Scholarly Articles & Book Chapters

“Animopolis: Re-Imagining the Lives of Animals in Cities.” Journal of Urban History (forthcoming). 

“Incarcerating Animals and Egregious Losses of Freedom,” with Marc Bekoff. In Carceral Logics: Human Incarceration and Animal Captivity, edited by Lori Gruen and Justin Marceau, 229-237. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

“Can Clinical Bioethics Survive Climate Change?” with Andrew Jameton. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. Perspectives in biology and medicine vol. 64,4 (2021): 511-540. doi:10.1353/pbm.2021.0039

“Toward an Anti-Maleficent Research Agenda.” Ferdowsian, H., Fuentes, A., Johnson, L., King, B., & Pierce, J. (2022). Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 31(1), 54-58. doi:10.1017/S0963180121000487 

“Comparison of Human and Animal Assisted Dying Protocols,” with Beth Marchitelli, in Small Animal Euthanasia: Updates on Clinical Practice, Veterinary Clinics of North American: Small Animal Practice, pp. 617-626, 2020.   

“Last Moments: Witnessing and Representing the Death of Pets,” with Ross Taylor, in The Evolution of Death (Springer Nature), 2019. 

“The Animal as Patient,” in Palliative Medicine and Hospice Care, Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, 2019. 

“Putting the ‘Free’ Back in Freedom: The Failure and Future of Animal Welfare Science,” in Why People Love and Exploit Animals: Bridging Insights from Academia and Advocacy, edited by Kristof Dhont and Gordon Hodson, 2019. 

“The Ethics of Keeping Pets,” in Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics, edited by Bob Fisher, forthcoming in 2019.

“A Post-Zoo Future: Why Welfare Fails Zooed Animals.” With Marc Bekoff. Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science.

“Quality of Life in the Animal Hospice and Palliative Care Patient,” in Amir Shanan, Jessica Pierce, and Tamara Shearer (eds.) Hospice and Palliative Care for Companion Animals: Principles and Practice (Ames, Iowa: Wiley Publishing, 2017). 

“Ethical Decision Making in Animal Hospice and Palliative Care,” Amir Shanan, Jessica Pierce, and Tamara Shearer (eds.) Hospice and Palliative Care for Companion Animals: Principles and Practice (Ames, Iowa: Wiley Publishing, 2017). 

“Introduction,” in Amir Shanan, Jessica Pierce, and Tamara Shearer (eds.) Hospice and Palliative Care for Companion Animals: Principles and Practice (Ames, Iowa: Wiley Publishing, 2017). 

“Understanding animal suicide and death can lead to better end-of-life care.” Animal Sentience 20(6), 2017. 

“Teaching Doctors to Care for Patient and Planet,” chapter 26 in EarthEd: Rethinking Education on a Changing Planet (Washington, D.C.: Worldwatch Institute 2017).

“Hospice Care and Palliative Sedation.” Veterinary Team Brief November/December 2016.

“Human Behavior toward Animals Hasn't Caught Up to The Science,” New York Magazine, April 18, 2017.

“A Patient's Request for Steroids to Enhance Participation in Wilderness Sport and Adventure.” American Medical Association, Virtual Mentor. July 2014, Volume 16, Number 7: 534-538.With Christopher Madden and Aaron D Campbell.

“At War with Animals.” Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. May 2014.

“Review of Mark Rowlands’ Can Animals Be Moral?” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, December 28, 2013.

“The Dying Animal,” Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. October 2013. DOI 10.1007/s11673-013-9480-5. 

“Review of David B. Resnik, Environmental Health Ethics.” American Journal of Bioethics. 12 (12): 68-69. 

“Wild Justice Redux.” Social Justice Research (2012) 25(2): 122-139. With Marc Bekoff. 

 “Petroleum and Health Care: Evaluating and Managing Health Care's Vulnerability to Petroleum Supply Shifts.”  (2011). American Journal of Public Health  September, 2011. With Jeremy Hess, Daniel Bednarz, and Jae Yong Bae.

 “Mortality: Four Studies.” White Whale Review 2.2 (2010). Nominated for a Pushcart Prize. 

 “Environmental Bioethics: A Manifesto,” Health after Oil website, November 13, 2009.

 “Moral in Tooth and Claw,” The Chronicle of Higher Education October 18, 2009. With Marc Bekoff.

 “The Ethics of Sustainable Healthcare Reform,” Health after Oil website, August 29, 2009. With Dan Bednarz.

 “Wild Justice: Honor and Fairness among Beasts at Play,” American Journal of Play Vol. 1, No. 4 (2009): 451-475. With Marc Bekoff.

 “Mice in the Sink: On the Expression of Empathy in Animals.” Journal of Environmental Philosophy Vol. V, Issue I (2008): 75-96.

“Morality in Humans and Animals,” in Marc Bekoff, ed., Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2007). 

 “Reply to Paul Carrick,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Vol. 48, No. 3 (2005): 458-463. With Andrew Jameton.

 “Environmental Health,” in Stephen Post, ed., The Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd Edition (MacMillan Reference Books, 2003). With Peter Wenz.

 “Sustainable health care and emerging ethical responsibilities,” in Michael McCally, ed., Life Support: The Environment and Human Health. (Boston: MIT Press, 2002), chap. 8. Also published in Canadian Medical Association Journal Feb. 6, Vol. 164, No. 3 (2001), 365-369. With Andrew Jameton.

“Can bioethics survive on a dying planet?” Journal of Medical Humanities Vol. 23, No. 1 (2002), 3-6.

“Feminist slants on nature and health,” Journal of Medical Humanities. Vol. 23, No. 1 (2002), 61-72. With Karen Warren and Hilde L. Nelson.

“Cody’s Dilemma: A case study in animal autonomy and beneficence,” Journal of Irreproducible Results Vol. 45, Nos.5+6 (2000), 19-20. With Andrew Jameton.

 “Ethics in Precepting,” in Paul Paulman, Jeffrey Sussman, and Cheryl Abboud, eds., Precepting Medical Students in the Office (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press: 2000), chap. 33. With Audrey Paulman.

 “The Physician as Ethics Educator,” Family Medicine Vol. 32, No. 6 (2000), 379-380. With Audrey Paulman.

 “The Preceptor as Ethics Educator,” Family Medicine Vol. 31, No. 10 (1999), 687-8. With Audrey Paulman.

 “The Global Ethics of Latex Gloves: Reflections on Natural Resource Use in Health Care,” Cambridge Quarterly for Health Care Ethics Vol. 8, No. 1 (1999), 98-107. With Christina Kerby.

“Editorial: Confidentiality breaches—A routine procedure?” Emergency Medical News (1998). With Edward J. Mlinek.

 “Shades of Green,” in Laura Westra and Patricia H. Werhane, eds., The Business of Consumption: Environmental Ethics and the Global Economy. (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998), chap.18.  With R. Edward Freeman and Richard H. Dodd.

“Confidentiality and privacy breaches in a university hospital emergency department,” Academic Emergency Medicine 4 (1997),1142-1146. With Edward J. Mlinek.

 “Toward a sustainable U.S. health policy: Local congruities and global incongruities, Social Indicators Research 40 (1997),125-146. With Andrew Jameton. 

“Review of Kathy Rudy's Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-Choice: Moral Diversity in the Abortion Debate,” Journal of Medical Humanities, Vol. 18, No. 4 (1997), 275-8.

“Can you use a 'greener' cleaner?” Hospitals Materials Management March (1997), 58-60.

“Product review yields cleaner, greener use of chemicals,” Health Facilities Management March (1997), 54-62. 

 “’Another name for health’: Thoreau and modern medicine,” Literature and Medicine, Vol. 15, No. 1 (1996):129-145.  With Michael Branch.

 “Intracytoplastic Sperm Injection—What kind of reproduction is being assisted?” Human Reproduction Vol. 10, No. 10 (1995), 2518-2520. With Christopher DeJonge.

“Should gamete donation between family members be restricted?” Human Reproduction Vol. 10, No. 6 (1995), 1330-1337. With Paul Reitemeier, Andrew Jameton, Victoria Maclin, and Christopher De Jonge.