Scholarly Articles & Book Chapters

  • “The Case Against Pets.” TIME Magazine, June 23, 2024

  • Animopolis: Re-Imagining Animals in the City.” Journal of Urban History, 2024; 50(1), 228-234.

  • “How One Health Instrumentalizes Animals,” with L. Syn Johnson and Hope Ferdowsian. AMA Journal of Ethics. 2024; 26(2): 124-129

  • “Healthy Conversation About Meat,” with Marc Bekoff, Hope Ferdowsian, Barbara J. King, and L. Syd M. Johnson. AMA Journal of Ethics. 2023;25(6):E461-463. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.461.

  • Where Went the Wolf?” Aeon Magazine, March 9, 2023

  • “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.