by James Toomey On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning the canonical precedent Roe v. Wade and holding that the federal constitution does not protect the right to an abortion. Dobbs has once again thrust abortion to the center of the national political conversation, as states around the…
by James Toomey If you are supposed to make a legally binding decision on behalf of someone incapacitated by dementia, chances are the law will tell you to apply the “substituted judgment” standard—you will be asked to make the decision the person for whom you are deciding would have made, if they had capacity. But…
by James Toomey Imagine that you were to develop dementia and someone else had to make medical decisions on your behalf. How would you want them to decide? Then suppose that you had to make medical decisions on behalf of another person with dementia. Would you think about decision-making in the same way? A new…
People tend think of scams as distinct from other crimes, as a problem of personal responsibility. Maybe it’s time to reconsider.
In a new paper, Property’s Boundaries, I develop a theory of the boundaries of ownership applicable to bioethics.
An argument for assessing decision-making capacity in terms of personal identity, rather than cognitive functioning.
Weaving together her work in genetics with Rawlsian political philosophy, Harden’s book is a must-read for anyone interested in inheritance or politics.
We cannot straightforwardly assume that older adults are the most vulnerable to the scams of the pandemic.
The doctrine of capacity is vague, normatively and medically challenging, and inconsistently applied.
Researchers believe that gene drives could eliminate vector-borne diseases, kill off invasive species, and combat pesticide resistance.
