All Posts: Oxford University Press
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Danielle Spencer, Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity, Oxford University Press, 2020
Dana Howard, The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH Danielle Spencer’s book, “Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity,” does many things. It is a work of…
August 27, 2018
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Sarah Conly, One Child: Do We Have a Right to More? Oxford University Press, 2016
Travis N. RiederBerman Institute of BioethicsJohns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD, USA There are too many people on the planet. This isn’t a popular thing to say, but it’s…
March 11, 2016
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Erik Parens, Shaping Our Selves: On Technology, Flourishing, and a Habit of Thinking, Oxford University Press, 2014
Nancy M.P. KingDepartment of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest School of MedicineCenter for Bioethics, Health, and Society and Graduate Program in Bioethics,Wake…
January 19, 2016
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Joseph Heath, Morality, Competition, and the Firm: The Market Failures Approach to Business Ethics, Oxford University Press, 2014
Jason BrennanGeorgetown UniversityWashington, DC, USA Until Joseph Heath came along, philosophical business ethics was in a bad way. To the extent it…
November 11, 2015
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Matthew H. Kramer, Torture and Moral Integrity: A Philosophical Enquiry, Oxford University Press, 2014
Uwe SteinhoffDepartment of Politics and Public AdministrationUniversity of Hong KongHong Kong The blurb of Matthew Kramer’s book, Torture and Moral Integrity: A Philosophical…
October 20, 2015
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Hilde Lindemann, Holding and Letting Go: The Social Practice of Personal Identities, Oxford University Press, 2014
Anna GotlibBrooklyn College, CUNYBrooklyn, NY, USA One of my favorite sentences in Hilde Lindemann’s lucid and remarkable book, Holding and Letting Go: The Social Practice of…
July 29, 2015
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F. M. Kamm, Bioethical Prescriptions: To Create, End, Choose, and Improve Lives, Oxford University Press, 2013
Jeffrey BrandGeorge Washington UniversityWashington, DC, USA F. M. Kamm’s latest book is no stylish page-turner, but it has something in common with…
May 9, 2015
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Robert Baker, Before Bioethics: A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution, Oxford University Press, 2013
James C. MohrDepartment of HistoryUniversity of OregonEugene, OR, USA The history of American medical ethics is a notoriously unwieldy field that encompasses an…
August 11, 2014