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City University of New York Graduate Center
Rosamond Rhodes
Rosamond Rhodes
Ph.D. The Graduate Center, CUNY
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Research Interests

  • Bioethics
  • Hobbes
  • Aristotle
  • Kant
  • Rawls

Courses Recently Taught

Representative Publications

  • The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics (Blackwell, 2007)
  • Medicine and Social Justice: Essays on the Distribution of Health Care (Oxford, 2002).
  • Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate, (Routledge, 1998).
  • "Reading Rawls and Hearing Hobbes." Philosophical Forum, 2002, Winter; 33(4): 393-412.
  • "Obligation and Assent in Hobbes's Moral Philosophy." Hobbes Studies, 2002; XV: 45-67.
  • "Rethinking Research Ethics." American Journal of Bioethics 2005; 5(1): 7-28.
  • "Justice in Medicine and Public Health." Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2005; 14(1): 13-26.
  • "Why Test Children for Adult-Onset Genetic Diseases." The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine 2006 May; 73(3): 609-16.
  • "Justice in Organ Allocation," chapter in A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship, Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, and Peter Guarnaccia, eds., University of North Carolina Press, 2006; 158-79.
  • "Molding Professional Character," chapter in Lost Virtue: Professional Character Development and Medical Education, Nuala Kenny and Wayne Shelton, eds., Elsevier Press, 2006; 99-115.
  • "Abortion and Assent," Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (vol.8, no.4, fall 1999; 416-427).
  • "Genetic Links, Family Ties, and Social Bonds: Rights and Responsibilities in the Face of Genetic Knowledge," Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. (vol.23, no.1, 1998; 10-30).

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