Publications

MacDougall, D. Robert. Righting Health Policy: Bioethics, Political Philosophy, and the Normative Justification of Health Law and Policy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022.

———. “Must Consent Be Informed? Patient Rights, State Authority, and the Moral Basis of the Physician’s Duties of Disclosure.” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 31, no. 3 (2021): 247-70.

———. “The Ends of Medicine and the Experience of Patients.” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 45, no. 2 (2020): 129-44.

———. “Sometimes Merely as a Means: Why Kantian Philosophy Requires the Legalization of Kidney Sales.” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 44, no. 3 (2019): 314-34.

———. “Intervention Principles in Pediatric Health Care: The Difference between Physicians and the State.” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 40, no. 4 (2019): 279-97.

Resnik, David B., D. Robert MacDougall, and Elise M. Smith. “Ethical Dilemmas in Protecting Susceptible Subpopulations from Environmental Health Risks: Liberty, Utility, Fairness, and Accountability for Reasonableness.” The American Journal of Bioethics 18, no. 3 (2018): 29-41.

MacDougall, D. Robert, Elise M. Smith, and David B. Resnik. “Unjust Outcomes and Unfair Process?”. The American Journal of Bioethics 18, no. 4 (2018): W10-W12.

MacDougall, D. Robert. “Whistleblowing: Don’ Encourage It, Prevent It. [Comment on “Cultures of Silence and Cultures of Voice: The Role of Whistleblowing in Healthcare Organisations”].” International Journal of Health Policy and Management 5, no. 3 (2015): 189-91.

———. “Book Review: Reconceiving Medical Ethics, Edited by C. Cowley.” Journal of Moral Philosophy 11, no. 6 (2014): 782-85.

———. “Whistleblowing and the Bioethicist’s Public Obligations.” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 23, no. 4 (2014): 431-42.

———. “National Obesity Rates: A Legitimate Health Policy Endpoint?”. Hastings Center Report 43, no. 3 (2013): 7-8.

———. “Physicians’ Strikes and the Competing Bases of Physicians’ Moral Obligations.” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 23, no. 3 (2013): 249-74.

———. “Liberalism, Authority, and Bioethics Commissions.” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 34, no. 6 (2013): 461-77.

MacDougall, D. Robert, and Griffin Trotter. “Rights and Basic Health Care.” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 36, no. 6 (2011): 529-36.

MacDougall, D. Robert “Rawls and the Refusal of Medical Treatment to Children.” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 35, no. 2 (2010): 130-53.

MacDougall, D. Robert. “Review: Innovation and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Critical Reflections on the Virtues of Profit, Edited by H. Tristram Engelhardt and Jeremy R. Garrett. Salem, Ma: M & M Scrivener Press; 2008. 250 Pp. $69.00.” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 19, no. 02 (2010): 264-68.