Kenneth Kipnis
Biographic Data
| ID | 954926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Kipnis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Kipnis |
| SIGNATURE | KIPNIS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Philosophical Dimensions of the Constitution
Property Rights and Ownership
Property rights are a complex, socially‐constituted bundle of obligations and permissions. It is a common mistake to think of property as one thing and the rights that attach to it as another. Ownership is best understood as package of claim‐rights, liberties, powers, and immunities.
Forced Abandonment and Euthanasia: A Question from Katrina
Kenneth Kipnis Forced Abandonment and Euthanasia: A Question from Katrina INTRODUCTION' I DO NOT K NOW W HAT H APPENED ON THE SEVENTH FLOOR OF MEMORIAL Medical Center (MMC) during the darkest hours of the New Orleans catastrophe.1 We do know that, in addition to staff, patients and family m em bers, hundreds of others had sought shelter in the hospital as hurricane Katrina approached Louisiana on Sunday, August 28,2005. By Monday afternoon the st…
In Defense of Absolute Confidentiality
Examination of Confidentiality in Psychiatry after Tarasoff In 1968 two students at the University of California at Berkley, Tatiana Tarasoff and Prosenjit Poddar, met and began dating. Poddar believed the relationship to be more serious than Tarasoff did and became preoccupied and withdrawn when she rejected him. In the summer of 1969 Tarasoff left the country to do field work. Poddar went to the university health service for treatment of his de…
Ethical Competency and the Profession of Medicine
By training, I am a philosopher, specializing in ethics. For nearly 30 years I have been thinking and writing about the ethical dimensions of professional life. How does it happen that professionals are subject to special ethical obligations? So when the American Medical Association's Institute for Ethics opened a slot for a "Visiting Senior Scholar," I submitted an application. Now, a year later, at the end of a sabbatical, I am returning to my …
Christian Science's Right to Refuse
Kindred Matters: Rethinking the Philosophy of the Family
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Kindred Matters: Rethinking the Philosophy of the Family. Edited By Diana Tietjens Meyers, Kenneth Kipnis and Cornelius F. Murphy (Cornell UP, 1993. Pp. x + 315. Price not given.) Margaret Coady Margaret Coady Center for Human Values, Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 180, July 1995, Pages 405–406, http…
Plea Bargaining: A Critic's Rejoinder
The paper is a reply to two defenders of a reformed system of plea bargaining: Thomas Church and Conrad Brunk. At the broadest level, it is argued that plea bargaining is in a twofold conflict with the constitutive purposes of the liberal-democratic idea of a criminal justice system: the practice is not conducive to the punishment of the guilty in accordance with their deserts and it violates basic liberties, among them the right against self-inc…
Plea Bargaining: A Critic's Rejoinder
The paper is a reply to two defenders of a reformed system of plea bargaining: Thomas Church and Conrad Brunk. At the broadest level, it is argued that plea bargaining is in a twofold conflict with the constitutive purposes of the liberal-democratic idea of a criminal justice system: the practice is not conducive to the punishment of the guilty in accordance with their deserts and it violates basic liberties, among them the right against self-inc…
Plea Bargaining: A Critic's Rejoinder
The paper is a reply to two defenders of a reformed system of plea bargaining: Thomas Church and Conrad Brunk. At the broadest level, it is argued that plea bargaining is in a twofold conflict with the constitutive purposes of the liberal-democratic idea of a criminal justice system: the practice is not conducive to the punishment of the guilty in accordance with their deserts and it violates basic liberties, among them the right against self-inc…
Christian Science's Right to Refuse
Kindred Matters: Rethinking the Philosophy of the Family
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Kindred Matters: Rethinking the Philosophy of the Family. Edited By Diana Tietjens Meyers, Kenneth Kipnis and Cornelius F. Murphy (Cornell UP, 1993. Pp. x + 315. Price not given.) Margaret Coady Margaret Coady Center for Human Values, Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 180, July 1995, Pages 405–406, http…
Ethical Competency and the Profession of Medicine
By training, I am a philosopher, specializing in ethics. For nearly 30 years I have been thinking and writing about the ethical dimensions of professional life. How does it happen that professionals are subject to special ethical obligations? So when the American Medical Association's Institute for Ethics opened a slot for a "Visiting Senior Scholar," I submitted an application. Now, a year later, at the end of a sabbatical, I am returning to my …
In Defense of Absolute Confidentiality
Examination of Confidentiality in Psychiatry after Tarasoff In 1968 two students at the University of California at Berkley, Tatiana Tarasoff and Prosenjit Poddar, met and began dating. Poddar believed the relationship to be more serious than Tarasoff did and became preoccupied and withdrawn when she rejected him. In the summer of 1969 Tarasoff left the country to do field work. Poddar went to the university health service for treatment of his de…
Forced Abandonment and Euthanasia: A Question from Katrina
Kenneth Kipnis Forced Abandonment and Euthanasia: A Question from Katrina INTRODUCTION' I DO NOT K NOW W HAT H APPENED ON THE SEVENTH FLOOR OF MEMORIAL Medical Center (MMC) during the darkest hours of the New Orleans catastrophe.1 We do know that, in addition to staff, patients and family m em bers, hundreds of others had sought shelter in the hospital as hurricane Katrina approached Louisiana on Sunday, August 28,2005. By Monday afternoon the st…
Property Rights and Ownership
Property rights are a complex, socially‐constituted bundle of obligations and permissions. It is a common mistake to think of property as one thing and the rights that attach to it as another. Ownership is best understood as package of claim‐rights, liberties, powers, and immunities.
Philosophical Dimensions of the Constitution
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Ethics in medical practice (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works)