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What We Argue About When We Argue About Death by Aas, Sean

“…The literature on the determination of death has often if not always assumed that the concept of human death should be defined in terms of the end of the human…”
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Prosthetic embodiment by Aas, Sean

“…What makes something a part of my body, for moral purposes? Is the body defined naturalistically: by biological relations, or psychological relations, or some…”
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Vital prostheses: Killing, letting die, and the ethics of de‐implantation by Aas, Sean

“…Disconnecting a patient from artificial life support, on their request, is often if not always a matter of letting them die, not killing them—and sometimes,…”
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Some notes on the nature and limits of posthumous rights: a response to Persad by Aas, Sean

“…A person’s body can, it seems, survive well after losing the capacity to support Lockean personhood. If our rights in our bodies are, basically, rights in our…”
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You Didn't Build That: Equality and Productivity in a Complex Society by Aas, Sean

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Bodily Rights in Personal Ventilators? by Aas, Sean, Wasserman, David

“…ABSTRACT This article asks whether personal ventilators should be redistributed to maximize lives saved in emergency condition, like the COVID‐19 pandemic. It…”
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Brain–computer interfaces and disability: extending embodiment, reducing stigma? by Aas, Sean, Wasserman, David

“…Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) now enable an individual without limb function to “move” a detached mechanical arm to perform simple actions, such as feeding…”
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Sexual Reorientation in Ideal and Non‐Ideal Theory by Delmas, Candice, Aas, Sean

“…'Change is possible'. 'Freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ'. These are two of the messages on the posters of Exodus Global Alliance, a…”
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On valuing impairment by Howard, Dana, Aas, Sean

“…In The Minority Body, Elizabeth Barnes rejects prevailing social constructionist accounts of disability for two reasons. First, because they understand…”
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Disabled – therefore, Unhealthy? by Aas, Sean

“…This paper argues that disabled people can be healthy. I argue, first, following the well-known 'social model of disability', that we should prefer a usage of…”
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What Justifies the Allocation of Health Care Resources to Patients with Disorders of Consciousness? by Peterson, Andrew, Aas, Sean, Wasserman, David

“…This paper critically engages ethical issues in the allocation of novel, and potentially costly, health care resources to patients with disorders of…”
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Distributing Collective Obligation by Aas, Sean

“…In this paper I develop an account of member obligation: the obligations that fall on the members of an obligated collective in virtue of that collective…”
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The ethics of sexual reorientation: what should clinicians and researchers do? by Aas, Sean, Delmas, Candice

“…Technological measures meant to change sexual orientation are, we have argued elsewhere, deeply alarming, even and indeed especially if they are safe and…”
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What Justifies the Allocation of Scarce Health Care Resources to Patients with Disorders of Consciousness: Response to Commentaries by Aas, Sean, Peterson, Andrew, Wasserman, David

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Distributing collective obligation by Aas, Sean

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The Place of Philosophy in Bioethics Today by Blumenthal-Barby, Jennifer, Aas, Sean, Brudney, Dan, Flanigan, Jessica, Liao, S. Matthew, London, Alex, Sumner, Wayne, Savulescu, Julian

“…In some views, philosophy's glory days in bioethics are over. While philosophers were especially important in the early days of the field, so the argument…”
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Who Owns the Data in a Medical Information Commons? by McGuire, Amy L., Roberts, Jessica, Aas, Sean, Evans, Barbara J.

“…In this paper, we explore the perspectives of expert stakeholders about who owns data in a medical information commons (MIC) and what rights and interests…”
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BCIs and disability: enhancement, environmental modification, and embodiment by Wasserman, David, Aas, Sean

“…This paper explores the ways that BCIs can modify the environment as well as the individual, blur the boundaries between them, and thereby affect the physical…”
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Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights, edited by Diana Meyers Tietjens: New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp xii + 360, US$39.95 (paperback) by Aas, Sean

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Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights, edited by Diana Meyers Tietjens by Aas, Sean

“…Australasian Journal of Philosophy Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights, edited by Diana Meyers Tietjens…”
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