Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-22dnz Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-26T10:09:06.603Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

10 - Reflective Equilibrium as a Normative Empirical Model: The Case of Ashley X

from Part II - Practical Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2017

Jonathan Ives
Affiliation:
University of Bristol
Michael Dunn
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Alan Cribb
Affiliation:
King's College London
Get access
Type
Chapter
Information
Empirical Bioethics
Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
, pp. 159 - 176
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Allen, D.B., Kappy, M., Diekema, D., Fost, N. 2009. Growth-Attenuation Therapy: Principles for Practice. Pediatrics. 123(6):15561561.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Anon. 2007. The Method in Bioethics Research. Kennedy Inst Ethics J. 17:277278.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Arras, J.D. 2007. The Way We Reason Now: Reflective Equilibrium in Bioethics. In Steinbeck, B. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics. New York: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Beauchamp, T., Childress, J.F. 2013. Principles of Biomedical Ethics (7th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press, online at: www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/opinion/mining_the_disability_market.shtm.Google Scholar
Brosco, J. 2006. Growth Attenuation: A Diminutive Solution to a Daunting Problem. Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. 160(10):10771078.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brulde, B. 2001. The Goals of Medicine: Towards a Unified Theory. Health Care Analysis. 9:113.Google ScholarPubMed
Daniels, N. 1979. Wide Reflective Equilibrium and Theory Acceptance in Ethics. Journal of Philosophy. 76:256282.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
DeGrazia, D. 2003. Common Morality, Coherence and the Principles of Biomedical Ethics. Kennedy Inst Ethics J. 13:219230.Google ScholarPubMed
van Delden, J., van Thiel, G. 1998. Reflective Equilibrium as a Normative-Empirical Model in Bioethics. In van der Burg, W., van Willigenburg, T. (eds.), Reflective Equilibrium. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 251259.Google Scholar
DePaul, M.R. 1993. Balance and Refinement: Beyond Coherence Methods in Moral Inquiry. London/New York: Routledge. 145146.Google Scholar
Diekema, D., Fost, N. 2010. Ashley Revisited: A Response to the Critics. The American Journal of Bioethics. 10(1):3044.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Feder Kittay, E. 2011. Forever Small: The Strange Case of Ashley X. Hypatia. 26(3):610630.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
van der Graaf, R. 2009. Clarifying Appeals to Dignity in Medical Ethics from a Historical Perspective. Bioethics. 23(3):151160.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Gunther, D.F., Diekema, D.S. 2006. Attenuating Growth in Children with Profound Developmental Disability. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. 160(10):10131017.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Haidt, J. 2001. The Emotional Dog and Its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgment. Psychology Review. 108(4):814834.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Isaacs, D.A., Tobin, B.C., Hamblin, J.D., Slaytor, E.D., Donaghue, K.C.B., Munns, C.B., Kilham, H.A.A.C. 2011. Managing Ethically Questionable Parental Requests: Growth Suppression and Manipulation of Puberty (Review). Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 47(9):581584.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ives, J. 2014. A Method of Reflexive Balancing in a Pragmatic, Interdisciplinary and Reflexive Bioethics. Bioethics. 28(6):302312.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ives, J., Draper, H. 2009. Appropriate Methodologies for Empirical Bioethics: It’s All Relative. Bioethics. 23:249258.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Ives, J., Draper, H., Pattinson, H., Williams, C. 2008. Becoming a Father/Refusing Fatherhood: An Empirical Bioethics Approach to Paternal Responsibilities and Rights. Clinical Ethics. 3(2):7584.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Khushf, G. 2007. An Agenda for Future Debate on Concepts of Health and Disease. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. 10:1927.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Knight, C. 2006. The Method of Reflective Equilibrium: Wide, Radical, Fallible, Plausible. Philosophical Papers. 35(2):205229.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
MSNBC Message Board. 2007. Message #1861MSNBC Message Board, posted 01/06/07 11:02 PM. http://boards.msn.com/MSNBCboards/thread.aspx?BoardID=762&ThreadID=115796&BoardsParam=HIPDelay%3d1 [Accessed 16 April 2008].Google Scholar
Musschenga, A.W. 2008. Moral Judgement and Moral Reasoning: A Critique of Jonathan Haidt. In Düwell, M. et al. (eds.), The Contingent Nature of Life. Bioethics and the Limits of Human Existence. Dordrecht: Springer. 131147.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nielsen, K. 1982. Grounding Rights and a Method of Reflective Equilibrium. Inquiry. 25:277306.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nordenfelt, N. 2007. The Concepts of Health and Illness Revisited. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. 10:510.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Nordenfelt, N. 2004. The Varieties of Dignity. Health Care Analysis. 12:6981.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Petersson, B. 1998. Wide Reflective Equilibrium and the Justification of Moral Theory. In van der Burg, W., Willigenburg, T. (eds.), Reflective Equilibrium. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 132.Google Scholar
Pillow Angel. 2014. www.pillowangel.org [Accessed 3 February 2014].Google Scholar
Rauprich, O. 2008. Common Morality: Comment on Beauchamp and Childress. Theor Med Bioeth. 29:4371.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rawls, J.A. 1999. Theory of Justice (revised ed.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press. xiii.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
John, J. 2007. Problems with Theory, Problems with Practice: Wide Reflective Equilibrium and Bioethics. South African Journal of Philosophy. 26:204215.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sayre-McCord, G. 1996. Coherentist Epistemology and Moral Theory. In Sinnot-Armstrong, W., Timmons, M. (eds.), Moral Knowlegde? New Readings in Moral Epistemology. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press. 137189.Google Scholar
Singer, P. 2005. Ethics and Intuitions. Journal of Ethics. 9:331352.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stein, G.J. 2010. Ashley’s Case: The Ethics of Arresting Growth of Children with Serious Disability. Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation. 9:99109.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Strong, C. 2010. Theoretical and Practical Problems with Wide Reflective Equilibrium in Bioethics. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. 31:123140.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Swanton, C. 1991. The Role Played by the Method of Wide Reflective Equilibrium in Moral Epistemology. Dialogue. 30:575589.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
van Thiel, G. 2009. Moral Wisdom in the Balance. Reflective Equilibrium as a Normative Empirical Model for Bioethics. Thesis, Utrecht University, Utrecht.Google Scholar
van Thiel, G., van Delden, J. 2010. Reflective Equilibrium as a Normative Empirical Model. Ethical Perspectives. 17(2):183202.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
van Thiel, G., van Delden, J. 2009. The Justificatory Power of Moral Experience. Journal of Medical Ethics. 35:234237.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Wilfond, B.S., Miller, P.S., Korfiatis, C., Diekema, D.S., Dudzinski, D.M., Goering, S. 2010. Navigating Growth: Attenuation in Children with Profound Disabilities. Hastings Center Report. 40(6):2740.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
van Willigenburg, T. 1991. Inside the Ethical Expert. Kampen: Kok Pharos. 191.Google Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×