RONALD
M. GREEN
Cohen Professor for the Study
of Ethics and Human Values
Director, Ethics Institute
RONALD MICHAEL GREEN
CURRICULUM VITAE
HOME ADDRESS:
Box 418
Norwich, VT 05055
(802) 649-1983
EDUCATION:
Brown University, A.B. (summa cum laude), 1964. Religious Studies major
Harvard University, Ph.D. 1973
Special Field: Religious Ethics
Thesis Subject: “Population Growth and Justice”
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE
EXPERIENCE:
2000-2004 Chair, Department of Religion
2000-present Chair,
Ethics Advisory Board, Advanced Cell Technologies, Worcester, Mass. [ACT is at
the forefront of therapeutic cloning research. The EAB reviews the
company’s research protocols involving
the use of human embryos and stem cells.]
1998-present Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the
Study of Ethics and Human Values
1996-1997 Director, Office of Genome
Ethics, Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research
Institute, National Institutes of Health. In this position I was responsible
for establishing a program in genetics and ethics to assist researchers with
emerging ethical questions arising in clinical and research genetics in the
NHGRI/DIR. This position involved a fifty percent time commitment from January
1996 through June 1997.
1992-present Director, Dartmouth’s Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics
1981-1998 John
Phillips Professor of Religion
1969-present Dartmouth College, Department of Religion, Instructor (1969), Assistant Professor (1973), Associate Professor (1979), Full Professor (1985).
1981-present Dartmouth Medical School, Adjunct Professor, Department of Community Medicine
1987-92 Amos Tuck School of Business, Adjunct Professor of Business Ethics
1984-85 Stanford University, Department of Religious Studies, Visiting Professor
1981-84 Chair, Department of Religion
1968-69 Harvard University, Teaching Fellow
HONORS, AWARDS,
GRANTS, AND POSITIONS OF DISTINCTION:
2005-2006 Guggenheim
Foundation Fellow
2003- Principal Investigator, NIH Grant 5 R25 HG 001276 (530380), a project to develop a series of Faculty Summer Institutes on the “Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project.” This is the third, 3-year NIH grant I have received to develop and run this major initiative to introduce college and university teachers from around the country to the ethical issues raised by the Human Genome Project.
2002-present Member, Editorial board, Handbook of Embryonic Stem Cells, (New York: Academic Press).
2002-present Co-Principal Investigator (with Thomas Moran of the State University of New York at Plattsburgh) of a curriculum development project entitled “Promoting Civic Responsibility.” Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, August 2002.
2002 University of California, Riverside: “Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecturer in Genomics, April 23-24, 2002.”
2001 Bucknell University, Cummings Lecturer on Science and Culture, April 2-3, 2001.
2000-2001 Co-Principal Investigator (with Dr. George Little) of an educational video project dealing with the outcomes of intensive neonatal care. Grant awarded by the Greenwall Foundation.
1999-2001 Principal Investigator, project to develop a Faculty Summer Institute on “The Ethical, Social, and Legal Implications of the Human Genome Project” (Grant No. 2 R25 HG01276-04) awarded December 1999 by the National Institutes of Health).
2000 Reader’s Digest Foundation Visiting Scholar, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida (September 6-8, 2000)
1999 Member, American Academy for the Advancement of Science Working Group on Human Stem Cell Research.
1998 President, Society of Christian Ethics. This is the major professional organization of religious ethicists in North America.
1998 Chair, Dartmouth College Provost Search Committee
1998-present Member Editorial Review Board for Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations, JAI Press Inc.
1996-1998 Principal Investigator, project to develop a national model course and Faculty Summer Institute on “The Ethical, Social, and Legal Implications of the Human Genome Project” (Grant No. R25 HG01276 awarded in August 1996 by the National Institutes of Health).
1996-1997 Co-Principal Investigator (with Dr. George Little) of an educational video project dealing with ethical decision making in the neonatal intensive care (NICU) setting: “Dreams and Dilemmas.” Grant awarded by the Greenwall Foundation.
1996 Member, Review Committee for the Bioethics Program of the Greenwall Foundation.
1995-2001 Secretary, American Academy of Religion. This is one of four elected offices of the leading professional association of scholars of religion in the United States and Canada. The Secretary also serves on the Executive Committee of this 8,000 member organization. In 1998, I was elected to a second three year term.
1995-present Member,
Bioethics Committee, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation.
1995 Participant in July 1995 special meeting to advise the Director of the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health on ways of rejuvenating the Clinical Center’s Bioethics Program.
1994 Member, National Institutes of Health Human Embryo Research Panel. This blue-ribbon commission was charged with formulating guidelines to regulate all future federally funded research on the human embryo ex utero, including research on in vitro fertilization, cloning and parthenogenesis.
1993-1996 Principal Investigator, project to develop two new courses on “Ethical, Social, and Legal Implications of Assisted Reproduction.” Funded by the Leadership Opportunity in Sciences and Humanities Education Program (a joint program sponsored by NSF, NEH and FIPSE).
1993-present Member, Advisory Board, The Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health and Ethics.
1993 Plenary Speaker, Conference on the Future of Corporate Governance, Francis Lee Law Center, Washington & Lee University
1993 Scholar in Residence in Biomedical Ethics, New York B’nai B’rith.
1992-1995 Member,
Woodstock Theological Center Seminar on “Ethical Considerations in the Business
Aspects of Health Care.”
1992 Visiting Lecturer, Business Ethics Institute, sponsored by Program in Society and the Professions/School of Commerce, Washington & Lee University.
1991, 1997 Visiting Lecturer, Latin American Bioethics Course, Centro Oncológico de Excelencia, La Plata, Argentina.
1990-present Member,
National Institutes of Health Special Study Groups on the Ethical Implications
of the Human Genome Project.
1989-1992 Member,
Editorial Board, Peter Lang Press publication series, Religion, Ethics and Social Policy
1989-1992 Member,
Editorial Board, Religion and American
Culture: A Journal of Interpretation.
1989-1996 National Fellow, The Business Enterprise Trust.
1989 Isaac Frank Memorial Lecturer, Kennedy Institute for Ethics, Georgetown University.
1988-90 Member,
Woodstock Theological Center Seminar on Business Ethics.
1985-89 Co-chair, Dartmouth’s Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics; 1989- Member, Board of Directors.
1987-90 Member, Board of Directors, Society of Christian Ethics.
1986-87 Dartmouth Senior Faculty Grant.
1982 Paine Memorial Lecturer, University of Missouri.
1982 Distinguished Lecturer in Medical Ethics, Institute of Religion, Texas Medical Center, Houston.
1982 Howerton Lecturer, Washington and Lee University.
1980 Hoover Lecturer, University of Chicago.
1980 Dartmouth Distinguished Teaching Award (This award, given to a single member of the faculty annually, is voted upon by the entire graduating class).
1980-85 Treasurer, American Academy of Religion, New England Region.
1974-75 Dartmouth Faculty Fellowship.
1965-69 Kent Fellow.
1964-65 Fulbright Grant.
1965 Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
1963 Phi Beta Kappa.
1963-64 Editor-in-chief, Brown Daily Herald.
EDITORIAL BOARD SERVICE:
Member, Editorial Boards of Journal of the Philosophy of Surgery and
Medicine, Reason in Practice: The Journal of Philosophy of Management, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of
Religious Ethics.
COURSES
TAUGHT:
Biomedical Ethics:
Participating Faculty Member (December 1997) in Harvard Medical School Continuing Education Program course on “Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.” At Dartmouth: “Introduction to Religion and Biomedical Ethics”; “Sexual Morality”; “Ethics and Population Growth”; at New College, University of Edinburgh (in connection with a Dartmouth foreign study exchange program, fall 2000) “The Ethics of Human Cloning.” Summers 1997-98present I co-taught a model course developed and introduced by the Ethics Institute and funded by a grant from NIH on “The Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project.” This course was accompanied by a Faculty Institute which prepares selected college and university teachers from the US and abroad to introduce a similar course in their home institutions (a three year renewal grant for this Institute was awarded in December 1999); In Winter 1995 and 1996 I co-taught a new course developed and introduced by the Ethics Institute and funded by a grant from NSF, NEH and FIPSE (Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education). Title: “Ethical, Social, and Legal Issues in Assisted Reproduction.”
Other Areas:
Religion and Morality; Ethical Issues Raised by Nuclear Energy; Ethics and Armed Violence; Religion, Ethics and Political Theory; Ethics and Economic Life; Introduction to Comparative Religion; Religious and Anti-Religious Thinkers; Comparative Religious Ethics; Sociology of Religion; Issues in the Philosophy of Religion; The Ethics of Existentialism; Eastern and Western Conceptions of the Self; Introduction to Women’s Studies; Business Ethics (taught as Amos Tuck School second year elective course “Business Ethics” and as a four week unit in the required first year “Business Environments” course).
Ronald M. Green
List of Publications
IA.
Books authored:
(1) Babies
by Design: The Ethics of Genetic Choice. New Haven: Yale University, 2007.
Publication date: November 5, 2007.
(1)
The
Human Embryo Research Debates: Bioethics in the Vortex of Controversy. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
(2) The
Ethical Manager. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1994.
(3) Kierkegaard
and Kant: The Hidden Debt. Albany: State University of New York Press,
1992.
(4) Religion
and Moral Reason: A New Method for Comparative Study. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1988.
(5) Religious
Reason: The Rational and Moral Basis of Religious Belief. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1978.
(6)
Population Growth and Justice: An
Examination of Moral Issues Raised by Rapid Population Growth. Harvard Dissertations in Religion, No. 5.
Scholars Press: Missoula, Montana, 1976.
IB.
Books edited:
(1) Religion
and Sexual Health: Ethical, Theological and Clinical Perspectives.
Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992.
II.
Work in press or in progress:
(1) Global
Bioethics. This volume brings together the papers from a Symposium on
Global Bioethics held at Dartmouth October 17-19, 2005. The volume, which I
co-edit with Aine Donovan and Steven Jauss, is under consideration by Oxford
University Press, Oxford, UK.
(2)
Ethics
and The Human Genome Project. This volume brings together the papers from a
Reunion Conference of our nine years of NIH funded faculty summer institutes on
the “ethical, legal and Social implications of the human genome project” held
at Dartmouth August 11-12, 2006. The volume, which I co-edit with Aine Donovan
is under final review by University Press of New England.
III. Special Publications:
(1) Report
of the Human Embryo Research Panel. Washington, DC: National Institutes of
Health, Office of Science Policy, 1995. I played a role in drafting parts of
the second chapter of this Report, “Ethical Considerations in Preimplantation
Embryo Research.”
(2) Stem
Cell Research and Applications: Monitoring the Frontiers of Biomedical Research.
Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science and the
Institute for Civil Society, 1999. This report was written by Audrey R.
Chapman, Mark S. Frankel and Michele S. Garfinkle. I served on the Working
Group that discussed and drafted preliminary sections of the report. I had special
responsibilities for the sections dealing with “Spiritual and Religious
Contexts” and “Ethical Concerns.”
(1)
“Dreams and Dilemmas: Parents and the
Practice of Neonatal Care.” I am co-producer (with George A. Little, M.D.)
of this hour-long documentary video. Filmed and edited by filmmaker Richard
Kahn, it follows the experience of one couple during the six month period in
which their twin premature infants are treated in Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical
Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). “Dreams” won: the silver medal at
the 1998 Houston’s Worldfest Film Festival; First Place Award in 1998 at the
National Council of Family Relations 30th Annual Media Competition;
the Bronze Award at the 1999 Health Sciences Communications Association Media
festival; and the Silver Apple at the 1999 National Educational Media Network
Apple Film Awards. The film was funded by a grant from the Greenwall
Foundation. It is in distribution with Fanlight Productions and is accompanied
by a study guide written by me and George A. Little.
(2)
“In
Our Midst: Outcomes of Neonatal Intensive Care.” I am co-producer (with George
A. Little, M.D.) of this hour-long documentary video. Filmed and edited by
filmmaker Richard Kahn, it explores neonatal outcomes by focusing on the
experience of a family with four children (one adopted) who are graduates of
the NICU. It is in distribution with Fanlight Productions and is accompanied by
a study guide written by me and George A. Little.
V.
Articles or chapters:
A. Biomedical Ethics:
(1) “Policy Forum: Can We Develop Ethically
Universal Embryonic Stem Lines?” Nature
Reviews Genetics, 8/6 (June 2007), 480-85.
(2) “Fetal and Embryo Research,” in Peter
Singer, ed., Bioethics for Clinicians (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2007). In press.
(3)
“Fetuses, Embryos, and Stem Cells,”
in Ezekiel Emanuel and Christine Grady, eds., Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2007), Ch. 47. In
press.
(4) “For Richer or Poorer? Evaluating the
President’s Council on Bioethics,” HEC
Forum: Special Issue on Presidential Commissions, 18/2 ((2006), 108-124.
(5) “Grand Rounds: Under Advisement,” Dartmouth Medicine, Spring 2006, p. 61.
(6) With Robert Lanza, “Correspondence: Bush’s
Policy Stopped US Gaining Stem-Cell Lead,” Nature,
438, (24 November 2005), 422.
(7) Open Peer Commentary: “Toward a Full
Theory of Moral Status,” American Journal
of Bioethics, 5/6 2005), 44-46
(8) Open Peer Commentary: “Spy versus Spy: Comment on Paul Root Wolpe, Kenneth R. Foster,
Daniel D. Langleben, “EmergingNeurotechnologies for Lie-Detection: Promises and
Perils,” The American Journal of Bioethics, 5/2,
(2005), 1-11.
(10) “From Genome to Brainome: Charting the
Lessons Learned” in Judy Illes, ed. Neuroethics: Defining the Issues in Theory, Practice, and Policy
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 105-121.
(11) “Le Clonage, Mieux que le Sexe ?” [“Might
Cloning Be Better than Sex?”] In Denis Müller et Hugues Poltier (éds.), Un homme nouveau par le clonage reproductif?
Désirs, délires, defies (Genève: Labor et Fides (Le champ éthique no 44),
pp. 42-59.
(12) “Ethical
Considerations” in Robert P. Lanza, et al., eds., Handbook of Embryonic Stem Cells (New York: Academic Press, 2004), pp. 759-764. An updated version of this paper is forthcoming in
a concise edition of the handbook entitled Essentials
of Stem Cell Biology.
(13) “Bad Science.” Peer Review Article on
William Cheshire’s “Human Embryo Research and the Language of Moral Certainty,”
American Journal of Bioethics, Winter
2004, Vol. 4/1, 21-22.
(14) “U.S.
Defunding of UNFPA: A Moral Analysis,”Kennedy
Institute of Ethics Journal, 13/4 (December 2003), 393-406. An abbreviated
version of this paper is also published as “Defunding
UNFPA: A Moral Analysis. Is There Evidence for Coercion in China’s Family
Planning Program?” in Conscience,
Winter 2003-2004.
(15)
With J.E. Stern, C.P. Cramer, A.
Garrod, and K.O. DeVries, “Determining Access to Assisted Reproductive
Technology: Reactions of Clinic Directors to Ethically Complex Case Scenarios,”
Human Reproduction (2003) 18/6,
1343-1352.
(16)
“Ethical Issues in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research.” American Society of Clinical Oncology
Education Book (2003), pp. 682-686.
(17) Articles on “Achondroplasia,” “Breast Cancer,” “Fragile X,” “Genetic Testing,”
and “Sex Selection” in Benjamin A. Pierce, Genetics:
A Conceptual Approach (New York: W.H. Freeman, 2003). These articles were
substantially revised and an additional article on “The Human Genome Project”
was added to the 2005 edition of this textbook.
(18) “Religion
and the Human Stem Cell Debate,” Religious
Studies News, 17/3 (May 2002), 14f.
(19) “Population Ethics: III. Religious Traditions: A.
Introduction,” Encyclopedia of Bioethics,
3rd ed., pp. 2053-2055.
(20) “Human Reproductive Cloning,” 2003 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook.
(22) “Ethical Implications of Cloning” in Jose
Cibelli, Robert Lanza, Keith Campbell and Michael West, eds., Principles of Cloning (New York:
Academic Press), ch. 26, pp. 477-483.
(23) With
Kier Olsen DeVries and members of the Ethics Advisory Board, Advanced Cell
Technology, “Overseeing Therapeutic Cloning Research: A Private Ethics Board
Responds to Its Critics,” Hastings Center
Report 32/3 (2002), 2-7. (I am the senior author on this paper).
(24) With Judy E. Stern, Catherine P. Cramer, and Andrew Garrod,
“Attitudes on Access to Services at Assisted Reproductive Technology Clinics:
Comparisons with Clinic Policy,” Fertility
& Sterility 77/3 (March 2002), 537-541.
(25) “Therapeutic Cloning: The Ethical Considerations,” Scientific American, January, 1, 2002,
53-45.
(26) “Four Moral Questions for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research,” Wound Repair and Regeneration 9/6
(November-December 2001), 425-428.
(27) “Determining Moral Status.” This is a
précis of the second chapter of my book, The
Human Embryo Research Debates. It appears as a special peer commentary
focus of the American Journal of
Bioethics, Fall 2001. A peer commentary focus in this journal is published
along with a number of invited analytical reviews and commentaries by leading
bioethicists. American Journal of
Bioethics, 2/1 (January 2000), 19-29. The following issue of AJOB contains my “Reply to Peer
Commentators”
(28) “What
Does it Mean to Use Someone as ‘A Means Only’: Rereading Kant,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 11/3
(2001), 249-263.
(30) “Research
Involving Fetuses and In vitro Fertilization,” Chapter 9-1 in Robert J. Amdur
and Elizabeth A. Bankert, eds, Institutional
Review Board: Management and Function (Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett
Publishers, 2002), pp. 373-379. Revised, updated and reprinted in 2005.
(31) “Much
Ado About Mutton: An Ethical Review of the Cloning Controversy” in Paul
Lauritzen, ed., Cloning and the Future of
Embryo Research (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 114-131.
(32) “Peer
Commentary to Norman Daniels’ ‘Justice, Health, and
Health Care,’”American Journal of Bioethics, January 2001.
(33) With
Robert P. Lanza, Arthur L. Caplan, Lee M. Silver, Jose B. Cibelli, Michael D.
West, “The
Ethical Validity of Using Nuclear Transfer in Human Transplantation” JAMA 284/24 (December 27, 2000),
3175-79. I am senior author of this paper. In the March 21, 2001 issue of JAMA
two letters appeared about this article (by Rebecca Dresser and Cynthia Cohen).
Our response to these letters is also published here: JAMA 285/11 (March 21, 2001), 1440.
(34) With
Judy Stern, Catherine Cramer and Andrew Garrod, “Access to-Services at Assisted
Reproductive Technology Clinics: a Survey of Policies and Practices,” The American Journal of Obstetrics &
Gynecology 184/4 (2001), 591-97.
(35) “Jewish
Teaching on the Sanctity and Quality of Life” in Jewish and Catholic Bioethics: An Ecumenical Dialogue, Edmund D. Pellegrino
& Alan I. Faden, eds., (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1998), pp.
25-42.
(36) “The
Case for Cloning,” Contemporary OB GYN 45/5 (May 2000), 51-56. Accompanying this is an essay
opposing human cloning by Evelyn Schuster.
(37) “I,
Clone,” Scientific American Presents
(A quarterly international publication of Scientific
American), 10/3 (Fall 1999), 80-83.
(38) “Stopping
Embryo Research,” Health Matrix Journal
of Law-Medicine 9/2 (1999), 1-18.
(39) With
George A. Little and Richard Kahn, “Festschrift
Article, Parental Dreams, Dilemmas, and Decision-Making in Cinéma Vérité,” Journal of Perinatology 19/3 (1999),
194-196.
(40) “Commentary
on the World Population Session of the Dartmouth Medical Bicentennial
Symposium” in Dana Cook Grossman and Heinz Valtin eds., Great Issues for Medicine in the Twenty-First Century: Ethical and
Social Issues Arising out of Advances in the Biomedical Sciences, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
882 (1999).
(41) Genetic
Medicine and the Conflict of Moral Principles,” Family Systems & Health 17 (1999), 63-74.
(42) “Religion
and Bioethics” in Dena S. Davis and Laurie Zoloth-Dorfman, eds., Notes from a Narrow Ridge (Frederick,
Maryland: University Publishing Group, 1999), pp. 165-181.
(43) “Ethical
Issues” in A. Pascual-Leone, N.J. Davey, E.M. Wassermann, and J.C. Rothwell,
eds., Handbook of Magnetic Stimulation,
(London: Edward Arnold Publishers, 1998), ch. 5.
(44) With
A. Mathew Thomas, “DNA: Five Distinguishing Features for Policy Analysis,” Harvard Journal of Law and Technology
11/3 (1998), 571-591.
(45) “Human
Embryo Research: What Are the Issues?” Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics Newsletter
(Spring 1998), 1-2.
(46) “Human
Embryo Research” in Thomas Murray and Maxwell Mehlman,
eds., Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal
& Policy Issues in Biotechnology, (New York: Wiley, 2000).
(47) With
Gene Cohen, Robert Cook-Deegan, Joan O’Sullivan, Stephen Post, Allen Roses,
Kenneth Schaffner, A. Mathew Thomas, “Alzheimer Testing at Silver Years,” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
7 (1998), 294-307.
(48) “NHGRI’s
Intramural Ethics Experiment,” Kennedy
Institute of Ethics Journal 7/2 (1997), 181-189.
(49) With
Eric Wassermann and Álvaro Pascual-Leone, “Ethical Guidelines for rTMS
Research,” IRB: A Review of Human Subjects
Research 19/2 (1997), 1-7.
(50) “Parental
Autonomy and the Obligation Not to Genetically Harm One’s Child: Implications
for Clinical Genetics,” The Journal of
Law, Medicine and Ethics 25/1 (1997), 5-15.
(51) With
A. Mathew Thomas, “Whose Gene Is It: A Case Discussion about Familial Conflict
over Genetic Information,” The Journal of
Genetic Counseling 6/2 (1997), 245-254.
(52) With
Wendy Fibison and Mark Hughes, “Case Comment: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
and the Conception of a Child as a Bone Marrow Donor,” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 6 (1997), 100-105.
(53) “The
Human Embryo Research Panel: Lessons for Public Ethics,” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 4/4 (1995), 502-515.
(54) With
Brigid Hogan. “Embryo Research Revisited.” Letter response to special section
on the Report of the Human Embryo Research Panel,” Hastings Center Report, 25/3 (1995), 2-4.
(55) “Developing
Guidelines for Human Embryo Research: At the Vortex of Controversy,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 4/4
(December 1994), 147-158.
(56) “The
Challenge of Controlling Costs as We Expand Health Care Access,” Second Opinion 19/4 (April 1994), 64-67.
(57) “Population
Ethics; Religious Traditions; General Implications,” Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 1174-1176.
(58) With
Bernard Gert and K. Danner Clouser, “The Method of Public Morality versus the
Method of Principlism,” The Journal of
Medicine and Philosophy 18 (1993), 479-491.
(59) “Response
to Dena S. Davis’s ‘Old and Thin,’” Second
Opinion, 15 (Nov 1990), 34-39.
(60) “Method
in Bioethics: A Troubled Assessment,” The
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 15/2 (April 1990), 179-197.
(61) “Genetic
Medicine in the Perspective of Orthodox Halakhah,” Judaism, 34/3 (Issue No. 135; Summer 1985), 263-277.
(62) “Contemporary
Jewish Bioethics: A Critical Assessment” in Earl Shelp ed., Bioethics and Theology (Dordrecht,
Holland: D. Reidel, 1985), pp. 245-266. Italian edition of Edizioni Dehoniane,
Centro Editoriale Dehoniano, Bologna, Italy.
(63) “Toward
a Copernican Revolution in Our Thinking about Life’s Beginning and Life’s End,”
Soundings 66/2 (Summer 1983),
152-173.
(64) “The
Priority of Health Care,” Journal of
Medicine and Philosophy, 8 (1983), 373-380.
(65) “Altruism
in Health Care.” in Earl Shelp, ed., Beneficence
and Health Care (Dordrecht,
Holland: D. Reidel, 1982), pp. 239-254.
(66) “Jewish
Ethics and Beneficence” in Earl E. Shelp, ed., Beneficence and Health Care (Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel, 1982),
pp. 109-125.
(67) “Truth-Telling
in Medical Care” in Marc K. Hiller, ed., Medical
Ethics and the Law: Implications for Public Policy (Cambridge, Mass:
Ballinger Books, 1981), pp. 183-195.
(68) With
Charles M. Culver and Richard B. Ferrell, “ECT and Special Problems of Informed
Consent,” The American Journal of
Psychiatry, 137/5 (May, 1980), 586-591.
(69) “Beyond
the Role of Medicine: McKeown as Medical Philosopher,” Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, Health and Society, Summer 1977,
389-403.
(70) “May
the Doctor Play God?” Dartmouth Medical
Alumni Magazine, Fall, 1976, pp. 22-26.
(71) “Health
Care and Justice in Contract Theory Perspective” in Robert Veatch and Roy Branson, eds., Ethics and Health Policy (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger
Books, 1976), pp. 111-126.
(72) “Conferred
Rights and the Fetus,” Journal of
Religious Ethics, 2/1 (Spring 1974), 55-75.
(73) “Abortion
and Promise-Keeping,” Christianity and
Crisis XXVII:8 (May 15, 1967), 109-113.
B. Ethical Theory and Comparative
Religious Ethics:
(1) “The
Diverse Sources and Invented Causes of the Religious Right.” Conscience, July 2006, pp. 40-43.
(2) “Kierkegaard’s
Debt to Kant” in Jon Stewart, ed., Kierkegaard
and His German Contemporaries, Volume 5 in the series “Kierkegaard
Research: Sources, Reception and Resources” (London: Ashgate). In press.
(4) “Fear and
Trembling: A Jewish Appreciation” in Kierkegaard
Studies, Edited on behalf of the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre by Niels
Jørgen Cappelørn and Hermann Deuser, Yearbook
2002, Edited by Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Hermann Deuser and Jon Stewart
together with Christian Fink Toistrup (Berlin New York: Walter de Gruyter ,
2002), pp. 137-149.
(5) “Kant and Kierkegaard on the
Need for a Historical Faith: An Imaginary Dialogue” in D. Z. Phillips and
Timothy Tessin, eds., Kant and
Kierkegaard on Religion, Claremont Studies (Houndsmill, Basingstoke,
Hampshire and London, England and New York: Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press,
2000), pp. 131-152. A revised version of this is reprinted in
Christopher L. Firestone and Steven R. Palmquist, eds., Kant and the New Philosophy of Religion (Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press, 2006), pp. 157-175.
(6) “Jewish and Christian Ethics: What Can
We Learn from One Another?” (Presidential Address to the Society of Christian
Ethics, 1998). The Annual of the Society
of Christian Ethics (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1999),
1-16.
(7) “The Mizuko Kuyö Debate: An Ethical
Response,” Journal of the American
Academy of Religion 67/4 (1999), 809-823.
(8) “Christian Ethics: A Jewish Perspective”
in Robin Gill, ed., The Cambridge
Companion to Christian Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001),
pp. 138-153.
(9) With Theresa M. Ellis, “Erotic Love in
the Religious Existence Sphere” in Robert L. Perkins, ed., International Kierkegaard Commentary, Works of Love (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1999), pp.
339-367.
(10) “Heuristic Power as the Test of Theory: A
Response to Francisca Cho,” Journal of
Religious Ethics 26/1 (1998), 175-184.
(11) With Judy E. Stern and Catherine P.
Cramer, “A Metadisciplinary Course as a Means of Incorporating Applied
Ethics into the Undergraduate Curriculum.” Teaching
Philosophy 21/2 (1998), 163-170.
(12) “‘Developing’ Fear and Trembling” in Alastair Hannay and Gordon Marino, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 257-281.
(13) “Probing the Depths of Practical Reason.” Journal of Religious Ethics, 25/1
(Spring 1997), 15-23.
(14) “Kierkegaard’s Great Critique: Either/Or as a Kantian Transcendental
Deduction” in Robert L. Perkins, ed., International
Kierkegaard Commentary, Either/Or II
(Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1995), pp. 139-153.
(15) “Recovering Moral Philosophy,” Journal of Religious Ethics, 23/2
(1995), 801-819. This issue contains a reply to my essay by Franklin I. Gamwell
and Garrett Barden and a final response by me.
(16) “Kierkegaard’s Philosophical Fragments: A Kantian Commentary” in Robert L.
Perkins, ed., International Kierkegaard
Commentary, Philosophical Fragments
and Johannes Climacus (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1994),” pp.
169-202.
(17) “Enough Is Enough! Fear and Trembling is Not about Ethics.” Journal of Religious Ethics, 21/2 (Fall 1993), 191-209 and “A Reply to Gene Outka,” 217-220.
(18) “Kant on Christian Love” in William
Werpehowski and Edmund Santurri, eds.,
The Love Commandments: Essays in Christian Ethics and Moral Philosophy
(Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1992), pp. 261-280.
(19) Short entries on “Charisma” (p. 194),
“Civil Religion”(p. 274) and major entries on “Theodicy,” (p. 1065-1067);
“Society and Religion,” (pp. 1007-1010); “Morality and Religion,”(pp. 729-731);
and “Modernization” (p. 725-727) in Jonathan Z. Smith, ed., The HarperCollins Dictionary
of Religion (San Francisco: HarperSanfrancisco, 1995).
(20) “The First Formulation of the Categorical
Imperative as Literally a ‘Legislative’ Metaphor,” History of Philosophy Quarterly 8/2 (April 1991), 163-179.
(21) “Jeffrey Stout’s Ethics after Babel: A
Critical Perspective” in the 1990 Edition of The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics (Washington, DC:
Georgetown University Press, 1990).
(22) With Christine Gudorf, Lois Livezy,
William F. May, and Gilbert Meilaender, “The Ethics of Teaching Ethics: A
Roundtable Discussion,” 1989 Edition of
The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics (Washington, DC: Georgetown
University Press, 1989), pp. 227-272.
(23) “The Leap of Faith: Kierkegaard’s Debt to
Kant,” Philosophy and Theology 3/4
(Summer 1989), 385-421.
(24) “Morality and Religion,” The Encyclopedia of Religion. New York:
Macmillan, 1987, Vol. 10, pp. 92-106. Reprinted in the 2005 edition.
(25) “Theodicy,” The Encyclopedia of Religion. New York: Macmillan, 1987, Vol. 14,
pp. 430-441. Reprinted in the 2005 edition.
(26) “The Irrelevance of Theology for Sexual
Ethics.” in Earl Shelp, ed., Sexuality
and Medicine, Vol. II: Ethical Viewpoints in Transition (Dordrecht: D.
Reidel, 1987), pp. 249-270.
(27) “Deciphering Fear and Trembling’s Secret Message,” Religious Studies, 22 (1986), 95-111.
(28) “The Rawls Game: An Introduction to
Ethical Theory,” Teaching Philosophy 9/1
(February 1986), 51-60. Reprinted in Arnold Wilson, ed., Demonstrating Philosophy: Novel Ways to Teach Philosophical Concepts
(Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1988).
(29) With Charles H. Reynolds, “Cosmogony and
the ‘Questions of Ethics’,” Journal of
Religious Ethics 14/1 (Spring 1986), 139-156.
(30) “The Limits of the Ethical in
Kierkegaard’s The Concept of Anxiety and
Kant’s Religion within the Limits of
Reason Alone” in Robert L. Perkins ed., International
Kierkegaard Commentary, The Concept
of Anxiety (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1985), pp. 63-87.
(31) “Religion and Morality in the African
Traditional Setting,” Journal of Religion
in Africa, 14/1 (1983), 1-23.
(32) “Moral Axioms for the Nuclear Age” in Jill
Raitt, ed., Religious Conscience and
Nuclear Warfare, The 1982 Paine Lectures in Religion at the University of
Missouri (Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri, 1983), pp. 21-34.
(33) “Abraham, Isaac and the Jewish Tradition,”
Journal of Religious Ethics, 10/1
(Spring 1982), 1-21. Reprinted in Moral
Rationality and the Western Religious Tradition, the 1980 William Henry
Hoover Lectures on Christian Unity (Chicago: Disciples Divinity House, 1982).
(34) “The Korah Episode: A Rationalistic
Reappraisal of Rabbinic Anti-Rationalism” in the Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics (1981), 97-117.
(35) “General Commentary: Should We Return to
Foundations” in H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. and Daniel Callahan, eds., Knowing and Valuing, Vol. IV of the
Foundations of Ethics and Its Relationship to Science (Hastings-on-Hudson, NY:
The Hastings Center, 1980), pp. 269-282.