Julian Savulescu

Research interests

Publications

• Generative artificial intelligence and ethical considerations in health care: a scoping review and ethics checklist

  The Lancet Digital Health · 2024 · 10.1016/s2589-7500(24)00143-2

• Ethical and regulatory challenges of large language models in medicine

  The Lancet Digital Health · 2024 · 10.1016/s2589-7500(24)00061-x

• Utilitarianism and the pandemic

  Bioethics · 2020 · 10.1111/bioe.12771

• Good reasons to vaccinate: mandatory or payment for risk?

  Journal of Medical Ethics · 2020 · 10.1136/medethics-2020-106821

• The costs of being consequentialist: Social inference from instrumental harm and impartial beneficence

  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · 2018 · 10.1016/j.jesp.2018.07.004

• Beyond sacrificial harm: A two-dimensional model of utilitarian psychology.

  Psychological Review · 2017 · 10.1037/rev0000093

• Arthroscopic subacromial decompression for subacromial shoulder pain (CSAW): a multicentre, pragmatic, parallel group, placebo-controlled, three-group, randomised surgical trial

  The Lancet · 2017 · 10.1016/s0140-6736(17)32457-1

• Doctors Have no Right to Refuse Medical Assistance in Dying, Abortion or Contraception

  Bioethics · 2016 · 10.1111/bioe.12288

• Increasing value and reducing waste in biomedical research regulation and management

  The Lancet · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(13)62297-7

• ‘Utilitarian’ judgments in sacrificial moral dilemmas do not reflect impartial concern for the greater good

  Cognition · 2014 · 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.10.005

• Use of placebo controls in the evaluation of surgery: systematic review

  BMJ · 2014 · 10.1136/bmj.g3253

• The Oxford Principles

  Climatic Change · 2013 · 10.1007/s10584-012-0675-2

• Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement

  · 2012 · 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199653645.001.0001

• Moral Enhancement, Freedom, and the God Machine

  The Monist · 2012 · 10.5840/monist201295321

• The neuroethics of non-invasive brain stimulation

  Current Biology · 2012 · 10.1016/j.cub.2012.01.013

• Unfit for the Future

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2012 · 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199653645.001.0001

• Knowing when to stop: futility in the ICU

  Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology · 2011 · 10.1097/aco.0b013e328343c5af

• A Liberal Account of Addiction

  Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology · 2010 · 10.1353/ppp.0.0282

• The Perils of Cognitive Enhancement and the Urgent Imperative to Enhance the Moral Character of Humanity

  Journal of Applied Philosophy · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1468-5930.2008.00410.x

• THE MORAL OBLIGATION TO CREATE CHILDREN WITH THE BEST CHANCE OF THE BEST LIFE

  Bioethics · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8519.2008.00687.x

• Conscientious objection in medicine

  BMJ · 2006 · 10.1136/bmj.332.7536.294

• Why we should allow performance enhancing drugs in sport

  British Journal of Sports Medicine · 2004 · 10.1136/bjsm.2003.005249

• Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children

  Bioethics · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8519.00251

• Is There a Case in Favour of Predictive Genetic Testing in Young Children?

  Bioethics · 2001 · 10.1111/1467-8519.00210

• Are research ethics committees behaving unethically? Some suggestions for improving performance and accountability: Fig 1

  BMJ · 1996 · 10.1136/bmj.313.7069.1390

Current projects

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