Curriculum Vitae RONALD F. WHITE, PH.D. Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy College of Mount St. Joseph Cincinnati, Ohio 45233 EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky (1984) Specialty: History of American Medicine M.A. Philosophy, University of Kentucky (1981) B.A. Philosophy, Eastern Kentucky University (1973) AREAS OF EXPERTISE Health Care Ethics Health Care Policy Business Ethics Ethics and Leadership Social and Political Philosophy Human Nature SCHOLARLY ORGANIZATIONS Association for Politics and the Life Sciences International Political Science Association Independent Institute HONORS AND AWARDS Leadership Grant (2014-2015) Elected to the Advisory Board of Research Group #12 of the International Political Science Association (2012) MSJ Co-Op Faculty Coordinator of the Year (2012) Elected to the Executive Board of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (2008) Program Director for the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences meetings (2007, 2011, 2013) Distinguished Established Scholar Award (2008) Recognized by Ohio Magazine for "Excellence in Education" (December 2008) PUBLIC INTERVIEWS Interview on Health Care Reform (with Charles Kroncke)" The Real Deal" Internet Radio Show hosted by James H. Fetzer (2007) Interview on Social and Political Philosophy Revereradio.net (February 2, 2009) TEACHING EXPERIENCE College of Mount St. Joseph (1988-present) Undergraduate Courses: Health Care Ethics Ethics Perspectives on Human Nature Reproductive Ethics Environmental Philosophy Philosophical Point of View Philosophy of Mind Business Ethics Graduate Courses Ethical Issues in Organizations Health Care Policy PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS: Moral Inquiry (Unpublished Textbook) Human Inquiry (Unpublished Textbook) Business Ethics (Unpublished Textbook) A Walk through the Park: The History of GE Appliances and Appliance Park (Louisville, Elfun Historical Society: 1987). PUBLICATIONS: ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES "Libertarianism" entry in the Encyclopedia of Business, Ethics, and Society (2007) "William Stout Chipley" and "Eastern State Hospital" entries The Kentucky Encyclopedia (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992) PUBLICATIONS: ESSAYS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS “Political Behavior and Biology: Leadership and Followership”(in) Handbook on Biology and Politics ed. Al Somit and Steve Peterson. (Edward Elgar Press: 2017) "Violent, Politicized Death Assassination Discourse and Political Power: The Death of Alexander Litvinenko" (in) The Many Ways We Talk about Death in Contemporary Society: Interdisciplinary Studies in Portrayal and Classification, ed. Margaret Souza and Christina Staudt (Mellon Press, 2009) "Apologists and Critics of the Lone Gunman Theory" (in) Assassination Science: Experts Speak Out on the Death of JFK ed. James H. Fetzer (New York: Open Court Press, 1998) "The Paradox of Just Savings: Justice between Present and Future Persons" (in) Becoming Persons: Proceedings of the Second Conference on Persons, ed. Robert N. Fisher, (Oxford, Applied Theology Press, 1994). "Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Suicide Machine" in Euthanasia: For the Good of the Patient, For the Good of Society, ed. Robert Misbin, M.D. (University Press, 1992) pp. 189-202 "Michel Foucault and the Philosophy of Therapeutic Architecture" in Commonplaces: Essays on the Nature of Place (University Press of America, 1989) 101-117 "Peircean Perspectives on Experimental Psychology and Unconscious Mind." Semiotics 1982, edited by John Deely and Jonathan Evans (University Press of America, 1987) 515-527. PUBLICATIONS: ESSAYS IN JOURNALS “Cass R. Sunstein’s Nudge Science: Ethics, Influence, and Public Policy” (forthcoming) Politics and the Life Sciences (2018). Ronald F. White and Charles Kroncke, “Credentialism and the Migration of Medical Students and Medical Graduates.” (In Progress) Ronald F. White, Ph. D. and Bonnie Chojnacki, MLIS, “The BRCA Gene Patents: Arguments Over Patentability and Social Utility” World Health and Medical Policy ( 2013) “Leadership Ethics: An Emerging Academic Discipline”, (co-authored with Michael Sontag and Paul Jenkins) Choice Magazine (October 2011). “Toward an Integrated Theory of Leadership: A Review of Mark van Vugt and Anjana Ahuja, Naturally Selected: The Evolutionary Science of Leadership (New York: HarperCollins, 2011) Politics and the Life Sciences. Vol. 30 no. 1. pp. 116-121 "The Modern Health Care Maze: Development and Effects of the Four-Party System" (co-authored with Charles Kroncke) The Independent Review, Volume 14, No 1 (Summer 2009) 45-70 Click Here "A Prolegomenon to a General Theory of Assassination" Assassination Research, Volume 5, Number 1 (2007) Click Here "Institutional Review Board Mission Creep: The Common Rule, Social Science, and the Nanny State" The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy, Volume 11, Number 4 (Spring 2007). Click Here "Direct to Consumer Advertising and the Demise of the Ideal Model of Health Care" The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy (Volume XI, No. 2 Fall, 2006) pp. 223-236 Click Here "Evolutionary Epistemology and the Politics of Stem Cell Research," Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science. (Vol 11, no 3-4, pp. 217-246: 2004) "Anti-Aging at the APLS" Journal of Anti-Aging Medicine (Vol. 6 no. 3, 2003) p. 1 "Why God and Darwin Won't Go Away" (A review of James B. Miller, An Evolving Dialogue: Theological and Scientific Perspectives on Evolution (2001); Pascal Boyer, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought (2001); Cornelius G. Hunter, Darwin's God: Evolution and the Problem of Evil (2001); Patricia A. Williams, Doing Without Adam and Eve: Sociobiology and Original Sin (2001)) in Choice Magazine, January, 2002. "Sociobiology, Evolution, and the Human Sciences" (1999) review essay for Choice Magazine Ronald F. White and Sean Fraley, "Imperfect Competition, Price-Fairness, and the Pharmaceutical Industry" Online Journal of Ethics, vol 2, no.1 (1998) "Diversity, Toleration, Liberty, and Equality: Defending Liberal Values in Education" Philosophical Studies in Education: Proceedings-Annual (1995) Meeting of the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society pp. 113-122 "Libertarian Ideas on Public Schools and the Funding Crisis" Philosophical Studies in Education: Proceedings-Annual (1994) Meeting of the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society pp. 193-203 "William Stout Chipley and the Evolution of the Medical Superintendency at Eastern State Hospital, 1855-1869." Filson Club Quarterly 69 (April 1995) pp. 140-158. "The Concept of Equality of Educational Opportunity" Philosophical Studies in Education: Proceedings-Annual (1991) Meeting of the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society pp.77-89. "The Enforcement of Moral Obligations to Potential Fetuses: Johnson Controls vs. the United Auto Workers" Business and Professional Ethics Journal 9 (1991) pp. 55-68. "The Trial of Abner Baker Jr., M.D.: Monomania and the McNaughtan Rules in Antebellum America." Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law. 18, No. 3, (1990) pp. 223-234. "John Rowan Allen, M.D., and the Early Years of the Psychiatric Profession in Kentucky, 1844-1854." The Filson Club Quarterly 63 (January 1989) 5-23. "Custodial Care For the Insane at Eastern State Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky, 1816-1844." The Filson Club Quarterly 62 (July, 1988) 303-335 "History of Science and Technology for Liberal Arts Collections: Building a Useful Collection." Choice Magazine (April, 1987) 1181-1189 "Dr Chipley's Warning: Masturbation and the Nineteenth-Century Asylum." Florence Estes, Philosophical Studies in Education: Proceedings-Annual(1987-1988) Meetings of the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society (Terre Haute: Indiana State University Press, 1989) 115-126 "Madness in Society: Historical Interpretations." Choice Magazine (March, 1983) 933-946. PUBLICATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS IN CHOICE MAGAZINE John Mizzoni, Evolution and the Foundations of Ethic:Evolutionary Perspectives on Contemporary Normative and Metaethical Theories (2017) Robin Dunbar, Human Evolution: Our Brains and Behavior (Oxford: 2016) Brendan Sweetman, Evolution, Chance, and God: Understanding the Relationship between Evolution and Religion. (Bloomsbury Publishing: 2016) Peter Singer, Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things that Matter (Princeton University Press, 2016) Andrew Sneddon, Autonomy (London: Bloomsbury, 2013) Hecht, Jennifer Michael. Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It. (New Haven, 2013) Sneddon, Andrew, Autonomy. (London, 2013) Longino, Helen E. Studying human behavior: how scientists investigate aggression and sexuality. Chicago, 2013. Jackson, Kevin T. Virtuosity in business: invisible law guiding the invisible hand. Pennsylvania, 2012. 357p bibl index afp; ISBN 9780812243765, $79.95. Reviewed in 2012sep CHOICE. Ethical leadership: global challenges and perspectives, ed. by Carla Millar and Eve Poole. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 260p bibl index ISBN 0-230-27546-X, $90.00; ISBN 9780230275461, $90.00. Reviewed in 2011jul CHOICE. • Corning, Peter. The fair society: the science of human nature and the pursuit of social justice. Chicago, 2011. 237p bibl afp; ISBN 9780226116273, $27.50. Outstanding Title! Reviewed in 2011sep CHOICE James, Scott M. An introduction to evolutionary ethics. Wiley, 2011. 228p bibl index afp; ISBN 9781405193979, $99.95; ISBN 9781405193962 pbk, $34.95. Reviewed in 2011jun CHOICE. Ethical leadership: global challenges and perspectives, ed. by Carla Millar and Eve Poole. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 Cholbi, Michael. Suicide: the philosophical dimensions. Broadview Press, 2011. 191p bibl index; ISBN 9781551119052 pbk, $24.95. Outstanding Title! Reviewed in 2012mar CHOICE. Good business: exercising effective and ethical leadership, ed. by James O'Toole and Don Mayer. Routledge, 2010. 218p index; ISBN 9780415879972, $100.00; ISBN 9780415879989 pbk, $24.95. Reviewed in 2011jan CHOICE. Just a job?: communication, ethics, and professional life, by George Cheney et al. Oxford, 2010. 298p bibl index afp; ISBN 9780195182781 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780195182774, $99.00. Outstanding Title! Reviewed in 2010apr CHOICE. Managerial ethics: managing the psychology of morality, ed. by Marshall Schminke. Routledge, 2010. 316p bibl indexes afp; ISBN 9781848728332, $49.95. Reviewed in 2011feb CHOICE. The Oxford handbook of business ethics, ed. by George G. Brenkert and Tom L. Beauchamp. Oxford, 2010. 733p bibl index afp; ISBN 9780195307955, $150.00. Reviewed in 2010may CHOICE. The Philosophy of deception, ed. by Clancy Martin. Oxford, 2009. 282p bibl index afp ISBN 0-19532793-4, $74.00; ISBN 9780195327939, $74.00. Reviewed in 2010apr CHOICE. Rendtorff, Jacob Dahl. Responsibility, ethics and legitimacy of corporations. Copenhagen Business School Press, 2009. 514p bibl indexes; ISBN 9788763002202 pbk, $68.00. Reviewed in 2009nov CHOICE. Marmor, Andrei. Social conventions: from language to law. Princeton, 2009. 186p bibl index afp; ISBN 9780691140902, $39.50. Reviewed in 2010jan CHOICE Ethical issues in rural health care, ed. by Craig M. Klugman and Pamela M. Dalinis. Johns Hopkins, 2008. 224p index afp ISBN 0-8018-9045-4, $50.00; ISBN 9780801890451, $50.00. Reviewed in 2009jun CHOICE. Haught, John F. God after Darwin: a theology of evolution. 2nd ed. Westview, 2008. 244p index ISBN 0813343704 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780813343709 pbk, $30.00. Reviewed in 2008jun CHOICE. Fort, Timothy L. Prophets, profits, and peace: the positive role of business in promoting religious tolerance. Yale, 2008. 206p bibl index afp; ISBN 9780300114676, $35.00. Reviewed in 2009feb CHOICE Smith, David Livingstone. The most dangerous animal: human nature and the origins of war. St. Martin's, 2007. 263p index ISBN 0-312-34189-X, $24.95; ISBN 9780312341893, $24.95. Reviewed in 2008jun CHOICE. Wilson, David Sloan. Evolution for everyone: how Darwin's theory can change the way we think about our lives. Delacorte, 2007. 390p bibl index; ISBN 9780385340212, $24.00. Outstanding Title! Reviewed in 2007oct CHOICE. De Sousa, Ronald. Why think?: evolution and the rational mind. Oxford, 2007. 187p bibl index afp; ISBN 9780195189858, $25.00. Reviewed in 2007dec CHOICE. Bowman, James. Honor: a history. Encounter Books, 2006. 381p bibl index afp ISBN 1-59403-142-8, $29.95. Reviewed in 2006oct CHOICE. Artigas, Mariano. Negotiating Darwin: the Vatican confronts evolution, 1877-1902, by Mariano Artigas, Thomas F. Glick, and Rafael A. Martínez. Johns Hopkins, 2006. 326p bibl index afp ISBN 0-80188389-X, $50.00. Reviewed in 2007may CHOICE. Oshana, Marina. Personal autonomy in society. Ashgate, 2006. 190p bibl index afp ISBN 0-7546-56705, $99.95; ISBN 9780754656708, $99.95. Reviewed in 2007jul CHOICE. • Cahoone, Lawrence E. Cultural revolutions: reason versus culture in philosophy, politics, and jihad. Pennsylvania State, 2005. 231p bibl index afp ISBN 0-271-02524-7, $35.00. Reviewed in 2005nov CHOICE. Wiener, Linda. Leaving us to wonder: an essay on the questions science can't ask, by Linda Wiener and Ramsey Eric Ramsey. State University of New York, 2005. 163p bibl index afp ISBN 0-7914-6313-3, $62.50; ISBN 0791463141 pbk, $19.95. Reviewed in 2005jun CHOICE. Forbes, Scott. A natural history of families. Princeton, 2005. 231p bibl index afp ISBN 0-691-09482-9, $27.95. Outstanding Title! Reviewed in 2005nov CHOICE. Soll, Jacob. Publishing The Prince: history, reading & the birth of political criticism. Michigan, 2005. 202p bibl index afp ISBN 0-472-11473-5, $49.50. Reviewed in 2005dec CHOICE. The Quest for moral leaders: essays on leadership ethics, ed. by Joanne B. Ciulla, Terry L. Price, and Susan E. Murphy. E. Elgar, 2005. 167p bibl index ISBN 1-84542-534-0, $85.00. Reviewed in 2006jun CHOICE. Grigsby, Mary. Buying time and getting by: the voluntary simplicity movement. State University of New York, 2004. 224p bibl index afp ISBN 0-7914-5999-3, $59.50; ISBN 0-7914-6000-2 pbk, $19.95. Reviewed in 2004oct CHOICE. Fleming, Thomas. The morality of everyday life: rediscovering an ancient alternative to the liberal tradition. Missouri, 2004. 270p bibl index afp ISBN 0-8262-1509-2, $44.95. Reviewed in 2004nov CHOICE. Clarke, Murray. Reconstructing reason and representation. MIT, 2004. 181p bibl index afp ISBN 0-26203322-4, $35.00. Reviewed in 2005feb CHOICE Yolton, John W. The two intellectual worlds of John Locke: man, person, and spirits in the Essay. Cornell, 2004. 180p bibl index afp ISBN 0-8014-4290-7, $35.00. Reviewed in 2005jun CHOICE. Smith, David Livingston. Why we lie: the evolutionary roots of deception and the unconscious mind. St. Martin's, 2004. 238p index ISBN 0-312-31039-0, $24.95. Reviewed in 2005feb CHOICE. The Many and the one: religious and secular perspectives on ethical pluralism in the modern world, ed. by Richard Madsen and Tracy B. Strong. Princeton, 2003. 372p bibl index afp ISBN 0-691-09993-6 pbk, $22.95. Reviewed in 2003dec CHOICE. Casebeer, William D. Natural ethical facts: evolution, connectionism, and moral cognition. MIT, 2003. 214p bibl index afp ISBN 0-262-03310-0, $35.00. Reviewed in 2004apr CHOICE. Phillips, Robert. Stakeholder theory and organizational ethics. Berrett-Koehler, 2003. 200p bibl index ISBN 1-57675-268-2, $34.95. Reviewed in 2004apr CHOICE. Voluntary simplicity: responding to consumer culture, ed. by Daniel Doherty and Amitai Etzioni. Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. 210p index afp ISBN 0-7425-2066-8, $75.00; ISBN 0-7425-2067-6 pbk, $26.95. Reviewed in 2004oct CHOICE. Forst, Rainer. Contexts of justice: political philosophy beyond liberalism and communitarianism, tr. by John M.M. Farrell. California, 2002. 346p bibl index afp ISBN 0-520-23225-9 pbk, $22.50. Reviewed in 2003jul CHOICE. Wilson, David Sloan. Darwin's cathedral: evolution, religion, and the nature of society. Chicago, 2002. 268p bibl index afp ISBN 0-226-90134-3, $25.00. Reviewed in 2003may CHOICE. Klein, Sherwin. Ethical business leadership: balancing theory and practice. P. Lang, 2002. 132p index afp ISBN 0-8204-5710-8, $46.95. Reviewed in 2003jan CHOICE. Schatzki, Theodore R. The site of the social: a philosophical account of the constitution of social life and change. Pennsylvania State, 2002. 295p bibl index afp ISBN 0-271-02144-6, $45.00. Reviewed in 2003mar CHOICE. Cord, Steven. Society at the crossroads: choosing the right road. Aurora Press, 2002. 390p index ISBN 0-9711742-4-5 pbk, $22.95. Reviewed in 2002dec CHOICE. Giberson, Karl W. Species of origins: America's search for a creation story, by Karl W. Giberson and Donald A. Yerxa. Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 277p bibl index afp ISBN 0-7425-0764-5, $70.00; ISBN 0-7425-0765-3 pbk, $24.95. Reviewed in 2003may CHOICE. Richardson, Barry J. Christianity, evolution and the environment: fitting it together. UNSW Press, 2001. 131p bibl index ISBN 0-86840-795-X pbk, $17.95. Reviewed in 2002oct CHOICE. Conflict of interest in the professions, ed. by Michael Davis and Andrew Stark. Oxford, 2001. 355p index afp ISBN 0-19-512863-X, $55.00. Reviewed in 2002jul CHOICE. Hunter, Cornelius G. Darwin's God: evolution and the problem of evil. Brazos Press, 2001. 192p index ISBN 1-58743-011-8, $17.99. Reviewed in 2002jan CHOICE. Williams, Patricia A. Doing without Adam and Eve: sociobiology and original sin. Fortress, 2001. 227p bibl index afp ISBN 0-8006-3285-0 pbk, $18.00. Outstanding Title! Reviewed in 2002jan CHOICE. An Evolving dialogue: theological and scientific perspectives on evolution, ed. by James B. Miller. Trinity Press International, 2001. 532p bibl indexes afp ISBN 1-56338-349-7 pbk, $40.00. Reviewed in 2002jan CHOICE Bonnette, Dennis. Origin of the human species. Rodopi, Tijnmuiden 7, 1046 AK Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2001. 202p bibl index afp ISBN 9042013745 pbk, $38.00. Reviewed in 2001nov CHOICE. Boyer, Pascal. Religion explained: the evolutionary origins of religious thought. Basic Books, 2001. 375p bibl index ISBN 0-465-00695-7, $27.50. Reviewed in 2002jan CHOICE. Rosenberg, Alexander. Darwinism in philosophy, social science and policy. Cambridge, 2000. 257p bibl index ISBN 0-521-66297-4, $59.95; ISBN 0-521-66407-1 pbk, $19.95. Reviewed in 2001jan CHOICE. • New from Cambridge • Haught, John F. God after Darwin: a theology of evolution. Westview, 2000. 221p index afp ISBN 08133-6723-9, $25.00. Reviewed in 2000apr CHOICE. Stiltner, Brian. Religion and the common good: Catholic contributions to building community in a liberal society. Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. 203p bibl index afp ISBN 0-8476-9435-6, $63.00; ISBN 08476-9436-4 pbk, $23.95 . Reviewed in 2000jun CHOICE. Ruse, Michael. Mystery of mysteries: is evolution a social construction?. Harvard, 1999. 296p bibl index afp ISBN 0-674-46706-X, $27.50 . Outstanding Title! Reviewed in 1999dec CHOICE. Numbers, Ronald L. Darwinism comes to America. Harvard, 1998. 216p index afp ISBN 0-674-193113, $39.95; ISBN 0-674-19312-1 pbk, $18.95 . Reviewed in 1999may CHOICE. Smout, Kary Doyle. The creation/evolution controversy: a battle for cultural power. Praeger, 1998. 209p bibl index afp ISBN 0-275-96262-8, $55.00 . Reviewed in 1999jun CHOICE. Waller, Bruce N. The natural selection of autonomy. State University of New York, 1998. 193p bibl index afp ISBN 0-7914-3819-8, $54.50 . Reviewed in 1999jan CHOICE. Conkin, Paul K. When all the gods trembled: Darwinism, Scopes, and American intellectuals. Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. 185p index afp ISBN 0-8476-9063-6, $24.95 . Reviewed in 1999jun CHOICE. Stevens, Edward. Developing moral imagination: case studies in practical morality. Sheed & Ward, 1997. 256p bibl afp ISBN 1-55612-978-5, $15.95 . Reviewed in 1998jan CHOICE. Kegley, Jacquelyn Ann K. Genuine individuals and genuine communities: a Roycean public philosophy. Vanderbilt, 1997. 260p bibl index afp ISBN 0-8265-1286-0, $28.95 . Reviewed in 1997jun CHOICE. Kramer, Matthew H. John Locke and the origins of private property: philosophical explorations of individualism, community, and equality. Cambridge, 1997. 347p bibl index ISBN 0-521-58412-4, $59.95 . Reviewed in 1998apr CHOICE. Annas, George J. Standard of care: the law of American bioethics. Oxford , 1993. 291p index afp ISBN 0-19-507247-2, $24.95 . Reviewed in 1993dec CHOICE. Wertheimer, Alan. Coercion. Princeton , 1988 (c1987). 318p index ISBN 0-691-00759-2, $34.50 . Reviewed in 1988oct CHOICE. Henry C. Lee, Cracking Cases: The Science of Solving Crimes (reviewed 2002) Fen Osler Hampson and Judith Reppy, ed., Earlthly Goods: Environmental Change and Social Justice (Cornell) reviewed 1997 Patrick Lee, Abortion and Unborn Human Life (Catholic University) reviewed 1997 David Strong, Crazy Mountains: Learning From Wilderness to Weigh Technology (SUNY) reviewed 1996 Lewis Petrinovich, Human Evolution, Reproduction, and Morality (Plenum) reviewed October 1995 Robert Elliot, Environmental Ethics (Oxford) reviewed Oct 1995) David Stephen, Plenishment in the Earth: An Ethic of Inclusion (SUNY Press) reviewed September 1995 Margaret Battin, Ethical Issues in Suicide (Prentice Hall) reviewed June 1995 Michael Betzold, Appointment with Doctor Death (Momentum Books: 1994) reviewed Apr. 94. Thomas Szasz, A Lexicon of Lunacy: Metaphoric Malady, Moral Responsibility, and Psychiatry (Transactions: 1993) forthcoming review. F.M. Kamm, Creation and Abortion: A Study in Moral and Legal Philosophy (Oxford: 1992) reviewed Jan. 93. Lives in the Balance: The Ethics of Using Animals in Biomedical Research: The Report of a Working Party in the Institute of Medical Ethics ed. Jane A. Smith and Kevin M. Boyd (Oxford: 1991) reviewed Sept. 92. Howard Brody, The Healer's Power (Yale: 1992) reviewed Jul/Aug 1992 Ian R. Bowbiggin, Inheriting Madness: Professionalization and Psychiatric Knowledge in NineteenthCentury France (California: 1991) reviewed Dec. 91. W.A.F Browne, The Asylum as Utopia: W.A.F. Brown and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Consolidation of Psychiatry e.d. Andrew Scull (Tavistock/Routlege:1991) reviewed Oct. 91. Lawrence J. Friedman, Menninger: The Familiy and the Clinic (Knopf: 1990) reviewed Dec. 90 Simon Kemp, Medieval Psychology (Greenwood: 1990) reviewed Apr. 91. Charles L. Cherry, A Quiet Haven: Quakers, Moral Treatment, and Asylum Reform (Fairleigh Dickinson: 1990) reviewed June 90. Euthanasia: The Moral Issues ed. Robert M. Baird and Stuart E. Rosenbaum (Prometheus: 1989) reviewed Mar. 90. Andrew Scull, Social Order/Mental Disorder: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective (California: 1989) reviewed Coc. 89. Danielle Jacquart, Sexuality and Medicine in the Middle Ages (Princeton: 1988) reviewed Jun 89. Hugh Ragsdale, Tzar Paul and the Question of Madness: An Essay in History and Psychiatry (Greenwood: 1988) reviewed 1988. Ilham Dilman, Freud, Insight and Change (Blackwell: 1988) reviewed Mar. 89. Robert Castel, The Regulation of Madness: The Origins of Incarceration in France (California: 1988) reviewed Ja. 89. Douglas Black, Invitation to Medicine (Blackwell: 1987) reviewed Dec. 88. Roy Porter, A Social History of Madness: The World through the Eyes of the Insane (Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1988) reviewed Oct. 88. Roy Porter, Mind-Forg'd Manacles: A History of Madness in England From the Restoration to the Regency (Harvard: 1987) reviewed June 88. Sander Gilman, Disease and Representation: Images of Illness From Madness to Aids (Cornell: 1988) reviewed Dec. 88. PUBLISHED NUMEROUS OTHERS REVIEWS FOR CHOICE BETWEEN 1981 and 1987 and others for: Clio Medica, and Bulletin of American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, American Scientist. PUBLICATIONS: NEWSPAPER ARTICLES "Why Comprehensive Health Care Reform was Doomed to Failure" (Dec. 8, 1994) The Cincinnati Post p. A18 PAPERS PRESENTED APLS Meeting 2017 at Chicago: “The Ethics of Influence” (Chair the session) and “Health Care Reform: Complex Adaptive Systems Theory, Externalities, and Complexity” (Roundtable) IPSA Meeting 2016 at Poznan, Poland: “Evolutionary Leadership, Evolutionary Ethics, and Redistribution” APLS Meeting 2015, at University of Wisconsin: “Leadership Studies as an Applied Science: Perspectives on the Decline of Higher Educational Institutions” (Round Table) and “Something’s Fishy: Proximate and Ultimate Explanations in Evolutionary Leadership Theory” IPSA Meeting 2015, at Montreal: Organized the session: “The Philosophical and Biological Foundations of Personal Autonomy;” and, presented the paper “Personal Autonomy and Evolutionary Psychology: Thin or Thick Theory?” 2015 Meeting of the International Political Science Association, APLS Meeting 2014, at Emory University: “The Inevitable Tension between ‘Information Sharing’ and ‘Social Coordination’ in Evolutionary Leadership Theory” and Round Table: “Political Perspectives on the Affordable Care Act” APLS Meeting 2013, at Texas Tech University: “Gun Rights, Non-Aggression, and Pre-Emption: A Challenge for Gun-Toting Libertarians.” Program Director of 2013 annual meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences. Lubbock, Texas October 2014. Organized the session: “Libertarian Perspectives on Gun Control” and presented the paper: “Gun Rights, Non-Aggression, and Pre-Emption: A Challenge to Gun-Toting Libertarians,” and organized (and participated in) the roundtable discussion “Gaad Saad’s books: The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption and the Consuming Instinct. “Gene Patents and the Future of Genomic Science and the Genomic Industry” International Political Science Association, in the session The Human Genome and Politics, University of Madrid, Madrid Spain, July 8, 2012 Program Director AND presented the papers: “The Globalization of Health Care: Medical Education” and “What would a Libertarian Theory of Leadership Look Like?” Chaired the Session: “Roundtable Discussion of Mark van Vugt’s Naturally Selected: The Evolutionary Science of Leadership.” Association for Politics and the Life Sciences Annual Meeting, October 13-15, 2011. “Biology and the Quest for a Universal Theory of Leadership,” and “The Global Health Care Maze” (co-author Charles Kroncke). Chaired the session: “Libertarian Paternalism: Perspectives on Sunstein and Thalers, Nudge.” Association for Politics and the Life Sciences Annual Meeting, October 14-16, 2010. "The Modern Heath Care Maze" (Ronald F. White and Charles Kroncke) invited lecture Smith Center for Free Enterprise, University of California at East Bay, Hayward, California, November 18, 2009. "Assassination Discourse and Political Power," Pulse of Death Now: The Austin H. Kutcher Memorial Conference," Columbia University, New York, March 29, 2008. Program Director AND, presented the paper: “Philosophical Foundations for Health Care Reform: From Idealism to Realism;” "Association for Politics and the Life Sciences Annual Meeting. Cincinnati: 2007. Organized the Session: Toward Bioethical Pluralism: Breaking Open the Black Box of Research Ethics," and Organized the roundtable: "Roundtable on the Regulation of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences," and Presented the paper: "The Co-Evolutionary Foundations of Assassination," at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences," Indiana University at Bloomington. October 25-26, 2005. "The Challenges of Teaching Business in Smaller Educational Institutions" (Ronald F. White and Michael Sontag), Teaching Business Ethics Conference, Boulder, Colorado, June 8, 2006. Chaired the Session: Medical Ethics and presented the paper "Medical Ethics vs. Business Ethics: The Case of DTC Pharmaceutical Advertising" AND presented the paper "IRB Mission Drift: The Common Rule, Social Science, and the Nanny State." Annual Meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, Washington D.C. August 31-September 4, 2005. Organized the Session: The Organization and Objectives of the Modern Corporation: Alternative Theoretical Perspectives" AND presented the paper "The Modern Corporation as a Complex Adaptive System: Scientific and Moral Implications." Annual Meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, Chicago, September 4, 2004. "Biological Advances in Aging: Philosophical Implications" (Ronald F. White and Richard Haubner), 28th Annual Ohio Professional and Student Conference on Aging "From Classroom to Community: Preparing for the New Century," Ohio State University, April 2, 2004. Organized the session: "Life-Extension and Biomedical Research: the Economic, Moral, and Political Implications of Turning Back Our Biological Clocks." Presented a Poster Titled: "The Ethical and Political Implications of Lifespan Extension Biology." Commentator for two Sessions: "Biopolitics and the Concept of Human Nature" and "New Thinking is Needed in the Evolving Arena of Bioethics." Annual Meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, Philadelphia, August, 2003. “Evolutionary Epistemology and the Politics of Stem Cell Research” Annual Meeting of The Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, Charleston, October. 2001. “Does ‘Bionomics’ Necessarily Imply Laissez Faire Economic Policy” Annual Meeting Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, Washington D.C. September 2000. "Genetics and the Diseases of Aging: The Economic and Ethical Implications of Turning Back Our Biological Clocks" (Joint Presentation With Sean Fraley) 2000 Aging Odyssey: Innovations in Education and Practice (Ohio Network of Educational Consultants in the Field of Aging) Cincinnati, Ohio, April 2000 “Epistemological Basis for Evolutionary Politics: Three Alternative Research Programs” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, Copyright by the American Political Science Association, September 1999 "The Philosopher-King Revisited: Managing Small Group Discussion within Large Philosophy Classes" 11th International Workshop and Conference on Teaching Philosophy," Old Dominion University, August 2, 1996. "Diversity, Civic Education, and Liberalism" Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society, Dayton, Ohio, October 10, 1995. Co-Author with Sean Fraley, "Life-Saving Drugs for Desperate Patients at a Fair Price" National Conference on Medicine, Ethics, & Economics, Atlantic Beach, Florida, November 4, 1994. "Libertarian Ideas on Public Schools and the Funding Crisis" The Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society, Indianapolis, October 22, 1994. "The Cholera Epidemics at Eastern State Hospital: 1833, 1849, 1850, and 1855" Invited Lecture at Eastern State Hospital Celebrating One Hundred and Seventy Years of Caring, May 2, 1994. "The Paradox of Just Savings: Justice between Present and Future Persons" 1993 Conference on Persons, St. Mary's College, September 22-25, 1993. "William Stout Chipley and the Evolution of the Medical Superintendency at Eastern State Hospital, 1855-1869." Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine" Louisville, Kentucky, May 15, 1993. "Paternalism in the Psychiatric Setting," Continuing Education Course, 3 contact hours, Eastern State Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky, April 15, 1993. "The GeneRight Corporation: Entrepreneurial Ethics and the Human Genome Project," Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society and Iota Sigma Pi, Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, January 13, 1993 "The Paradox of Just Savings: Justice between the Present and the Future," Ohio Philosophical Association, April 4, 1992, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. "The Concept of Equality of Educational Opportunity" March 1992, Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society, Cincinnati, Ohio. "Ambulance Chasers, Medical Quacks, and Televangelists: The Ethics of Serving Desperate Clients," National Conference on Ethics & the Professions, January 30-February 1, 1992, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. "The Avoidance of Harm: the Ethics of the Suicide Machine," Conference on Controversies in the Care of Dying Patients, sponsored by the University of Florida, February 15, 1991, Lake Buena Vista, Orlando, Florida. "The Paradox of Distributing Health Care Resources Between Actual and Potential Persons" Third National Conference on Justice in Health Care, sponsored by: Illinois Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, and University of Florida College of Nursing, Medical Humanities Program College of Medicine, Center for Applied Philosophy and Ethics in the Professions. October 4-6, 1990, Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago. "Objective Harm and the Case for Legal Paternalism." Ohio Philosophical Association, April 7, 1990, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. Panelist in the session "Designer Genes: the Ethics of Recombinant DNA Technology" Kentucky Science Teachers Association, October 7, 1989, Radisson Hotel, Louisville. Chaired the session: "Relativism: Ethical and Generalized." Ohio Philosophical Association, April 8, 1989, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. Organized the joint-session: "Anti-Psychiatry, Ex-Patients, and History." American Historical Association and the History of Science Society, December 28-30, 1988, Cincinnati, Ohio. "Was There a Great Confinement in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Europe? : Historical Perspectives." Ohio Valley History Conference, October 28-29, 1988, Richmond, Kentucky. "The Trial of Abner Baker Jr. M.D.: Monomania and the Law in Clay County Kentucky, 1845." Ohio Valley Historical Conference, October 2, 1987, Bowling Green, Kentucky. "Dr Chipley's Warning: Masturbation and the Nineteenth-Century Asylum." The Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society, October 16, 1987, Lexington, Kentucky. "Michel Foucault and the Philosophy of Therapeutic Architecture." Commonplace Conference: Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Place, Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 1986. Penn State University. "Local Circumstances and the History of Eastern State Lunatic Asylum, 1824-1856." and organized the session: "Custodialism and the Antebellum American Asylum." History of Science Society, Nov. 1-3, 1985. Indiana University, Bloomington. "A Dialogue on Madness: Eastern State Lunatic Asylum and Mental Health Policy in Kentucky, 18241883." History of Science Society, Oct. 27-30, 1983. Norwalk, Connecticut. "Peircean Perspectives on Experimental Psychology and Unconscious Mind." Charles S. Peirce Society, Oct. 21-24, 1982. Buffalo, New York. "Charles Peirce and Eduard Von Hartmann on the Externality of Mind." World Congress of Philosophy, Aug. 21-27, 1983. Montreal, Canada. "Mind and Body Cure: Eastern State Lunatic Asylum 1824-1850." Southern Association of the History of Science and Technology, Apr. 7-8, 1983. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. "Eastern State Lunatic Asylum Vs. the Reformers Edward Jarvis and Dorothea Dix." April 8, 1981. Southern Association of the History of Science and Technology, Apr. 8, 1981. University of Kentucky. SERVICE TO PROFESSION Pre-Publication Textbook Reviewer for: Prentice Hall Publishers, and McGraw Hill Publishers. Referee for the journals: Politics and the Life Sciences, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Journal of AntiAging Medicine, and Assassination Research. SERVICE TO COMMUNITY: Assistant Track Coach, Walnut Hills High School, 1998-2001, 2003, 2004 Track Coach, St. Martin's CYO, (Grades K-8) 1992-1998 Track Coach, Cincinnati Express Track Club, 1992-present Soccer Coach, Cheviot Police Association, 1990, 1991, 1992. Soccer Coach, St Teresa's CYO. Grades 1994-1996 Member of the Board of Trustees of the Mental Health Association of Greater Cincinnati and Chair of the Legislative Committee 1988-1990. Member of the Planning Committee of "Ethics, Healthcare and the Elderly: An Ethics Forum for Healthcare Professionals." November 16-17, 1989. Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati. Den Leader, Pack 107, Cub Scouts. 1991 SERVICE TO COLLEGE OF MOUNT ST. JOSEPH: Peer Teaching Evaluator (2002-present) Faculty Sponsor, Alpha Chi (Fall 1996-present) Faculty Coordinator, Cooperative Education (2003-present) Health Care Ethics Institutes Committee (1998-2000) Taught MSJ Alumni College 2000 College of Mount St. Joseph IRB (2002-2004) Teaching Consultant to the New Faculty (1994-1997) Student Life (Fall 1997-1998 ) Honors and Events Committee (Fall 1996-1997) Co-Chair, Students Task Force (Fall 1996-1997) Physical Therapy Search Committee (Summer 1996) Student Life Committee (1995-96) Committee to Form Environmental Management Major (1994-95) Coordinator of MSJ Honors Program (1991-93) Committee to Propose a New Liberal Arts Curriculum (1993) Curriculum Committee (1992-1993) Library Committee (1991-1992) Cultural Diversity Committee (1991-1992) College Fair Presenter (1991) English Literature Professor Search Committee (1990) American History Search Committee (1991) Committee to Study the Liberal Arts Curriculum-SP 1989 Faculty Development Committee-(1989-1990) Coordinator, Truman Scholarship-(1989-1990)