Julian Savulescu

Summary

Affiliation: University of Oxford
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Functional neuroimaging and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from vegetative patients
    D J Wilkinson
    Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    J Med Ethics 35:508-11. 2009
  2. ncbi What makes the best medical ethics journal? A North American perspective
    J Savulescu
    Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Littlegate House, St Ebbes Street, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK
    J Med Ethics 31:591-7. 2005
  3. ncbi Waiting for a miracle... miracles, miraclism, and discrimination
    Julian Savulescu
    Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences, James Martin 21st Century School, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
    South Med J 100:1259-62. 2007
  4. ncbi Should doctors feel able to practise according to their personal values and beliefs?--No
    Julian Savulescu
    Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
    Med J Aust 195:497. 2011
  5. ncbi The embryonic stem cell lottery and the cannibalization of human beings
    Julian Savulescu
    University of Oxford, St Cross College, St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LZ, UK
    Bioethics 16:508-29. 2002
  6. ncbi Conscientious objection in medicine
    Julian Savulescu
    Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1PT
    BMJ 332:294-7. 2006
  7. ncbi In defence of Procreative Beneficence
    Julian Savulescu
    Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Littlegate House, St Ebbes, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK
    J Med Ethics 33:284-8. 2007
  8. ncbi No consent should be needed for using leftover body material for scientific purposes. Against
    Julian Savulescu
    University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3LZ
    BMJ 325:648-51. 2002
  9. ncbi Justice, fairness, and enhancement
    Julian Savulescu
    Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford University, Littlegate House, 87 St Ebbes St, Oxford OX1 1PT, United Kingdom
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1093:321-38. 2006
  10. ncbi Why we should allow performance enhancing drugs in sport
    J Savulescu
    Uehiro Chair of Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Br J Sports Med 38:666-70. 2004

Detail Information

Publications69

  1. ncbi Functional neuroimaging and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from vegetative patients
    D J Wilkinson
    Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    J Med Ethics 35:508-11. 2009
    ..Although functional neuroimaging is likely to play an increasing role in the assessment of patients in a vegetative state, caution is needed in the interpretation of neuroimaging findings...
  2. ncbi What makes the best medical ethics journal? A North American perspective
    J Savulescu
    Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Littlegate House, St Ebbes Street, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK
    J Med Ethics 31:591-7. 2005
    ..There currently exist no data on the factors that contribute to determining why medical ethicists choose to review for and submit articles to medical ethics journals...
  3. ncbi Waiting for a miracle... miracles, miraclism, and discrimination
    Julian Savulescu
    Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences, James Martin 21st Century School, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
    South Med J 100:1259-62. 2007
    ..In arguing this way, we steer a middle path between discrimination against atheists, agnostics, and advocates of faiths that do not accept miracle claims--miraclism--and a failure to respect religious belief...
  4. ncbi Should doctors feel able to practise according to their personal values and beliefs?--No
    Julian Savulescu
    Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
    Med J Aust 195:497. 2011
  5. ncbi The embryonic stem cell lottery and the cannibalization of human beings
    Julian Savulescu
    University of Oxford, St Cross College, St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LZ, UK
    Bioethics 16:508-29. 2002
    ..I call this kind of killing 'risk reductive.'..
  6. ncbi Conscientious objection in medicine
    Julian Savulescu
    Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1PT
    BMJ 332:294-7. 2006
  7. ncbi In defence of Procreative Beneficence
    Julian Savulescu
    Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Littlegate House, St Ebbes, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK
    J Med Ethics 33:284-8. 2007
  8. ncbi No consent should be needed for using leftover body material for scientific purposes. Against
    Julian Savulescu
    University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3LZ
    BMJ 325:648-51. 2002
  9. ncbi Justice, fairness, and enhancement
    Julian Savulescu
    Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford University, Littlegate House, 87 St Ebbes St, Oxford OX1 1PT, United Kingdom
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1093:321-38. 2006
    ..The article advances a new argument that justice requires enhancement...
  10. ncbi Why we should allow performance enhancing drugs in sport
    J Savulescu
    Uehiro Chair of Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Br J Sports Med 38:666-70. 2004
  11. ncbi The moral obligation to create children with the best chance of the best life
    Julian Savulescu
    University of Oxford Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, St Cross College, St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LZ, United Kingdom
    Bioethics 23:274-90. 2009
    ..What matters is not whether future children meet certain biological or statistical norms, but what level of well-being they can be expected to have...
  12. ncbi Behavioural genetics: why eugenic selection is preferable to enhancement
    Julian Savulescu
    Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, St Ebbe s Street, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK
    J Appl Philos 23:157-71. 2006
    ..Moreover, other moral problems in avoiding having children with a tendency to criminal behaviour, such as the prospect of social discrimination, can also be overcome...
  13. ncbi In favour of freezing eggs for non-medical reasons
    Imogen Goold
    St Anne s College, Oxford, UK
    Bioethics 23:47-58. 2009
    ..There are strong arguments based on equal concern and respect for women which require that women have access to this new technology. Freezing eggs also avoids some of the moral objections associated with freezing embryos...
  14. ncbi "Neglected personhood" and neglected questions: remarks on the moral significance of consciousness
    Dominic Wilkinson
    University of Oxford, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Littlegate House, Oxford, UK
    Am J Bioeth 8:31-3; discussion W1-3. 2008
  15. ncbi Time to re-evaluate gender segregation in athletics?
    Bennett Foddy
    James Martin 21st Century School, University of Oxford, Suite 8, 16 17 St Ebbes St, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK
    Br J Sports Med 45:1184-8. 2011
    ..But once we recognise that gender is not a binary quantity, sex segregation in competitive sport must be seen as an inconsistent and unjust policy, no matter what stance we take on the goals of sport or on the regulation of doping...
  16. ncbi Moral significance of phenomenal consciousness
    Neil Levy
    Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, Littlegate House, Oxford, UK
    Prog Brain Res 177:361-70. 2009
    ..We call for further research which might settle whether patients who manifest signs of consciousness possess the sophisticated kind of access consciousness required for personhood...
  17. ncbi Brain damage and the moral significance of consciousness
    Guy Kahane
    University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    J Med Philos 34:6-26. 2009
    ..We argue that enjoyment of consciousness might actually give stronger moral reasons not to preserve a patient's life and, indeed, that these might be stronger when patients retain significant cognitive function...
  18. ncbi Introduction to The Olivieri symposium
    A M Viens
    St Anne's College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    J Med Ethics 30:1-7. 2004
  19. ncbi Children's consent and paediatric research: is it appropriate for healthy children to be the decision-makers in clinical research?
    T John
    Oxford Vaccine Group, Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, Oxford OX3 7LJ, UK
    Arch Dis Child 93:379-83. 2008
    ..To determine the appropriateness of asking healthy children to make a decision regarding participation in a research study...
  20. ncbi Propranolol reduces implicit negative racial bias
    Sylvia Terbeck
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3UD, UK
    Psychopharmacology (Berl) 222:419-24. 2012
    ..The aim of the present study was to examine the role of noradrenergic mechanisms in the generation of implicit racial attitudes...
  21. ncbi The neural basis of intuitive and counterintuitive moral judgment
    Guy Kahane
    Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Littlegate House, St Ebbe s Street, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK
    Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 7:393-402. 2012
    ..Our findings therefore do not support theories that have generally associated utilitarian and deontological judgments with distinct neural systems...
  22. ncbi The turn for ultimate harm: a reply to Fenton
    Ingmar Persson
    The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, 16 17 St Ebbes street, Oxford, UK
    J Med Ethics 37:441-4. 2011
    ..The authors believe that the argument rather relies upon attaching a special weight to even very slight risks of major catastrophes, and attempt to vindicate this weighting...
  23. ncbi Patients who challenge
    Michael Ward
    Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, UK
    Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol 20:545-63. 2006
    ..Doctors should assist patients to make rational if individual choices. The patient also bears the responsibility for bringing his beliefs to the attention of the clinician...
  24. ncbi The neuroethics of non-invasive brain stimulation
    Roi Cohen Kadosh
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Curr Biol 22:R108-11. 2012
    ..We discuss new neuroethical problems that have emerged from the usage of TDCS, and also focus on one of the most likely future applications of TDCS: enhancing learning and cognition in children with typical and atypical development...
  25. ncbi Australian attitudes to early and late abortion
    Lachlan J De Crespigny
    Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Med J Aust 193:9-12. 2010
    ..To investigate community attitudes to abortion, including views on whether doctors should face sanctions for performing late abortion in a range of clinical and social situations...
  26. ncbi Moral transhumanism
    Ingmar Persson
    Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford, UK
    J Med Philos 35:656-69. 2010
    ..It is unimportant that humans remain biologically human, since they do not have moral value in virtue of belonging to H. sapiens...
  27. ncbi Knowing when to stop: futility in the ICU
    Dominic J C Wilkinson
    Institute for Science and Ethics, Department of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Curr Opin Anaesthesiol 24:160-5. 2011
    ..This review will summarize recent literature around futility judgements in intensive care emphasising ethical and practical questions...
  28. ncbi New breeds of humans: the moral obligation to enhance
    Julian Savulescu
    Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Littlegate House, St Ebbe s Street, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK
    Reprod Biomed Online 10:36-9. 2005
    ..It is argued that this is not eugenic but expresses our fundamental human nature: to make rational decisions and to try to improve ourselves. To be human is to strive to be better...
  29. ncbi An ethical and prudential argument for prioritizing the reduction of parasite-stress in the allocation of health care resources
    Russell Powell
    Science and Religious Conflict Project, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and Institute for Science and Ethics, Oxford Martin School and Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1PT, United Kingdom
    Behav Brain Sci 35:90-1. 2012
    ..We sketch a prudential and ethical argument for increasing public health resources globally and redistributing these to focus on the alleviation of parasite-stress in human populations...
  30. ncbi Freezing eggs for lifestyle reasons
    Julian Savulescu
    Oxford University, Oxford, UK
    Am J Bioeth 8:32-5. 2008
  31. ncbi Synthetic biology and the ethics of knowledge
    Thomas Douglas
    Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    J Med Ethics 36:687-93. 2010
    ..To adequately address this concern, bioethics will need to broaden its scope, contemplating not just the means by which scientific knowledge is produced, but also what kinds of knowledge should be sought and disseminated...
  32. ncbi Education and debate: Deaf lesbians, "designer disability," and the future of medicine
    Julian Savulescu
    Oxford Centre for Applied Ethics, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK
    BMJ 325:771-3. 2002
  33. ncbi Human-animal transgenesis and chimeras might be an expression of our humanity
    Julian Savulescu
    University of Oxford, UK
    Am J Bioeth 3:22-5. 2003
  34. ncbi Comment: genetic test available for sports performance
    J Savulescu
    University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Br J Sports Med 39:472. 2005
  35. ncbi Is the sale of body parts wrong?
    J Savulescu
    Oxford Centre for Applied Ethics, University of Oxford, Suite 7, Littlegate House, St Ebbes Street, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK
    J Med Ethics 29:138-9. 2003
  36. ncbi Research ethics and lessons from Hwanggate: what can we learn from the Korean cloning fraud?
    R Saunders
    Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    J Med Ethics 34:214-21. 2008
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  37. ncbi The proper place of values in the delivery of medicine
    Julian Savulescu
    Oxford University
    Am J Bioeth 7:21-2; discussion W1-2. 2007
  38. ncbi Towards a global human embryonic stem cell bank
    Jason P Lott
    School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    Am J Bioeth 7:37-44. 2007
    ..Finally, we conclude by offering a number of practical and ethically oriented recommendations for constructing a human embryonic stem cell bank that we hope will help solve the ongoing organ shortage problem...
  39. ncbi Science and law. Integrity in international stem cell research collaborations
    Debra J H Mathews
    Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Science 313:921-2. 2006
  40. ncbi Discussion (day 2 session 1): Stem cell outlook
    Michael Lockwood
    Reprod Biomed Online 10:76-9. 2005
  41. ncbi The creation lottery: final lessons from natural reproduction: why those who accept natural reproduction should accept cloning and other Frankenstein reproductive technologies
    Julian Savulescu
    University of Oxford, England
    Camb Q Healthc Ethics 13:90-5. 2004
  42. ncbi The Ashley Treatment: best interests, convenience, and parental decision-making
    S Matthew Liao
    James Martin Twenty-First Century School, Oxford University, USA
    Hastings Cent Rep 37:16-20. 2007
  43. ncbi Embryo research: are there any lessons from natural reproduction?
    Julian Savulescu
    University of Oxford, England
    Camb Q Healthc Ethics 13:68-75. 2004
  44. ncbi An international survey of predictive genetic testing in children for adult onset conditions
    Rony E Duncan
    Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, 3052 Victoria, Australia
    Genet Med 7:390-6. 2005
    ..CONCLUSION: Clinicians agree with existing guidelines regarding predictive testing in young people, but choose to provide tests for nonmedical reasons in specific cases...
  45. ncbi The moral imperative to conduct embryonic stem cell and cloning research
    Katrien Devolder
    Ghent University, Belgium
    Camb Q Healthc Ethics 15:7-21. 2006
  46. ncbi Addiction and autonomy: can addicted people consent to the prescription of their drug of addiction?
    Bennett Foddy
    Ethics Unit, Murdoch Research Institute, Royal Children s Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria 3052, Australia
    Bioethics 20:1-15. 2006
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  47. ncbi Issues and concerns of couples presenting for preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)
    Mandy G Katz
    Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia
    Prenat Diagn 22:1117-22. 2002
    ..This study evaluates a range of social and moral concerns of couples towards PGD and assisted reproductive technologies (ART) prior to treatment to obtain unbiased authentic attitudes independent of the treatment cycle and the outcome...
  48. ncbi Discussion (day 1 session 1): Assisted conception and moral philosophy
    John Robertson
    Reprod Biomed Online 10:21-3. 2005
  49. ncbi Autonomy, addiction and the drive to pleasure: designing drugs and our biology: a reply to Neil Levy
    Bennett Foddy
    Ethics Unit, Murdoch Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria 3052, Australia
    Bioethics 20:21-3. 2006
  50. ncbi Prenatal diagnosis for "minor" genetic abnormalities is ethical
    Robert J Boyle
    Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
    Am J Bioeth 3:W-IF 3. 2003
    ....
  51. ncbi Prenatal diagnosis requests for Huntington's disease when the father is at risk and does not want to know his genetic status: clinical, legal, and ethical viewpoints
    Ros Tassicker
    Genetic Health Services Victoria, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
    BMJ 326:331-3. 2003
  52. ncbi Thalassaemia major: the murky story of deferiprone
    Julian Savulescu
    BMJ 328:358-9. 2004
  53. ncbi An ethical approach to giving couples information about their fetus
    Robert J Boyle
    Institute of Child Health, London, UK
    Hum Reprod 18:2253-6. 2003
    ..If the harms of being given unwanted information about one's fetus are to be avoided, then couples need an opportunity to limit the data gathered about their fetus at prenatal diagnosis...
  54. ncbi Eligibility of overseas visitors and people of uncertain residential status for NHS treatment
    Andrew J Pollard
    Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU
    BMJ 329:346-9. 2004
  55. ncbi Is there a "right not to be born"? Reproductive decision making, options and the right to information
    Julian Savulescu
    Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 87:F72-4. 2002
  56. ncbi Abortion: time to clarify Australia's confusing laws
    Lachlan J De Crespigny
    Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Parkville, Vic, Australia
    Med J Aust 181:201-3. 2004
    ..Federal, state and territory governments should introduce a single clear national law on abortion, both in early and late pregnancy...
  57. ncbi Assisted reproduction for HIV serodiscordant couples: the ethical issues in perspective
    Julian Savulescu
    Oxford University
    Am J Bioeth 3:53-7. 2003
  58. ncbi Discussion (day 1 session 2): Designer babies
    Ruth Chadwick
    Reprod Biomed Online 10:40-2. 2005
  59. ncbi The "Hinxton Group" considers transnational stem cell research
    Julian Savulescu
    University of Oxford
    Hastings Cent Rep 36:1 p following 48. 2006
  60. ncbi Addiction is not an affliction: addictive desires are merely pleasure-oriented desires
    Bennett Foddy
    Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne, 3/53 Evans Street, Brunswick, VIC 3056, Australia
    Am J Bioeth 7:29-32. 2007
  61. ncbi Spare embryos: 3000 reasons to rethink the significance of genetic relatedness
    Giuliana Fuscaldo
    Centre for the Study of Health and Society, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
    Reprod Biomed Online 10:164-8. 2005
    ..Open embryo donation or directed embryo donation programmes might cause couples to change their minds, or alleviate their anxiety about donating embryos to others...
  62. ncbi Deciding about life-support: a perspective on the ethical and legal framework in the United Kingdom and Australia
    Malar Thiagarajan
    Research Directorate, Southern Health, 246 Clayton Rd, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia
    J Law Med 14:583-96. 2007
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  63. ncbi Medical paternalism and expensive unsubsidised drugs
    Michael Jefford
    Division of Haematology and Medical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Locked Bag 1, A'Beckett Street, Victoria 8006, Australia
    BMJ 331:1075-7. 2005
  64. ncbi "You're one of us now": young people describe their experiences of predictive genetic testing for Huntington disease (HD) and familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP)
    Rony E Duncan
    Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
    Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet 148:47-55. 2008
    ..Future research concerning the effects of predictive genetic testing in young people must remain broad and should aim to measure the beneficial as well as the harmful effects that resonate for young people themselves...
  65. ncbi Pregnant women with fetal abnormalities: the forgotten people in the abortion debate
    Lachlan J De Crespigny
    Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
    Med J Aust 188:100-3. 2008
    ..Legal certainty is needed to reduce the suffering of couples wanting to have a family...
  66. ncbi Discussion (day 2 session 4): Lessons on ART from philosophy, religion and politics
    Julian Savulescu
    Reprod Biomed Online 10:144-6. 2005
  67. ncbi Discussion (day 2 session 3): Ethics of choosing the sex of our offspring
    Susan Golombok
    Reprod Biomed Online 10:125-8. 2005
  68. ncbi Discussion (day 2 session 2): Modern genetics and the human embryo in vitro
    Jeff McMahan
    Reprod Biomed Online 10:107-10. 2005
  69. ncbi Carers, ethics and dementia: a survey and review of the literature
    Julian C Hughes
    Newcastle General Hospital, and The Oxford Centre for Ethics and Communication in Health Care Practice ETHOX, Oxford
    Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 17:35-40. 2002
    ..Whilst there has been an increasing amount of interest in the psychosocial problems that face the carers of people with dementia, the ethical nature of some of these problems has largely been ignored...