Content

Department of Philosophy   Northern Illinois University

Sharon Sytsma’s Representative Publications

Book

Ethics and Intersex Springer Publishing Co. February, 2006

 

 

Articles and Chapters

“Intersexuality, Medical Practice, and Cultural Relativism,” in Ethics and Intersex, 2006.”

“Agapic Friendship” Philosophy and Literature 27, 2003.

“The Moral Authority of Symbolic Appeals in Biomedical Ethics,” Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics,  (Summer 2004)

“Ethical Dilemmas in Retrospective Studies on Genital Surgery,” Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics, (Fall 2004)

“Business as Usual: Should Physicians Continue to Recommend Genital Surgery for Intersex Infants,” Dialogues in Pediatric Urology, 25:6, 5-7 (June 2002)

“Agape sans Dieu,” Journal of Value Inquiry, 36 (2002)

“Compassion and Moral Worth,” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 36:3 (1997)

“Anencephalics as Organ Sources,” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics: Philosophy of Medicine 17:1 (1996)

“Ethical Internalism and Moral Indifference,” Journal of Value Inquiry 29:2 (1995)

“Callahan’s Medical Rationing Principle: Age or Quality of Life,” Health Care for an Aging Poplulation, Chris Hackler, ed. (1994)

“The Role of Achtung in Kant’s Moral Theory,” Auslegung 19:2 (1993)