Mary Jean Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 6533428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Jean Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Jean |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8823-9651 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Do Intoxicated Offenders Deserve Harsher Sentences? Questioning Veritas in Vino
Criminal courts increasingly treat intoxication as an aggravating rather than a mitigating factor in sentencing. This shift, seen in Australian law and other jurisdictions, raises the prospect of unjust outcomes. We examine this trend through the lens of desert‐based justifications for punishment, setting aside questions of deterrence and public safety. We first argue that intoxication can impair key capacities required for responsibility, sugges…
A proportionality approach to the ethics of drug policy
This paper applies a proportionality approach to examining the ethics of drug policy. The principle of proportionality states that to be ethically permissible a policy should be likely to impose only burdens that are proportionate to its benefits. I develop an analysis of proportionality judgements as involving two important kinds of ethical reasoning, characterised as consequentialist and deontological, which often interact with each other. I th…
A global review of the impact on women from men’s alcohol drinking
BACKGROUND: Global evidence shows that men's harmful alcohol use contributes to intimate partner violence (IPV) and other harms. Yet, interventions that target alcohol-related harms to women are scarce. Quantitative analyses demonstrate links with physical and verbal aggression; however, the specific harms to women from men's drinking have not been well articulated, particularly from an international perspective. AIM: To document the breadth and …
Can alcohol policy prevent harms to women and children from men's alcohol consumption? An overview of existing literature and suggested ways forward
A Heart without Life
The use of artificial organs is likely to increase in the future, given technological advances, increases in chronic diseases, and limited donor organs. This article examines how artificial organs could affect people's experience and conceptualization of bodies and our understanding of the relation of body to self. I focus on artificial heart devices and argue that these have two conflicting potential influences. First, they may influence people …
Neurotechnologies, Relational Autonomy, and Authenticity
The ethical debate about neurotechnologies has been largely framed around their effects on authenticity. In this paper, we investigate the concept of authenticity and associated conceptions of the self. We develop a conception of authenticity that eschews problematic essentialist or existentialist views of the self and the assumption that the authentic self transcends socialization. Revisiting the debate about neurotechnologies, we show why frami…
Reasonableness, Credibility, and Clinical Disagreement
Evidence in medicine can come from more or less trustworthy sources and be produced by more or less reliable methods, and its interpretation can be disputed. As such, it can be unclear when disagreements in medicine result from different, but reasonable, interpretations of the available evidence and when they result from unreasonable refusals to consider legitimate evidence. In this article, we seek to show how assessments of the relevance and im…
What Can Feminist Epistemology Do for Surgery
Surgery is an important part of contemporary health care, but currently much of surgery lacks a strong evidence base. Uptake of evidence‐based medicine (EBM) methods within surgical research and among practitioners has been slow compared with other areas of medicine. Although this is often viewed as arising from practical and cultural barriers, it also reflects a lack of epistemic fit between EBM research methods and surgical practice. In this pa…
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What Can Feminist Epistemology Do for Surgery
Surgery is an important part of contemporary health care, but currently much of surgery lacks a strong evidence base. Uptake of evidence‐based medicine (EBM) methods within surgical research and among practitioners has been slow compared with other areas of medicine. Although this is often viewed as arising from practical and cultural barriers, it also reflects a lack of epistemic fit between EBM research methods and surgical practice. In this pa…
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What Can Feminist Epistemology Do for Surgery
Surgery is an important part of contemporary health care, but currently much of surgery lacks a strong evidence base. Uptake of evidence‐based medicine (EBM) methods within surgical research and among practitioners has been slow compared with other areas of medicine. Although this is often viewed as arising from practical and cultural barriers, it also reflects a lack of epistemic fit between EBM research methods and surgical practice. In this pa…
Reasonableness, Credibility, and Clinical Disagreement
Evidence in medicine can come from more or less trustworthy sources and be produced by more or less reliable methods, and its interpretation can be disputed. As such, it can be unclear when disagreements in medicine result from different, but reasonable, interpretations of the available evidence and when they result from unreasonable refusals to consider legitimate evidence. In this article, we seek to show how assessments of the relevance and im…
Neurotechnologies, Relational Autonomy, and Authenticity
The ethical debate about neurotechnologies has been largely framed around their effects on authenticity. In this paper, we investigate the concept of authenticity and associated conceptions of the self. We develop a conception of authenticity that eschews problematic essentialist or existentialist views of the self and the assumption that the authentic self transcends socialization. Revisiting the debate about neurotechnologies, we show why frami…
A Heart without Life
The use of artificial organs is likely to increase in the future, given technological advances, increases in chronic diseases, and limited donor organs. This article examines how artificial organs could affect people's experience and conceptualization of bodies and our understanding of the relation of body to self. I focus on artificial heart devices and argue that these have two conflicting potential influences. First, they may influence people …
Can alcohol policy prevent harms to women and children from men's alcohol consumption? An overview of existing literature and suggested ways forward
A global review of the impact on women from men’s alcohol drinking
BACKGROUND: Global evidence shows that men's harmful alcohol use contributes to intimate partner violence (IPV) and other harms. Yet, interventions that target alcohol-related harms to women are scarce. Quantitative analyses demonstrate links with physical and verbal aggression; however, the specific harms to women from men's drinking have not been well articulated, particularly from an international perspective. AIM: To document the breadth and …
Do Intoxicated Offenders Deserve Harsher Sentences? Questioning Veritas in Vino
Criminal courts increasingly treat intoxication as an aggravating rather than a mitigating factor in sentencing. This shift, seen in Australian law and other jurisdictions, raises the prospect of unjust outcomes. We examine this trend through the lens of desert‐based justifications for punishment, setting aside questions of deterrence and public safety. We first argue that intoxication can impair key capacities required for responsibility, sugges…
A proportionality approach to the ethics of drug policy
This paper applies a proportionality approach to examining the ethics of drug policy. The principle of proportionality states that to be ethically permissible a policy should be likely to impose only burdens that are proportionate to its benefits. I develop an analysis of proportionality judgements as involving two important kinds of ethical reasoning, characterised as consequentialist and deontological, which often interact with each other. I th…
Psychology (8 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (2 works)