Published work

Books:

  • The Moral Perspective. Reflections on Ethics and Practice. English translation by Barbara B. Nelson. Reykjavik: University of Iceland Press 2018.
  • Rabbað um veðrið og fleiri heimspekileg hugtök. (Essys on the weather and other philosophical concepts). Reykjavik: University of Iceland Press 2015.
  • Hugsmíðar. Um siðferði, stjórnmál og samfélag (Reconstructions. Essays on morality, politics and society). Reykjavik: University of Iceland Press 2014.
  • Farsælt líf, réttlátt samfélag. Kenningar í siðfræði (Good life, just society. Theories of ethics). Reykjavik: Heimskringla 2008.
  • Dialog und Menschenwürde. Ethik im Gesundheitswesen. LIT-Verlag 2005.
  • Sjálfræði og aldraðir í ljósi íslenskra aðstæðna (Self-determination of the elderly in nursing homes). Co-author Ástríður Stefánsdóttir. Reykjavik: University of Iceland Press 2004.
  • Broddflugur. (Gadflies. A Collection of articles). Reykjavik: University of Iceland Press 1997.
  • Siðfræði lífs og dauða. Erfiðar ákvarðanir í heilbrigðisþjónustu (Ethics of life and death. Difficult decisions in health care). Reykjavik: University of Iceland Press 1993, 2003.

Editions in English:

  • Associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, 2nd. ed. Editor in chief Ruth Chadwick. Elsevier 2012.
  • The Ethics and Governance of Human Genetic Databases. European Perspectives. Ed. with M. Häyry, R. Chadwick, G. Árnason. Cambridge University Press 2007.
  • Blood & Data. Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of Human Genetic Databases. Ed. with G. Árnason, S. Nordal. Reykjavík: University of Iceland Press 2004.
  • Guest Editor of Special section: Kant, Habermas and Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics 21 (2012:2).

Articles and book chapters in languages other than Icelandic.

  • "Bioethics in the Spirit of Kierkegaard“. Kierkegaard and Bioethics, Johann-Christian Pöder ed. (Routledge 2023), Chapter 1.
  • "In defense of dignity: Reflections on the moral function of human dignity“. Bioethics 35:1 (2021), 31–39.
  • “Moral Culture and the Financial Crisis in Light of the Icelandic Experience”, Midwest Studies in Philosophy XLII (2018). Co-author Salvör Nordal. DOI: 10.1111/misp.12086.“Have Icelanders Learned Their Lesson? The Investigation of the Icelandic Collapse and its Aftermath”, The Return of Trust? Institutions and the Public after the Icelandic Financial Crisis, Throstur Olaf Sigurjonsson, David L. Schwarzkopf, Murray Bryant, eds. (Emerald 2018), 173–193.
  • “Icelandic politics in light of normative models of democracy“, Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla. Special edition (May 31 2018), 35–60.
  • “Biological or Democratic Citizenship”, Bioethics and Biopolitics, Péter Kakuk ed. (Dordrecht: Springer 2017), 31‒45.
  • “Responsible Return. Consent for Feedback from Biobanks Research”, Ethics and Oncology. New Issues of Therapy, care, and Research, Monika Bobbert, Beate Herrmann, Wolfgang U. Eckart, eds. (Freiburg: Verlag Karl Aber 2017), 154–167.
  • "The Danger of Losing Oneself. Habermas’s Species Ethics in Light of Kierkegaards’s Existential Analysis", Kierkegaard’s Existential Approach, Arne Grøn, René Rosfort, Brian K. Söderquist eds. (Berlin: De Gruyter 2017), 217–238.
  • "A Man of Polemics and Principles: The Reception of Magnús Eiríksson in Iceland", Magnús Eiríksson. A Forgotten Contemporary of Kierkegaard, Gerhard Schreiber og Jon Stewart eds. (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press 2017), 325‒345. Co-author Jón Bragi Pálsson.
  • "Democratic practices, governance, and the financial crash", Icelands‘s Financial Crisis. The politics of blame, protest, and reconstruction. Valur Ingimundarson, Philippe Urfalino og Irma Erlingsdóttir, eds. (Routledge 2016), 121‒139.
    „Bioethics in Iceland. Recent Developments“, Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics 25 (2016:3), 421–434.
  • "The Person in a State of Sickness". Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics 25 (2015:2), 209–18. Co-author Stefán Hjörleifsson.
  • ”Towards Critical Bioethics”. Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics 24 (2015:2), 154–164.
  • ”Something Rotten in the State of Iceland. “The Production of Truth” about the Icelandic banks”. In: Gambling Debt: Iceland’s Rise and Fall in the Global Economy, Gísli Pálsson og Paul Durrenberger eds. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado 2015), 47–59.
  • “From species ethics to social concerns: Habermas’s critique of “liberal eugenics” evaluated”, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 35 (2014:5), 353–367.
  • “Financial Collapse and Democratic Reconstruction in Iceland“. Retrenchment or renewal? Welfare states in times of economic crisis. G. Jónsson and K. Stefánsson, eds. University of Helsinki, NORDWEL Series 2013), Chapter 18.
  • “Scientific Citizenship in a Democratic Society”, Public Understanding of Science 22 (2013: 8), 927–940 (online publication July 24 2012).
  • “Iceland”, Handbook of Global Bioethics, H.A.M.J. ten Have, B. Gordijn (eds.) (Springer Verlag 2013), 1141–1164.
  • “Patientenautonomie, Humangenetik und Biopolitik”. Transl. Felix Koch. Claudia Wiesemann, Alfred Simon (Hrsg.), Patientenautonomie (Münster: mentis 2013), 275–286.
  • “To Model a New Way of Democracy. The Case of National Forums in Iceland”. In: M. Böss, J. Møller, and S.-E. Skaaning (eds). Developing Democracies: Democracy, Democratization, and Development (Aarhus University Press), pp. 203-216.
  • “The Personal is Political: Ethics and Personalized medicine“, Ethical Perspectives 19 (2012:1), 103–122.
  • “Guest Editorial: Bioethics and the Conditions for Human Agency”, Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics 21 (2012:2), 150–153.
  • “Cracks beneath Iceland‘s banking meltdown“. Compliance Monitor (October 2011), 22–24.
  • “Database Research: Public and Private Interests”, Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics 20 (2011:4), 563–571.
  • “Informed Consent”, The SAGE Handbook of Health Care Ethics: Core and Emerging Issues, Ruth Chadwick, Henk ten Have, Eric Meslin, eds. Co-authors Hongwen Li and Yali Cong (London: Sage Publications 2011), 106–­116..
  • “Nonconfrontational Rationality or Critical Reasoning“, Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics 20 (2011:2), 228–237.
  • “Bioethical concepts in theory and practice: An exploratory study of prenatal screening in Iceland”, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 14 (2011:1), 53–­61. Co-author Helga Gottfreðsdóttir.
  • “My Philosophy of Medicine“, Philosophy of Medicine. 5 Questions, eds. Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen, Peter Rossell, Michael Slott Norup & Stig Andur Pedersen. Automatic Press, in press 2011, 1–­17.
  • ”Bioethics in Iceland“, Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics19 (2010:3), 299–309.
  • “Moral analysis of an economic collapse – an exercise in practical ethics”. Etikk i praksis. Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics (2010), 4 (1), 101–123.
  • „An Ethos in Transformation: Conflicting Values in the Sagas“, Gripla XX (2009), 217−240.
  • “Scientific citizenship, benefit, and protection in population based research“, Ethics of research biobanking, eds. Jan Helge Solbakk, Sören Holm, Björn Hoffman. Springer Verlag 2009, 131−141.
  • “Justice or Solidarity? Thinking about Nordic Prioritization in Light of Rawls“, Cutting Through the Surface: Philosophical Approaches to Bioethics, eds. Søren Holm, Peter Herissone-Kelly and Tuija Takala (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009), 99–110.
  • “Iceland: ”Neglect and misunderstanding”. The Reception of Kierkegaard in Iceland“, Kierkegaard’s International Reception. Tome I: Northern and Western Europe. Ed. Jon Stewart. Ashgate 2009, 219–234.
  • “Decoding the genetics debate: hype and hope in Icelandic news media 2000 and 2004“. New Genetics and Society 27 (2008:4), 377–394. Co-authors Stefán Hjörleifsson og Edvin Schei.
  • “Population Databanks and Democracy in Light of the Icelandic Experience“. Genetic Democracy. Philosophical Perspectives. eds. Veiko Launis og Juha Räikkä. Springer Verlag 2008), 93–104. Co-author Stefán Hjörleifsson.
  • “Biopolitics in a Democratic Society.“ Bioethics, Politics and Business. TemaNord 2008:570, 15–26.
  • “Global Principles and Local Context – A Challenge of Globalization.“ Globalizierung/Globalization, eds. Martina Keitsch, Bernd Neumann, Audun Öfsti. (Aachen: Shaker Verlag 2008), 67–78.
  • “Geneticization and bioethics: advancing debate and research“. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 10 (2007:4), 417–431. Co-author Stefán Hjörleifsson.
  • “Introduction: some lessons of ELSAGEN“ and „Introduction: ethical
  • questions“. The Ethics and Goverance of Human Genetic Databases. European Perspectives. Eds. Matti Häyry, Ruth Chadwick, Vilhjálmur Árnason, Garðar Árnason (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007), 1–7 og 149.
  • “Informed consent and human genetic database research“. The Ethics and Goverance of Human Genetic Databases. European Perspectives. Eds. Matti Häyry, Ruth Chadwick, Vilhjálmur Árnason, Garðar Árnason (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007), 199–216. Co-author Sigurður Kristinsson.
  • “The Global and the Local. Fruitful Tension in Medical Ethics“. Ethik in der Medizin 18 (2006), 385–389.
  • “The Ethics of Genetics and Medical Information“, Nordiska Styrka – perspekitiv till samarbete inom forskningen, eds. L. Hakamies-Blomqvist, E.K. Rydberg., M.M. Nilsen (Oslo: NordForsk 2006), 14–17.
  • “The Ethics of Embryo Design”, PGD and Embryo Selection. Ed,. Ingileif Jónsdóttir. Tema Nord (2005:591), 28–38.
  • “Sensible Discussion in Bioethics: Reflections on Interdisciplinary Research”, Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics14 (2005:3), 322–328.
  • “Discourse in Context“, Morality in Context, W. Edelstein og Gertrud Nunner-Winkler eds. (Elsevier 2005), 143–161.
  • Ethical issues in Fisheries. FAO Ethics Series 4. Rome: FAO 2005. Co-authors Devin Bartley, Serge Garcia, Róbert H. Haraldsson, Dagfinnur Sveinbjörnsson og Hiromoto Watanabe.
  • “Ética y sanidad: Dignidad y diálogo en la relacíon asistencial“, Revista Laguna 2004, 14, Servicio de Publicaciones Universidad de la Laguna, 23–35.
  • “Informed, Democratic Consent? The Case of the Icelandic Database.“ Trames 2004, 8, Estonian Academy of Sciences and the University of Tartu, 164–177. Co-author Garðar Árnason.
  • “Coding and Consent. Moral Challenges of the Database Project in Iceland”, Bioethics 18 (2004:1), 39–61. Reprinted in R. Chadwick, H. Kuhse, W.A.Landman, U. Schlenk, P. Singer, eds. The Bioethics Reader. Editor’s Choice, eds. (Blackwell Publishing 2007), 365–386. Selection of articles at 25th anniversary of the journal.
  • Review: “Robert J. Dostal (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer.“ The Philosophical Quarterly 54 (2004), 634–637.
  • “Towards a Better Life: The Possibility of Universal Discourse Ethics“, Universal Ethics. Perspectives and Proposals from Scandinavian Scholars, eds. G. Bexell og D.E. Anderson (Kluwer 2002), 15–22.
  • “Education in bioethics in Iceland“, Teaching Bioethics. Report from a seminar (Nord 2002:2), 73–89.
  • “Community Consent, Democracy and Public Dialogue: The Case of the Icelandic Health Sector Database“. „Bioethics, Biotechnology and the Public“, ed. Agnes Allansdóttir, Politeia. Rivista di Etica e Scelte Pubbliche (N. 63 2001), 105–116. Co-author Garðar Árnason.
  • “Universal Principles in Particular Contexts“, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 4 (2001:2), 237–240.
  • “Experience or Authority? A response to Widdershoven“, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 3 (2000:2), 191–193.
  • “Gadamerian dialogue in the patient-professional interaction.“ Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 3 (2000:1), 17–23.
  • “Diskurs im Kontext“, þýð. Wolfgang Edelstein. Moral im sozialen Kontext, eds. W. Edelstein og G. Nunner-Winkler (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2000), 149–172.
  • “Kant, Mill and Consumer Autonomy: a response to R.S. Downie“, Ends and Means 3 (1999:3), 15–16.
  • “The Patient-Professional Interaction“, Research on Violence, Threats and Bullying as Health Risks Among Health Care Personnel. Proceedings from the Workshop for Nordic researchers in Reykjavík, 14–16 August 1994. Tema Nord 1995:583.
  • “Kommunikasjonens moralske intensjoner i omsorgen ved livets slut“, Omsorg. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Palliativ Medisin 11 (nr. 4, 1994), 37–42.
  • “Towards Authentic Conversations. Authenticity in the Patient-Professional Relationship“. Theoretical Medicine 15 (1994), 227–242.
  • “For barnets skyld“. Nordisk Utveckling 95 (1993:1), 12–13.
  • “Morality and Social Structure in the Icelandic Sagas“. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 90 (April 1991), 157–174.
  • “Morality in the Sagas“. Prism. A Publication of the Division of Humanities, Pacific Lutheran University 2 (1989:2), 1 og 8–11.
  • “The Discourse of Freedom.“ Rechtstheorie: Zeitschrift fur Logik, Methodenlehre, Kybernetik und Soziologie des Rechts 19 (1988:4), 491–501.
  • “Morality and Humanity.“ The Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. XXII (1988), 3–22.
  • “Moralen och den mänskliga naturen“, Ajatus 44 Suominen Filosofisen Yhdistyksen vuosikirja (ársriti finnska heimspekifélagsins 1987), 18–37.
  • "Social Values and the Sick Child." Sjuka barn i samhallet. Kongressreferat (Vasa lans Cancerforening 1986), 24–39
  • The Context of Morality and the Question of Ethics. From Naive Existentialism to Suspicious Hermeneutics. Ph.D. Thesis. Purdue University, University Microfims, Ann Arbor.
  • Review: “Francis Jeanson´s Sartre and the Problem of Morality.“Eros 8(1981:1), 136–142.
  • “The Wild Duck: An Existential Interpretation.“ Eros: Journal of Philosophy and the Literary Arts 7 (1980:1), 33–47.