1st Edition
Gay Ethics Controversies in Outing, Civil Rights, and Sexual Science
- Introduction
- Homosex/Ethics
- Part II: Outing and the Closet
- The Closet and the Ethics of Outing
- Privacy and the Ethics of Outing
- Outing, Truth-Telling, and the Shame of the Closet
- Coming Out, Being Out, and Acts of Virtue
- Part III: Civil Rights and Social Justice
- Gay Marriage: A Civil Right
- The Military Ban and the ROTC: A Case Study in Closeting
- A Moral Justification for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights Legislation
- Gay Rights and Affirmative Action
- Part IV: The Moral Meanings of Science
- Explaining Homosexuality: Philosophical Issues, and Who Cares Anyhow?
- The Relevance of Scientific Research About Sexual Orientation to Lesbian and Gay Rights
- Fixation and Regression in the Psychoanalytic Theory of Homosexuality: A Critical Evaluation
- Homophobia and the Moral Authority of Medicine
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
Biography
Timothy F. Murphy holds a doctorate in philosophy from Boston College and is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Biomedical Sciences. He teaches in the Medical Humanities Program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago. He is the co-editor of both Writing AIDS: Gay Literature, Language, and Analysis (Columbia University Press, 1993) and Justice and the Human Genome Project (University of California Press, 1994). He is also the author of Ethics in an Epidemic: AIDS, Morality, and Culture (forthcoming from the University of California Press) and is writing a book on the ethics of sexual reorientation therapy.
