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    Beyond Humanity? The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement
    (BIOETHICS, 2012-09) Anomaly, J
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    Combating resistance: The case for a global antibiotics treaty
    (Public Health Ethics, 2010-04-01) Anomaly, J
    The use of antibiotics by one person can profoundly affect the welfare of other people. I will argue that efforts to combat antimicrobial resistance generate a global collective action problem that only a well-designed international treaty can overcome. I begin by describing the problem of resistance and outlining some market-friendly policy tools that participants in a global treaty could use to control the problem. I then defend the claim that these policies can achieve their aim while protecting individual liberty and state autonomy. Finally, I offer some suggestions for a treaty, drawing lessons from the failure of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and the success of the Montreal Protocol on ozone depletion. © 2010 The Author.
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    Is obesity a public health problem?
    (Public Health Ethics, 2012-11-01) Anomaly, J
    It is often claimed that there is an obesity epidemic in affluent countries, and that obesity is one of the most serious public health problems in the developed world. I will argue that obesity is not an 'epidemic' in any useful sense of the word, and that classifying it as a public health problem requires us to make fairly controversial moral and empirical assumptions. While epidemiological evidence suggests that the prevalence of obesity is on the rise and can lead to serious health problems ranging from diabetes to cardiovascular disease, this does not by itself show that obesity is a public health problem. © 2012 The Author 2012.
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    On What Matters, vol 1
    (JOURNAL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY, 2013) Anomaly, J
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    Personal identity and practical reason: The failure of Kantian replies to Parfit
    (Dialogue-Canadian Philosophical Review, 2008-12-01) Anomaly, J
    This essay examines and criticizes a set of Kantian objections to Parfit's attempt in Reasons and Persons to connect his theory of personal identity to practical rationality and moral philosophy. Several of Parfit's critics have tried to sever the link he forges between his metaphysical and practical conclusions by invoking the Kantian thought that even if we accept his metaphysical theory of personal identity, we still have good practical grounds for rejecting that theory when deliberating about what to do. The argument between Parfit and his opponents illuminates broader questions about the relationship between our metaphysical beliefs and our practical reasons. © 2008 Canadian Philosophical Association.
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    Public goods and government action
    (Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 2015-01-01) Anomaly, J
    © The Author(s) 2013.It is widely agreed that one of the core functions of government is to supply public goods that markets either fail to provide or cannot provide efficiently. I will suggest that arguments for government provision of public goods require fundamental moral judgments in addition to the usual economic considerations about the relative efficacy of markets and governments in supplying them. While philosophers and policymakers owe a debt of gratitude to economists for developing the theory of public goods, the link between public goods and public policy cannot be forged without moral reflection on the proper function and scope of government power.
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    Public health and public goods
    (Public Health Ethics, 2011-11-01) Anomaly, J
    It has become increasingly difficult to distinguish public health (and public health ethics) from tangentially related fields like social work. I argue that we should reclaim the more traditional conception of public health as the provision of health-related public goods. The public goods account has the advantage of establishing a relatively clear and distinctive mission for public health. It also allows a consensus of people with different comprehensive moral and political commitments to endorse public health measures, even if they disagree about precisely why they are desirable. © The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press.
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    Review of Markets Without Limits
    (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews) Anomaly, J
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    Social Norms, the Invisible Hand, and the Law
    (University of Queensland Law Journal, 2014) Anomaly, J; Brennan, G