Tod S Chambers
Biographic Data
| ID | 7519252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tod S Chambers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tod S |
| FAMILY NAME | Chambers |
| SIGNATURE | CHAMBERS T S |
| AFFILIATIONS | General Department of Preventive Medicine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Toward the Polyphonic Case
Can one publish a bioethics case ethically? I suspect that most in bioethics would feel comfortable publishing a case if the subject—the patient—gave explicit permission, the amount of biographical information revealed was under the control of the subject, and the subject fully understood the benefits and risks of publishing the case. Some might add that the subject should have a chance to approve the final representation. I think that the ethics…
On Cute Monkeys and Repulsive Monsters
When I heard that a laboratory in China had cloned two long‐tailed macaques, I thought of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. When academics write about the novel, many point out that the reason the creature becomes a “monster” is not that he has any inherently evil qualities but that Victor Frankenstein, the creature's “mother,” immediately rejects him. All later problems can be traced to the fact that Frankenstein does not take responsibility fo…
Telos versus Praxis in Bioethics
The authors of “A Conceptual Model for the Translation of Bioethics Research and Scholarship” argue that bioethics must respond to institutional pressures by demonstrating that it is having an impact in the world. Any impact, the authors observe, must be “informed” by the goals of the discipline of bioethics. The concept of bioethics as a discipline is central to their argument. They begin by citing an essay that Daniel Callahan wrote in the firs…
Searching for Narrative and Narrative Ethics in Narrative Bioethics
A commentary on a special report, titled Narrative Ethics: The Role of Stories in Bioethics, that appeared with the January‐February 2014 issue
No Nazis, no space aliens, no slippery slopes and other rules of thumb for clinical ethics teaching
The Bioethicist as Author
The Bioethicist as Author: The Medical Ethics Case as Rhetorical Device Tod S. Chambers Every style is a means of insisting on something. —Susan Sontag, "On Style"1 Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. —Martin Amis2 Unlike most writing in philosophy, essays in bioethics often begin by telling a story. Frequently indented or boldfaced, this story or case presentation is differentiated from the ethicist's philosophical analysis, and the…
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The Bioethicist as Author
The Bioethicist as Author: The Medical Ethics Case as Rhetorical Device Tod S. Chambers Every style is a means of insisting on something. —Susan Sontag, "On Style"1 Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. —Martin Amis2 Unlike most writing in philosophy, essays in bioethics often begin by telling a story. Frequently indented or boldfaced, this story or case presentation is differentiated from the ethicist's philosophical analysis, and the…
No Nazis, no space aliens, no slippery slopes and other rules of thumb for clinical ethics teaching
Searching for Narrative and Narrative Ethics in Narrative Bioethics
A commentary on a special report, titled Narrative Ethics: The Role of Stories in Bioethics, that appeared with the January‐February 2014 issue
Telos versus Praxis in Bioethics
The authors of “A Conceptual Model for the Translation of Bioethics Research and Scholarship” argue that bioethics must respond to institutional pressures by demonstrating that it is having an impact in the world. Any impact, the authors observe, must be “informed” by the goals of the discipline of bioethics. The concept of bioethics as a discipline is central to their argument. They begin by citing an essay that Daniel Callahan wrote in the firs…
On Cute Monkeys and Repulsive Monsters
When I heard that a laboratory in China had cloned two long‐tailed macaques, I thought of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. When academics write about the novel, many point out that the reason the creature becomes a “monster” is not that he has any inherently evil qualities but that Victor Frankenstein, the creature's “mother,” immediately rejects him. All later problems can be traced to the fact that Frankenstein does not take responsibility fo…
Toward the Polyphonic Case
Can one publish a bioethics case ethically? I suspect that most in bioethics would feel comfortable publishing a case if the subject—the patient—gave explicit permission, the amount of biographical information revealed was under the control of the subject, and the subject fully understood the benefits and risks of publishing the case. Some might add that the subject should have a chance to approve the final representation. I think that the ethics…
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