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Jessica Pierce, Ph.D.
3520 Mountain View Avenue
Longmont, Colorado 80503
Phone:303-819-6931   
e-mail: piercejessica "at" usa.net
http://www.newbioethics.com

BOOKS: Bekoff, Marc and Jessica Pierce. Wild Justice: Reflections on Empathy, Fair Play, and Morality in Animals. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming in 2008).

Pierce, Jessica. Morality Play: Contemporary Case Studies in Ethics. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005).

Pierce, Jessica and Andrew Jameton. The Ethics of Environmentally Responsible Health Care. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).

Freeman, R. Edward, Jessica Pierce, and Richard H. Dodd. Environmentalism and the New Logic of Business. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).



Works in Progress:

Jessica Pierce and George Randels. Contemporary Bioethics: An Integrated Approach (under contract with Oxford University Press; anticipated publication date is 2008).



Published Articles and Book Chapters:

Pierce, Jessica. “Morality in Animal Societies,” in Marc Bekoff, ed., Encyclopedia of Human-Animal Relationships (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2007). (In press).

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

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

Pierce, Jessica and Andrew Jameton. “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.

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

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

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

Paulman, Audrey and Jessica Pierce. “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.

Paulman, Audrey and Jessica Pierce. “The physician as ethics educator,” Family Medicine Vol. 32, No. 6 (2000), 379-380.

Pierce, Jessica and Audrey Paulman. “The preceptor as ethics educator,” Family Medicine Vol. 31, No. 10 (1999), 687-8.

Pierce, Jessica and Christina Kerby. “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.

Mlinek, Edward J. and Jessica Pierce. “Editorial: Confidentiality breaches—A routine procedure?” Emergency Medical News Vol. XX, No. 5 (1998).

Freeman, R. Edward, Jessica Pierce, and Richard H. Dodd. “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.

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

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

Pierce, Jessica. “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.

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

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

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

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

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



EXPERIENCE:
2001- 2006 University of Colorado at Boulder,   Boulder, CO
Lecturer

1993- 2000 University of Nebraska Medical Center,   Department of Preventive and Societal Medicine, Section on Humanities and Law
Assistant Professor

EDUCATION:
1989 - 1993
  • University of Virginia, Department of Religious Studies ,  Charlottesville, VA
    Ph.D. Dissertation: Theologies for Our Time: Our Moral Relationship to the Earth.

1987 - 1989
  • Harvard University, The Divinity School ,  Cambridge, MA
    Master of Theological Studies

1983 - 1987
  • Scripps College ,  Claremont, CA
    Bachelor of Arts, Religious Studies



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