DAVID WASSERMAN
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Books written or edited:

Genetics and Criminal Behavior: Methods, Meanings, and Morals, edited by David Wasserman and Robert Wachbroit (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

Disability, Difference, Discrimination: Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public Policy, by Anita Silvers, David Wasserman, and Mary B. Mahowald (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998). Cloth, $54.00; paper, $18.95.

A Sword for the Convicted: Representing Indigent Defendants on Appeal, by David T. Wasserman (Greenwood Press, 1990). Cloth, $59.95.

Articles and essays:

"Personal Identity and the Moral Appraisal of Prenatal Genetic Therapy," in Mutating Concepts, Evolving Disciplines: Genetics, Medicine, and Society (Kluwer, 2001).

"Forensic DNA Typing" in A Companion to Genethics: Philosophy and the Genetic Revolution, Justine C. Burley and John Harris, eds. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2000).

"Behavioral Genetics" in Encyclopedia of Biotechnology: Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues, Thomas Murray and Maxwell Mehlman, eds. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2000).

"Philosophical Issues in the Definition and Social Response to Disability," Handbook of Disability Studies (Sage Publications, 2000).

"Stigma Without Impairment: Demedicalizing Disability Discrimination," Americans with Disabilities: Exploring the Implications of the Law for Individuals and Institutions (New York: Routledge, 2000).

Review of The Human Genome Project and the Future of Health Care, Thomas H. Murray, Mark A. Rothstein, and Robert F. Murray, eds., Ethics 109: 911-914 (July, 1999).

(with Anita Silvers) "Competence and Convention: Disability Rights in Sports and Education," Report from the Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy, Vol. 18. No. 4 (Fall, 1998).

"Public Funding for Science and Art: Censorship, Social Harm, and the Case of Genetic Research into Crime and Violence," in Censorship and Silencing: Practices of Cultural Regulation, Robert Post, ed. (Santa Monica: Getty Research Institute, 1998).

"Consumption, Appropriation, and Stewardship," in Ethics of Consumption: The Good Life, Justice and Global Stewardship, David Crocker and Toby Linden, eds. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).

(with Mick Womersley) "Preserving the Watermen’s Way of Life," Report from the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Fall, 1997).

"The Procedural Turn: Social Heuristics and Neutral Values," in Procedural Justice (Onati International Series in Law and Society), Klaus Rohl and Stefan Machura, eds. (Aldershot, UK: Dartmouth, 1997).

(with Suzanne Bianchi, Judith Lichtenberg, and Robert Wachbroit) Counting Race and Ethnicity: Options for the 2000 Census," Report from the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Summer, 1997).

(with William Galston) "Color-blind Justice?" (review of Randall Kennedy, Race, Crime and the Law), The Wilson Quarterly, Spring, 1997.

"Diversity and Stereotyping," Report from the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, vol. 17, No. 1/2 (April, 1997).

"The Concept of Discrimination" in Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (San Diego: Academic Press, 1997).

"Let Them Eat Chances: Probability and Distributive Justice," Economics & Philosophy, vol. 12, No. 1 (April, 1996).

"Some Moral Issues in the Correction of Impairments," Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 27, No. 2 (Fall, 1996).

"Commemoration and Disavowal," Report from the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy Vol. 16, No. 3/4 (Summer/Fall 1996).

"Racial Generalizations and Police Discretion" in Handled With Discretion: Ethical Issues in Police Decision Making, John Kleinig, ed., (Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, 1996).

(with William Galston) "Gambling Away Our Moral Capital," The Public Interest, no. 123 (Spring, 1996).

"Research into Genetics and Crime: Consensus and Controversy," Politics and the Life Sciences, Vol. 15, No. 1 (March, 1996).

(with Alan Strudler) "The First Dogma of Deontology: Quinn on Doing and Allowing," Philosophical Studies, vol. 80, (October, 1995).

(with Robert Wachbroit) "Patient Autonomy and Value Neutrality in Nondirective Genetic Counseling," Stanford Journal of Law and Social Policy, vol. 6, No. 2 (1995).

Review of The Genetic Frontier: Ethics, Law and Social Policy, in Jurimetrics, vol. 35, No. 4 (Summer, 1995).

Review of Carl F. Cranor, Regulating Toxic Substances: A Philosophy of Science and the Law, in Ethics, Vol. 105, No. 3 (April, 1995).

"Impairment, Disadvantage, and Equality: A Reply to Anita Silvers," Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 25. No. 3 (December, 1994).

"Disabilities, Discrimination, and Fairness," Report From the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, Vol. 13, No. 1/2 (Winter/Spring 1993): 7-12.

"Population Programs and Individual Autonomy," Report From the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Fall 1993): 16-22.

(with Robert Wachbroit) "Defining Families: The Impact of Reproductive Technology," Report From the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Summer 1993): 3-8.

"DNA Fingerprinting," In: Encyclopedia of Bioethics (Rev. Ed.) (New York: Macmillan, 1993).

(with Victor Weedn) "Forensic DNA Typing: Consensus and Controversy," Scientific Evidence Review Vol. 1:32-36, November, 1992.

(with David Luban and Alan Strudler) "Deeds Without Doers: Individual Responsibility in Organizational Settings," Michigan Law Review, Vol. 90, No. 8 (August 1992):2348-2392.

(with Robert Wachbroit) "The Ethics, Law, and Technology of IVF, Surrogate Parentage, and Gamete Donation," In: Clinics in Laboratory Medicine: Technology Applied to Problems of Human Reproduction, Vol. 12, No. 3: 429-448, September, 1992.

Point of View: "In Defense of a Conference on Genetics and Crime: Assessing the Social Impact of a Public Debate," The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 23, 1992.

"Reply to Cohen: Common Sense About Naked Statistics," Cardozo Law Review, 13:981-986, 1991.

"Ward Edwards and the New Bayesian Software," Cardozo Law Review, 13:1075-1079, 1991.

"The Morality of Statistical Proof and the Risk of Mistaken Liability," Cardozo Law Review 13:935-976 (1991).

(with Richard Lempert and Reid Hastie) "Hindsight and Causality," Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 17:30-35, 1991.

"Should a Good Lawyer Do the Right Thing?," Maryland Law Review, 49(2):392-423, 1990.

"The Appellate Defender as Monitor, Watchdog and Gadfly." Occasional Paper 7, Center for Research in Criminal and Justice, New York University Law School, Fall, 1989.

"Justifying Self-Defense," Philosophy and Public Affairs, 16:356-378, 1987.



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