Leslie Francis

Dados Biográficos

ID303728
NOMELeslie Francis
PRENOMESLeslie
SOBRENOMEFrancis
ASSINATURAFRANCIS L
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Warwick
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS48
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES4
OBRAS COMO AUTOR45
OBRAS COMO EDITOR3
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1979
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H2

  • Federalism for Bioethics

    Open AccessLeslie Francis, Leslie Pickering Francis et al.ARTICLECambridge Quarterly of Healthcare…2024

    In the wake of the Dobbs decision withdrawing federal constitutional protection for reproductive rights, the United States is in the throes of federalist conflicts. Some states are enacting draconian prohibitions of abortion or gender-affirming care, whereas other states are attempting to shield providers and their patients seeking care. This article explores standard arguments supporting federalism, including that it allows for cultural differen…

  • Should Whole Genome Sequencing be Publicly Funded for Everyone as a Matter of Healthcare Justice

    Open AccessLeonard M Fleck, Leslie FrancisARTICLECambridge Quarterly of Healthcare…2022

  • Mask Mandates and Dilemmas of Disability Difference

    Open AccessKevin Mintz, Leslie J Francis et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2022

    A number of recent legal cases in the United States have considered both disability‐based exceptions to Covid‐19‐related mask mandates and disability‐based claims to stronger masking rules in states restricting the abilities of local governments to enforce mask mandates. We argue that a proper legal and ethical analysis of such cases requires understanding the distinction between disability accommodations and disability modifications. Disability …

  • Negative Freedom in Crisis Times

    Leslie FrancisARTICLEArchiv für Rechts- und…2021

    Pandemic emergencies and concomitant needs for interventions to protect public health place great pressure on individual liberty. In the United States, these pressures are exacerbated by views of negative liberty as the freedom to do whatever one wants with one’s person. This essay argues that the original US Supreme Court decision recognizing legislative powers to protect public health, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, was premised on an understanding…

  • Supported Decision-making

    Leslie Francis, Leslie Pickering FrancisARTICLEThe Journal of Philosophy of…2021

    People with cognitive impairments often have difficulties formulating, understanding, or articulating decisions that others judge reasonable. The frequent response shifts decision-making authority to substitutes through advance directives of the person or guardianship orders from a court. The Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities defends supported decision-making as an alternative to such forms of supplanted decision-making. But su…

  • Freedom of Thought in the United States

    John G Francis, Leslie Francis et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Comparative…2021

    Freedom of thought is not directly protected as a right in the United States. Instead, US First Amendment law protects a range of rights that may allow thoughts to be expressed. Freedom of speech has been granted especially robust protection. US courts have extended this protection to a wide range of commercial activities judged to have expressive content. In protecting these rights, US jurisprudence frequently relies on the image of the marketpl…

  • Teneille Brown, Leslie Francis, and James Tabery respond

    Open AccessTeneille R Brown, Teneille Brown et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2021

    This is a response to the letter to the editor “Prioritizing the Prevention of Early Deaths during Covid‐19,” by Govind Persad

  • Sustaining Surveillance

    John Francis, Leslie FrancisBOOKSustaining Surveillance2021

  • Commentary

    Open AccessLeslie FrancisARTICLECambridge Quarterly of Healthcare…2020

    In “Medical Ethics: Common or Uncommon Morality,” 1 Rosamond Rhodes defends a specialist view of medical ethics, specifically the ethics of physicians. Rhodes’s account is specifically about the ethics of medical professionals, rooted in what these professionals do. It would seem to follow that other healthcare professions might be subject to ethical standards that differ from those applicable to physicians, rooted in what these other professions…

  • Difficult texts

    Open AccessLeslie J Francis, Leslie FrancisARTICLETheology2020

    Ecclesiastes 12.12 and John 21.25 appear to offer starkly contrasting perspectives on the relationship between Church and Academy. Taken together, they prompt reflection on the role of a canon theologian within a cathedral

  • Achieving Meaningful Access to Medicaid

    Open AccessLeslie J Francis, Leslie Francis et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2019

    Federal and state budgetary constraints continually challenge Medicaid. The effects of benefit cuts are common: long waiting lists for community‐based services, skeletonized drug formularies with unstable access to long‐term prescriptions, no psychiatric therapy for people immobilized by depression, and no more than fourteen days of acute hospitalization. Reimbursements may be so low that providers cannot hire qualified staff and must reduce serv…

  • The Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Ethics

    Leslie FrancisEDITORBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of…2017

  • Privacy

    Leslie Francis, Leslie Pickering Francis et al.BOOKPrivacy2017

    We live more and more of our lives online; we rely on the internet as we work, correspond with friends and loved ones, and go through a multitude of mundane activities like paying bills, streaming videos, reading the news, and listening to music. Without thinking twice, we operate with the understanding that the data that traces these activities will not be abused now or in the future. There is an abstract idea of privacy that we invoke, and, con…

  • Work-Related Psychological Wellbeing

    Open AccessLeslie J Francis, Leslie Francis et al.ARTICLEReligions2017Citada por: 2Referências: 43

    Poor work-related psychological health and professional burnout remain issues of concern among clergy across denominations and across cultures. Maslach's three-component model of burnout remains the most frequently employed conceptualization and measure in clergy research. Maslach proposes a sequential model of burnout. An alternative approach has been offered by the Francis Burnout Inventory that comprises two components. Francis proposes a bala…

  • Victims of Trafficking, Reproductive Rights, and Asylum

    Diana Tietjens Meyers, Leslie FrancisEDITORBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of…2016

    Sex trafficking is a crime prohibited by international law. Traffickers not only violate victims’ rights to liberty and security of persons; they also violate victims’ reproductive rights with potentially devastating consequences for their health and reproductive capabilities. Nonetheless, international antitrafficking and refugee law presents obstacles to viewing trafficking victims as refugees and granting them asylum. International law spotlig…

  • The Commodification of Women’s Reproductive Tissue and Services

    Donna Dickenson, Leslie FrancisEDITORBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of…2016

    Although the term “commodification” is sometimes criticized as imprecise or overused, in fact it has a complex philosophical ancestry and can never be used too much because the phenomena that it describes are still gaining ground. The issues that commodification raises in relation to reproductive technologies include whether it is wrong to commodify human tissues generally and gametes particularly, and whether the person as subject and the person…

  • The New Indices of Religious Orientation Revised (Niror)

    Open AccessLeslie J Francis, Leslie Francis et al.ARTICLEReligions2016

    This study explores the properties of the New Indices of Religious Orientation Revised (NIROR) among a sample of 521 Canadian adolescents attending a Baptist youth mission and service event, ranging in age from 12 to 19 years. This revision simplified the language of the original instrument to increase its accessibility among young people. The data support the internal consistency reliability and construct validity of the three revised nine-item …

  • The Internal Consistency Reliability of the Katz-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Judaism among Australian Jews

    Open AccessPatrick Lumbroso, Kirill Fayn et al.ARTICLEReligions2016Referências: 19

    The Katz-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Judaism was developed initially to extend among the Hebrew-speaking Jewish community in Israel a growing body of international research concerned to map the correlates, antecedents and consequences of individual differences in attitude toward religion as assessed by the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity. The present paper explored the internal consistency reliability and construct validity of …

  • Implicit Religion, Explicit Religion and Attitude Toward Substances

    Gemma Penny, Leslie J Francis et al.ARTICLEImplicit Religion2015

    A recent research tradition has employed Bailey’s (1997, 1998) notion of implicit religion to explore the ways in which Christian believing in the UK may be persisting in spite of declining levels of church attendance. Working within this framework the first aim of this study is to explore the prevalence of implicit religion, operationalized as attachment to traditional Christian rites of passage, among young people living within the UK. The seco…

  • Catholic and Charismatic

    Open AccessLeslie Francis, Leslie Pickering Francis et al.ARTICLEReligions2013Referências: 23

    This study set out to conceptualise and measure Charismatic orientation (openness to charismatic experience) and traditional Catholic orientation (Catholic identity) among a sample of 670 Catholic churchgoers in order to test whether attachment to Catholic Charismatic Renewal strengthened or weakened the sense of traditional Catholic identity among churchgoing Catholics. This research question was set within the broader consideration of the locat…

  • Work-related psychological health among clergywomen in Australia

    M Robbins, Leslie Francis et al.ARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2012

    Drawing on the classic model of balanced affect, the Francis Burnout Inventory conceptualises good work-related psychological health among clergy in terms of negative affect being balanced by positive affect. This paper sets out to explore the relationship between work-related psychological health and psychological type (as assessed by the Francis Psychological-Type Scales) among a sample of 212 Australian clergywomen who completed the National C…

  • Assessing the Impact of Ordained Local Ministry on the Performance of Church of England Dioceses, 1991-2003

    Susan Jones, Susan H Jones et al.ARTICLEPractical Theology2011

    Throughout the 1990s the cases for and against ordained local ministry continued to be debated in the Church of England. By 2001, 20 dioceses had at least one ordained local minister and 23 had resisted this development. Drawing on data routinely published by the Church of England, the present study asks three questions of these two distinct segments of the Church. The first question compares the background characteristics of the two sets of dioc…

  • You don’t have to go to church to be a good Christian

    David Walker, Leslie J Francis et al.ARTICLEImplicit Religion2010

    The notion that you don’t have to go to church to be a good Christian is accepted as an indicator of the form of implicit religiosity espoused by those who (in Bailey’s analysis) say that they “believe in Christianity.” The prevalence of this belief was examined in a sample of 1226 individuals attending harvest festival services in Anglican churches in rural Worcestershire. The data demonstrate that around two out of every three attenders (63%) e…

  • Three religious orientations and five personality factors

    M Robbins, Leslie J Francis et al.ARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2010

    In order to explore the power of the five-factor model of personality to explain individual differences recorded on measures of the three religious orientations, a sample of 198 adults in England completed established measures of the three religious orientations (intrinsic, extrinsic, and quest) and the big five personality factors (neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness). The data demonstrated that individual d…

  • Marriage, religion and human flourishing

    Emyr Williams, Leslie J Francis et al.ARTICLEMental Health Religion & Culture2010

    This paper draws on the three waves of the European Values Survey across five countries (Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Spain and Sweden) to investigate the relationship between indicators of positive psychology (conceptualised as feelings of happiness and satisfaction with life), religiosity (conceptualised as self-assigned religious affiliation and self-reported religious attendance) and marital status. The results dem…