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MARK R. WICCLAIR Department of Philosophy Center for Bioethics and Health Law West Virginia University University of Pittsburgh P.O. Box 6312 519 Barco Law Building Morgantown, WV 26506-6312 3900 Forbes Avenue (304) 293-7709 Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Email: mark.wicclair@mail.wvu.edu (412) 648-7007 FAX: (304) 293-7329 Email: wicclair@pitt.edu FAX: 412-648-2649 229 Magnolia Place Pittsburgh, PA 15228 (412) 531-7109 EDUCATION: Ph.D. Philosophy, Columbia University, 1976. M. Phil. Philosophy, Columbia University, 1974. B.A. Reed College, 1966. AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award, West Virginia University (WVU), 2012-13 and 1995-96.

Outstanding Public Service Award, Eberly College of Arts & Sciences, WVU, 1996-97.

Outstanding Researcher Award, Eberly College of Arts & Sciences, WVU, 1994-95. Outstanding Teacher Award, WVU, 1988-89. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars, 1988. WVU Research Fellowship, 1988. Outstanding Teacher Award, College of Arts & Sciences, WVU, 1987-88. Humanities Foundation of West Virginia Fellowship, 1987. Humanities Foundation of West Virginia Fellowship, 1979-80. Council for Philosophical Studies Stipend, 1977. Lafayette College Research Fellowship, 1977. Chamberlain Fellowship, Columbia University, 1973. F.J.E. Woodbridge Distinguished Fellow, Columbia University, 1972-73. Faculty Fellowship, Columbia University, 1968-71. Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1967-68. Fulbright Fellowship, 1966-67. Phi Beta Kappa, Reed College, 1966.

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PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT: Current: West Virginia University: Professor of Philosophy (since 1988); Adjunct

Professor of Community Medicine (1990 - 2012); Adjunct Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences (2012 - 14)

University of Pittsburgh: Adjunct Professor of Medicine (since 1991); Core Faculty, Center for Bioethics and Health Law (since 1989); and Part-Time Instructor of Bioethics (since 1998).

Fall 1994: Faculty, Semester at Sea. 1990-94: Associate Director, Center for Health Ethics and Law, WVU. Spring 1994 Visiting Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh. 1992-93: Visiting Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh (1/93-6/93 and 1/92-6/92). 1989-91: Visiting Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (Spring 1989, 1990 and 1991). 1983-88: Associate Professor of Philosophy, WVU. 1978-83: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, WVU. 1976-78: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Lafayette College. 1975-76: Instructor, Lafayette College. 1974-75: Adjunct Lecturer, City University of New York. 1972-74: Instructor, Columbia University. 1969-72: Preceptor, Columbia University. COURSES TAUGHT: Theoretical Foundations of Applied Ethics (graduate), Theoretical Foundations of Medical Ethics (graduate), Advanced Medical Ethics (graduate), Medical Ethics (graduate, medical school, and undergraduate), Ethical Theory, Current Moral Problems, Introduction to Ethics, Social Work Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Social and Political Philosophy, Introduction to Philosophy, Aesthetics, Aesthetics of Film, Contemporary Civilization. PUBLICATIONS (Sole Author):

BOOKS Conscientious Objection in Health Care: An Ethical Analysis. Cambridge, England:

Cambridge University Press, 2011. (Designated a 2012 Choice “Outstanding Academic Title in Philosophy”).

Ethics and the Elderly. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

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ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

“Conscientious Objection” in Henk ten Have ed., Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics (Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2016). “Managing Conscientious Objection in Health Care Institutions,” HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum (HEC Forum), Vol. 26, No. 3 (September 2014). “Dismissing Patients for Health-based Reasons," Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Vol. 22, No 3, (July 2013). “Positive Claims of Conscience and Objections to Immigration Law,” American Medical Association Virtual Mentor, vol. 15 (March 2013); online at: http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2013/03/ecas1-1303.html. “Conscience,” in Hugh LaFollette, ed., International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2013). “Conscience and Professionals,” in Hugh LaFollette, ed., International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2013). “Conscientious Objection in Medicine,” in Christopher Cowley, ed., Reconceiving Medical Ethics (London: Continuum, 2012). “Conscientious Refusals by Hospitals and Emergency Contraception,” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Vol. 20, No. 1 (January 2011). “Old Age and Access to Publicly Funded Life-Extending Care,” Journal fuer Anaestesie und Intensivbehandlung Nr. 3-2010. “Information that Will Help You with Advance Planning for Your Health Care,” in Thomasine Kushner, ed., Surviving Health Care: A Manual for Patients and Their Families (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2010). “Information that Will Help You Make Health Care Decisions for Adult Family Members,” in Thomasine Kushner, ed., Surviving Health Care: A Manual for Patients and Their Families (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2010). “Conscience-Based Exemptions for Medical Students,” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Vol. 19, No. 1 (January 2010). “Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Negative and Positive Claims of Conscience,” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Vol. 18, No. 1 (January 2009).

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“House and Medical Paternalism: You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” in Henry Jacoby, ed., House and Philosophy: Everybody Lies (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2009). “Medical Paternalism in House, M.D.,” Medical Humanities, Vol. 34, No. 2 (December 2008). "The Pedagogical Value of House, M.D.: Can a Fictional Unethical Physician be used to Teach Ethics?” The American Journal of Bioethics, Vol. 8, No. 12 (December 2008). “Is Conscientious Objection Incompatible with a Physician’s Professional Obligations?” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Vol. 29, No. 3 (June 2008). Ethics and Research with Deceased Patients," Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Vol. 17, No. 1 (January 2008). “The Moral Significance of Claims of Conscience in Health Care,” The American Journal of Bioethics, Vol. 7, No. 12 (December 2007). “Professionalism, Religion and Shared Decision-Making,” The American Journal of Bioethics, Vol. 7, No. 7 (July 2007). “Reasons and Healthcare Professionals’ Claims of Conscience,” The American Journal of Bioethics, Vol. 7, No. 6 (June 2007). “Conscientious Objection in Pharmacy,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3 (September 2006). “Training on Newly Deceased Patients: An Ethical Analysis,” in Lynn Jansen, ed., Death in the Clinic (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). “Informed Consent and Research Involving the Newly Dead,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal Vol. 12, No. 4 (December 2002).

“Conscientious Objection in Medicine,” Bioethics Vol. 14, No. 3 (July 2000).

“Ethics, Community, and the Elderly: Health Care Decision-Making for Incompetent Elderly Patients,” in Michael Parker, ed., Ethics and Community in the Health Care Professions, (London: Routledge, 1999).

“What Can Be Learned About the Ethical Soundness of Medicare HMOs From Studies Comparing Them to Fee-For-Service Medicare?” Journal of Ethics, Law, and Aging Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 1999).

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“The Continuing Debate Over Risk-Related Standards of Competence,” Bioethics Vol. 13, No. 2 (April 1999).

“Futility: A Conceptual and Ethical Analysis,” in Thomas A. Mappes and David DeGrazia, eds., Biomedical Ethics, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Editions (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996, 2000, 2006, and 2010).

“Mandatory Retirement: An Ethical Analysis,” Southwest Journal on Aging Vol. 11, No. 2 (1995).

“Medical Ethics in the United States,” Marmara Medical Journal (Istanbul, Turkey) Vol. 8, No. 4 (October 1995).

“Differentiating Ethical Decisions from Clinical Standards,” Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing Vol. 10, No. 5 (September/October 1991).

“Patient Decision-Making Capacity and Risk,” Bioethics Vol. 5, No. 2 (April, 1991). “A Response to Brock and Skene,” Bioethics Vol. 5, No. 2 (April, 1991).

“Caring for Frail Elderly Parents: Past Parental Sacrifices and the Obligations of Adult Children,” Social Theory and Practice Vol. 16, No. 2 (Summer 1990).

“Feminism, Pornography, and Censorship,” in Thomas A. Mappes and Jane S. Zembaty, eds., Social Ethics, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Editions (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987, 1992, 1996, 2002, 2007, and 2012).

“The Distinction between Medical and Ethical Decisions,” in Bruce Weinstein, ed., Ethics in the Hospital Setting, (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 1986).

“Preferential Treatment and Desert,” Social Theory and Practice Vol. 12, No. 3 (Fall 1986).

“A Shield Right for Reporters vs. the Administration of Justice and the Right to a Fair Trial: Is there a Conflict?” Business & Professional Ethics Journal Vol. 4, No. 2 (Winter 1985-86).

“The Abortion Controversy and the Claim that This Body is Mine,” Social Theory and Practice Vol. 7, No. 3 (Fall 1981).

“Is Prostitution Morally Wrong?” Philosophy Research Archives VII, No. 3 (1981).

“Rawls and the Principle of Nonintervention,” in Gene Blocker and Elizabeth Smith, eds., John Rawls’ Theory of Social Justice, (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1980).

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“Human Rights and Intervention,” in Peter G. Brown and Douglas MacLean, eds., Human Rights and United States Foreign Policy: Principles and Applications, (Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books, 1979).

“Film Theory and Hugo Munsterberg’s The Film: A Psychological Study,” The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 12, No. 3 (July 1978).

PUBLICATIONS (Co-Authored):

Mithya Lewis-Newby, Mark Wicclair, et al., “An Official American Thoracic Society Policy Statement: Managing Conscientious Objections in Intensive Care Medicine,” American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 191 (January 15, 2015). Mark Wicclair and Douglas B. White, “Surgeons, Intensivists, and Discretion to Refuse Requested Treatments,” Hastings Center Report, Vol. 44, No. 5 (September-October 2014). Douglas B. White and Mark Wicclair, “Context Matters: Treatment Refusals by Clinicians Show the Limits of Clinician Discretion,” American Journal of Critical Care Vol. 21, No. 5 (September 2012). Rebecca Pentz, Cynthia Cohen, Mark Wicclair, et al., “Ethics Guidelines for Research with the Recently Dead,” Nature Medicine Vol. 11, No., 11 (November 2005). Mark Wicclair and Gabriella Gosman, “Abortion,” in Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, Carl Mitcham, ed. (Detroit, Macmillan Reference, 2005). Laurel Yasko, Mark Wicclair, and Michael DeVita, “Committee for Oversight of Research Involving the Dead (CORID): Insights from the First Year,” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics Vol. 13, No. 4 (2004). Mark Wicclair and Michael DeVita, “Oversight of Research Involving the Dead,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal Vol. 14, No. 2 (June 2004). Michael DeVita, Mark Wicclair, Dennis Swanson, Cindy Valenta, and Clifford Schold, “Research Involving the Newly Dead: An Institutional Response,” Critical Care Medicine Vol. 31, No. 5, Supplement (2003). Rosa Lynn Pinkus, Gretchen Aumann, Mark Kuczewski, Ann Medsgar, Alan Meisel, Lisa Parker, and Mark Wicclair, “The Consortium Ethics Program: An Approach to Establishing a Permanent Regional Ethics Network,” HEC Forum Vol. 7, No. 1 (1995).

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Mark Kuczewski, Mark R. Wicclair, Robert M. Arnold, Rosa Lynn Pinkus, and Gretchen M.E. Aumann, “Make My Case: Ethics Teaching and Case Presentations,” The Journal of Clinical Ethics Vol. 5, No. 4 (Winter 1994).

David Farkas and Mark R. Wicclair, “Ethical Reasoning in Technical Communication: A Practical Framework,” Technical Communication Vol. 31, No. 2 (Second Quarter 1984).

PUBLICATIONS REPRINTED IN ANTHOLOGIES:

“Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Negative and Positive Claims of Conscience,” in ASBH Reader, Summer/Fall 2011. “Medical Futility: A Conceptual and Ethical Analysis,” in Johnna Fisher, ed., Biomedical Ethics: A Canadian Focus (Toronto: Oxford University Press Canada, 2009). “Feminism, Pornography, and Censorship,” in Thomas C. Carroll, Jr., Social Ethics (Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 2006); Bruce N. Waller, ed., You Decide! Current Debates in Contemporary Moral Problems (New York: Longman, 2006); John Arthur, ed., Morality and Moral Controversies, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Editions (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999, 2002, 2005, and 2009); James E. White, ed., Contemporary Moral Problems, Fourth Edition (St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 1993); and Nancy Mason Bradbury and Arthur Quinn, eds., Audiences and Intentions (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1991).

“The Abortion Controversy and the Claim that This Body is Mine” (Spanish translation), Margarita M. Valdes, ed., La Moralidad del Aborto (Coyoacan, Mexico: Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas-UNAM & Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1998).

“Ethical Reasoning in Technical Communication: A Practical Framework,” in R. J.

Brockman and F. Rook, eds., Technical Communication and Ethics (Washington, D.C.: Society for Technical Communication, 1987); D.C. Reep, Technical Writing: Principles, Strategies, and Readings (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1991); and M. Flammia, Perspectives on the Profession of Technical Communication (Arlington, VA: Society for Technical Communication, 1995).

REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTES:

Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience by Kimberly Bownlee, Journal of Moral Philosophy 13 (2016). Patient Autonomy and the Ethics of Responsibility by Alfred I. Tauber, Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 295, No. 20 (May 2006).

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Is There a Duty to Die? edited by James M. Humber and Robert F. Almeder, Journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 284, No. 19 (November 15, 2000).

Making Medical Spending Decisions: The Law, Ethics, & Economics of Rationing

Mechanisms by Mark A. Hall, Medical Humanities Review Vol. 11, No. 2 (Fall 1997).

Clinical Bioethics: Theory and Practice in Medical-Ethical Decision Making by James F.Drane, Medical Humanities Review Vol. 9, No. 2 (Fall 1995).

Medicine, Money, and Morals: Physicians’ Conflicts of Interest by Marc A. Rodwin, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Vol. 183, No. 6 (June 1995).

The Ethics of Reproductive Technology edited by Kenneth D. Alpern, Ethics Vol. 105, No. 1 (October 1994).

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES:

“Robots and Artificial Intelligence: Cinematic and Philosophical Perspectives,” (with Lucy Fischer), Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2016. "Conscientious Objection in Health Care and Moral Integrity," invited presentation at a Conference on Conscience and Conscientious Objection in Health Care in Oxford, England November 2015. “Assessing Reasons when Health Professionals Request Accommodations for Conscientious Objections,” 2015 International Bioethics Retreat, Paris, France, July 2015. “Aging Artists and Humanists: Philosophical and Cinematic Perspectives” (with Lucy Fischer), Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2015. “Approaching Death: Cinematic and Philosophical Perspectives” (with Lucy Fischer), Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2014. “Conscience-based Refusal to Participate in Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD),” 12th Congress of the International Society for Organ Donation and Procurement, Sydney, Australia, November 2013. “A Critical Analysis of Reasons for Surgeon Discretion,” panel presentation at the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) 15th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 2013.

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“Ethical Organizational Responses to Conscientious Objection,” presentation for Organizational Ethics Affinity Group, ASBH 15th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 2013. “Conscience and Conscientious Objection in Health Care,” 15th International Conference on Ethics Across the Curriculum, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, October 2013. “Surgeons, Intensivists, and Discretion to Unilaterally Refuse Treatment,” 2013 International Bioethics Retreat, Paris, France, June 2013. “Reasons For and Against Accommodating Conscience-Based Objections in the ICU,” American Thoracic Society 2013 International Conference, Philadelphia, PA, May 2013. “An Ethical Critique of Surgeons’ Discretion to Unilaterally Refuse to Operate,” Twenty-second Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, San Antonio, TX, March 2013. “Conscientious Objection in Pediatrics: To Accommodate or Not to Accommodate?” Eighth Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA, June 2012. “Firing Patients for Health-Based Reasons,” American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) meeting, Minneapolis, MN, October 2011. “End of Life Decision-Making for Elderly Patients with Dementia,” Ethics for an Ageing World Conference, Part 2, Columbus, OH, October 2011. “Firing Patients for Health-Based Reasons,” 2011 International Bioethics Retreat, Cambridge, England, June 2011. “The Sea Inside” (with Lucy Fischer) 2011 International Bioethics Retreat, Cambridge, England, June 2011. “Conscientious Refusals by Hospitals,” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), San Diego, CA, October 2010. “Old Age and Access to Publicly Funded Life-Extending Care,” International Conference on Ethics for an Ageing World, Heringsdorf, Germany, September 2010. “Conscientious Refusals by Hospitals,” 2010 International Bioethics Retreat, Paris, France, June 2010.

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“Locked in Syndrome in Film” (with Lucy Fischer), 2010 International Bioethics Retreat, Paris, France, June 2010. “Bioethics and 21 Grams” (with Lucy Fischer), presentation for the CEP, Warrendale, PA, May 2010. “Bioethics and Film,” Cambridge Consortium for Bioethics Education (a three-day meeting on bioethics education sponsored by Cambridge University Press), New York, NY, April 2010. “Conscience-Based Exemptions for Medical Students,” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), Washington, D.C., October 2009. “Conscience-Based Exemptions for Medical Students,” 2009 International Bioethics Retreat, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2009. “Bioethics and 21 Grams” (with Lucy Fischer), 2009 International Bioethics Retreat, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2009. “Is Conscientious Objection Incompatible with a Physician’s Professional Obligations?” 2008 International Bioethics Retreat, Paris, France, June 2008. “Is Conscientious Objection Incompatible with a Physician’s Professional Obligations?” Conference on Conscience and Clinical Practice: Medical Ethics in the face of Moral Controversy, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago, March 2008. “Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Negative and Positive Claims of Conscience,” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), Washington, D.C., October 2007. “Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Negative and Positive Claims of Conscience,” 2007 International Bioethics Retreat, Cambridge, England, June 2007. “Television’s House, M.D. and Medical Ethics,” 2007 International Bioethics Retreat, Cambridge, England, June 2007. “Ethics and Research with Recently Deceased Patients,” 2006 International Bioethics Retreat, Pellegrue, France, June 2006. “Bioethics on Television as Represented in House, M.D.,” Eighteenth Annual Bioethics Summer Retreat, Granlibakken Conference Center, Tahoe City, California, June 2006.

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“Bioethics in Film and Television: Doctor-Patient Communication” (with Lucy Fischer), Seventeenth Annual Bioethics Summer Retreat, June 2005. “University of Pittsburgh Committee for Oversight of Research Involving the Dead (CORID): the First Twenty-eight Months,” Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), October 2004. “University of Pittsburgh Committee for Oversight of Research Involving the Dead (CORID): the First Eighteen Months,” Caring Ethics at the End of Life: Crafting Ethical Guidelines for Research at the End of Life, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, February 2004. “Informed Consent and Research Involving the Newly Dead,” Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), October 2002.

“Post Mortem Reproduction: Cadaveric Sperm Procurement,” Thirteenth Annual Bioethics Summer Retreat, June 2001.

“Even After Death Do Us Part: Wives’ Requests for Postmortem Sperm Procurement,” Tenth Annual Meeting, Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, March 2001.

“Conscientious Objection in Health Care,” Tenth Annual Bioethics Summer Retreat, June 1998.

“Forgoing Life Prolonging Treatment and Physician Assisted Suicide: What’s the

Difference?” Joint Meeting of the American Society of Bioethics, Society for Bioethics Consultation, and Society for Human Values (SHHV), November 1997.

“Building Local and Regional Ethics Networks,” (co-presenter), SHHV Annual Meeting, November 1993.

“Age-Rationing: The Fair Share and Natural Life Span Arguments,” Central Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association (APA), April 1990. “Patient Decision-Making Capacity and Risk,” Pacific Division Meetings of the APA, March 1990. “Frail Elderly Parents and the Ethical Responsibility of Adult Children,” 35th Annual Meeting of the American Society on Aging, March 1989. “Censorship: A Plea for Fewer Distinctions” (commentary paper), Western Division Meetings of the APA, April 1984. “The Concept of Paternalism,” Western Division Meetings of the APA, April 1983.

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“Another Defense of Abortion?” (commentary paper), Western Division Meetings of the APA, April 1982.

“The Abortion Controversy and the Claim that This Body is Mine,” Western Division Meetings of the APA, April 1981. “A Shield Right for Reporters vs. the Administration of Justice: Is there a Conflict?”

Eastern Division Meetings of the APA, December 1978.

“The Ethical Significance of Political Boundaries” (commentary paper), Pacific Division Meetings of the APA, March 1978.

“The Principle of Nonintervention: A Critical Examination of a Contractarian Justification,” Pacific Division Meetings of the APA, March 1978.

“Film and Mental Processes,” Western Division Meetings of the APA, April 1977.

“Distributive Criteria for Development Assistance,” (commentary paper), Conference on Justice, Ohio University, July 1976.

TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS:

“Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Deciding When to Accommodate Health Professionals,” Madeline Brill Nelson, Oregon Health & Science University, May 2016. “Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Deciding When to Accommodate Health Professionals,” Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA, March 2016. “Approaching Death: Cinematic and Philosophical Perspectives,” presentation (with Lucy Fischer) for a Consortium Ethics Program (CEP) Retreat, Ogelbay Resort and Conference Center, Wheeling, WV, September 2015. (The CEP is a Western Pennsylvania regional ethics education network). “Legislation that Threatens to Undermine the Doctor-Patient Relationship,” 24th Annual Medical Ethics Update 2015, University of Pittsburgh Center for Bioethics and Health Law,” Pittsburgh, PA, March 2015. “Contraception, Hobby Lobby, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA),” West Virginia University Philosophy Department, Morgantown, WV, February 2015. “Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Deciding When to Accommodate Health Professionals,” Warren Steinkraus Lecture on Human Ideals, State University of New York at Oswego, September 2014.

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“Discharging (‘Firing’) Patients for Health-Based Reasons,” presentation for a CEP Retreat, Obglebay Resort and Conference Center, Wheeling, WV, September 2014. “Medical Ethics and Rationing Healthcare Resources,” Health Policy Elective workshop for Internal Medicine residents, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, September 2014. “Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Deciding When to Accommodate Health Professionals,” Passavant Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2014. “Futility: Principles and Policies,” presentation for the CEP, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2013. “Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Deciding When to Accommodate Health Professionals,” presentation for a CEP Retreat, Obglebay Resort and Conference Center, Wheeling, WV, September 2013. “Conscientious Objection in the NICU,” NICU Grand Rounds, Magee-Womens Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2013. “Conscientious Objection in Medicine: Deciding When to Accommodate Health Professionals,” Benedum Distinguished Scholar Lecture, West Virginia University, April 2013. “Dismissing (‘Firing’) Patients for Health-Based Reasons,” 22nd Annual Medical Ethics Update 2013, Difficult Patients, Difficult Families and Difficult Health Providers: Ethical and Management Issues, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2013. “Conscientious Objection in Medicine: To Accommodate or not to Accommodate?” Department of Medicine Grand Rounds, University of Pittsburgh, January 2013. “Health Care Ethics in Clinical Practice,” presentation for the CEP, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2012. “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: Cinema and Bioethics,” presentation with Lucy Fischer at a CEP Retreat at Oglebay Resort and Conference Center, Wheeling, WV, September 2012. “Health Care Ethics in Clinical Practice,” presentation for the CEP, Pittsburgh, PA, January 2012.

“Conscientious Objection in Health Care,” presentation at a CEP Retreat, Lakeview Resort, Morgantown, WV, September 2011. “Health Care Ethics in Clinical Practice,” presentation for the CEP, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2011.

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“Decision-Making Capacity,” The Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2011. “Conscientious Objection in Health Care,” Keynote Presentation, West Virginia University In-House Philosophy Conference, Morgantown, WV, March 2011. “House, M.D. and Paternalism,” Gold Humanism Week Keynote Address, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, February 2011. “Health Care Ethics in Clinical Practice,” presentation for the CEP, Warrendale, PA, December 2010. “Conscientious Objection in Health Care,” Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA, April 2010. “Conscientious Objection in Health Care,” Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Washington, D.C., March 2010. “Health Care Ethics in Clinical Practice,” Conference on Basic Issues in Health Care Ethics, Warrendale, PA, December 2009. “Ethical Decision Making: Getting Down to Cases,” St. Clair Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2009. “Conscientious Objection and Pharmacists’ Obligations,” The 10th Annual John W. Fisher II Lecture in Law and Medicine, College of Law, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, April 2008. “Bodies…The Exhibition: They are Dead, so Why Does Consent Matter?” presentation for Jonas Salk Fellows, Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA, December 2007. “Medical Futility: A Conceptual and Ethical Analysis,” presentation for the CEP, Warrendale, PA, December 2007. "Decision-Making Capacity and Surrogate Decision-Making,” 18th Annual CEP Retreat at the Ogelbay Resort & Conference Center, Wheeling, WV, September 2007. "Decision-Making Capacity: Uses and Abuses,” 18th Annual CEP Retreat at the Ogelbay Resort & Conference Center, Wheeling, WV, September 2007. “TV’s ‘House, M.D.’ and Medical Ethics,” West Virginia Network of Ethics Committees 20th Anniversary Celebration: “Health Care Ethics in the 21st Century: Current Perspectives,” Charleston, WV, May 2007.

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“Limited Resuscitation and DNR Orders in the OR,” UPMC Passavant Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2007. “TV’s ‘House, M.D.’ and Medical Ethics,” presentation for the CEP, Warrendale, PA, May 2007. “Autonomy and Long-Term Care,” Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), Pittsburgh, PA, April 2007. “Television’s House, M.D. and Medical Ethics,” Charleston Area Medical Center Health Education and Research Institute, Charleston, WV, April 2007. “Autonomy and Aging Part II,” Thiel College, Greenville, PA, November 2006. “TV’s ‘House, M.D.’ and Medical Ethics,” West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, October 2006. "Doctor-Patient Communication in Film and Television," presentation with Lucy Fischer at the 17th Annual CEP Retreat at the Ogelbay Resort & Conference Center, Wheeling, WV, September 2006. “Autonomy and Aging Part I,” Thiel College, Greenville, PA, April 2006. “Ethics and Research with Recently Deceased Patients,” presentation for the CEP, Warrendale, PA, March 2006. “Analyzing Ethics Cases,” Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, January 2006. “Ethics and Training on the Newly Dead,” New York Medical College and St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York, NY, January 2006. “Decision-Making Capacity,” Corporate Care Management, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, November 2005. “What Can We Learn from the Terri Schiavo Case?” Tenth Annual Homecoming Lectures Program, West Virginia University, October 2005. “Ethics in Clinical Practice,” Clarion Hospital, Clarion, PA, June 2005. “Decision Making Capacity: Principles and Practice,” presentation for the CEP, Warrendale, PA, June 2005. “Media and Film: Shaping Expectations of Doctor-Patient Communication” (with Lucy Fischer), Fourteenth Annual Current Controversies in Medical Ethics Conference, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), April 2005.

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“Journalism and Bioethics: the Terri Schiavo Case,” Point Park College, April 2005. “What is Medical Futility?” presentation for the CEP, Warrendale, PA, March 2005. “Medical Ethics in Clinical Practice,” presentation for the CEP, Warrendale, PA, February 2005. “Fairness Between Generations: Is Old Age Ethically Relevant?” Thirteenth Annual Ladies Hospital Aid Society of Western Pennsylvania Controversies in Medical Ethics Conference, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), April 2004. “Ethics in Research on the Effects of Traffic Accidents Involving Pregnant Women Drivers: A Case Study,” University Community Leaders and Individuals with Disabilities (UCLID), Pittsburgh, PA, March 2004. “Ethics in Research,” Faculty Development Program, West Virginia University Health Sciences Center, February 2004. “End of Life Decision-Making,” presentation for the CEP, Warrendale, PA, February 2004. “Ethics, Moral Philosophy, and Research,” West Virginia University Health Sciences Center, October 2003. “Too Old for Life-Sustaining Treatment? Ethics and Age-Rationing,” Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Administration Pittsburgh Healthcare System, September 2003. “Ethics, Developmental Disabilities, and Research,” UCLID, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2003. “Can the Dead Be Harmed?” Sixth Annual In-House Philosophy Conference, West Virginia University, March 2003. “Conscientious Objection in Medicine,” St. Vincent Medical Center/New York Medical College, New York, NY, December 2002.

“Too Old for Life-Sustaining Treatment? Ethics and Age-Rationing,” Division of Geriatric Medicine Grand Rounds, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, September 2002.

“Too Old for Life-Sustaining Treatment? Ethics and Age-Rationing,” presentation for the CEP, Warrendale, PA, June 2002.

“Ethics in Clinical Practice,” Indiana Hospital, Indiana, PA, April 2002.

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“Even at Death We Do Not Part: Wives’ Requests for Postmortem Sperm Procurement,” Bioethics Grand Rounds, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, February 2002.

“Ethics in Clinical Practice,” presentation for the CEP, Warrendale, PA, February 2002.

“The Maltese Conjoined Twins: An Ethical Analysis,” Alpha Epsilon Delta (West

Virginia University Premedical Student Honorary Society), Morgantown, WV, September 2001.

“Ethical Decision-Making about Life-Sustaining Treatment,” UPMC Southside, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2001.

“Ethics in Clinical Practice,” presentation for the CEP, Warrendale, PA, January 2001.

“Ethical Issues in Health Care for the Elderly,” First International Conference on Rural Aging, Charleston, WV, June 2000.

“Deciding Whether to Forgo Life-Sustaining Treatment,” Suburban General Hospital, Bellevue, PA, May 2000.

“Decision-Making Capacity: Principles and Applications,” Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2000.

“Ethical Issues in Managed Care,” Pittsburgh Obstetrics/Gynecology Society, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2000.

“Informed Consent: Why Bother?” St. Clair Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, February 2000.

“Conscientious Objection and Nursing,” Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, July 1999.

“End of Life Decision-Making,” presentation for the CEP, Warrendale, PA, June 1999.

“Decision-Making Capacity: Uses and Abuses,” Meadville Hospital, Meadville, PA, February 1999.

“Conscientious Objection in Health Care,” Bioethics Grand Rounds, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, February 1999.

“End of Life Decision-Making,” presentation for the CEP, Warrendale, PA, June 1998.

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“Deciding to Withhold or Withdraw Futile Treatment,” South Hills Health System, Pittsburgh, PA, June 1998.

“What ‘DNR’ Really Means,” Monongalia General Hospital, Morgantown, WV, May 1998.

“Managed Care and Ethical Decision-Making,” Suburban General Hospital, Bellevue, PA, May 1998.

“Ethics Consultation: Getting Down to Cases,” Washington Hospital, Washington, PA, April 1998.

“Ethical Issues in Managed Care,” Bower Hill Community Church, Pittsburgh, PA, February 1998.

“Ethical Issues and Aging,” 1997 West Virginia Conference on Aging, Charleston, WV, October 1997.

“Age Rationing of Health Care: An Ethical Analysis,” Academy of Lifelong Learning, Pittsburgh, PA, September 1997.

“Reducing the Cost of Medical Care in the United States: An Ethical Analysis,” presented for “Gesundheit Kontrovers,” a lecture series sponsored by the University of Augsburg (Germany) and the Augsburg Zentralklinikum, July 1997.

“Age Rationing of Health Care: An Ethical Analysis,” presented for “Gesundheit Kontrovers,” Augsburg, Germany, July 1997.

“Managed Care and Ethical Decision-Making,” West Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1997.

“Quality of Life and Health Resource Allocation,” UCLID, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, April 1997.

“QALYs: An Ethical Analysis,” UCLID, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, March 1997.

“Physician Assisted Suicide: A Philosophical Analysis,” Second Annual In-House Philosophy Conference, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, March 1997. “End of Life Decision-Making: A Medical-Ethical Perspective,” Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center, Pittsburgh, PA, February 1997.

“Ethical Decision-Making and Life-Sustaining Treatment,” Monongalia General Hospital, Morgantown, WV, January 1997.

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“Informed Consent and Decision-Making Capacity,” CEP, Warrendale, PA January 1997.

“Deciding Whether to Forgo Life-Sustaining Treatment,” West Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, December 1996.

“Managed Care and the Elderly,” presentation for the CEP, Warrendale, PA, November 1996. “Solidarity Among Generations: Ethical Choices,” West Virginia Conference on Aging, Canaan Valley, WV, October 1996.

“Ethical Issues in Managed Care for the Elderly,” Ethics Grand Rounds, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, October 1996.

“Surrogate Decision-Making,” Braddock Medical Center, Braddock, PA, June 1996.

“Age-Based Rationing of Health Care,” West Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1996.

“Surrogate Decision-Making,” Passavant Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, June 1996.

“Ethical Principles and Clinical Decision-Making,” Braddock Medical Center, Braddock, PA, May 1996.

“Physician-Assisted Suicide,” faculty presentation for “Week-end of Honors,” West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, April 1996.

“Health Care Rationing and the Elderly: An Ethical Analysis,” Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award Lecture, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, March 1996.

“Ethical Issues in Managed Care for the Elderly,” West Virginia Center on Aging, January 1996.

“The Process of Ethical Decision-Making,” Weirton Medical Center, Weirton, WV, January 1996. “Determining Decision-Making Capacity,” Weirton Medical Center, Weirton, WV, January 1996.

“Advance Directives,” D. T. Watson Rehabilitation Services, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1996.

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“Managed Care: Access, Allocation, Health Care Rationing,” The Washington Hospital, Washington, PA, December 1995.

“Psychiatric Medical Ethics,” Somerset State Hospital, Somerset, PA, December 1995.

“Ethical Decision-Making: Getting Down to Cases,” St. Clair Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, October 1995.

“Psychiatric Medical Ethics,” Mayview State Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, June 1995.

“Futility: A Conceptual and Ethical Analysis,” Indiana Hospital, Indiana, PA, June 1995.

“Competency: Ethical and Legal Perspectives,” Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1995.

“Health Care Ethics and Elderly,” University of Charleston, Charleston, WV, April 1995.

“What Does DNR Really Mean?” Marmara University Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey, December 1994.

“Medical Ethics in the United States,” Marmara University Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey, December 1994.

“Medical Futility,” Indiana Hospital, Indiana, PA, July 1994. “Living with Advance Directives,” West Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, June 1994.

“Allocation of Resources and Health Care Rationing,” presentation for the CEP, Warrendale, PA, June 1994.

“Justice and Health Care,” Roving Roundtable, Shadyside Unitarian Church, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1994.

“Competency,” D. T. Watson Rehabilitation Services, Sewickley, PA, May 1994.

“Deciding Whether to Forgo Life-Sustaining Treatment,” West Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1994.

“Life-Sustaining Treatment: Ethical and Legal Issues,” Monongalia General Hospital, Morgantown, WV, April 1994.

“The Ethics of Cost Containment,” Pennsylvania National Association of Rehabilitation Professionals in the Private Sector, Warrendale, PA, April 1994.

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“The Ethics of Physician Assisted Suicide,” Alpha Epsilon Delta Premedical Student Honorary Society, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, April 1994. “Informed Consent,” West Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, March 1994.

“Physician Assisted Death,” Westminster Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, PA, March 1994.

“Just Health Care,” presentation for the CEP, Pittsburgh, PA, March 1994.

“To Forgo or Not to Forgo: Ethics and Decision-Making About Life-Sustaining Treatment,” Nursing Horizons: Transplants, Technology, and Transitions, Pittsburgh, PA, March 1994.

“Decision-Making About Life-Sustaining Treatment,” Westminster Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, PA, March 1994.

“Medical Futility: Conceptual and Ethical Issues,” Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, February 1994.

“Ethical Theory and Health Care Decision-Making,” presentation for the CEP, Warrendale, PA, January 1994.

“DNR Orders,” St. Clair Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1994.

“Justice Rationing and Access to Health Care,” Sewickley Valley Hospital, Sewickley, PA, November 1993.

“Advance Directives: Issues in Long-Term Care,” Zion Lutheran Church (program sponsored by Sewickley Valley Hospital), Ambridge, PA, October 1993.

“Maternal-Fetal Conflicts,” West Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, June 1993.

“Cost, Justice, and Health Policy,” Harmarville Rehabilitation Center, Pittsburgh, PA, June 1993.

“Medical Ethics Today: An Overview,” Keynote Address, Western Pennsylvania Hospital Nursing Alumni Nursing Education Program: Ethical Issues Throughout Life, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1993.

“Ethical vs. Legal Dilemmas,” St. Clair Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1993.

“Advance Directives: A Case-Based Approach,” Butler Hospital, Butler, PA, May 1993.

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“Health Care Professionals and the Right to Conscientious Refusal,” Indiana Hospital, Indiana, PA, May 1993.

“Patients’ Rights: A Case-Based Approach,” Indiana, PA, May 1993.

“Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia,” Calvary Presbyterian Church, Indiana, PA, May 1993.

“Surrogate Decision-Making,” Sewickley Valley Hospital, Sewickley, PA, May 1993.

“Deciding Whether to Forgo Life-Sustaining Treatment,” St. Clair Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, April 1993.

“Confidentiality,” Obstetrics/Gynecology Grand Rounds, Magee Women’s Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, April 1993. “Justice, Access, and Rationing,” St. Clair Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, April 1993. “Talking to Patients,” Indiana Hospital, Indiana, PA, March 1993.

“Advance Directives: A Case-Based Approach,” Indiana Hospital, Indiana, PA, March 1993.

“Advance Directives: A Case-Based Approach,” Calvary Presbyterian Church, Indiana, PA, March 1993.

“Ethical Issues and Aging,” Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Pittsburgh, PA, March 1993.

“Truth-Telling and Confidentiality,” St. Clair Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, March 1993. “Informed Consent,” Indiana Hospital, Indiana, PA, February 1993.

“Advance Directives: An Ethical Analysis,” Indiana Hospital, Indiana, PA, February 1993.

“Advance Directives: An Ethical Analysis,” Calvary Presbyterian Church, Indiana, PA, February 1993.

“Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia,” St. Clair Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1993.

“Informed Consent and Decision-Making Capacity in Obstetrics and Gynecology,” Obstetrics/Gynecology Grand Rounds, Magee Women’s Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, December 1992.

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“Decision-Making Capacity and Surrogate Decision-Making,” St. Clair Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1992.

“Informed Consent in Obstetrics and Gynecology,” Obstetrics/Gynecology Grand Rounds, Magee Women’s Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1992.

“Informed Consent,” St. Clair Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, October 1992.

“Ethical Issues of Infertility Treatments,” Infertility Nurses Support Group, Pittsburgh, PA, October 1992.

“Ethical Decision-Making in Cancer Care,” Northwest Medical Center, Franklin, PA, September 1992. “Ethical Principles and Clinical Decision-Making,” St. Clair Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, September 1992.

“Ethical Decision-Making and Nursing,” South Hills Health System, Pittsburgh, PA, July 1992.

“Deciding Whether to Forgo Life-Sustaining Treatment,” Monongalia General Hospital, Morgantown, WV, July 1992.

“Forgoing Life-Sustaining Treatment,” West Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, June 1992.

“Ethics and Institutional Planning,” South Hills Health System, Pittsburgh, PA, June 1992.

“Informed Consent,” Monongalia General Hospital, Morgantown, WV, June 1992. “Justice and Health Care,” presentation for the CEP, Warrendale, PA, May 1992.

“Advance Directives: An Ethical Analysis,” Obstetrics/Gynecology Grand Rounds, Magee Women’s Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, April 1992.

“Living With Advance Directives: Some Ethical Caveats,” Medicine Grand Rounds, Presbyterian University Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, April 1992.

“Deciding Whether to Forgo Life-Sustaining Treatment and Advance Directives,” South Hills Health System, Pittsburgh, PA, March 1992.

“Forging Life-Sustaining Treatment,” Sewickley Valley Hospital, Sewickley, PA, February 1992.

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“Ethical Theory, Principles, and Decision-Making,” presentation for the CEP, Warrendale, PA, January 1991.

“Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide,” presentation for Medicine House Officers at Presbyterian University Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, May 1991.

“Ethical Theory in the Medical Context,” presentation for the CEP, Warrendale, PA, January 1991. “Withholding and Withdrawing Nutritional Support and Hydration,” Monongahela Valley Hospital, Monongahela, PA, October 1990.

“Justice and the Health Care Needs of the Elderly,” presented at a symposium entitled, “How Much Health Care, For Whom, and at What Cost?” Morgantown, WV, April 1990.

“Health Care Rationing for the Elderly and Justice: What is a Fair Share?” University of Pittsburgh, “Ethics for Lunch,” Pittsburgh, PA, March 1990.

“Business and Professional Decisions: The Ethical Dimension,” West Virginia Business and Professional Ethics Project Symposium, Charleston, WV, February 1990.

“Ethical Principles and Ethical Reasoning,” Marshall University School of Medicine, Huntington, WV, November 1989.

“Aiding the Dying,” South Hills Family Hospice, St. Clair Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, June 1989.

“Artificial Hydration and Nutrition,” Ethical Issues in the Health Care of the Elderly Symposium, Morgantown, WV, April 1989.

“The Ethics of Withholding Treatment,” West Virginia Dietetic Association Annual Meeting, Morgantown, WV, April 1989.

“Caring for Elderly Parents: Past Parental Sacrifices and Obligations of Adult Children,” California State University at Long Beach, CA, March 1989.

“Ethical Issues of Aging,” presented at a state-wide meeting on gerontology in higher education, Morgantown, WV, April 1988.

“Ethical Dilemmas in Patient Care,” presented at a state-wide hospital ethics committee symposium, Morgantown, WV, April 1988.

“Life-Sustaining Measures for the Elderly: Applying Ethical Principles,” University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, September 1987.

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“Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment and the Elderly,” Morgan Manor Nursing Home, Morgantown, WV, September 1987. “Preferential Treatment and Desert,” Lafayette College, Easton, PA, April 1987.

“The Ethical Bases of Confidentiality,” presented to the medical staff of the West Virginia Health Service, WV, October 1986.

“The Right to Die,” Unitarian Fellowship, Morgantown, WV, September 1985.

“To Treat or Not to Treat?” Learning for a Lifetime Conference, Morgantown, WV, May 1985.

“Feminism and the Liberation of Men,” Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA, January 1985.

“Lying to Children and Confidentiality,” Clarksburg United Hospital Center’s Sixth Annual Conference on the Care of Children, Clarksburg, WV, October 1984.

“The Distinction between Medical and Ethical Decisions,” West Virginia Conference on Hospital Ethics Committees, Morgantown, WV, September 1984.

“Is There a Right to Die?” presented at a public forum on the West Virginia Natural Death Act, Charleston, WV, September 1984.

“The Right to Treatment vs. the Right to Refuse Treatment,” Special Address on Ethics and Mental Health presented at the Fourth Annual West Virginia School of Behavioral Health Studies, Morgantown, WV, August 1984.

“Terminating Treatment: Some Ethical Considerations,” Ethics West Virginia Inaugural Conference, Charleston, WV, October 1983.

“Ethics and Technical Communication,” presented at a meeting of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication, Pittsburgh, PA, December 1982.

“Professional Ethics and Psychiatry,” West Virginia University School of Behavioral Medicine, Charleston, WV, October 1982. “Medical Technology and Medical Ethics: Who Shall Live?” Tree of Life Temple, Morgantown, WV, March 1982. “Death and Dying: Some Ethical Issues,” Eastern Panhandle Mental Health Center, Martinsburg, WV, November 1981.

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“Punishment: What is its Function?” presented at a Coalition for Justice public forum, Morgantown, WV, May 1981.

“The Right to Health Care,” Symposium on Health Care and Ethics, West Virginia Hospital and School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, April 1980.

“What is Sexism?” Morgantown Chapter of the National Organization for Women, Morgantown, WV, December 1979. WORKSHOPS AND RETREATS (FACULTY):

Faculty, two-day bioethics retreat, Consortium Ethics Program (CEP), Lakeview Resort, WV, September 2004. Faculty, three-day bioethics retreat, CEP, Lakeview Resort, WV, September 2001. Faculty, three-day bioethics retreat, CEP, Lakeview Resort, WV, September 2000. Faculty, three-day medical ethics retreat, CEP, Hidden Valley, PA, September 11-13, 1998.

Faculty, three-day medical ethics retreat, CEP, Hidden Valley, PA, September 19-21, 1997.

Faculty, three-day medical ethics retreat, CEP, Hidden Valley, PA, September 27-29, 1996.

“Ethics Consultation for Elderly Patients,” Workshop presented at “Ethics Consultation 1996: the State of the Art,” sponsored by the Society for Bioethics Consultation, Morgantown, WV, May 1996.

Faculty, three-day medical ethics retreat, CEP, Hidden Valley, PA, September 29 - October 1, 1995.

Faculty, Intensive Workshop on Health Ethics for Faculty, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, March 1994.

“Ethical Decision-Making and Life-Sustaining Treatment,” Workshop presented at Monongalia General Hospital, Morgantown, WV, November 1993. “Ethical Decision-Making and Life-Sustaining Treatment,” Workshop presented at Monongalia General Hospital, Morgantown, WV, October 1993. Faculty, three-day medical ethics retreat, CEP, Hidden Valley, PA, October 1993.

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Faculty, three-day Summer Intensive Course in Medical Ethics, West Virginia Network of Ethics Committees, Canaan Valley Resort and Conference Center, WV, July 1993.

Faculty, three-day medical ethics retreat, CEP, Hidden Valley, PA, October 1992.

Faculty, three-day Summer Intensive Course in Medical Ethics, West Virginia Network of Ethics Committees, Canaan Valley Resort and Conference Center, WV, July 1992.

Faculty, three-day medical ethics retreat, CEP, Hidden Valley, PA, November 1991. Faculty, three-day medical ethics retreat, CEP, Hidden Valley, PA, September 1991.

“Ethics and Ethical Principles: A Practical Framework,” Workshop presented at a meeting of the Kentucky Nurses’ Association, Louisville, KY October 1990.

“Ethical Issues and Aging,” two-day workshop presented as part of a gerontology certificate program at Wheeling Jesuit College, Wheeling, WV, July 1990.

“Ethical Issues in the Care of Alzheimer’s Patients,” Workshop presented for West Virginia Alzheimer’s Disease Demonstration Project, Sistersville, WV, June 1990.

“Ethics and Practice with the Aging,” two-day workshop presented at the 14th Annual

Summer Institute on Aging (sponsored by the West Virginia University School of Social Work and the West Virginia Departments of Human Services and Health), Morgantown, WV, June 1990.

“Ethical Principles and Ethical Reasoning,” Workshop presented for the Ohio Valley Appalachia Regional Geriatric Education Center, Johnson City, TN, February 1990. “Ethical Principles and Ethical Reasoning,” Workshop presented for the Ohio Valley Appalachia Regional Geriatric Education Center, Cincinnati, OH, November 1989. “Ethical Principles and Ethical Reasoning,” Workshop presented for the Ohio Valley Appalachia Regional Geriatric Education Center, Lexington, KY, September 1989. “Ethics and Practice with the Aging,” two-day workshop presented at the 13th Annual

Summer Institute on Aging (sponsored by the West Virginia University School of Social Work and the West Virginia Departments of Human Services and Health), Morgantown, WV, June 1989.

‘Ethical Principles and Ethical Reasoning,” Workshop presented for the Ohio Valley Appalachia Regional Geriatric Education Center, Louisville, KY, April 1989. “Ethical Principles and Ethical Reasoning,” Workshop presented for the Ohio Valley

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Appalachia Regional Geriatric Education Center, Morgantown, WV, March 1989.

“Ethical Issues and Aging,” two-day workshop presented to professionals providing health care and support services to the elderly, Cumberland, MD, October 1987.

“Ethics and Aging,” Workshop presented at the Ohio Valley Appalachia Regional Geriatric Education Center Summer Geriatric Institute, Lexington, KY, July 1987.

“Ethical Issues and Aging,” two-day workshop presented to professionals providing health care and support services to the elderly, Wheeling, WV, November 1986.

CONSULTING:

Member, American Thoracic Society Working Group on Making Decisions for Incapacitated Unrepresented Patients, 2016. Consultant for a one-day workshop convened in Montreal, Canada to review a draft conscientious objection model policy for the provincial Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, April 2013. Consultant, American Thoracic Society Bioethics Taskforce on Conscientious Objection in Intensive Care Medicine, 2010-14.

Ethics Consultant, Monongalia General Hospital, Morgantown, WV, 1990 - present.

Member, Ethics Consultation Service, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, June 1991 - 2011. Consultant for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Morgantown, WV, 2003.

Ethics Consultant, Westmoreland Hospital, Greensburg, PA, 1990 - 1991. Consultant for the State of West Virginia Department of Health, 1982.

Consultant for West Virginia Public Radio and occasional co-host for public affairs program, “Party Line West Virginia,” 1979 - 1980.

ETHICS AND INSTITUTIONAL OVERSIGHT COMMITTEES:

Conflict of Interest in Research Committee, West Virginia University, 2011 – present. Ethics Council, Monongalia General Hospital, Morgantown, WV, 1990 - present. Ethics Committee, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Presbyterian University Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, 1991 - present.

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Committee for Oversight of Research Involving the Dead, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 2002 - present. Co-chair since 2009.

Ethics Committee, West Virginia University Hospital, Morgantown, WV, 1985 - 1994.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:

Reviewer for Bioethics, 2016, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007, and 1998. Reviewer for Journal of Medical Ethics, 2016, 2015, 2013 and 2008. Reviewer for Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2016, 2012, 2010, 2009, and 2006. Reviewer for Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 2015, 2009 and 2006. Invited participant for a roundtable discussion of a proposed Patient Trust Act sponsored by Representative Dan Frankel (PA House of Representatives), 2014. Reviewer for Israel Science Foundation, 2014. Reviewer for Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2008 - present. Reviewer for Oxford University Press, 2014, 2011, 1998, 1996, 1995, 1994, and 1990. Panelist, 22nd Annual Medical Ethics Update 2013, “Difficult Patients, Difficult Families and Difficult Health Providers: Ethical and Management Issues,” Pittsburgh, PA, March 2013. Reviewer for Cambridge University Press, 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010. Reviewer for American Journal of Bioethics, 2013 and 2006. Reviewer for the Hastings Center Report, 2013, 2008 and 2005, and 1998. Reviewer for Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy, 2012 Reviewer for American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), 2012, 2006, and 2005. Reviewer for Journal of Clinical Ethics, 2013 and 2002. Reviewer for the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 2012.

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Panelist, 20th Annual Medical Ethics Update 2011, “Ethical Issues in Health Care Reform,” Pittsburgh, PA, April 2011. Reviewer for Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, 2011. Reviewer for Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2011. Reviewer for International Encyclopedia of Ethics, 2011. Panelist, “Health Care Professionals’ and Patients’/Family Members’ Conscience-Based Objections to Death Determined by Neurological Criteria,” 19th Annual Medical Ethics Update 2010, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2010. Invited participant, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Resource Workshop, Rockville, MD, June, 2008. Panelist, “A Roundtable on Cloning,” Pittsburgh Public Theater (in conjunction with the production of A Number) Pittsburgh, PA, March 2008. Reviewer for British Medical Bulletin, 2007. Reviewer for MIT Press, 2007. Reviewer for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, 2007 and 2006. Reviewer for Milbank Quarterly, 2007 and 2006. Reviewer for Journal of the American Medical Association, 2005 and 2003.

Reviewer for Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, 2005.

Reviewer for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2005.

Reviewer for Social Theory & Practice, 2004 and 2002.

Reviewer for British Medical Journal, 2000. Reviewer for Journal of Applied Gerontology, 1999 and 1996.

Reviewer for the European Biomedical Ethics Practitioner Education Project, 1998 - 1999.

Panelist, “Health Related Quality of Life: Challenging Choices in the Era of Limited

Resources,” University Community Leaders and Individuals with Disabilities (UCLID), Pittsburgh, PA, June 1997.

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Panelist, “Jehovah’s Witnesses: Principles, Policies, and Applications,” University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1996.

Panelist, “Euthanasia and the Ethics for Caring for the Dying: From Quinlan to Kevorkian,” Blue Cross of Western Pennsylvania Chief Executives Conference, Nemacolin Woodlands, PA, August 1994.

Panelist, “Invisible Heroines: Women Giving Care,” Dickenson Symposium in Women’s Studies, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, April 1994.

Panelist, “National Healthcare: Can American Take Care of All It’s Citizens?” Hugh O’Brian Youth Foundation, Western Pennsylvania Leadership Seminar, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA, May 1992.

Panelist, “Reproductive Technology and Sex Selection,” Ethics for Lunch, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, April 1992.

Reviewer for Business & Professional Ethics Journal, 1990.

Panelist, West Virginia Department of Health Symposium on a Medical Durable Power of Attorney, Morgantown, WV, September 1989.

Local Panelist for “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides?” a nationwide interactive video conference moderated by Ted Koppel, Charleston, WV, September 1986.

Reviewer for Macmillan Publishing Company, 1984 and 1981.

Faculty, Elderhostel Course on Contemporary Ethical Issues, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, July 1984.

Panelist, West Virginia Public Television Program on Professional Ethics, September 1983.

Reviewer for McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1982.

Presenter for a film and discussion series on “Life and Dignity: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Aging,” in Clarksburg, Morgantown, and Wheeling, WV, Spring 1982.

Presenter for a film and discussion series on “Growing Up in Different Cultures,” in Clarksburg, Morgantown, and Wheeling, WV, Spring 1980.

Directed a two-day Symposium on Health Care and Ethics funded by a grant from The Humanities Foundation of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV, April 1980.

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Presenter for a film and discussion series on “The Individual’s Quest for Identity,” in Clarksburg, Morgantown, and Wheeling, WV, Spring 1979. Director of a Conference on Reporters’ Shield Rights funded by a grant from The Humanities Foundation of West Virginia, Charleston, WV, April 1979. Director of a Symposium on Human Rights and Foreign Policy, Lafayette College, April 1978.

Director of a two-day Conference on Privacy and the Press, Lafayette College, April 1977.

Member, Working Group on Human Rights and Foreign Policy, Center for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1977.

BOARDS AND ADVISORY COMMITTEES:

Member, Editorial Board and co-editor Section on Professionalism, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2008 – present. Member, Consensus Panel on Research with the Recently Dead, 2004-05.

Board of Directors, American Chronic Pain Association, 1988 - 2003.

Steering Committee, West Virginia Network of Hospital Ethics Committees, 1987 - 1990. West Virginia University Geriatric Program Advisory Committee, 1989.

West Virginia Gerontology and Geriatrics in Higher Education Task Force, 1988. Planning and Steering Committees, West Virginia Conference on Hospital Ethics Committees, 1984. Planning Committee, “Ethics West Virginia,” a major year-long, state-wide program, 1982 - 1984.