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14Duties to Rescue: Individual, professional and institutionalJournal of Medical Ethics 42 (4): 207-208. 2016.Clinicians and researchers can often rescue patients or research participants from serious harms. Indeed, they often have a duty to do so—a duty to rescue. Duties to rescue are frequently discussed in the medical ethics literature, but according to Tina Rulli and Joseph Millum they are under-theorised and more problematic than is normally acknowledged. Rulli and Millum outline two widely discussed conceptions of rescue duties: a so-called duty of easy rescue, applying to all moral agents (includ…Read more
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14(When) Is Adblocking Wrong?In Carissa Véliz (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2023.In this chapter, I examine three deontological objections to adblocking: the objection from property (according to which adblocking involves accessing another’s property without satisfying the conditions placed on such access by the owner), the objection from complicity (according to which, by blocking ads, consumers become complicit in wrongdoing of adblocking software providers), and the objection from freeriding (according to which adblocking consumers free-ride on other consumers who allow a…Read more
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11On the Relative Intrusiveness of Physical and Chemical RestraintsAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1): 26-28. 2024.Crutchfield and Redinger argue that consciousness-altering chemical restraints are less “liberty-intrusive” (or as we will sometimes put it, just less “intrusive”) than physical restraints. Physica...
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10Pragmatic argument for an acceptance-refusal asymmetry in competence requirementsJournal of Medical Ethics 48 (11): 799-800. 2022.In 2016, this Journal published an article by Rob Lawlor1 on what we might call the acceptance-refusal asymmetry in competence requirements. This is the view that there can be cases in which a patient is sufficiently competent to accept a treatment, but not sufficiently competent to refuse it. Though the main purpose of Lawlor’s paper was to distinguish this asymmetry from various other asymmetries with which it has sometimes been confused,1 Lawlor also presented a brief case in favour of it. De…Read more
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9What makes a medical intervention invasive? A reply to commentariesJournal of Medical Ethics 50 (4): 244-245. 2024.We are grateful to the commentators for their close reading of our article 1 and for their challenging and interesting responses to it. We do not have space to respond to all of the objections that they raise, so in this reply, we address only a selection of them. Some commentaries question the usefulness of developing an account of the sort we provide, 2 or of revising the Standard Account (SA) in doing so. 3–5 Our schema is intended to provide a framework for developing a full account of invas…Read more
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8An Intuitive, Abductive Argument for a Right Against Mental InterferenceThe Journal of Ethics 1-22. forthcoming.Several authors have recently claimed that we each possess a right against interference with our minds. However, it remains unclear how this claim is to be justified. I offer a novel argument in defence of it. The argument is intuitive—appealing centrally to intuitions regarding cases—and abductive—taking the form of an inference to the best explanation; I offer a series of cases involving intuitively wrongful interventions, argue that five somewhat promising attempts to account for the wrongful…Read more
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5Commentary: Responsibility-Sensitive Healthcare Funding: Three Responses to Clavien and Hurst’s CritiqueCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 29 (2): 192-195. 2020.Christine Clavien and Samia Hurst1 (henceforth C-H) make at least three valuable contributions to the literature on responsibility and healthcare. They offer an admirably clear and workable set of criteria for determining a patient's degree of responsibility for her health condition; they deploy those criteria to cast doubt on the view that patients with lifestyle-related conditions are typically significantly responsible for their conditions; and they outline several practical difficulties that…Read more
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4Genetic selectionIn David Edmonds (ed.), Ethics and the Contemporary World, Routledge. 2019.This chapter explores some implications of the view that the woman in the rubella case has a reason to defer conception. It considers its implications for the ethics of genetic selection. Genetic selection involves choosing to bring one child into existence rather than another, based in part on the genetic characteristics of the alternative possible children. The chapter argues that potential parents have reason to pursue genetic selection to avoid having a child with a disposition to a wellbein…Read more
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1Neurolaw: Advances in Neuroscience, Justice and Security (edited book)Palgrave Macmillan. 2021.This edited book provides an in-depth examination of the implications of neuroscience for the criminal justice system. It draws together experts from across law, neuroscience, medicine, psychology, criminology, and ethics, and offers an important contribution to current debates at the intersection of these fields. It examines how neuroscience might contribute to fair and more effective criminal justice systems, and how neuroscientific insights and information can be integrated into criminal law …Read more
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1Neural Implants and the TRICK to AutonomyIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), _Ethics in Practice_ 6th edition, Wiley Blackwell. forthcoming.
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