D. Micah Hester
Publications Since 2005

Selected Publications (since 2005)

Books:  Authored Volumes

Hester DM, End of Life Care and Pragmatic Decision Making:  A Bioethical Perspective —ethical issues concerning death and dying, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Books:  Edited Volumes

Hester DM, Ethics by Committee:  A Textbook on Consultation, Organization, and Education—a textbook anthology of newly written educational chapters for HEC members, Rowman & Littlefield Publ., 2008.

Contributions:  “Introduction” (ch. 1; co-authored w/Chris Hackler) and “The ‘What?’ and ‘Why?’ of Ethics” (ch. 2).

(Japanese edition published in 2009)

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, 2007.

Contributions:  “Preface” (co-authored w/Robert Talisse)

Books:  Contributions

Hester DM, “Access to an Infant’s Family:  Lingering Effects of Not Talking with Parents” —in Complex Case Consultations: Cases that Haunt Us edited by Paul J. Ford and Denise M .Dudzinski, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008, 66-71.

Hester DM, Entries:  The Encyclopedia of American Philosophy—edited by John Lachs & Robert Talisse, Routledge, 2008.

James, William:  “Radical Empiricism,” 421-423

“Mind-dust,” 511-512

Perry, Ralph Barton (1876-1957), 576-577

“Pure Experience,” 630-631

Journals:  Peer-Reviewed Articles

Hester DM, “Opting-Out:  The Relationship between Moral Arguments and Public Policy in Organ Procurement”—Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2009, vol. 18, no. 2, 159-165

Keshava-Prakad KH, Safar AM, Hester DM, Thompson AR, Mehta P, “Informed Consent in Medical Oncology”—Federal Practitioner, 2008, vol. 25, no. 7, 26-31, 35.

Hester DM.  “Bioethical Pragmatism and Pragmatic Bioethics:  What are We Really Talking About?”  APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Medicine, 2008, vol. 7, no. 2, 2-4.

Gentry RW, Mehta J, Hester DM, Thompson AR, Mehta P, “When Is the Best Time to Refer to Hospice?”—Federal Practitioner, 2007, vol. 24, no. 11, 51-53.

Hester DM, “Interests and Neonates:  There is More to the Story than We Explicitly Acknowledge”—Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2007, vol. 28, no. 5, 357-372.

Mehta P, Hester DM, Safar AM, Thompson AR, “Ethics-in-Oncology Forums”—Journal of Cancer Education, 2007, vol. 22, no. 3, 159-164.

Midathada M, Mehta J, Govindarajan R, Safar AM, Hester DM, Kyasa MJ, Mehta P, MD, “When Substance Abuse Interferes with Cancer Treatment”—Federal Practitioner, 2006, vol. 23, no. 9, 39-40, 42, 51.

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

Anthologized in:  Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, 7^th ed. edited by T. Beauchamp, et al., 2008, 500-504.

Gentry RW, Mehta J, Safar AM, Kayasa MJ, Thompson AR, Hester DM, Mehta P, “Disclosing Prognosis: When Patients Don’t Ask”—Federal Practitioner, 2006, vol. 23, no. 4, 14-16, 33.

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.

Journals:  Peer-Reviewed and Editorial Commentaries

Hester DM, Talisse, RB, “Physician Deception and Patient Autonomy” (peer commentary on Foddy’s “A Duty to Deceive: Placebos in Clinical Practice”)—American Journal of Bioethics, 2009, vol. 9, no. 12, forthcoming.

Hester DM, Schonfeld TL, “Pardon My Asking:  What’s New?” (peer commentary on Delaney/Hershenov’s “Why Consent May Not Be Needed For Organ Procurement”)—American Journal of Bioethics, 2009, vol. 9, no. 8, 11-12.

Hester DM, “Establishing Common Ground in a One-Time Patient Encounter” (case commentary)—AMA Virtual Mentor, 2009, vol. 11, no.3, 215-222.

Hester DM, Brown J, Schonfeld TL, “Pragmatism, Principles, and Problems” (peer commentary on Brendel/Miller’s target article “A Plea for Pragmatism in Clinical Research”)—American Journal of Bioethics, 2008, vol. 8, no. 4, 32-34.

Hester DM, “Pediatric Ethics – Why It Deserves Special Attention”—Practical Medicine and Bioethics, 2008, vol. 3, no. 4, 1, 5-6.

Hester DM, Schonfeld TL, Amoura NJ, “Gatekeeping and Personal Values:  Misuses of Professional Roles” (peer commentary on Card’s target article “Conscientious Objection and Emergency Contraception”)—American Journal of Bioethics, 2007, vol.7, no. 6, 27-28.

Hester DM, “Guest Editorial” (Special Section on Technology and the Body)—Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2007, vol. 16, no. 3, 254-255.

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, 2007, vol. 12, no. 2, 183-187.

Hester DM, “Commentary” (case commentary on “Resuscitating a Bad Patient”)—Hastings Center Report, Jan-Feb 2007, 15.

Schexnayder SM, Hester DM, “A New Perspective on Community Consultation in Pediatric Resuscitation Research” (editorial)—Critical Care Medicine, 2006, 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, 2006, vol. 6, no. 5, 51-52.