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Functional neuroimaging and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from vegetative patientsD 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...
What makes the best medical ethics journal? A North American perspectiveJ 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...
Waiting for a miracle... miracles, miraclism, and discriminationJulian 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...
Should doctors feel able to practise according to their personal values and beliefs?--NoJulian Savulescu
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Med J Aust 195:497. 2011
The embryonic stem cell lottery and the cannibalization of human beingsJulian 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.'..
Conscientious objection in medicineJulian Savulescu
Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1PT
BMJ 332:294-7. 2006
In defence of Procreative BeneficenceJulian Savulescu
Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Littlegate House, St Ebbes, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK
J Med Ethics 33:284-8. 2007
No consent should be needed for using leftover body material for scientific purposes. AgainstJulian Savulescu
University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3LZ
BMJ 325:648-51. 2002
Justice, fairness, and enhancementJulian 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...
Why we should allow performance enhancing drugs in sportJ Savulescu
Uehiro Chair of Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Br J Sports Med 38:666-70. 2004
The moral obligation to create children with the best chance of the best lifeJulian 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...
Behavioural genetics: why eugenic selection is preferable to enhancementJulian 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...
In favour of freezing eggs for non-medical reasonsImogen 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...
"Neglected personhood" and neglected questions: remarks on the moral significance of consciousnessDominic Wilkinson
University of Oxford, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Littlegate House, Oxford, UK
Am J Bioeth 8:31-3; discussion W1-3. 2008
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...
Moral significance of phenomenal consciousnessNeil 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...
Brain damage and the moral significance of consciousnessGuy 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...
Introduction to The Olivieri symposiumA M Viens
St Anne's College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
J Med Ethics 30:1-7. 2004
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...
Propranolol reduces implicit negative racial biasSylvia 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...
The neural basis of intuitive and counterintuitive moral judgmentGuy 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...
The turn for ultimate harm: a reply to FentonIngmar 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...
Patients who challengeMichael 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...
The neuroethics of non-invasive brain stimulationRoi 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...
Australian attitudes to early and late abortionLachlan 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...
Moral transhumanismIngmar 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...
Knowing when to stop: futility in the ICUDominic 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...
New breeds of humans: the moral obligation to enhanceJulian 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...
An ethical and prudential argument for prioritizing the reduction of parasite-stress in the allocation of health care resourcesRussell 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...
Freezing eggs for lifestyle reasonsJulian Savulescu
Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Am J Bioeth 8:32-5. 2008
Synthetic biology and the ethics of knowledgeThomas 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...
Education and debate: Deaf lesbians, "designer disability," and the future of medicineJulian Savulescu
Oxford Centre for Applied Ethics, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK
BMJ 325:771-3. 2002
Human-animal transgenesis and chimeras might be an expression of our humanityJulian Savulescu
University of Oxford, UK
Am J Bioeth 3:22-5. 2003
Comment: genetic test available for sports performanceJ Savulescu
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Br J Sports Med 39:472. 2005
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
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....
The proper place of values in the delivery of medicineJulian Savulescu
Oxford University
Am J Bioeth 7:21-2; discussion W1-2. 2007
Towards a global human embryonic stem cell bankJason 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...
Science and law. Integrity in international stem cell research collaborationsDebra J H Mathews
Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Science 313:921-2. 2006
Discussion (day 2 session 1): Stem cell outlookMichael Lockwood
Reprod Biomed Online 10:76-9. 2005
The creation lottery: final lessons from natural reproduction: why those who accept natural reproduction should accept cloning and other Frankenstein reproductive technologiesJulian Savulescu
University of Oxford, England
Camb Q Healthc Ethics 13:90-5. 2004
The Ashley Treatment: best interests, convenience, and parental decision-makingS Matthew Liao
James Martin Twenty-First Century School, Oxford University, USA
Hastings Cent Rep 37:16-20. 2007
Embryo research: are there any lessons from natural reproduction?Julian Savulescu
University of Oxford, England
Camb Q Healthc Ethics 13:68-75. 2004
An international survey of predictive genetic testing in children for adult onset conditionsRony 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...
The moral imperative to conduct embryonic stem cell and cloning researchKatrien Devolder
Ghent University, Belgium
Camb Q Healthc Ethics 15:7-21. 2006
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....
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...
Discussion (day 1 session 1): Assisted conception and moral philosophyJohn Robertson
Reprod Biomed Online 10:21-3. 2005
Autonomy, addiction and the drive to pleasure: designing drugs and our biology: a reply to Neil LevyBennett Foddy
Ethics Unit, Murdoch Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Road, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria 3052, Australia
Bioethics 20:21-3. 2006
Prenatal diagnosis for "minor" genetic abnormalities is ethicalRobert J Boyle
Murdoch Children s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Am J Bioeth 3:W-IF 3. 2003....
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 viewpointsRos Tassicker
Genetic Health Services Victoria, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
BMJ 326:331-3. 2003
Thalassaemia major: the murky story of deferiproneJulian Savulescu
BMJ 328:358-9. 2004
An ethical approach to giving couples information about their fetusRobert 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...
Eligibility of overseas visitors and people of uncertain residential status for NHS treatmentAndrew J Pollard
Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU
BMJ 329:346-9. 2004
Is there a "right not to be born"? Reproductive decision making, options and the right to informationJulian Savulescu
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 87:F72-4. 2002
Abortion: time to clarify Australia's confusing lawsLachlan 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...
Assisted reproduction for HIV serodiscordant couples: the ethical issues in perspectiveJulian Savulescu
Oxford University
Am J Bioeth 3:53-7. 2003
Discussion (day 1 session 2): Designer babiesRuth Chadwick
Reprod Biomed Online 10:40-2. 2005
The "Hinxton Group" considers transnational stem cell researchJulian Savulescu
University of Oxford
Hastings Cent Rep 36:1 p following 48. 2006
Addiction is not an affliction: addictive desires are merely pleasure-oriented desiresBennett 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
Spare embryos: 3000 reasons to rethink the significance of genetic relatednessGiuliana 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...
Deciding about life-support: a perspective on the ethical and legal framework in the United Kingdom and AustraliaMalar Thiagarajan
Research Directorate, Southern Health, 246 Clayton Rd, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia
J Law Med 14:583-96. 2007....
Medical paternalism and expensive unsubsidised drugsMichael 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
"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...
Pregnant women with fetal abnormalities: the forgotten people in the abortion debateLachlan 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...
Discussion (day 2 session 4): Lessons on ART from philosophy, religion and politicsJulian Savulescu
Reprod Biomed Online 10:144-6. 2005
Discussion (day 2 session 3): Ethics of choosing the sex of our offspringSusan Golombok
Reprod Biomed Online 10:125-8. 2005
Discussion (day 2 session 2): Modern genetics and the human embryo in vitroJeff McMahan
Reprod Biomed Online 10:107-10. 2005
Carers, ethics and dementia: a survey and review of the literatureJulian 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...
