Open Access Publications

2024/Forthcoming

Allen, J., Earp, B., Koplin, J. and Wilkinson, D., (2024), 'Consent-GPT: Is it ethical to delegate procedural consent to conversational AI?', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 50(2): 77-83 [PMC10850653]

Bowman-Smart, H., Savulescu, J., O'Connell, M. and Sinclair, A., (2024), 'World Athletics regulations unfairly affect females with Differences in Sex Development', Journal of the Philosophy of Sport Online, Vol: 51(1): 29-53 [PMC7616231]

Davies, B., (online first 2023), 'What do ‘humans’ need? Sufficiency and pluralism', Ethics, Policy and Environment, Vol: online [PMC10878682] 

Davies, B. and Savulescu, J., (2024), 'Institutional responsibility is prior to personal responsibility in a pandemic', Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol: 58(2): 215–234  [PMC8721471]

Earp, B. D., (2024), 'God and the Problem of Evil: Why Soul-Making Won’t Suffice', Think, Vol: 23(66): 11-15

Earp, B. D., Porsdam Mann, S., Allen, et al., (2024), 'A Personalized Patient Preference Predictor for Substituted Judgments in Healthcare: Technically Feasible and Ethically Desirable', American Journal of Bioethics, Vol: 24(7): 13-26
[PMC11248995]

Giubilini, A., Schuklenk, U., Minerva, F. and Savulescu, J., (2024), 'Conscientious commitment, professional obligations and abortion provision after the reversal of Roe v Wade', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 50(5): 351-358 [PMC11103303]

Levy, N., (2024), 'Impostor Syndrome and Pretense', Inquiry, Vol: 67(9): 3420-3435

Levy, N., (2024), 'Believing in shmeliefs', Ergo, Vol:  11(18)

Levy, N., (2024), 'Consciousness ain't all that', Neuroethics, Vol: 17(21)

Levy, N., (2024), 'Non-Ideal Epistemology and Vices of Attention', International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol: 32(1): 124-131 

Levy, N., (2024), 'Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review', (Cambridge University Press) [NBK598245]

Ligthart, S., Tesink, V., Douglas, T., Forsberg, L. and Meynen, G., (2023), 'The Normative Evaluation of Neurointerventions in Criminal Justice: From Invasiveness to Human Rights', AJOB Neuroscience, Vol: 14(1): 23-25

Lynch, F., Best, S., Gaff, C. L., Downie, L., Archibald, A. D., Gyngell, C., Goranitis, I., Peters, R., Savulescu, J., Lunke, S., Startk, Z. and Vears, D. F., (2024), 'Australian public perspectives on genomic newborn screening: Risks, benefits and preferences for implementation', International Journal of Neonatal Screening, Vol: 10(1): 6 [PMC10801595]

Marks, I. R., Devolder, K., Bowman-Smart, H., Johnston, M. and Mills, C., (2024), 'NIPT for adult-onset conditions: Australian NIPT users' views', Bioethics, Vol: 38(6): 566-575

Maslen, H. and Paine, C., (2024), 'Ethical resource allocation in policing: Why policing requires a different approach from healthcare', Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol: 43(1): 1-36 [PMC11539717]

Moriarty, C. and Davies, B., (2024), 'Feeding infants: choice-specific considerations, parental obligation, and pragmatic satisficing', Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol: 27(2): 167-183 [PMC11076201]

Park, J. and Davies, B., (2024), 'Rationing, responsibility, and vaccination during covid-19: a conceptual map', The American Journal of Bioethics, Vol: 24(7): 66-79 [PMC11248994]

Persson, I. and Savulescu, J., (2024), 'On the Prospects of Longtermism', Bioethics, Vol: 38(8): 709-712 [PMC11497828]

Savulescu, J., Giubilini, A., Vandersluis, R. and Mishra, A., (2024), 'Ethics of artificiaI intelligence in medicine', Singapore Medical Journal, Vol: 65(3): 150-158 [PMC7615805]

Tesink, V., Douglas, T., Lightart, S. and Meynen, G., (2024), 'Right to mental integrity and neurotechnologies: implications of the extended mind thesis', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 50(10) [ORA]

Turnham, H., Wilkinson, D., Ramdas, S., Bowen, S. and Harrop, E., (2024), 'As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP), a Moral Model for clinical risk management in the setting of technology dependence', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 50(10): 712-715 [PMC1150314]

Vandersluis, R. and Savulescu, J., (2024), 'The selective deployment of AI in healthcare: An ethical algorithm for algorithms', Bioethics, Vol: 38(5): 391-400 [PMC7616300]

Vazirani, A. A., Mccaffrey, T., Savulescu, J. and Porsdam-Mann, S., (2024), 'BrainSwarming, Blockchain, and Bioethics: Applying Innovation Enhancing Techniques to Healthcare and Research', Scientific Reports, Vol: 14(832) [PMC10781689]

Voinea, C., (2024), 'On Grief and Griefbots', Think, Vol: 23(67): 47-51

Voinea, C., Wangmo, T. and Vică, C., (2024), 'Paternalistic AI: the case of aged care', Humanities and Social Sciences Communication, Vol: 11: Article 824 [Oxford Research Archives]

2023

Three chapters in Savulescu, J., and Wilkinson, D., (Eds.) 2023, Pandemic Ethics: From COVID-19 to Disease X, (Oxford University Press) are open access, as follows:

• Introduction, Dominic Wilkinson & Julian Savulescu
• Selective Lockdowns: Can they be Justified?, Julian Savulescu [NBK592680]
• Pluralism and Allocation of Limited Resources: Vaccines and Ventilators, Dominic Wilkinson [NBK592676]
• Ethical hotspots in infectious disease surveillance for global health security: social justice and pandemic preparedness, Michael Parker [NBK592677]

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Arising from a Wellcome-funded conference 'Global Antimicrobial Resistance', three papers have been published in a special issue of Health Care Analysis (Special Issue: Governing the Global Antimicrobial Commons) 

1. Hoffman, S. J., Savulescu, J., Giubilini, A., Kirchhelle, C., Rogers Van Katwyk, S., Weldon, I., B., C., Harrison, M., Maslen, H. and Mclean, A., (2023), 'Governing the Global Antimicrobial Commons: Introduction to Special Issue', Health Care Analysis, Vol: 31(1): 1–8  [PMC1004275]
2. Rogers Van Katwyk, S., Weldon, I., Giubilini, A., Kirchhelle, C., Harrison, M., Mclean, A., Savulescu, J. and Hoffman, S. J., (2023), 'Making Use of Existing International Legal Mechanisms to Manage the Global Antimicrobial Commons: Identifying Legal Hooks and Institutional Mandates', Health Care Analysis, Vol: 31(1): 9–24 [PMC10042894]
3. Rogers Van Katwyk, S., Weldon, I., Giubilini, A., Kirchhelle, C., Harrison, M., Mclean, A., Savulescu, J. and Hoffman, S. J., (2023), 'Exploring Models for an International Legal Agreement on the Global Antimicrobial Commons: Lessons from Climate Agreements', Health Care Analysis, Vol: 31(1): 25-26 [PMC10042908]

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Barry, A., Prentice, T. and Wilkinson, D., (2023), 'End of Life Care over Four Decades in a Quaternary Neonatal Intensive Care Unit', Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, Vol: 59(2): 341-345 [PMC10107744]

Bertaud, S., Brightley, G., Crowley, N., Craig, F. and Wilkinson, D., (2023), 'Specialist perinatal palliative care: a retrospective review of antenatal referrals to a children’s palliative care service over 14 years', BMC Palliative Care, Vol: 22 (Article 177) [PMC10636919]

Bowman-Smart, H., Gyngell, C., Mand, C., Amor, D., Delatycki, M. and Savulescu, J., (2023), 'Non-invasive prenatal testing for ‘non-medical’ traits: ensuring consistency in ethical decision-making', American Journal of Bioethics, Vol: 23(3): 3-20 [PMC7614328]

Bowman-Smart, H., Haining, C., J, S., Keogh, L. and O'Rourke, A., (2023), 'The ‘Institutional Lottery’: Institutional variation in the processes involved in accessing late abortion in Victoria, Australia', Women's Studies International Forum, Vol: 101(article 102822) [PMC11285594]

Bowman-Smart, H., Keogh, L., M. Haining, C., O’Rourke, A., De Crespigny, L. and Savulescu, J., (2023), '‘The tabloid test’: a qualitative interview study on the function and purpose of termination of pregnancy review committees in Victoria, Australia', BMC Reproductive Health, Vol: 20(1): 104 [PMC10354933]

Brown, R. and de Barra, M., (2023), 'A taxonomy of non-honesty in public health communication', Public Health Ethics, Vol: 16(1): 86-101 [PMC10161520]

Brown, R. and Mulligan, A., (2023), ''Maternal request’ caesarean sections and medical necessity', Clinical Ethics, Vol: 18(3): 312-320 [PMC7614977]

Buckler, M., Bruce, L. and Earp, B. D., (2023), 'From intimate exams to ritual nicking: interpreting nonconsensual medicalized genital procedures as sexual boundary violations', Current Sexual Health Reports, Vol: 15: 291-300

Davies, B., (2023), 'A new paradox for welfare subjectivism', Analysis, Vol: 83(4): 673-682 [PMC10826881]

Davies, B., (2023), 'Healthcare priorities: The ‘young’ and the ‘old’', Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics, Vol: 32 (2): 174-185 [PMC10425921]

Davies, B., (2023), 'Medical need and health need', Clinical Ethics, Vol: 18(3): 287-291 [PMC10444630]

De Marco, G., (2023), 'Historical moral responsibility and manipulation via deletion', Erkenntnis, Vol: 88: 1429-1446 [PMC10030393]

De Marco, G., (2023), 'Manipulation, Machine Induction, and Bypassing', Philosophical Studies Vol: 180: 487–507 [open access]

Drezga-Kleiminger, M., Demaree-Cotton, J., Koplin, J., Savulescu, J. and Wilkinson, D., (2023), 'Should AI allocate livers for transplant? Public attitudes and ethical considerations', BMC Medical Ethics, Vol: 24(1): 102 [PMC10683249]

Giubilini, A., (2023), 'Freedom, Diseases, and Public Health Restrictions', Bioethics, Vol: 37(9): 886-896 [PMC10947069]

Hass, B., (2023), 'Reasonableness in Capacity Law', The Modern Law Review, Vol: 86(6)

Kagan, B., Gyngell, C., Lysaght, T., Cole D, V., Sawai, T. and Savulescu, J., 'The technology, opportunities, and challenges of Synthetic Biological Intelligence', Biotechnology Advances, Vol: 68(November): Article 108233 [PMC7615149]

Kolstoe, S. E. and Pugh, J., (2023), 'The trinity of good research: Distinguishing between research integrity, ethics, and governance', Accountability in Research, Vol: Online first (25 July 2023)

Lemma, A. and Savulescu, J., (2023), 'To Be, Or Not to Be? The Role of the Unconscious in Transgender Transitioning: Identity, Autonomy and Well-Being', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 49(1): 65-72 [PMC9811073]

Levy, N., (2023), 'Echoes of covid misinformation', Philosophical Psychology, Vol: 36(5): 931-948

Lyreskog, D., (2023), 'Withering Minds: towards a unified embodied mind theory of personal identity for understanding dementia', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 49(10): 699–706 [PMC10579458]

Lyreskog, D., Pavarini, G., Jacobs, E., Bennett, V., Mawdsley, G. and Singh, I., (2023), 'Testing Design Bioethics Methods: Comparing a Digital Game with a Vignette Survey for Neuroethics Research with Young People', AJOB Empirical Bioethics, Vol: 14(1) [PMC9612923]

Lyreskog, D., Zohny, H., Savulescu, J. and Singh, I., (2023), 'Merging Minds: the conceptual and ethical impacts of technologies for collective minds', Neuroethics, Vol: 16(1): 12
[ PMC10050050]

Minerva F and Giubilini, A., (2023), 'Is AI the future of mental healthcare?', Topoi : an International Review of Philosophy, Vol: 42, pp 809–817  [PMC10230127]

Motorniak, D., Giubilini, A. and Savulescu, J., (2023), 'Reelin’ in the years: age and selective restriction of liberty in the Covid-19 pandemic', Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Vol: 20 pp.685-693 [PMC10943133]

Poogoda, S., Lynch, F., Stark, Z., Wilkinson, D., Savulescu, J., Vears, D. and Gyngell, C., (2023), 'Intensive Care Clinicians’ Perspectives on Ethical Challenges Raised by Rapid Genomic Testing for Critically Ill Infants', Children, Vol: 10(6)(6): 970 [PMC10297108]

Pugh, J., Seah, M., Carr, A. and Savulescu, J., (2023), 'Tackling the COVID elective surgical backlog: Prioritising need, benefit or equality?', Clinical Ethics, Vol: 18(4)

Tesink, V., Douglas, T., Forsberg, L., Ligthart, S. and Meynen, G., (2023), 'Neurointerventions in Criminal Justice: On the Scope of the Moral Right to Bodily Integrity', Neuroethics, Vol: 16(26)

Wilkinson, D., (2023), 'The harm principle, personal identity and identity-relative paternalism', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 49(6): 393-402 [PMC10313974]

Zohny, H., Lyreskog, D., Singh, I. and Savulescu, J., (2023), 'The mystery of mental integrity: Clarifying its relevance to neurotechnologies', Neuroethics, Vol: 16(20) [PMC10442279]

2022

Brown, R., De Barra, M. and Earp, B. D., (2022), 'Broad Medical Uncertainty and the ethical obligation for openness', Synthese, Vol: 200(121) [PMC8994926]

Chan, L., Borg, J., Conitzer V, Wilkinson, D., Savulescu, J., Zohny, H. and Sinnott-Armstrong, W., (2022), 'Which features of patients are morally relevant in ventilator triage? A survey of the UK public.', BMC Medical

Cameron, J., Savulescu, J. and Wilkinson, D., (2022), 'Raqeeb, Haastrup and Evans: Seeking Consistency through a Distributive Justice-Based Approach to Limitation of Treatment in the Context of Dispute', Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Vol: 50(1): 169-180 [PMC7613734]

Chadwick, D., Page, E., Wilkinson, D. and Savulescu, J., (2022), VIEWPOINT: 'Implied consent for HIV testing in the United Kingdom: time for a new approach?', Lancet HIV, Vol: 9(JANUARY 01, 2022): E63-E66 [PMC7612157]

Chan, L., Borg, J., Conitzer V, Wilkinson, D., Savulescu, J., Zohny, H. and Sinnott-Armstrong, W., (2022), 'Which features of patients are morally relevant in ventilator triage? A survey of the UK public.', BMC Medical Ethics Vol: 23(1): article 33 [PMC8956145] 

Chuan Voo, T., Savulescu, J., Schaefer, O., Ho Zhi Ling, A. and Tam, C. C., (2022), 'COVID-19 differentiated measures for unvaccinated individuals: The need for clear goals and strong justifications', Vaccine, Vol: 40(36): 5333-5337 [PMC9221926]

Davies, B., (2022), 'Responsibility and the recursion problem', Ratio, Vol: 35(2): 112-122 [PMC9361470]

Davies, B. and Douglas, T., (2022), 'Learning to Discriminate: The Perfect Proxy Problem in Artificially Intelligent Criminal Sentencing' in Roberts, J. and Ryberg, J., (Eds.)   Sentencing and Artificial Intelligence. (Oxford University Press) [freely available from OAPEN]

Davies, B. and Parker, J., (2022), 'Doctors as appointed fiduciaries: A supplemental model for medical decision-making', Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Vol: 31(1): 23-33 [PMC9019555]

De Marco, G., (2022), 'Nonconsensual neurocorrectives, bypassing, and free action', Philosophical Studies, Vol: 179: 1953-1972 [PMC9237002]

De Marco, G. and Douglas, T., (2022), 'The Expressivist Objection to Nonconsensual Neurocorrectives', Criminal Law and Philosophy, Vol: 16: 373–393 [PMC9209385]

Devolder, K. and Douglas, T., (2022), 'Gene Editing, Identity and Benefit', Philosophical Quarterly, Vol: 72(2): 305–325 [PMC9915102]

Douglas, T., (2022), 'If Nudges Treat their Targets as Rational Agents, Nonconsensual Neurointerventions Can Too', Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol: 25: 369-384 [open access]

Douglas, T., (2022), '(When) Is Adblocking Wrongful?'. in Véliz, C., (Ed.) Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics (Oxford University Press)

Douglas, T., (2022), 'The Mere Substitution Defence of Nudging Works for Neurointerventions Too', Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol: 39(3), pp. 407-420 [PMC9828860]

Earp, B. D., (2022), 'Against legalising female ‘circumcision’ of minors: a reply to ‘The prosecution of Dawoodi Bohra women’ by Richard Shweder', Global Discourse, Vol: 12(1): 47–76

Forsberg, L. and Douglas, T., (2022), 'What is criminal rehabilitation? ', Criminal Law and Philosophy, Vol: 16(1): 103–126 [PMC9034978]

Giubilini, A., Pugh, J., Savulescu, J. and Wilkinson, D., (2022), 'Vaccine mandates for healthcare workers beyond COVID-19', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 49(3): 211-220 [PMC9985724]

Kappes, A., Zohny, H., Savulescu, J., Singh, I., Sinnott-Armstrong, W. and Wilkinson, D., (2022), 'Race and resource allocation: An online survey of US and UK adults’ attitudes towards COVID-19 ventilator and vaccine distribution', BMJ Open, Vol: 12(11):e062561 [PMC9679868]

Koplin, J. J., Gyngell, C., Savulescu, J. and Vears, D. F., (2022), 'Moving from 'fully' to 'appropriately' informed consent in genomics: The PROMICE framework', Bioethics, Vol: 36(6): 655-665 [PMC9321597]

Leuenberger, M., (2022), 'Memory Modification and Authenticity: A Narrative Approach', Neuroethics, Vol: 15(10) [PMC8847193]

Levy, N., (2022), 'In Trust We Trust: Epistemic Vigilance and Responsibility', Social Epistemology, Vol: 36(3): 283-298 [PMC9595099]

Ligthart, S., Bublitz, C., Douglas, T., Forsberg, L. and Meynen, G., (2022), 'Rethinking the Right to Freedom of Thought: A Multidisciplinary Perspective', Human Rights Law Review Vol: 22(4) [Link to paper in Oxford Research Archives]

Ligthart, S., Meynen, G. and Douglas, T., (2022), 'Persuasive technologies and the right to mental liberty: The ‘smart’ rehabilitation of criminal offenders'. in Ienca, M., Pollicino, O., Liguori, L., Andorno, R. and Stefanini, E., (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Life Science, Information Technology and Human Rights. (Cambridge University Press) [NBK592241]

Lyreskog, D. and Mckeown, A., (2022), 'On the (Non-)Rationality of Human Enhancement and Transhumanism', Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol: 28(52) [PMC9626409]

Lyreskog, D., Pavarini, G., Lorimer, J., Jacobs, E., Bennett, V. and Singh, I., (2022), 'How to build a game for empirical bioethics research: The case of ‘Tracing Tomorrow’', Health Expectations, Vol: 25(1): 304-312 [PMC8849238]

Moen, O. M. and Devolder, K., (2022), 'Palliative Farming', The Journal of Ethics, Vol: 26(4): 543-561 [PMC9712308]

Muralidharan, A., Schaefer, G. O., Johnson, T. and Savulescu, J., (2022), 'Funder Priority for Vaccines: Implications of a Weak Lockean Claim', Bioethics, Vol: 36(9): 978-988 [PMC9539059]

Palacios‐González, C., Pugh, J., Wilkinson, D. and Savulescu, J., (2022), 'Ethical heuristics for pandemic allocation of ventilators across hospitals', Developing World Bioethics, Vol: 22(1) [ PMC7614740]

Pugh, J., Wilkinson, D., Kerridge, I. and Savulescu, J., (2022), 'Vaccine Suspension, Risk, and Precaution in a Pandemic', Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Vol: 9(1) [ PMC8928173]

Pugh, J., Wilkinson, D., Brown, R. and Savulescu, J., (2022), 'The Unnaturalistic Fallacy: COVID vaccine mandates should not discriminate against natural immunity', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 48(6): 371-377 [PMC9132858]

Pugh, J., Wilkinson, D. and Savulescu, J., (2022), 'Sense and sensitivity: can an inaccurate test be better than no test at all?', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 48(5): 329-333 [PMC9046741]

Savulescu, J., Gilbertson, L., Oakley, J. and Wilkinson, D., (2022), 'Expanded terminal sedation in end-of-life care', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 49(4): 252-260
[ PMC10086483]

Takaguchi, K., Kappes, A., Yearsley J.M., Sawai, T., Wilkinson, D.J.C. and Savulescu, J., (2022), 'Personal ethical settings for driverless cars and the utility paradox: an ethical analysis of public attitudes in UK and Japan', PLOSOne, Vol: (11):e0275812 [PMC9665398]

Wood, K., Di Stefano, L., Mactier, H., Bates, S. and Wilkinson, D., (2022), 'Individualised decision-making: interpretation of risk for extremely preterm infants, a survey of UK neonatal professionals', Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal, Vol: 1074(3): 281-288 [PMC9046748]

Zohny, H., Earp, B. and Savulescu, J., (2022), 'Enhancing Gender', Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Vol: 19(June): 225-237 [PMC9233637]

Zohny, H., Davies, B. and Wilkinson, D., (2022), 'Affirmative action in healthcare resource allocation: Vaccines, ventilators and race', Bioethics, Vol: 36(9): 970-977 [PMC9539241]

2021

Alonso, M. and Savulescu, J., (2021), 'He Jiankui’s gene editing experiment and the non-identity problem', Bioethics, Vol: 35(6): 563-573 [PMC8524470]

Birks, D., (2021), 'Paternalism as Punishment', Utilitas, Vol: 33(1): 35-52 [PMC7611215]

Bradfield, O. and Giubilini, A., (2021), 'A spoonful of honey or a gallon of vinegar? A conditional COVID-19 vaccination policy for frontline healthcare workers', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 47(7): 467–472 [PMC8257552]

Brown, R., Mahtani, K., Turk, A. and Tierney, S., (2021), 'Social Prescribing in National Health Service Primary Care: What Are the Ethical Considerations?', Milbank Quarterly, Vol: 99(3): 610-628 [PMC8452361]

Cameron, J., Savulescu, J. and Wilkinson, D., (2021), 'Is Withdrawing Treatment Really More Problematic than Withholding Treatment?', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: Vol: 47(11): 722-726 [PMC7295851]

Clarke, S. and Savulescu, J., (2021), 'Rethinking our Assumptions about Moral Status'. in Clarke, S., (Ed.) Rethinking Moral Status. (Oxford University Press) [NBK572929]

Dao, B., Savulescu, J., Suen, J., Fraser, J. and Wilkinson, D., (2021), 'Ethical factors determining ECMO allocation during the COVID-19 pandemic', BMC Medical Ethics, Vol: 22(1): 70 [PMC8169422]

Davies, B., (2021), ''Personal health surveillance': The use of mHealth in healthcare responsibilisation', Public Health Ethics, Vol: 14(3): 268–280 [ PMC8661076]

Davies, B. and Savulescu, J., (2021), 'The Right Not to Know: Some steps towards a compromise', Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol: 24: 137–150 [PMC7611423]

De Marco, G., Douglas, T. and Savulescu, J., (2021), 'Healthcare, Responsibility and Golden Opportunities', Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol: 24: 817–831
[ PMC8550409]

Devolder K., (2021), 'Genome Editing in Livestock', in D. Edmonds (ed.) Future Morality (OUP) [download preprint here]

Devolder, K., (2021), 'Genome Editing in Livestock, Complicity, and the Technological Fix Objection', Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Vol: 34(3) [ PMC8550048]

Di Stefano, L., Wood, K., Mactier, H., Bates, S. and Wilkinson, D., (2021), 'Viability and thresholds for treatment of extremely preterm infants: survey of UK neonatal professionals', Archives of Disease in Childhood, Vol: 106(6): 596-602 [PMC8543207]

Douglas, T. and Forsberg, L., (2021), 'Three Rationales for a Legal Right to Mental Integrity'. in Douglas, T., Ligthart, S., Kooijmans, T. and Meynen, G., (Eds.) Neurolaw: Ways forward for Neuroscience, Justice & Security. (Palgrave Macmillan). Freely available in OAPEN Library.

Douglas, T., Forsberg, L. and Pugh, J., (2021), 'Compulsory medical intervention versus external constraint in pandemic control', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 47(12) [PMC8639959]

Feng-Gu, E., Everett, J. A. C., Brown, R., Maslen, H., Oakley, J. and Savulescu, J., (2021), 'Prospective intention-based lifestyle contracts: mHealth technology and responsibility in healthcare', Health Care Analysis, Vol: 29(3): 189-212 [PMC8321967]

Forsberg, L., (2021), 'Anti-libidinal Interventions and Human Rights', Human Rights Law Review, Vol: 21(2): 384–408 [PMC8655647]

Giubilini, A., Minerva, F., Schuklenk, U. and Savulescu, J., (2021), 'The "Ethical" COVID-19 vaccine is the one that reserves lives: religious and moral beliefs on the COVID-19 vaccine', Public Health Ethics, Vol: 14(3): 242-255 [PMC8344725]

Giubilini, A. and Savulescu, J., (2021), 'Stopping exploitation: properly remunerating healthcare workers for risk in COVID-19 pandemic', Bioethics, Vol: 35(4): 372-379 [ PMC8014134]

Giubilini, A., Savulescu, J. and Wilkinson, D., (2021), 'Queue questions: Ethics of COVID-19 vaccine prioritization', Bioethics, Vol: 35(4): 348-355 [PMC8013927]

Giubilini, A., Savulescu, J. and Wilkinson, D., (2021), 'Which Vaccine? The Cost of Religious Freedom in Vaccination Policy', Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Vol: 18(4): 609-619 [PMC8696246]

Graham, M., Hallowell, N. and Savulescu, J., (2021), 'A Just Standard: The Ethical Management of Incidental Findings in Brain Imaging Research', The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics : a Journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Vol: 49(2): 269-281 [PMC8242825]

Gross, J., Faber, N., Am, N., Cowen, P., Browning, M., Kahane, G., Savulescu, J., Crockett, M. J. and De Dreu, C., (2021), 'When Helping is Risky: The Behavioral and Neurobiological Tradeoff of Social and Risk Preferences', Psychological Science, Vol: 32(11): 1842-1855 [PMC7614101]

Gyngell, C., Christodoulou, J. and Savulescu, J., (2021), 'Ethically utilising COVID-19 host-genomic data', npj Genomic Medicine, Vol: 6(1): article 31 [PMC8110518]

Gyngell, C. and Savulescu, J., (2021), 'The ethics of genomic passports: Should the genetically resistant be exempted from lockdowns and quarantines?', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 48(10): 689-694 [PMC9554064]

Johnson, T. and Giubilini, A., (2021), 'Genetic Immunisation'. in Edmonds, D., (Ed.) Future Morality. (OUP) [download preprint]

Levy, N., (2021), 'Bad Beliefs: Why They Happen to Good People', (OUP) [NBK577958]

Levy, N. and Savulescu, J., (2021), 'After the Pandemic: New Responsibilities', Public Health Ethics, Vol: 14(2): Pages 120–133 [PMC7989173]

Ligthart, S., Douglas, T., Bublitz C, Kooijmans, T. and Meynen, G., (2021), 'Forensic brain-reading and mental privacy in European human rights law: Foundations and challenges', Neuroethics, Vol: 14: 191–203 [PMCID to follow] 

Ligthart S, Kooijmans T, Douglas T, and Meynen G, (2021), Closed-Loop Brain Devices in Offender Rehabilitation: Autonomy, Human Rights, and Accountability, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics; Vol: 30(4): 669-680 [PMC8549003]

McConnell, D., (2021), 'Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Pinning down the Reasonability View', The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Vol: 46(1): 37-57 [PMC7829616]

McConnell, D., (2021), 'Compensation and hazard pay for key workers during an epidemic: An argument from analogy', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 47(12): 784-787 [ PMC8639952]

Munday, S. and Savulescu, J., (2021), 'Three Models for the Regulation of Polygenic Scores in Reproduction', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 47(12): e91 [PMC8639919]

Notini, L., Gaff, C. L., Savulescu, J. and Vears, D. F., (2021), 'Clinicians' Views and Experiences with Offering and Returning Results from Exome Sequencing to Parents of Infants with Hearing Loss', Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol: 11(1): 35 [PMC8745321] 

Porsdam Mann, S., Savulescu, J., Ravaud, P. and Benchoufi, M., (2021), 'Blockchain, consent and prosent for medical research', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 47(4): 244-250 [PMC8053330]

Pugh, J., (2021), 'Neurostimulation, Doping, and The Spirit of Sport', Neuroethics, Vol: 14: 141–158 [PMC8590673]

Pugh, J., Wilkinson, D., Palacios Gonzalez, C. and Savulescu, J., (2021), 'Beyond Individual Triage: Regional Allocation of Life-Saving Resources such as Ventilators in Public Health Emergencies', Health Care Analysis, Vol: 29, pp. 263–282 [PMC7867404]

Savulescu, J., (2021), 'Good Reasons to Vaccinate: Mandatory or Payment for Risk?', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 47(2) [PMC7848060]

Savulescu, J., Everett, J. A. C., Maslen, H., Bringedal, B., Nussberger, A. M. and Wilkinson, D., (2021), 'An empirical bioethical examination of Norwegian and British doctor’s views of responsibility and (de)prioritization in healthcare', Bioethics, Vol: 35(9 (Special Issue: Truthfulness and deception in dementia care)): 932-946 [PMC8581988]

Savulescu, J., Giubilini, A. and Danchin, M., (2021), 'Global Ethical Considerations Regarding Mandatory Vaccination in Children', The Journal of Pediatrics, Vol: 231(April): 10-16 [PMC7817402]

Savulescu, J., Kahane, G. and Gyngell, C., (2021), 'Collective Reflective Equilibrium in Practice (CREP) and Controversial Novel Technologies', Bioethics, Vol: 35(7): 652-663 [PMC8581760]

Simon Thomas, E., Peiris, B., Di Stefano, L., Rowland, M. J. and Wilkinson, D., (2021), 'Evaluation of a hypothetical decision-support tool for intensive care triage of patients with COVID-19', Wellcome Open Research, 6-183 [Open Access]

Takla, A., Savulescu, J., Kappes, A. and Wilkinson, D., (2021), 'British laypeople’s attitudes towards gradual sedation, sedation to unconsciousness and euthanasia at the end of life', PLoS ONE, Vol: 16((3):e0247193) [PMC7997648]

Takla, A., Wilkinson, D., Pandit, J. and Savulescu, J., (2021), 'General anaesthesia in end-of-life care: extending the indications for anaesthesia beyond surgery', Anaesthesia, Vol: 76(10): 1308-1315 [PMC8581983]

Takla, A., Wilkinson, D. and Savulescu, J., (2021), 'A conscious choice: is it ethical to aim at unconsciousness at the end of life', Bioethics, Vol: 35(3): 284-291 [PMC8243249] 

Vears, D. F., Borry, P., Savulescu, J. and Koplin, J., (2021), 'Old challenges or new issues? Genetic health professionals’ experiences obtaining informed consent in diagnostic genomic sequencing', AJOB Empirical Bioethics, Vol: 12(1) [PMC8120994]

Veliz, C., (2021), 'Moral Zombies: Why Algorithms Are Not Moral Agents', AI and Society, Vol: 36(2) 487–497 [PMC7613994]

Wilkinson, D., (2021), 'Sleep softly. Schubert, ethics and the value of dying well', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 47(4) [PMC8053338]

Wilkinson, D., (2021), 'Frailty triage: is rationing intensive medical treatment on the grounds of frailty ethical?', American Journal of Bioethics, Vol: 21(11): 48-63 [PMC8567739]

Wilkinson, D., Finlay, I., Pollard, A., Forsberg, L. and Skelton, A., (2021), 'Should we delay covid-19 vaccination in children?', BMJ, Vol: 374:n1687

Wilkinson, D. and Zayegh, A., (2021), 'Valuing life and evaluating suffering in infants with life-limiting illness', Theoretical Med Bioeth, Vol: 41: 179–196 [PMC7745707]

Williams, B., Cameron, J., Trauer, J., Marais, B., Ragonnet, R. and Savulescu, J., (2021), 'The Ethics of Selective Restriction of Liberty in a Pandemic', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 47(8): 553-562 [PMC8327318]

2020

Brown, R., Savulescu, J., Williams, B. and Wilkinson, D., (2020), 'A Passport to Freedom? Immunity Passports for COVID-19', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 46(10) [PMC7525773]

Browne, T. and Clarke, S., (2020), 'Bioconservatism, Bioenhancement and Backfiring', Journal of Moral Education, Vol: 49(2): 241-256 [PMC7155838]

Brick, C., Kahane, G., Wilkinson, D., Caviola, L. and Savulescu, J., (2020), 'Worth living or worth dying? The views of the general public about allowing disabled children to die', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 46(1) [PMC6984061]. Link to PDF poster produced by Claudia Brick (BMedSc student) 'Defining the concept of a life not worth living in paediatric treatment limitation'.

Clarke, S., (2020), 'Huckleberry Finn’s Conscience: Reckoning with the Evasion', Journal of Ethics, Vol: 24(4): 485-508 [PMC7648744]

Davies, B. and Savulescu, J., (2020), 'From Sufficient Health to Sufficient Responsibility', Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Vol: 17(3): 423-433 [PMC7557480]

Davies, B., (2020), 'Responsibility and the limits of patient choice', Bioethics, Vol: 34(5): 459– 466 [PMC7318668]

Davies, B., (2020), 'The right not to know and the obligation to know', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 46(5): 300-303 [PMC7250654] and response to commentaries at [PMC7279182]

Douglas, T., (2020), 'Infection Control for Third-Party Benefit: Lessons from Criminal Justice', Monash Bioethics Review, Vol: 38(1): 17-31 [PMC7749867]

Everett, J. A. C., Skorburg, J. and Savulescu, J., (2020), 'The moral self and moral duties', Philosophical Psychology, Vol: 33(7): 924-945 [PMC7872212]

Forsberg, L. and Skelton, A., (2020), 'Achievement and Enhancement', Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol: 50(3): 322-338 [PMC8056859]

Hayden, D., Villanueva-Uy, M. E., Mendoza, M. K. and Wilkinson, D., (2020), 'Resuscitation of preterm infants in the Philippines: a national survey of resources and practice', Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal, Vol: 105(2): 209-214 [PMC7063403]. Link to PDF poster produced by Dean Hayden (BMedSc student) 'Resuscitation of Preterm Infants in Low and Middle-Income Countries: AN ETHICAL ANALYSIS'

Giubilini, A., (2020), 'An argument for compulsory vaccination: the taxation analogy', Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol: 37(3): 446-466 [PMC7386912]

Giubilini, A. and Savulescu, J., (2020), 'Moral responsibility and the justification of policies to preserve antimicrobial effectiveness'. in M. Selgelid and E. Jamrozik, (Eds.)  Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health (Part of the Public Health Ethics Analysis book series (PHES, volume 5). (Springer) [NBK566842]

Giubilini, A. and Savulescu, J., (2020), 'Beyond money: conscientious objection in medicine as a conflict of interest', Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Vol: 17(2): 229–243 [PMC7367904]

Giubilini, A., Savulescu, J. and Wilkinson, D., (2020), 'COVID-19 vaccine: vaccinate the young to protect the old?', Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Vol: 7(1) [PMC7337759]

Grimwade, O., Savulescu, J., Giubilini, A., Oakley, J., Osowicki, J., Pollard, A. and Nussberger, A., (2020). 'Payment in Challenge Studies: Ethics, Attitudes and a New Payment for Risk Model', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 46(12): 815–826 [PMC7719900]. Link to PDF poster produced by Olivia Grimwade (BMedSc student) 'Attitudes towards payment and payment practices in human infection studies'

Gyngell, C., Stark, Z., and Savulescu, J., (2020), 'Drugs, Genes and Screens: The ethics of preventing and treating Spinal Muscular Atrophy', Bioethics, Vol: 34(5): 493-501 [PMC7318711]

Koplin, J., Savulescu, J. and Vears, D. F., (2020), 'Why genomics researchers are sometimes morally required to hunt for secondary findings', BMC Medical Ethics, Vol: 21:11 [PMC6995186]

Levy, N. and Savulescu, J., (2020), 'Epistemic Responsibility in the Face of a Pandemic', Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Vol: 7(1) [PMC7381967]

Maslen, H. and Rainey, S., (2020), 'Control and Ownership of Neuroprosthetic Speech', Philosophy and Technology, Vol: 34(3): 425–445
[ PMC8550345]

Maslen, H., Savulescu, J. and Hunt, C., (2020), 'Praiseworthiness and Motivational Enhancement: “No Pain, no Praise?”', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol: 98(2): 304-318 [PMC7254567]

McConnell, D., (2020), 'Balancing the duty to treat with the duty to family in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 46(6): 360-363 [PMC7211094]

Notini, L., Gyngell, C. and Savulescu, J., (2020),'Drawing the Line on In Vitro Gametogenesis', i, Vol: 34(1) Special Issue: Human Germline Editing: 123-134 [PMC6973109]

Parker, J. and Davies, B., (2020), 'No blame no gain? From a No Blame culture to a responsibility culture', Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol: 37(4): 646-660 [ PMC7750815]

Pugh, J., (2020), 'Autonomy, Rationality, Bioethics', (OUP) [NBK556857]

Pugh, J., (2020), 'Clarifying the Normative Significance of ‘Personality Changes’ Following Deep Brain Stimulation', Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol: 26: 1655–1680 [PMC7286862]

Rainey, S., Martin, S., Christen, A., Mégevand, P. and Fourneret, E., (2020), 'Brain Recording, Mind-Reading, and Neurotechnology: Ethical Issues from Consumer Devices to Brain-Based Speech Decoding', Sci Eng Ethics, Vol: 26: 2295–2311 [PMC7417394]

Rainey, S., Maslen, H. and Savulescu, J., (2020), 'When Thinking is Doing: Responsibility for BCI-Mediated Action', AJOB Neuroscience, Vol: 11(1): 46-58 [PMC7034530]

Savulescu, J. and Cameron, J., (2020), 'Why Lock Down of the Elderly Is Not Ageist and Why Levelling Down Equality Is Wrong', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 46(11): 717–721 [PMC7335694] 

Savulescu, J. and McConnell, D., (2020), 'Welfarist Psychiatry Goes Global'. in D. Stein and I. Singh, (Eds.)  Global Mental Health and Neuroethics. (Elsevier) [NBK559850] 

Savulescu, J., Persson, I. and Wilkinson, D., (2020), 'Utilitarianism and the Pandemic', Bioethics, Vol: 620 - 632 [PMC727685]

Shriver, A., (2020),'The Role of Neuroscience in Precise, Precautionary, and Probabilistic Accounts of Sentience'. in Johnson, L Syd M, Fenton, Andrew, Shriver, Adam (Eds.)  Neuroethics and Nonhuman Animals. (Springer) [NBK555334]

Véliz, C., (2020), 'Not the doctor’s business: Privacy, personal responsibility, and data rights in medical settings', Bioethics, Vol: 34(7): 712-718 [PMC7587002]

Voinea, C., Mihailov, E., Savulescu, J. and Vica, C., (2020), 'The Internet as Cognitive Enhancement', Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol: 26(4): 2345–2362 [PMC7417391]

Wilkinson, D., Zohny, H., Kappes, A., Sinnott-Armstrong, W. and Savulescu, J., (2020), 'Which factors should be included in triage? An online survey of the attitudes of the UK general public to pandemic triage dilemmas', BMJ Open, Vol: 10(12) [PMC7725087]

Wilkinson, D., (2020), 'In defense of a conditional harm threshold test for paediatric decision-making'. in I. Goold, J. Herring and C. Auckland, (Eds.)   In Parental Rights, Best Interests and Significant Harm: Medical decision-making on behalf of children post Great Ormond St vs Gard. (Hart) pp. [NBK556970]

Wilkinson, D., Binik, A. and Turnham, H., (2020), 'Minority report: can minor parents refuse treatment for their child?', Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol: 46(6): 355-359 [PMC7279200] 

Older papers, 2019-2005

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