Dena S Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5178479 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dena S Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dena S |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cleveland State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-4355-1742 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Talking with Each Other about Science
The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust, the optimistic title of Francis S. Collins's new book, hides a realistic appraisal of our current polarized country. Collins tries to tackle, in everyday language, why people are having such a hard time figuring out what is truth, how to think about science, how religious faith fits into this, and how and whom we can trust. “Misinformation, disinformation, fear ... are constantly trying to …
The Oxford Handbook of Religious Perspectives on Reproductive Ethics
From early writings of our oldest religious traditions through recent controversies surrounding the Hobby Lobby case and the ever-divisive question of abortion, questions of reproduction raise some of the most difficult and fascinating issues in bioethics. Much has been written on broader bioethical perspectives on reproductive issues, but it is equally important to understand religious perspectives on these issues, as the news stories frequently…
Death in a Cold Climate
What happened when Vermont passed its medical‐aid‐in‐dying bill in 2013? Not what one might hope or expect. In Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America (University of California Press, 2021), Mara Buchbinder details, through a host of gripping interviews, the difficulties people experience in actually accessing their legal rights to physician‐assisted suicide
Could We Be Marsupials? Very Premature Babies and Artificial Wombs
It is often pointed out that one cannot be “a little bit pregnant,” but pregnancy’s borders are no longer so crisp. At Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, scientists have created an artificial womb in which “extremely premature” lambs were nurtured for four weeks, enough to make them ready to meet the world. The goal is to advance this technology until it is available for very premature human infants. At present, we put preemies into neonatal in…
VII. Feminism and suicide in the face of dementia
Laws that Conflict with the Ethics of Medicine
This past July, five professional societies, whose members together provide the majority of clinical care in the United States, published a statement objecting to “inappropriate legislative interference” with the physician‐patient relationship and reiterated the importance of “putting patients’ best interests first.” Such a collective response is helpful, but given the apparently growing interest among legislators in legislating aspects of physic…
But with Progeny, It's Hodge-podgenee
In some sense, and perhaps this is the hallmark of the modern era, all families cope with competing identities. Children may choose high-demand careers, such as the priesthood or the military, that may well make them seem like strangers to their parents, speaking almost a different language and embracing values and loyalties unknown at home. Grown children can convert to alien religions and live halfway across the world. Children of immigrants as…
Not with a Bang, but a Whimper
After a tortuous legal process that resembled nothing so much as a game of chutes and ladders, on August 24, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decided in favor of the Department of Health and Human Services' position that human embryonic stem cell research is not research that harms embryos, and therefore is not a violation of the Dickey‐Wicker Amendment. Bioethicists have been following this case becau…
Ashkenazi Jews
Utilizing a closed-ended survey and three focus groups drawn from one Midwest city, this study examined attitudes of Ashkenazi Jews toward involvement in genetic research. The research is framed within an analysis of the extent of Ashkenazi involvement in research; factors that make this group an attractive object of genetic study; cultural, historical, and religious factors within the group that drive people's attitudes toward being subjects of …
Sentience and Sensibility
Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics
Genetic Research & Communal Narratives
risks and benefits of genetic research extend beyond individual subjects. Genetic research can also affect the communities to which the subjects belong, by rewriting the narratives and reconfiguring the identities that members of the share and live by. These far-ranging effects raise special concerns for obtaining informed consent, for which there is no simple solution. Scholars and laypeople alike are fascinated by the study of people's origins.…
Pelvic Exams Performed on Anesthetized Women
Pelvic Exams Performed on Anesthetized WomenPerforming a pelvic exam without consent on an anesthetized woman, even for teaching purposes, is unethical and considered sexual battery in some jurisdictions
Cultural Issues in Genetic Research with American Indian and Alaskan Native People
Women and Jewish Law
Child's Right to an Open Future
letter and reply
A Narrow Ridge, a Larger Vision
Children and Genetic Technologies
review of GENETIC DILEMMAS: REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY, PARENTAL CHOICES, AND CHILDREN'S FUTURE, by Dena S. Davis
Groups, Communities, and Contested Identities in Genetic Research
Obtaining community consent before conducting genetic research seems to be a way of ensuring that a whole community is not harmed against its wishes--that all Jews, or all African Americans, or all Hutterites are not forced to learn things about themselves they would rather not know, or are not forced into identities they would rather not have. Unfortunately, there are insurmountable problems both in identifying the right representatives of the c…
Medical Research with College Athletes
Student athletes are a natural subject pool for certain kinds of medical research: they are healthy and young; they do interesting things with their bodies; they are easily identified and recruited; they are right there on campus; and they live, sleep, train, and eat in a relatively controlled environment. Further, they may be highly motivated to discover answers to certain questions. Because elite athletes often attend large institutions with me…
Genetic Dilemmas and the Child's Right to an Open Future
Although deeply committed to the model of nondirective counseling, most genetic counselors enter the profession with certain assumptions about health and disability-for example, that it is preferable to be a hearing person than a deaf person. Thus, most genetic counselors are deeply troubled when parents with certain disabilities ask for assistance in having a child who shares their disability. This ethical challenge benefits little from viewing …
Abortion in Jewish Thought
Casuistry--the mode of ethical reasoning that focuses on paradigm cases rather than principles--has been lately rehabilitated. My position is that cases are more than clever teaching tools or devices to spice up an otherwise dry discussion. While moral knowledge is particular, in that we must act in particular instances, I still want to argue that ethics is grounded in universal principles. I take an intermediate tack: Cases are powerful influenc…
Rich Cases
When cases are described thinly to protect patient confidentiality,\nthey teach us only what we put into them. Thick description, like myth,\nallows a fuller moral response. We need thick description to allow cases to\nremain open to different interpretations over time, and also to enable cases\nto ground an ethics of care
The Believer and the Powers That Are
Dear Mrs. X
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Dear Mrs. X
The Believer and the Powers That Are
Rich Cases
When cases are described thinly to protect patient confidentiality,\nthey teach us only what we put into them. Thick description, like myth,\nallows a fuller moral response. We need thick description to allow cases to\nremain open to different interpretations over time, and also to enable cases\nto ground an ethics of care
Abortion in Jewish Thought
Casuistry--the mode of ethical reasoning that focuses on paradigm cases rather than principles--has been lately rehabilitated. My position is that cases are more than clever teaching tools or devices to spice up an otherwise dry discussion. While moral knowledge is particular, in that we must act in particular instances, I still want to argue that ethics is grounded in universal principles. I take an intermediate tack: Cases are powerful influenc…
Genetic Dilemmas and the Child's Right to an Open Future
Although deeply committed to the model of nondirective counseling, most genetic counselors enter the profession with certain assumptions about health and disability-for example, that it is preferable to be a hearing person than a deaf person. Thus, most genetic counselors are deeply troubled when parents with certain disabilities ask for assistance in having a child who shares their disability. This ethical challenge benefits little from viewing …
Medical Research with College Athletes
Student athletes are a natural subject pool for certain kinds of medical research: they are healthy and young; they do interesting things with their bodies; they are easily identified and recruited; they are right there on campus; and they live, sleep, train, and eat in a relatively controlled environment. Further, they may be highly motivated to discover answers to certain questions. Because elite athletes often attend large institutions with me…
Groups, Communities, and Contested Identities in Genetic Research
Obtaining community consent before conducting genetic research seems to be a way of ensuring that a whole community is not harmed against its wishes--that all Jews, or all African Americans, or all Hutterites are not forced to learn things about themselves they would rather not know, or are not forced into identities they would rather not have. Unfortunately, there are insurmountable problems both in identifying the right representatives of the c…
A Narrow Ridge, a Larger Vision
Children and Genetic Technologies
review of GENETIC DILEMMAS: REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY, PARENTAL CHOICES, AND CHILDREN'S FUTURE, by Dena S. Davis
Women and Jewish Law
Child's Right to an Open Future
letter and reply
Pelvic Exams Performed on Anesthetized Women
Pelvic Exams Performed on Anesthetized WomenPerforming a pelvic exam without consent on an anesthetized woman, even for teaching purposes, is unethical and considered sexual battery in some jurisdictions
Cultural Issues in Genetic Research with American Indian and Alaskan Native People
Genetic Research & Communal Narratives
risks and benefits of genetic research extend beyond individual subjects. Genetic research can also affect the communities to which the subjects belong, by rewriting the narratives and reconfiguring the identities that members of the share and live by. These far-ranging effects raise special concerns for obtaining informed consent, for which there is no simple solution. Scholars and laypeople alike are fascinated by the study of people's origins.…
Sentience and Sensibility
Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics
Ashkenazi Jews
Utilizing a closed-ended survey and three focus groups drawn from one Midwest city, this study examined attitudes of Ashkenazi Jews toward involvement in genetic research. The research is framed within an analysis of the extent of Ashkenazi involvement in research; factors that make this group an attractive object of genetic study; cultural, historical, and religious factors within the group that drive people's attitudes toward being subjects of …
Not with a Bang, but a Whimper
After a tortuous legal process that resembled nothing so much as a game of chutes and ladders, on August 24, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decided in favor of the Department of Health and Human Services' position that human embryonic stem cell research is not research that harms embryos, and therefore is not a violation of the Dickey‐Wicker Amendment. Bioethicists have been following this case becau…
Laws that Conflict with the Ethics of Medicine
This past July, five professional societies, whose members together provide the majority of clinical care in the United States, published a statement objecting to “inappropriate legislative interference” with the physician‐patient relationship and reiterated the importance of “putting patients’ best interests first.” Such a collective response is helpful, but given the apparently growing interest among legislators in legislating aspects of physic…
But with Progeny, It's Hodge-podgenee
In some sense, and perhaps this is the hallmark of the modern era, all families cope with competing identities. Children may choose high-demand careers, such as the priesthood or the military, that may well make them seem like strangers to their parents, speaking almost a different language and embracing values and loyalties unknown at home. Grown children can convert to alien religions and live halfway across the world. Children of immigrants as…
VII. Feminism and suicide in the face of dementia
Could We Be Marsupials? Very Premature Babies and Artificial Wombs
It is often pointed out that one cannot be “a little bit pregnant,” but pregnancy’s borders are no longer so crisp. At Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, scientists have created an artificial womb in which “extremely premature” lambs were nurtured for four weeks, enough to make them ready to meet the world. The goal is to advance this technology until it is available for very premature human infants. At present, we put preemies into neonatal in…
Death in a Cold Climate
What happened when Vermont passed its medical‐aid‐in‐dying bill in 2013? Not what one might hope or expect. In Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America (University of California Press, 2021), Mara Buchbinder details, through a host of gripping interviews, the difficulties people experience in actually accessing their legal rights to physician‐assisted suicide
The Oxford Handbook of Religious Perspectives on Reproductive Ethics
From early writings of our oldest religious traditions through recent controversies surrounding the Hobby Lobby case and the ever-divisive question of abortion, questions of reproduction raise some of the most difficult and fascinating issues in bioethics. Much has been written on broader bioethical perspectives on reproductive issues, but it is equally important to understand religious perspectives on these issues, as the news stories frequently…
Talking with Each Other about Science
The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust, the optimistic title of Francis S. Collins's new book, hides a realistic appraisal of our current polarized country. Collins tries to tackle, in everyday language, why people are having such a hard time figuring out what is truth, how to think about science, how religious faith fits into this, and how and whom we can trust. “Misinformation, disinformation, fear ... are constantly trying to …
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