D. Micah Hester
Publications Since 2001

Publications Since 2001

Books:  Authored Volumes

Talisse RB, Hester DM, On James:  Philosophy As Vision—an analysis of James’s philosophical contributions, Wadsworth, 2004.

Hester DM, Community As Healing:  Pragmatist Ethics in Medical Encounters—an application of classic American philosophy to issues in physician-patient relationships, Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.

Hester DM, Ethical Decisions at the End of Life—ethical issues concerning death and dying, MIT Press, under contract.

Books:  Edited Volumes

Hester DM, Talisse RB, Dewey’s Essays in Experimental Logic, John Dewey’s 1916 collection on logic, critical edition with additional relevant writings, So. Ill. Univ. Press, forthcoming, Winter 2007.

Lachs, J, Hester DM, A William Ernest Hocking Reader with Commentary—collection of original texts by and critical essays concerning W. E. Hocking, Vanderbilt Univ. Press, 2004.

Burke, T, Hester DM, Talisse RB, Dewey's Logical Theory:  New Studies and Interpretations—collection of critical essays concerning Dewey’s logical theory by contemporary scholars, Vanderbilt Univ. Press, 2002.

Hester DM, Ford PJ, Computers and Ethics in the Cyberage—textbook anthology of essays on the philosophy and ethics of computer technologies, Prentice Hall Publ., 2001.

Hester DM, Educating Hospital Ethics Committees—a textbook of educational chapters for HEC members, Rowman & Littlefield Publ., under contract.

Books:  Contributions

Hester DM, Entries:  The Encyclopedia of American Philosophy—edited by John Lachs & Robert Talisse, Routledge, forthcoming.

“Mind-dust”

Perry, Ralph Barton (1876-1957)

“Pure Experience”

William James:  “Radical Empiricism”

Hester DM, “Access to Families:  What Lingers When a Consultant Never Talks with Parents of an Infant” —in Cases that Haunt Us edited by Denise Dudzinski and Paul J. Ford, Cambridge Univ. Press., forthcoming.

Hester DM, “Professing Public Health:  Practicing Ethics and Ethics As Practice”—in Public Health Policy and Ethics edited by Michael Boylan, Kluwer Academic Publ., 2004, ch. 1, 1-15.

Hester DM, “Situating the Self:  Grounding an Ethics of Culture and Race”—in Pragmatism and the Problem of Race edited by Bill E. Lawson and Donald Koch, Indiana University Press, 2004, ch. 5, 73-88.

Hester DM, “Habits of Healing”—in Pragmatic Bioethics edited by Glenn E. McGee, Vanderbilt Univ. Press, 1999, ch. 4, 45-59 and Pragmatic Bioethics, 2^nd ed., edited by Glenn E. McGee, MIT Press, 2003, ch. 4, 45-60.

Hester DM, “Significance at the End of Life”—in Pragmatic Bioethics edited by Glenn E. McGee, Vanderbilt Univ. Press, 1999, ch. 9, 113-128 and Pragmatic Bioethics, 2^nd ed., edited by Glenn E. McGee, MIT Press, 2003, ch. 9, 121-136.

Journals:  Peer-Reviewed Articles

Mehta P, Safar AM, Kaysa M, Hester DM, Thompson AR, “Ethics-in-Oncology Forums:  A Tool for Teaching Ethics to Hem/Onc Fellows”—Journal of Cancer Education, forthcoming.

Hester DM, “Why We Must Leave Our Organs to Others”—American Journal of Bioethics, 2006, vol. 6, no. 4, W23-28.

Hackler JC, Hester DM, “Age and the Allocation of Organs for Transplantation:  A Case Study”—Health Care Analysis, 2005, vol. 13, no. 2, 129-136.

Hester DM, “What Must We Mean by ‘Community’?:  A Processive Account”—Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2004, vol. 25, no. 5-6, 423-437.

Hester DM, “Is Pragmatism Well-suited to Bioethics?”—Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2003, vol. 28, no. 5, 545-561.

Hester DM, “What Constitutes a ‘Just’ Match?:  A Reply to Murphy” (a response to Timothy Murphy’s article “Justice in Residency Placement:  Is the Match System an Offense to the Values of Medicine?”)—Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics, 2003, vol 12, no. 1, 78-82.

Hester DM,  “Reproductive Technologies as Instruments of Meaningful Parenting:  Ethics in the Age of ARTs”—Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics, 2002, vol. 11, no. 4, 401-410.

Hester DM, “Narrative As Bioethics:  The ‘Fact’ of Social Selves and the Function of Consensus”—Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics, 2002, vol. 11, no. 1, 17-26.

Journals:  Peer-Reviewed and Editorial Commentaries

Hester DM, “Wither Authenticity:  ADHD, Medication, and Striving for the ‘Good Life’” (commentary on Singh “Clinical Implication of Ethical Concepts:  Moral self-understandings in children taking mehylphenidate for ADHD”)—Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, forthcoming.

Midathada M, Mehta J, Govindarajan R, Safar AM, Hester DM, Kyasa JM, Mehta P, MD, “When Substance Abuse Interferes with Cancer Treatment”—Federal Practitioner, vol. 23, no. 9, 39-40, 42, 51.

Schexnayder SM, Hester DM, “A New Perspective on Community Consultation in Pediatric Resuscitation Research” (editorial)—Critical Care Medicine, vol 34, no. 10, 2684-2685

Hester DM, Hackler JC, “Improving Medicine through Research and the Constitutive Nature of Altruism” (peer commentary on Simon, et al. target article “Altruistic discourse in the informed consent process for childhood cancer clinical trials”)—American Journal of Bioethics, vol. 6, no. 5, 51-52.

Gentry R, Mehta J, Safar AM, Kayasa J, Thompson AR, Hester DM, Mehta P, “Disclosing Diagnosis When Patients Don’t Ask”—Federal Practitioner, vol. 23, no. 4, 14-16, 33.

Hester DM, Kovach KA, “Trumping Professionalism” (peer commentary on Wear/Kuczewski’s target article “The Professionalism Movement: Can We Pause?”)—American Journal of Bioethics, 2004, vol. 4, no. 2, 47-48.

Hester DM, “’Dead Donor’ v. ‘Respect for Donor’ Rule:  Putting the Cart before the Horse” (peer commentary on Elysa Koppleman’s target article “The Dead Donor Rule and the Concept of Death…”)—American Journal of Bioethics, 2003, vol. 3, no. 1, 24-26.

Hester DM, “Rethinking the Residency Matching Process and Questioning the Value of Competition in Medicine”—Academic Medicine, 2001, vol. 76, no. 4, 39-41.

Response to “Letters to the Editor”—Academic Medicine, 2001, vol. 76, no. 11, 83-84.

Hester DM,  “The Anatomy of Bioethical Consultations” (peer commentary on George J Agich’s target article “The Question of Method in Ethics Consultation”)—American Journal of Bioethics, 2001, vol. 1, no. 4, 57-58.

Hester DM, “What to Do about the Mere Potential for Disabilities” (peer commentary on Mark Kuczewski’s target article “Disability:  An Agenda for Bioethics”)—AJOB-Online, 2001, vol. 1, no. 3, http://bioethics.net.

Hester DM, “The Need for Further Research into the Influences on Research Subjects” (peer commentary on Christine Grady’s target article “Money for Research Participation:  Does It Jeopardize Informed Consent?”)—AJOB-Online, 2001, vol. 1, no. 2, http://ajobonline.com/letterv1n2.php, published on-line as a “letter to the editor.”

Hester DM, “The Concern for Foundations and the Function of Narrative” (peer commentary on Tod Chambers’s target article “The Fiction of Bioethics:  A Précis”)—American Journal of Bioethics, 2001, vol. 1, no. 1, 47-48.

Journals:  Reviews

Hester DM, Review of Moral Acquaintance:  Methodology in Bioethics by Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J. (Notre Dame Press, 2000) in Philosophy in Review, 2001, vol. 21, no. 5, 390-393.