor-patient relationships: Their implications for autonomy.James F. Childress & Mark Siegler - 1984 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 5 (1):17-30.
  14. The failure to give: Reducing barriers to organ donation.James F. Childress - 2001 - Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 11 (1):1-16.
    : Moral frameworks for evaluating non-donation strategies to increase the supply of cadaveric human organs for transplantation and ways to overcome barriers to organ donation are explored. Organ transplantation is a very complex area, because the human body evokes various beliefs, symbols, sentiments, and emotions as well as various rituals and social practices. From a rationalistic standpoint, some policies to increase the supply of transplantable organs may appear to be quite defensible but then turn out to be ineffective and perhaps (...)
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    Race, Racism, and Structural Injustice: Equitable Allocation and Distribution of Vaccines for the COVID-19.Helene D. Gayle & James F. Childress - 2021 - American Journal of Bioethics 21 (3):4-7.
    Inequity has been a hallmark of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, especially in the sharply disproportionate impacts among people of color. Recent studies have confirmed that t...
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    Compensating Injured Research Subjects: I. The Moral Argument.James F. Childress - 1976 - Hastings Center Report 6 (6):21-27.
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    Must Patients Always Be Given Food and Water?Joanne Lynn & James F. Childress - 1983 - Hastings Center Report 13 (5):17.
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  18. Moral Responsibility in Conflicts: Essays on Nonviolence, War and Conscience.James F. Childress - 1983 - Journal of Religious Ethics 11 (1):163-163.
     
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    Religious Ethics and Public Policy: On Doing Public Bioethics.James F. Childress - 2023 - Journal of Religious Ethics 51 (3):406-424.
    In response to theJournal of Religious Ethics(JRE) editors' request for reflections on “how religious ethicists have interacted with, and ought to interact with, public policy decision makers,” this essay focuses on doing religious ethics in the context of doing public bioethics, especially through participating in public bioethics bodies (PBBs) established to provide advice to public policymakers in what might be called “mediated advocacy.” Drawing heavily on the author's experience as a member of and a consultant to several PBBs, it features (...)
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    Robert Veatch’s transplantation ethics: obtaining and allocating organs from deceased persons.James F. Childress - 2022 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 43 (4):193-207.
    This essay appreciatively and critically engages the late Robert Veatch’s extensive and important contributions to transplantation ethics, in the context of his overall ethical theory and his methods for resolving conflicts among ethical principles. It focuses mainly on ways to obtain and allocate organs from deceased persons, with particular attention to express donation, mandated choice, and presumed consent/routine salvaging in organ procurement and to conflicts between medical utility and egalitarian justice in organ allocation. It concludes by examining the unclear relations (...)
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    Theologian, Teacher, and Friend: Tributes to James M. Gustafson.James F. Childress, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Douglas F. Ottati, William Schweiker & Theo A. Boer - 2022 - Journal of Religious Ethics 50 (1):7-19.
    Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 7-19, March 2022.
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  22. Putting Patients First in Organ Allocation: An Ethical Analysis of the U.S. Debate.James F. Childress - 2001 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 10 (4):365-376.
    Organ allocation policy involves a mixture of ethical, scientific, medical, legal, and political factors, among others. It is thus hard, and perhaps even impossible, to identify and fully separate ethical considerations from all these other factors. Yet I will focus primarily on the ethical considerations embedded in the current debate in the United States about organ allocation policy. I will argue that it is important to putpatientsfirstbut even then significant ethical questions will remain about exactly how to put patients first.
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    Community, Complicity, and Critique: Christian Concepts in Secular Bioethics.Aline H. Kalbian, Courtney S. Campbell & James F. Childress - 2020 - American Journal of Bioethics 20 (12):37-39.
    McCarthy, Homan, and Rozier’s call for a renewal of open and honest dialogue between secular and theologically grounded bioethics is admirable. Yet, their essay argues for more than mere dia...
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    Conscience and conscientious actions in the context of MCOs.James F. Childress - 1997 - Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 7 (4):403-411.
    : Managed care organizations can produce conflicts of obligation and conflicts of interest that may lead to problems of conscience for health care professionals. This paper provides a basis for understanding the notions of conscience and conscientious objection and offers a framework for clinicians to stake out positions grounded in personal conscience as a way for them to respond to unacceptable pressures from managers to limit services.
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    Organ Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death: Lessons and Unresolved Controversies.James F. Childress - 2008 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 36 (4):766-771.
    The several articles in this special issue on organ donation after circulatory determination of death or, as it is often put, donation after cardiac death, draw lessons from different kinds of experience in order to guide efforts in the U.S. to develop or refine policies for DCD. One lesson comes from a major and, by many measures, successful experimental DCD program in Washington, D.C. in the 1990s. Another lesson comes from European countries that have adopted presumed-consent legislation, a form of (...)
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    The normative principles of medical ethics.James F. Childress - 1997 - In Alastair V. Campbell (ed.), Medical ethics. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 29--56.
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    Public bioethics: principles and problems.James F. Childress - 2020 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    "Public Bioethics collects the most influential essays and articles of James F. Childress, a leading figure in the field of contemporary bioethics. These essays, including new, previously unpublished material, cohere around the idea of "public bioethics," which involves analyzing and assessing public policies in biomedicine, health care, and public health, often through public deliberative bodies. The volume is divided into four sections. The first concentrates on the principle of respect for autonomy and paternalistic policies and practices. The second explores the (...)
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    Ensuring Care, Respect, and Fairness for the Elderly.James F. Childress - 1984 - Hastings Center Report 14 (5):27-31.
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    COVID‐19 and Religious Ethics.Toni Alimi, Elizabeth L. Antus, Alda Balthrop-Lewis, James F. Childress, Shannon Dunn, Ronald M. Green, Eric Gregory, Jennifer A. Herdt, Willis Jenkins, M. Cathleen Kaveny, Vincent W. Lloyd, Ping-Cheung Lo, Jonathan Malesic, David Newheiser, Irene Oh & Aaron Stalnaker - 2020 - Journal of Religious Ethics 48 (3):349-387.
    The editors of the JRE solicited short essays on the COVID‐19 pandemic from a group of scholars of religious ethics that reflected on how the field might help them make sense of the complex religious, cultural, ethical, and political implications of the pandemic, and on how the pandemic might shape the future of religious ethics.
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  30. Fairness in the allocation and delivery of health care: a case study in organ transplantation.James F. Childress - forthcoming - Practical Reasoning in Bioethics.
     
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    A Misplaced Debate in Bioethics.James F. Childress - 1997 - In Hilde Lindemann (ed.), Stories and their limits: narrative approaches to bioethics. New York: Routledge. pp. 252.
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    Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics.James F. Childress - 2003 - Hastings Center Report 33 (3):15-18.
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    Never Solo: Gratitude for My Academic Journey.James F. Childress - 2020 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 45 (4-5):410-416.
    Tom Beauchamp and I were asked by the editors of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy to prepare “intellectual autobiographies,” with particular attention to sources and influences on our work, including but not limited to Principles of Biomedical Ethics. Of course, it is artificial and even impossible to try fully to separate the “intellectual” from other aspects of our lives. So, while emphasizing the “intellectual” aspects of my autobiography, I have attended to other aspects, too. The huge debts of gratitude (...)
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  34. Christian ethics, medicine, and genetics.James F. Childress - 2001 - In Robin Gill (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics. New York: Cambridge University Press.
     
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    Moral Discourse about War in the Early Church.James F. Childress - 1984 - Journal of Religious Ethics 12 (1):2-18.
    This study examines some of the moral and theological convictions that created tensions for early Christians who affirmed that the government's sword is ordained by God for a fallen world but also that Christians should not exercise it at least in warfare. Three important moral pressures toward Christian participation in war were the recognition of prevention or removal of harm as a requirement of neighbor-love, the related sense of responsibility, fault, and guilt for omissions, and the generalization test proposed by (...)
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    (1 other version)The Challenges of Public Ethics: Reflections on NBAC's Report.James F. Childress - 1997 - Hastings Center Report 27 (5):9-11.
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  37. Metaphor and analogy.James F. Childress - forthcoming - Encyclopedia of Bioethics.
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    Priorities in Biomedical Ethics.James F. Childress - 1981 - Westminster John Knox Press.
    Case studies raise questions about patients' rights, advanced lifeprolonging measures, human subjects in medical research, and the allocation of health care resources.
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    The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Ethics.James F. Childress & John Macquarrie - 1986 - Westminster John Knox Press.
    The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Ethics is an invaluable reference work. Included are articles on basic ethical concepts; biblical and theological ethics; philosophical traditions; major non-Christian religious traditions; psychological, sociological, political, and other concepts important to Christian ethics; and, finally, substantial problems, such as war, usually including both information and options. With 620 entries cover a spectrum of topics that concern thinking people everywhere, providing clear, concise and accurate information about ethical concerns.
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    Prophecy Without Contempt: Metaphors, Imagination, and Evaluative Criteria.James F. Childress - 2018 - Journal of Religious Ethics 46 (1):167-172.
    While greatly appreciative of Kaveny's important study of a neglected form of religious/moral discourse in the public square, this essay critically examines her metaphors for prophetic indictments and finds the metaphor of moral chemotherapy particularly problematic and the metaphor of warfare, connected with the just-war tradition, more promising. It stresses the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of avoiding contempt in prophetic indictments, as Kaveny conceives them, and finds her proposed solutions to this problem—standing with the people and expressing empathy and (...)
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    "Nonviolent Resistance: Trust and Risk-Taking" Twenty-Five Years Later.James F. Childress - 1997 - Journal of Religious Ethics 25 (2):213-220.
    Do pacifists and proponents of justified violence share a starting point? Whether or not just war theory contains an embedded presumption against violence is an important and disputed question. Substantively it is important not only because it has implications for the possibility of dialogue among Christians of different persuasions but also because the belief that the tradition advances no moral reservations about the use of force may have the effect of lowering the moral barriers against the resort to war. Conceptually (...)
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    Nonviolent Resistance: Trust and Risk-Taking.James F. Childress - 1973 - Journal of Religious Ethics 1:87 - 112.
    This paper analyzes nonviolent resistance and direct action, as seen by its practitioners and theoreticians, from the standpoint of trust and risk-taking. After an examination of the nature of trust, the author indicates how it can illuminate what selected figures such as Gandhi and King have claimed about nonviolence. He offers this analysis not as a defense but as a way of understanding nonviolence that can serve as a starting point for further discussion.
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    Respect for Autonomy.James F. Childress & John C. Fletcher - 1994 - Hastings Center Report 24 (3):34-35.
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    The Identification of Ethical Principles.James F. Childress - 1977 - Journal of Religious Ethics 5 (1):39 - 66.
    This paper analyzes some issues that emerge in attempts to distinguish and relate "moral" and "nonmora1' action-guides. It examines one material criterion (otherregardingness) and three formal criteria (universalizability, prescriptivity, and overridingness) and considers whether they constitute necessary and/or sufficient conditions of "morality." It treats these criteria in relation to ideals and prudential, political, and religious considerations. Furthermore, it contends that the classification of action-guides as moral or nonmoral should not prejudge their respective weights or replace substantive moral debate. The formal (...)
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    Triage in response to a bioterrorist attack.James F. Childress - 2003 - In Jonathan D. Moreno (ed.), In the wake of terror: medicine and morality in a time of crisis. Cambridge: MIT Press. pp. 77--93.
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    Reflections on the National Bioethics Advisory Commission and Models of Public Bioethics.James F. Childress - 2017 - Hastings Center Report 47 (S1):20-23.
    The National Bioethics Advisory Commission, of which I was a member, was established by a 1995 executive order that identified its “first priority” as “the protection of the rights and welfare of human research subjects.” Not surprisingly, then, most of NBAC's work focused on research involving human subjects or participants. A second priority concerned “issues in the management and use of genetics information, including but not limited to, human gene patenting.” NBAC's charter (in contrast to the executive order) listed this (...)
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    Must we always respect religious belief?James F. Childress - 2007 - Hastings Center Report 37 (1):3-3.
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    Civil Disobedience and Political Obligation: A Study in Christian Social Ethics.James F. Childress - 1971 - Yale University Press.
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    Negative and Positive Rights.James F. Childress - 1980 - Hastings Center Report 10 (1):19-19.
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    Non-Heart-Beating Donors of Organs: Are the Distinctions Between Direct and Indirect Effects & Between Killing and Letting Die Relevant and Helpful?James F. Childress - 1993 - Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 3 (2):203-216.
    This essay analyzes the principle of double effect and, to a lesser extent, the distinction between killing and letting die in the context of the Pittsburgh protocol for managing patients who may become non-heart-beating donors or sources of organs for transplantation. It notes several ambiguities and unresolved issues in the Pittsburgh protocol but concludes that neither the principle of double effect nor the distinction between killing and letting die (with the prohibition of the former and the allowance of the latter (...)
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