David H Wasserman

Biographic Data

ID4450445
NAMEDavid H Wasserman
GIVEN NAMESDavid H
FAMILY NAMEWasserman
SIGNATUREWASSERMAN D H
AFFILIATIONSYeshiva University
ORCID0000-0002-3095-2665
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Home Care in America

    Open AccessColeman Solis, Kevin Mintz et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2023

    Home care is one of the fastest‐growing industries in the United States, providing valuable opportunities for millions of older adults and people with disabilities to live at home rather than in institutional settings. Home care workers assist clients with essential activities of daily living, but their wages and working conditions generally fail to reflect the importance of their work. Drawing on the work of Eva Feder Kittay and other care ethic…

  • Caring for People with Disabilities

    Open AccessKevin Mintz, David Wasserman et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2020

    Eva Feder Kittay's Learning from My Daughter: The Value and Care of Disabled Minds is poised to make a major contribution to the disability literature and is likely to spark controversy among disability scholars. The book's central contribution is the articulation of an ethics of care for meeting the “genuine needs” and “legitimate wants” of people with disabilities or chronic illnesses. We applaud Kittay, who is the mother of a woman with cerebr…

  • Fetal Medicine and the Pregnant Woman

    Open AccessDavid Wasserman, David H WassermanARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2018

    In coming decades, fetal medicine may become a routine part of reproductive care. The measures pregnant women now take to protect fetal health are largely generic, like restricting their diets and using supplements. Relatively few interventions are based on specific conditions revealed by ultrasound or genetic testing. A recent finding, though, may herald a dramatic rise in “personalized” fetal medicine: certain drugs already approved by the Food…

  • The Minority Body

    David Wasserman, David H WassermanARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2018References: 1

    The Minority Body is an important and provocative book. It moves disability further into the center of philosophical debates about well-being, harm, and group identity with bold, original arguments; clear, engaging writing; and vivid, concrete examples. Although much of the book is drawn from previously published articles, their integration suggests a unified philosophical project. Those articles have already begun a philosophical conversation co…

  • Physical Disability, Dignity, and Physician-Assisted Death

    David Wasserman, David H Wasserman et al.BOOKHuman Dignity and Assisted Death2017

    This chapter focuses on the relevance of physical disability for justifying extensions of physician assistance in dying to individuals who are not terminally ill. It is concluded that such disability, however severe, provides no stronger dignity-based reason than other kinds of loss or misfortune for permitting physician assistance, either as a condition for finding or presuming unbearable suffering or as an independent ground for physician assis…

  • Seeing Responsibility

    Open AccessDavid Wasserman, David H Wasserman et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2014

    As imaging technologies help us understand the structure and function of the brain, providing insight into human capabilities as basic as vision and as complex as memory, and human conditions as impairing as depression and as fraught as psychopathy, some have asked whether they can also help us understand human agency. Specifically, could neuroimaging lead us to reassess the socially significant practice of assigning and taking responsibility? Wh…

  • Recalibrating Ratings for a New Normal

    Charles E Cook, David Wasserman et al.ARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2014Cited by: 2

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  • Cognitive Surrogacy, Assisted Participation, and Moral Status

    David Wasserman, David H Wasserman et al.CHAPTERMedicine and Social Justice2012

  • Philosophical perspectives on response shift

    Open AccessLeah McClimans, Jerome Bickenbach et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2012

  • Ethical Issues in U.S. Presidential Leadership

    Open AccessJohn Fousek, David Wasserman et al.ARTICLEPresidential Studies Quarterly2010Cited by: 6References: 3

  • Pairwise Comparison and Numbers Skepticism

    Open AccessNien‐hê Hsieh, Nien-Hê Hsieh et al.ARTICLEUtilitas2007References: 5

    In this article, we defend pairwise comparison as a method to resolve conflicting claims from different people that cannot be jointly satisfied because of a scarcity of resources. We consider Michael Otsuka's recent challenge that pairwise comparison leads to intransitive choices for the ‘numbers skeptic’ (someone who believes the numbers should not count in forced choices among lives) and Frances Kamm's responses to Otsuka's challenge. We argue …

  • The Uncertain Rationale for Prenatal Disability Screening

    Open AccessDavid H Wasserman, Adrienne AschARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2006

    an article in The New England Journal of Medicine reported the increasing accuracy of first trimester screening for Down syndrome. The introduction of first trimester tests for the condition was heralded in 1998 by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHHD), as reducing complications for women who choose abortion. NICHHD reportedly spent $15 million on the studypresumably to fulfill its mission "to ensure that every per…

  • Can a Nonconsequentialist Count Lives

    Open AccessDavid Wasserman, David H Wasserman et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy & Public Affairs2003Cited by: 13References: 2

  • Research into Genetics and Crime

    Open AccessDavid Wasserman, David H WassermanARTICLEPolitics and the Life Sciences1996Cited by: 2

    Symposium: Genetics and Crime

  • Moral Responsibility in the Age of Bureaucracy

    David Luban, Alan Strudler et al.ARTICLEMichigan Law Review1992

    No twentieth-century writer has thought so deeply, or so yearningly, about natural law as Franz Kafka. Kafka's is a world in which we seek desperately to know the natural law that is sovereign in human affairs but find that knowledge of the law is withheld from us. For this reason, we lead our lives in a state of, if not original sin, then original guilt - guilt for violating the law, or perhaps guilt for not knowing the law, despite the fact tha…