Jennifer Hawkins CV

Journal Article The American journal of bioethics : AJOB · August 2024 The dominant approach to assessing decision-making capacity in medicine focuses on determining the extent to which individuals possess certain core cognitive abilities. Critics have argued that this model delivers the wrong verdict in certain cases where p ... Full text Cite

Theory Without Theories: Well-Being, Ethics, and Medicine.

Journal Article The Journal of medicine and philosophy · December 2021 Medical ethics would be better if people were taught to think more clearly about well-being or (what I take to be the same thing) the concept of what is good for a person. Yet for a variety of reasons, bioethicists have generally paid little attention to t ... Full text Cite

Further Reflections: Surrogate Decisionmaking When Significant Mental Capacities are Retained.

Journal Article Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees · January 2021 Mackenzie Graham has made an important contribution to the literature on decisionmaking for patients with disorders of consciousness. He argues, and I agree, that decisions for unresponsive patients who are known to retain some degree of covert awareness o ... Full text Cite

Why even a liberal can justify limited paternalistic intervention in anorexia nervosa

Journal Article Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology · January 1, 2021 Full text Cite

Diversity of meaning and the value of a concept: Comments on anna Alexandrova's a philosophy for the science of well-being

Journal Article Res Philosophica · January 1, 2019 Full text Cite

Barnes, Elizabeth. The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 160. $45.00 (cloth).

Journal Article Ethics · January 2018 Full text Cite

Artistic creativity and suffering

Chapter · January 1, 2018 Can negative psychological experiences be good for a person? If so, what could possibly be good about them? And when and under what circumstances might they be good? In what follows, my aim is to begin a philosophical exploration of these issues by focusin ... Full text Cite

Jennifer Hawkins CV

Selected Publications

Affect, Values and Problems Assessing Decision-Making Capacity.

Theory Without Theories: Well-Being, Ethics, and Medicine.

Further Reflections: Surrogate Decisionmaking When Significant Mental Capacities are Retained.

Why even a liberal can justify limited paternalistic intervention in anorexia nervosa

Diversity of meaning and the value of a concept: Comments on anna Alexandrova's a philosophy for the science of well-being

Barnes, Elizabeth. The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 160. $45.00 (cloth).

Artistic creativity and suffering

What’s Good for Them? Best Interests and Severe Disorders of Consciousness

The Experience Machine and the Experience Requirement

Decision-Making Capacity and Value

Well-Being: What Matters Beyond the Mental?

Well-Being, Time, and Dementia

Exploitation and Developing Countries: The Ethics of Clinical Research

Scrupulous Treatment