Barry Hoffmaster
Biographic Data
| ID | 1402243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barry Hoffmaster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barry |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoffmaster |
| SIGNATURE | HOFFMASTER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9475-1136 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Judging Rationally
Sophisticated realists, uncompromising positivists, and postmodernists created much of the law in the last century. Judges, lawyers, and philosophers now are continuing to clarify, improve, and use the law. The law is often clear. But it can be indeterminate because it is indefinite, indistinct, or vague. Two examples are provided
Re-Reasoning Ethics: The Rationality of Deliberation and Judgment in Ethics
The Nature of Moral Compromise: Principles, Values, and Reason
From Applied Ethics to Narrative Ethics: The Rationality and Morality of Telling Stories in Bioethics
A commentary on a special report, titled Narrative Ethics: The Role of Stories in Bioethics, that appeared with the January‐February 2014 issue
The Humanity of Genetics Practices
Read together, historian Alexandra Minna Stern's Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America and bioethicist Michael Parker's Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice convey a rich understanding of genetic practices and their implicit moralities. The books are methodologically similar in that both authors examine genetics practices empirically, and the resulting perspectives are complementary, Stern's from outside genetics practices a…
The Rationality and Morality of Dying Children
Formal reason is not adequate to explain how we think through real‐life problems and make moral decisions. A far richer account of rationality is necessary, and research on children with leukemia illuminates it
Fear of Feeling
Anatomy of A Clinical Ethics Consultation
The forms and limits of medical ethics
Can ethnography save the life of medical ethics
The Theory and Practice of Applied Ethics
Applied ethics is at a watershed. In all its domains a gulf between the theory of applied ethics and the practice of applied ethics is now being recognized. In medical ethics, for example, it has been observed that "practicing clinicians often feel let down by bioethics." The disappointment of clinicians is attributed in part to their own unrealistic expectations but is also said to be a function ofthe extent to which bioethics as a discipline do…
Morality and the Social Sciences
The Reliable Criterion Argument and Public Policy
Can ethnography save the life of medical ethics
The forms and limits of medical ethics
The Theory and Practice of Applied Ethics
Applied ethics is at a watershed. In all its domains a gulf between the theory of applied ethics and the practice of applied ethics is now being recognized. In medical ethics, for example, it has been observed that "practicing clinicians often feel let down by bioethics." The disappointment of clinicians is attributed in part to their own unrealistic expectations but is also said to be a function ofthe extent to which bioethics as a discipline do…
Anatomy of A Clinical Ethics Consultation
The Reliable Criterion Argument and Public Policy
Morality and the Social Sciences
The Theory and Practice of Applied Ethics
Applied ethics is at a watershed. In all its domains a gulf between the theory of applied ethics and the practice of applied ethics is now being recognized. In medical ethics, for example, it has been observed that "practicing clinicians often feel let down by bioethics." The disappointment of clinicians is attributed in part to their own unrealistic expectations but is also said to be a function ofthe extent to which bioethics as a discipline do…
Can ethnography save the life of medical ethics
The forms and limits of medical ethics
Anatomy of A Clinical Ethics Consultation
Fear of Feeling
The Rationality and Morality of Dying Children
Formal reason is not adequate to explain how we think through real‐life problems and make moral decisions. A far richer account of rationality is necessary, and research on children with leukemia illuminates it
From Applied Ethics to Narrative Ethics: The Rationality and Morality of Telling Stories in Bioethics
A commentary on a special report, titled Narrative Ethics: The Role of Stories in Bioethics, that appeared with the January‐February 2014 issue
The Humanity of Genetics Practices
Read together, historian Alexandra Minna Stern's Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America and bioethicist Michael Parker's Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice convey a rich understanding of genetic practices and their implicit moralities. The books are methodologically similar in that both authors examine genetics practices empirically, and the resulting perspectives are complementary, Stern's from outside genetics practices a…
The Nature of Moral Compromise: Principles, Values, and Reason
Re-Reasoning Ethics: The Rationality of Deliberation and Judgment in Ethics
Judging Rationally
Sophisticated realists, uncompromising positivists, and postmodernists created much of the law in the last century. Judges, lawyers, and philosophers now are continuing to clarify, improve, and use the law. The law is often clear. But it can be indeterminate because it is indefinite, indistinct, or vague. Two examples are provided
Sociology (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Ethics in medical practice (7 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works) · Applied ethics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare (4 works)