Ph.D., 2001, University of Washington
J.D., NYU School of Law

Research Areas: Bioethics, Philosophy of Law, Ethical Theory

Sample Publications:

"Intuition and the Junctures of Judgment in Decision Procedures for Clinical Ethics," Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (2007) 28:1-30 http://www.springerlink.com/content/8660143066733q15/

"How to Justify Enforcing a Ulysses Contract When Ulysses is Competent to Refuse," Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, forthcoming

"Precedent Autonomy, Advance directives, and End-of-Life Care," in Oxford Handbook of Bioethics , ed. Bonnie Steinbock (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)

"Surviving Interests and Living Wills," Public Affairs Quarterly , 20(1) (January 2006)

"Life-Extension and the Malthusian Objection", The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy , 30(1) (February 2005)

Email: johndavis@fullerton.edu
Office: Hum 313B
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