James Lindemann Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 97103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Lindemann Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | James Lindemann |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hastings Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Just caring for the elderly
Progress in bioethics
Jonathan D. Moreno and Sam Berger, Progress in bioethics: Science, policy, and politics, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010, reviewed by James Lindemann Nelson
Memory, Estrangement, and Nostalgia in “Mansfield Park”
Research Article| July 01 2011 MEMORY, ESTRANGEMENT, AND NOSTALGIA IN “MANSFIELD PARK” James Lindemann Nelson James Lindemann Nelson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2011) 94 (1-2): 77–97. https://doi.org/10.2307/41200943 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation James Lindemann Nelson; MEMORY, ESTRANGEMENT, AND NOSTALGIA IN “MANSFIELD PARK”. Soundin…
Mirrors to One Another
Book Review| December 01 2011 Mirrors to One Another: Emotion and Value in Jane Austen and David Hume Mirrors to One Another: Emotion and Value in Jane Austen and David HumeDadlez, Eva M. Tamra Frei; Tamra Frei Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google James Lindemann Nelson James Lindemann Nelson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2011) 94 (3-4): 393–401. https://d…
Donation by default? Examining feminist reservations about opt-out organ procurement
There is reason to believe that procuring organs from recently dead people who did not explicitly refuse to provide them—here referred to as “opt-out” arrangements—would ease growing shortages, thus extending the lives of many who otherwise would die soon. There is also a simple, apparently powerful argument—the “easy rescue requirement”—for believing that many people have strong moral reason to provide such life-extending support to others, thus…
Philosophizing in a Dissonant Key
Recently, I was asked to contribute to a discussion on the impact of feminism on men, held at the Pacific Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association (APA). These remarks represent the outcome of that invitation and discussion, recollected in comparative tranquility. My fellow panelists tended to take a strong, practical, real-world line on the question, skillfully assessing controversies about how feminism, considered as a social…
Philosophizing in a Dissonant Key
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Case Study
Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers
What Do We Know When We Know How to Go on
Marcel S. Lieberman
Moral Teachings from Unexpected Quarters
James Lindemann Nelson, Moral Teachings from Unexpected Quarters: Lessons for Bioethics from the Social Sciences and Managed Care, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 2000), pp. 12-17
The Social (De)Construction of Futility
Moral Teachings from the Social Sciences
Margaret Urban Walker, Moral Understandings
The Silence of the Bioethicists
Love and Justice in the Family
The Best Laid Plans
The most eye-catching outcome of the SUPPORT study will surely be the\nfailure of its attempt to ameliorate what have been identified as some of the\nworst features of death in the hospital
Feminism, Social Policy, and Long-Acting Contraception
The authors apply a feminist approach to two social debates over the use of Norplant. A woman convicted of child abuse was offered the use of Norplant as a condition of parole. She would have had to remain in jail had she opted to not accept the method. While such an offer may be justified the authors find it to be harmful and disrespectful to women. In order to justify offering long-term contraception as a condition of probation it would have to…
Case Study
AM, an eighty-year-old woman, is brought by ambulance to emergency room after an apparent suicide attempt. She was discovered by her neighbors, who have tried to look after her since her husband died three years ago. They became concerned when she did not answer her phone, and when they went to investigate, they found her unconscious on floor next to an empty bottle of sleeping pills. A suicide note was left on dining room table. Alarmed, neighbo…
Is It Ever Right to Do Wrong
At the Center
At the Center
Preferences and Other Moral Sources
Of the many avenues opened for investigation by the push to facilitate advance care planning, two run along together like the lanes of a Los Angeles freeway. These are the empirical and ethical investigations regarding preference, and the traffic has recently been pretty heavy along both. Riding along the empirical avenue, we ask what people actually prefer, the discrepancies among their stated preferences, and whether proxy decisionmaking is in …
Bioethics Education Expanding the Circle of Participants
Bioethics education now takes place outside universities as well as within them. How should clinicians, ethics committee members, and policymakers be taught the ethics they need, and how may their progress best be evaluated
A Comment on Fry's “The Role of Caring in a Theory of Nursing Ethics”
Our response to Sara Fry's paper focuses on the difficulty of understanding her insistence on the fundamental character of caring in a theory of nursing ethics. We discuss a number of problems her text throws in the way of making sense of this idea, and outline our own proposal for how caring's role may be reasonably understood: not as an alternative object of value , competing with autonomy or patient good, but rather as an alternative way of re…
Cutting Motherhood in Two
Surrogate motherhood—at least if carefully structured to protect the interests of the women involved—seems defensible along standard liberal lines which place great stress on free agreements as moral bedrocks. But feminist theories have tended to be suspicious about the importance assigned to this notion by mainstream ethics, and in this paper, we develop implications of those suspicions for surrogacy. We argue that the practice is inconsistent w…
Animals, handicapped children and the tragedy of marginal cases
There are human beings whose psychological capacities are rivalled or exceeded by many non-human animals; such humans are often referred to as 'marginal cases'. R G Frey has argued that there is no secure, non-arbitrary way of morally distinguishing between marginal humans and non-human animals. Hence, if the benefits of vivisection justify such painful and lethal procedures being performed on animals, so is the vivisection of marginal humans jus…
Snowball Berry Red and Other Stories
Animals, handicapped children and the tragedy of marginal cases
There are human beings whose psychological capacities are rivalled or exceeded by many non-human animals; such humans are often referred to as 'marginal cases'. R G Frey has argued that there is no secure, non-arbitrary way of morally distinguishing between marginal humans and non-human animals. Hence, if the benefits of vivisection justify such painful and lethal procedures being performed on animals, so is the vivisection of marginal humans jus…
Cutting Motherhood in Two
Surrogate motherhood—at least if carefully structured to protect the interests of the women involved—seems defensible along standard liberal lines which place great stress on free agreements as moral bedrocks. But feminist theories have tended to be suspicious about the importance assigned to this notion by mainstream ethics, and in this paper, we develop implications of those suspicions for surrogacy. We argue that the practice is inconsistent w…
Desire's Desire for Moral Realism
Roughly thirty years ago, R. M. Hare told an Anglo-French philosophy conference about a young Swiss student who came to stay with his family in Oxford. It seems that the student was doing very nicely, until, in a burst of misguided hospitality, the Hares provided him with one of their few French books, Camus's L'Etranger . Reading Camus had the effect of changing the student from an affable, altogether attractive young man into a chain-smoking re…
A Comment on Fry's “The Role of Caring in a Theory of Nursing Ethics”
Our response to Sara Fry's paper focuses on the difficulty of understanding her insistence on the fundamental character of caring in a theory of nursing ethics. We discuss a number of problems her text throws in the way of making sense of this idea, and outline our own proposal for how caring's role may be reasonably understood: not as an alternative object of value , competing with autonomy or patient good, but rather as an alternative way of re…
Suffering, Species, and Science
Book reviewed in this article: Animal Experimentation: The Moral Issues. Edited by Robert M. Baird and Stuart E. Rosenbaum
What Has History to Do with Me
At the Center
Taking Families Seriously
Here, I attend particularly to how families are affected, not by\nreproductive technologies, but by day-to-day patterns of medical practice,\ndecisionmaking in particular. Succinctly stated, what I find is this:\nstandard accounts of medical ethics obscure what is particularly morally\nsignificant about families. Medical practice, influenced by those accounts as\nwell as by its own traditions, can dishonor, sometimes possibly erode, those\nmorall…
Transplantation through a Glass Darkly
Should baboons become spare parts bins for human beings? Not when\ntheir moral nature remains a mystery to us
Bioethics Education Expanding the Circle of Participants
Bioethics education now takes place outside universities as well as within them. How should clinicians, ethics committee members, and policymakers be taught the ethics they need, and how may their progress best be evaluated
Taking Nature's Pulse
Alas, collecting on this promise will require considerable work. It is scarcely professionally reputable to see nature as a single immense organism, and even the notion that ecosystems naturally tend toward a stable, healthy climax state is no longer uncritically assumed. Simply identifying what counts as an individual ecosystem is far from a straightforward matter. If, therefore, health is only metaphorically appliEcosystem Health: New Goals for…
Guided by Intimates
E.M. Forster's novel Howard's End might be seen as a parable of proxy decisionmaking that underscores the need for the sort of proposal Linda and Ezekiel Emanuel make. The book is full of salutary warnings against relying on families to be good stewards of the interests of their incapacitated members. When the dying Mrs. Wilcox bequeaths her beloved home to Margaret Schlegel, an acquaintance she has become fond of, the Wilcox family actually supp…
At the Center
Preferences and Other Moral Sources
Of the many avenues opened for investigation by the push to facilitate advance care planning, two run along together like the lanes of a Los Angeles freeway. These are the empirical and ethical investigations regarding preference, and the traffic has recently been pretty heavy along both. Riding along the empirical avenue, we ask what people actually prefer, the discrepancies among their stated preferences, and whether proxy decisionmaking is in …
The Best Laid Plans
The most eye-catching outcome of the SUPPORT study will surely be the\nfailure of its attempt to ameliorate what have been identified as some of the\nworst features of death in the hospital
Feminism, Social Policy, and Long-Acting Contraception
The authors apply a feminist approach to two social debates over the use of Norplant. A woman convicted of child abuse was offered the use of Norplant as a condition of parole. She would have had to remain in jail had she opted to not accept the method. While such an offer may be justified the authors find it to be harmful and disrespectful to women. In order to justify offering long-term contraception as a condition of probation it would have to…
Case Study
AM, an eighty-year-old woman, is brought by ambulance to emergency room after an apparent suicide attempt. She was discovered by her neighbors, who have tried to look after her since her husband died three years ago. They became concerned when she did not answer her phone, and when they went to investigate, they found her unconscious on floor next to an empty bottle of sleeping pills. A suicide note was left on dining room table. Alarmed, neighbo…
Is It Ever Right to Do Wrong
At the Center
Love and Justice in the Family
The Silence of the Bioethicists
Margaret Urban Walker, Moral Understandings
Moral Teachings from Unexpected Quarters
James Lindemann Nelson, Moral Teachings from Unexpected Quarters: Lessons for Bioethics from the Social Sciences and Managed Care, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 2000), pp. 12-17
The Social (De)Construction of Futility
Psychology (18 works) · Ethics in medical practice (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works)