Resources

Centre Annual Reports

• 2009
• 2008

The Ethics of:

1. Disability
2. Stem Cell Research and Cloning
3. Enhancement:

• Genetic Enhancement
• Cognitive Enhancement
• Sports Enhancement

4. Healthcare and Public Heath:

• Addiction
• End-of-Life Decisions
• Predictive Genetic Testing
• Infectious Diseases
• Conscientious Objection

5. Neuroscience

6. Other

Full list of publications | Full list of media

1. Disability

Savulescu, J., Deaf Lesbians, "Designer Disability," and the Future of Medicine, British Medical Journal 324, 5 October 2002. Article on BMJ site

Kahane, G., and Savulescu, J., (forthcoming), The Welfarist Account of Disability in Cureton, A. and Brownlee, K., (eds), Disability and Disadvantage (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

2. Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Cloning

Savulescu, J., Persson, I. (Forthcoming) “Reproduction and Embryo 
Research: Bringing Embryos into Existence for Different Purposes, or 
Not at All”, Forthcoming in Festschrift for John Harris. Ed Soren Holm.

Savulescu, J. (2007) "Humbug Costs Lives" in Parliamentary Brief, October, 1: 7, pp. 27 - 29

Savulescu, J.( 2006) “Solving the Stem Cell and Cloning Puzzle”, Bioethics Forum, 
21 September 2006
  
Devolder, K., Savulescu, J. (2006) “The Moral Imperative to Conduct Embryonic 
Stem Cell and Cloning Research” Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics 
doi:10.1017/S0963180106060026

Savulescu, J. (2007) “The Case for Creating Human-Nonhuman Cell Lines”, 
BioethicsForum [Online.] 
 
Lott J. P., Savulescu J., (2007) “Towards a Global Human Embryonic Stem Cell 
Bank: Response to Commentators”, American Journal of Bioethics.7:8, pp. W4 - W6
 
Lott J. P., Savulescu J., (2007) “Towards a Global Human Embryonic Stem Cell 
Bank”, American Journal of Bioethics. 7: 8 pp. 37

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3. Enhancement

Savulescu, J. (2007) “Autonomy, the Good Life, and Controversial Choices”,
 in eds. Rhodes, R. Francis, L. P. and Silvers, A. The Blackwell Guide to Medical 
Ethics (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing)

Bostrom N., Sandberg A, The Wisdom of Nature: An Evolutionary Heuristic for
Human Enhancement. Forthcoming in Enhancing Humans, eds. Julian 
Savulescu and Nick Bostrom (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 2007 

Savulescu, J. (2006). Genetic Interventions and the Ethics of Enhancement of
Human Beings. The Oxford Handbook on Bioethics. B. Steinbock. Oxford,
Oxford University Press: pp. 516-535.

Smarter, Stronger, Nicer Humans, ABC Radio Background Briefing
Podcast | Transcript

Definitions of Enhancement, Review of Cognitive Enhancement Technologies, 
Review of Ethical Topics in Cognitive Enhancement, reports from ENHANCE 
Project. Forthcoming 2007. 

Persson, I., Savulescu, J., “The Perils of Cognitive Enhancement and the Urgent Imperative to Enhance the Moral Character of Humanity”, Journal of Applied Philosophy, (forthcoming).

Practical Ethics: Ethical Analysis of the News post, "Changing the Building Blocks of Life: Playing Gods and Being Gods" 28 February 2008.

Practicalethics blog post: Supermouse and Superman: The Dawn of Biological Liberation PDF

Powerpoint: Tanner Lectures on Human Values 2009: Enhancement as a Basic Human Right, February 21, 2009

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Sports Enhancement

Savulescu, J. and Foddy, B. (forthcoming) ‘Le Tour and Failure of Zero Tolerance: Time to Relax Doping Controls’. In Ter Meulen, R. and Savulescu, J. (eds) Enhancement (forthcoming)

More Oxford Uehiro Centre sports enhancement resources

4. Public Health and Healthcare

Kahane, G. “Pain, Dislike, and Experience” (forthcoming, Utilitas)

Savulescu, J., Foddy, B., (2007) “Addiction Is Not an Affliction: Addictive Desires 
Are Merely Pleasure-Oriented Desires”, American Journal of Bioethics January,
 Volume 7, Number 1 pp 29-32.
 
Thiagarajan, M., Savulescu, J., Skene, L. (2007) “Deciding about life support: 
A perspective on the ethical and legal framework in the United Kingdom and 
Australia”  14 Journal of Law and Medicine 583.
 
Savulescu, J. (2006) “Against medical conscientious objection”  BMJ  332 294-297 
doi 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.294.PDF

Spriggs, M., Savulescu, J. (2006) “The Ethics of Surgically Assigning Sex for 
Intersex Children”, in ed. Benatar, D. Cutting to the Core (New York: Rowman
 and Littlefield Publishers Inc.)

Savulescu, J., Foddy, B. Rogers, J., (2006) “What should we say?” 
Journal of Medical Ethics; 32:7-12.

Duncan, R, E., Savulescu, J.,  Gillam, L., Williamson, R., Rogers, J. , Delatycki,
M. B., (Forthcoming) 'Holding Your Breath: Interviews With Young People Who
Have Undergone Predictive Genetic Testing for Huntington Disease” Am J of 
Medical Genetics (In press)

Lott, J. P., Savulescu, J. (2006) “Addressing the Public Health Problem of Hepatitis 
C”, in eds. Selgelid, M. J., Battin, M. P., Smith, C., B. Ethics and Infectious 
Disease (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.)

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5. Neuroscience

Kahane, G. and Savulescu, J. (2009), Brain-Damage and the Moral Significance of Consciousness. Submitted to Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 33: pp.1 -2

6. Financial and Business Ethics

Savulescu, J., Hope, R.A., (2006) “The Elderly and Ethical Financial Decision-
Making” in eds. Clark, G. L., Munnell, A. H., Orszag, M. The Oxford Handbook 
of Pensions and Retirement Income (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

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