Sissela Bok
Biographic Data
| ID | 314791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sissela Bok |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sissela |
| FAMILY NAME | Bok |
| SIGNATURE | BOK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present
Book Review| August 01 2014 Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present Mazower, Mark, Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present. (New York: Penguin, 2012), 475 pp. Sissela Bok Sissela Bok Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (3): 496–497. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2732868 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions…
Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works
Book Review| August 01 2010 Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works Victoria Kirkham and Armando Maggi, eds., Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 542 pp. Sissela Bok Sissela Bok Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 558–559. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2010-019 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio…
Forgiveness: A Philosophical Explanation
Book Review| January 01 2009 Forgiveness: A Philosophical Explanation Charles L. Griswold, Forgiveness: A Philosophical Explanation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 242 pp. Sissela Bok Sissela Bok Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (1): 95–96. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2008-045 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation S…
Psychological Distress in Caretakers or Relatives of Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder
Background and aims: Caregivers or relatives of mental patients often show increased levels of psychological distress. This study investigated whether this is also the case for caregivers of patients with borderline personality disorder. Methods: The Symptom Check List (SCL-90) was administered to 64 Dutch volunteers, who were either biologically related (parents or siblings) or biologically unrelated caregivers (partners or friends) of patients …
NO One to Receive It
Research Article| April 01 2006 “NO One to Receive It”?: Simone Weil's Unforeseen Legacy Sissela Bok Sissela Bok Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2006) 12 (2): 252–260. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2005-005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sissela Bok; “NO One to Receive It”?: Simone Weil's Unforeseen Legacy. Common Knowledge 1 April 2006; 12 (2): 252–260. doi…
Introduction: Unsettling Others
Research Article| April 01 2006 Introduction: Unsettling Others Jeffrey M. Perl; Jeffrey M. Perl Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Gregory B. Stone; Gregory B. Stone Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sissela Bok; Sissela Bok Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Tom McCall; Tom McCall Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Susan Gubar; Susan Gubar Search fo…
Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch: The possibility of dialogue
The Monk and the Philosopher: Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life
Book Review| August 01 2005 The Monk and the Philosopher: Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life Jean-François Revel and Matthieu Ricard, (New York: Schocken, 1999),336 pp. Sissela Bok Sissela Bok Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (3): 494–495. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-11-3-494 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Sh…
Henry Sidgwick's Practical Ethics
How practical can ethics be? To what extent is it possible to put ethics ‘to the use of life’, in the words of Samuel Johnson? In Practical Ethics , Henry Sidgwick offers the distillation of a lifetime of reflection on how to relate moral theory and practice. This book provides both a model and a cautionary example. Its lucid, urbane, and broad-gauged approach to practical moral issues is exemplary; but its very lucidity also exposes the moral ri…
Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
At the Juncture of Theory and Practice: Remarks on Receiving the Henry Knowles Beecher Award
I am honored to accept this award named for Henry Knowles Beecher, whose courageous research helped to launch bioethics, and especially to receive it from The Hastings Center. I remember my sense of discovery and elation on taking part in one of the Center's first meetings, in 1971, and realizing that here was a group of people from many fields working on practical moral problems that I cared about deeply, yet had never had a chance to debate in …
Voluntary Euthanasia: Private and Public Imperatives
Is suicide, as Aristotle held in the Nicomachean Ethics, an act of injustice against the city-state (unless actually required by that state, as in the case of Socrates)? Should community interest outweigh those of individuals both in barring most people from taking their own lives and in requiring some to do just that? Or should individuals be free to choose death regardless of community interests, as Seneca urged? Having been Emperor Nero's tuto…
Early Advocates of Lasting World Peace: Utopians or Realists
This article reexamines the works of Erasmus, the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Kant, and other pacifists who have advocated collective societal efforts toward a lasting world peace. In contrast to Thucydides' (Realist) view of the inevitability of war due to intrinsic human nature, the author presents the early Christian arguments of pacifism grounded in morality and religion, including the “just-war” views of Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas, who bel…
Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation
A Strategy for Peace: Human Values and the Threat of War
On Opening Human Experimentation to Moral Debate
The Limits of Confidentiality
In an article adapted from her book Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation, Bok discusses the concept of confidentiality and its relation to secrecy, privacy, and privileged communication. Three premises--autonomy over personal information, respect for shared secrets in human relationships, and obligations incurred in promises--justify confidentiality; a fourth--the benefits of confidentiality to those in need of advice, sanctuary, …
Secrecy and Openness in Science: Ethical Considerations
Values, Truth, and Administration: God or Mammon
The self deceived
Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
I first read this book a long time ago, so reading it again brings a new perspective after so many years of listening to confessions during interviews. With this work, Bok explores the concept, ability, reasons and variations of lies created and told by people. Whether it is a lie to the child about ‘if you don’t eat your spinach, you won’t be strong like Popeye’, or the parent who denies youthful discretions, this work discusses it all.
Lying to Children
The Dilemmas of Euthanasia
Case Studies in Bioethics: The Unwanted Child: Caring for the Fetus Born Alive after an Abortion
Sissela Bok, Bernard N. Nathanson, David C. Nathan, Leroy Walters, Case Studies in Bioethics: The Unwanted Child: Caring for the Fetus Born Alive after an Abortion, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 6, No. 5 (Oct., 1976), pp. 10-15
Research, Casual or Planned
The Leading Edge of the Wedge
Case Studies in Bioethics: The Threat of Hemophilia
Research, Casual or Planned
The courage to fail. A social view of organ transplants and dialysis
Case Studies in Bioethics: The Unwanted Child: Caring for the Fetus Born Alive after an Abortion
Sissela Bok, Bernard N. Nathanson, David C. Nathan, Leroy Walters, Case Studies in Bioethics: The Unwanted Child: Caring for the Fetus Born Alive after an Abortion, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 6, No. 5 (Oct., 1976), pp. 10-15
The Dilemmas of Euthanasia
Lying to Children
Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
I first read this book a long time ago, so reading it again brings a new perspective after so many years of listening to confessions during interviews. With this work, Bok explores the concept, ability, reasons and variations of lies created and told by people. Whether it is a lie to the child about ‘if you don’t eat your spinach, you won’t be strong like Popeye’, or the parent who denies youthful discretions, this work discusses it all.
Values, Truth, and Administration: God or Mammon
The self deceived
Secrecy and Openness in Science: Ethical Considerations
The Limits of Confidentiality
In an article adapted from her book Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation, Bok discusses the concept of confidentiality and its relation to secrecy, privacy, and privileged communication. Three premises--autonomy over personal information, respect for shared secrets in human relationships, and obligations incurred in promises--justify confidentiality; a fourth--the benefits of confidentiality to those in need of advice, sanctuary, …
On Opening Human Experimentation to Moral Debate
Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation
A Strategy for Peace: Human Values and the Threat of War
Early Advocates of Lasting World Peace: Utopians or Realists
This article reexamines the works of Erasmus, the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Kant, and other pacifists who have advocated collective societal efforts toward a lasting world peace. In contrast to Thucydides' (Realist) view of the inevitability of war due to intrinsic human nature, the author presents the early Christian arguments of pacifism grounded in morality and religion, including the “just-war” views of Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas, who bel…
Voluntary Euthanasia: Private and Public Imperatives
Is suicide, as Aristotle held in the Nicomachean Ethics, an act of injustice against the city-state (unless actually required by that state, as in the case of Socrates)? Should community interest outweigh those of individuals both in barring most people from taking their own lives and in requiring some to do just that? Or should individuals be free to choose death regardless of community interests, as Seneca urged? Having been Emperor Nero's tuto…
At the Juncture of Theory and Practice: Remarks on Receiving the Henry Knowles Beecher Award
I am honored to accept this award named for Henry Knowles Beecher, whose courageous research helped to launch bioethics, and especially to receive it from The Hastings Center. I remember my sense of discovery and elation on taking part in one of the Center's first meetings, in 1971, and realizing that here was a group of people from many fields working on practical moral problems that I cared about deeply, yet had never had a chance to debate in …
Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
Henry Sidgwick's Practical Ethics
How practical can ethics be? To what extent is it possible to put ethics ‘to the use of life’, in the words of Samuel Johnson? In Practical Ethics , Henry Sidgwick offers the distillation of a lifetime of reflection on how to relate moral theory and practice. This book provides both a model and a cautionary example. Its lucid, urbane, and broad-gauged approach to practical moral issues is exemplary; but its very lucidity also exposes the moral ri…
Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch: The possibility of dialogue
The Monk and the Philosopher: Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life
Book Review| August 01 2005 The Monk and the Philosopher: Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life Jean-François Revel and Matthieu Ricard, (New York: Schocken, 1999),336 pp. Sissela Bok Sissela Bok Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (3): 494–495. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-11-3-494 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Sh…
NO One to Receive It
Research Article| April 01 2006 “NO One to Receive It”?: Simone Weil's Unforeseen Legacy Sissela Bok Sissela Bok Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2006) 12 (2): 252–260. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2005-005 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sissela Bok; “NO One to Receive It”?: Simone Weil's Unforeseen Legacy. Common Knowledge 1 April 2006; 12 (2): 252–260. doi…
Introduction: Unsettling Others
Research Article| April 01 2006 Introduction: Unsettling Others Jeffrey M. Perl; Jeffrey M. Perl Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Gregory B. Stone; Gregory B. Stone Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sissela Bok; Sissela Bok Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Tom McCall; Tom McCall Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Susan Gubar; Susan Gubar Search fo…
Psychological Distress in Caretakers or Relatives of Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder
Background and aims: Caregivers or relatives of mental patients often show increased levels of psychological distress. This study investigated whether this is also the case for caregivers of patients with borderline personality disorder. Methods: The Symptom Check List (SCL-90) was administered to 64 Dutch volunteers, who were either biologically related (parents or siblings) or biologically unrelated caregivers (partners or friends) of patients …
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