Timothy F Murphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1198597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy F Murphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy F |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphy |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHY T F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8003-550X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Whose duty is it to advise that some healthcare professionals will not help you or refer you
States’ responsibilities regarding birth rates
If not a right to children because of gestation, then not a duty towards them either
Supervaluation of pregnant women is reductive of women
Heloise Robinson argues that by certain threshold criteria pregnant women qualify for a higher moral status by reason of their pregnancies. While her intention is to make this a status upgrade for women we worry that it may result in a status downgrade for women as a class, by presupposing and reinforcing women’s value in relation to their reproductive labor. Historically central to feminist analysis is resistance to reductive accounts of women i…
Guaranteed Admissions Pathway Initiatives to Medical School as a Means to Physician Workforce Diversification
Purpose: Medical schools in the United States work to diversify the physician workforce through various admissions initiatives.1 These admissions policies include pathway strategies to attract competitive candidates, including guaranteed admissions (GA) programs that guarantee admission to a university’s medical school at the time of matriculation in an undergraduate bachelor’s program. Other pathway initiatives may focus on diversity to make adm…
Should Uterus Transplantation for Transwomen and Transmen Be Subsidized
Success in uterus transplantation (UTx) among ciswomen suggests that transwomen and some transmen will also likely have interest in this intervention. It does not seem likely, however, that all parties interested in UTx will have the same standing when it comes to federal subsidies or insurance coverage benefits. This analysis describes the comparative moral strength of claims for financial support for UTx that different parties might make
Gestation as mothering
Some commentators maintain that gestational surrogates are not ‘mothers’ in a way capable of grounding a claim to motherhood. These commentators find that the practices that constitute motherhood do not extend to gestational surrogates. We argue that gestational surrogates should be construed as mothers of the children they bear, even if they fully intend to surrender those children at birth to the care of others. These women stand in a certain r…
Should Mental Health Screening and Psychotherapy Be Required Prior to Body Modification for Gender Expression
Some people want to modify their bodies through hormonal and surgical treatments in order to resolve gender dysphoria, the distress they experience when their bodies do not align with their gender identity. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) offers guidelines to clinicians regarding treatment of people wanting to modify their bodies for this reason. Prior to these modifications, WPATH advises that mental health scre…
Should fertility clinics divest themselves of pornography
Are Gay and Lesbian People Fading into the History of Bioethics
In many ways, we live in propitious times for gay and lesbian people. In 1996, the Supreme Court struck down Colorado law prohibiting any kind of protected status based on sexual orientation. In 2003, the Supreme Court held that states may not criminalize sexual conduct between consenting adults of the same sex in private, so long as no money changes hands. In 2010, the Congress repealed the “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy that excluded openly gay…
Assumption of Risk in HIV Infection
A commentary on “Time to Decriminalize HIV Status,” from the September‐October 2013 issue
Disease and Democracy
Journal Article Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS Get access Timothy F. Murphy Timothy F. Murphy University of Illinois College of Medicine at [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 19, Issue 2, August 2006, Pages 348–349, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkl016 Published: 01 August 2006
Bioethics
Perspective
Case Studies in Biomedical Research Ethics
Torture and Human Rights
Participation in acts of torture, despite the approval of a government agency, places physicians in a morally compromised position. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Bioethics As If Relationships Matter
In 1983, a drunk driver struck Sharon Kowalski's car in rural Minnesota, killing her niece and critically injuring her nephew. She herself suffered serious injuries, including permanent brain damage. A battle for visitation rights and guardianship promptly ensued. Ms. Kowalski's parents locked horns with Karen Thompson, who was Kowalski's domestic partner, as we now say. It turns out that Kowalski had not told her family about being in this same-…
The Ethics of Research with Children
In 1885, chemist Louis Pasteur tested his new rabies vaccine through the injection of 9-year-old Joseph Meister, who is otherwise unknown to history. Rabies was not widespread in France at the time, but it was highly fatal and widely feared. In fact, many parents pleaded with Pasteur to give injections to their children. In the course of reporting his results, Pasteur freely published the names, addresses, personal circumstances, and outcomes of …
Justice in Residency Placement
Bioethicist D. Michah Hester questions the current residency match program and suggests that residents be placed according to random assignments. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Clinician and Researcher
The ethical questions surrounding the recruitment of patients for clinical trials become more complicated when the recruiting physicians receive financial benefits for each patient enrolled
Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Sex Selection, and the Commodification of Children
The possibilities of pre-conception selection of gender
Perspective
In September 2001, the British medical journal Lancet published a retrospective report of nine British patients who received combined heart-lung-liver transplants between 1986 and 1999.1 In each of these cases, three vital organs went to a single recipient when they might otherwise have gone to as many as four. This kind of transplantation works against the received wisdom that transplantation works best when focused on a single vital system or a…
Justice in Residency Placement
Clinician and Researcher
Internist Michael Hoover has been in practice in a mid-sized city for 12 years. He is a member of an internal medicine group practice, so he frequently sees patients of his partners when their own physician is unavailable. The group's patients range in age from early 30s to late 80s, the majority in the 40-to 75-year range. Those whom Dr. Hoover sees on a regular basis have hypertension, heart disease, headaches, arthritis, or respiratory and oth…
Picturing Health and Illness
Reviewed by: Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference Timothy F. Murphy (bio) Sander Gilman, Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. 200 pp. Clothbound, $29.95. Gilman’s book is an exercise in the very project it proposes: a history of medicine that is rooted in the visual image. Against a tradition that would merely catalogue medical images or use th…
Redirecting sexual orientation
This essay reviews efforts to alter sexual orientation using behavioral, psychodynamic, hormonal, pharmaceutical and surgical methods. The essay also examines various justifications offered for such therapy and shows how these have changed as a pathological interpretation of homoeroticism has been abandoned. While such therapy was once justified in language of psychopathology, some current justifications for conversion therapy now treat the matte…
Freud Reconsidered
This article examines mythological problems and unacknowledged moral judgments of Freud's theory of homosexuality. Freud raises the issued of bisexuality in connection with the origins of homosexuality. When critically examined, the theory of bisexuality reduces to a theory of the capacity to be attracted to either females or male, and in that sense explains little about the origin of exclusive homosexual orientation. Freud's moral assumption col…
Freud and Sexual Reorientation Therapy
Contrary to certain psychoanalytic interpretations, Freud himself generally resisted the possibility or desirability of sexual reorientation therapy. Yet his understanding of the origins and nature of homoeroticism does not suggest that conversion therapy is impossible. Although he did not believe homoeroticism to be an inherent impediment to human accomplishment and fulfillment neither did he see it as having the full value of heteroeroticism. F…
Freud Reconsidered
This article examines mythological problems and unacknowledged moral judgments of Freud's theory of homosexuality. Freud raises the issued of bisexuality in connection with the origins of homosexuality. When critically examined, the theory of bisexuality reduces to a theory of the capacity to be attracted to either females or male, and in that sense explains little about the origin of exclusive homosexual orientation. Freud's moral assumption col…
No Time for an Aids Backlash
In the face of growing public sentiment that AIDS is getting more\nthan its share of media attention, resources, and social indulgence, we do\nwell to remember that HIV remains a highly lethal, communicable virus
Redirecting sexual orientation
This essay reviews efforts to alter sexual orientation using behavioral, psychodynamic, hormonal, pharmaceutical and surgical methods. The essay also examines various justifications offered for such therapy and shows how these have changed as a pathological interpretation of homoeroticism has been abandoned. While such therapy was once justified in language of psychopathology, some current justifications for conversion therapy now treat the matte…
Freud and Sexual Reorientation Therapy
Contrary to certain psychoanalytic interpretations, Freud himself generally resisted the possibility or desirability of sexual reorientation therapy. Yet his understanding of the origins and nature of homoeroticism does not suggest that conversion therapy is impossible. Although he did not believe homoeroticism to be an inherent impediment to human accomplishment and fulfillment neither did he see it as having the full value of heteroeroticism. F…
The ethics of HIV testing by physicians
Ethics in an Epidemic
AIDS strikes most heavily at those already marginalized by conventional society. With no immediate prospect of vaccination or cure, how can liberty, dignity, and reasoned hope be preserved in the shadow of an epidemic? In this humane and graceful book, philosopher Timothy Murphy offers insight into our attempts - popular and academic, American and non-American, scientific and political - to make moral sense of pain. Murphy addresses the complex m…
Homosex/Ethics
Against the view that homoeroticism requires any special justification or consideration, this essay argues that homoeroticism is morally unproblematic in itself and that its genuine moral significance resides in illuminating the nature and meaning of human relations. Seen as a form of language, homosex shares common moral justification with heterosex as a bearer of human meanings and intentions. Thus understood, homosex is an important moral good…
Picturing Health and Illness
Reviewed by: Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference Timothy F. Murphy (bio) Sander Gilman, Picturing Health and Illness: Images of Identity and Difference. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. 200 pp. Clothbound, $29.95. Gilman’s book is an exercise in the very project it proposes: a history of medicine that is rooted in the visual image. Against a tradition that would merely catalogue medical images or use th…
Perspective
In September 2001, the British medical journal Lancet published a retrospective report of nine British patients who received combined heart-lung-liver transplants between 1986 and 1999.1 In each of these cases, three vital organs went to a single recipient when they might otherwise have gone to as many as four. This kind of transplantation works against the received wisdom that transplantation works best when focused on a single vital system or a…
Justice in Residency Placement
Clinician and Researcher
Internist Michael Hoover has been in practice in a mid-sized city for 12 years. He is a member of an internal medicine group practice, so he frequently sees patients of his partners when their own physician is unavailable. The group's patients range in age from early 30s to late 80s, the majority in the 40-to 75-year range. Those whom Dr. Hoover sees on a regular basis have hypertension, heart disease, headaches, arthritis, or respiratory and oth…
Bioethics As If Relationships Matter
In 1983, a drunk driver struck Sharon Kowalski's car in rural Minnesota, killing her niece and critically injuring her nephew. She herself suffered serious injuries, including permanent brain damage. A battle for visitation rights and guardianship promptly ensued. Ms. Kowalski's parents locked horns with Karen Thompson, who was Kowalski's domestic partner, as we now say. It turns out that Kowalski had not told her family about being in this same-…
The Ethics of Research with Children
In 1885, chemist Louis Pasteur tested his new rabies vaccine through the injection of 9-year-old Joseph Meister, who is otherwise unknown to history. Rabies was not widespread in France at the time, but it was highly fatal and widely feared. In fact, many parents pleaded with Pasteur to give injections to their children. In the course of reporting his results, Pasteur freely published the names, addresses, personal circumstances, and outcomes of …
Justice in Residency Placement
Bioethicist D. Michah Hester questions the current residency match program and suggests that residents be placed according to random assignments. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Clinician and Researcher
The ethical questions surrounding the recruitment of patients for clinical trials become more complicated when the recruiting physicians receive financial benefits for each patient enrolled
Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Sex Selection, and the Commodification of Children
The possibilities of pre-conception selection of gender
Torture and Human Rights
Participation in acts of torture, despite the approval of a government agency, places physicians in a morally compromised position. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Bioethics
Perspective
Case Studies in Biomedical Research Ethics
Disease and Democracy
Journal Article Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS Get access Timothy F. Murphy Timothy F. Murphy University of Illinois College of Medicine at [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 19, Issue 2, August 2006, Pages 348–349, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkl016 Published: 01 August 2006
Are Gay and Lesbian People Fading into the History of Bioethics
In many ways, we live in propitious times for gay and lesbian people. In 1996, the Supreme Court struck down Colorado law prohibiting any kind of protected status based on sexual orientation. In 2003, the Supreme Court held that states may not criminalize sexual conduct between consenting adults of the same sex in private, so long as no money changes hands. In 2010, the Congress repealed the “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy that excluded openly gay…
Assumption of Risk in HIV Infection
A commentary on “Time to Decriminalize HIV Status,” from the September‐October 2013 issue
Should Mental Health Screening and Psychotherapy Be Required Prior to Body Modification for Gender Expression
Some people want to modify their bodies through hormonal and surgical treatments in order to resolve gender dysphoria, the distress they experience when their bodies do not align with their gender identity. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) offers guidelines to clinicians regarding treatment of people wanting to modify their bodies for this reason. Prior to these modifications, WPATH advises that mental health scre…
Should fertility clinics divest themselves of pornography
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