The Doctor Will Speak as You Prefer? How AI Could Personalize Medical Communication
(This blog post was originally published in the JME Forum) By Hazem Zohny, Jemima Winfried Allen, Dominic Wilkinson, and Julian Savulescu. When you go to the doctor, there’s little telling what kind of communicator you’ll get. Some doctors …
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How Does Social Media Pose a Threat to Autonomy?
Undergraduate Finalist paper in the 2025 National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics. By Rahul Lakhanpaul, University of Edinburgh.
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Promises and Consent: The Moral Permissibility of Accepting a Promise to Perform an Act That Requires Contemporaneous Consent
Graduate Finalist paper in the 2025 National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics.
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National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics
The National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics is an annual competition held in the spring. It is open to all undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolled in UK universities and students are invited to enter by submitting an…
Read MoreBanning first cousin marriage would be eugenic and ineffective
Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford A bill that proposes to ban first-cousin marriage in the UK will receive its second reading in the House of Commons on March 7. The bill, proposed by Conservative former minister Richard Holden, follo…
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Legislating for Influence: The Case of Abortion Safe Zones
by Thomas Mitchell In September last year, the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Act 2024 came into effect. This Act establishes safe zones of 200 metres in all directions around clinics offering abortion services, withi…
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Iatrogenic to AI-trogenic Harm: Nonmaleficence in AI healthcare
By S. Tom de Kok Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare promises to revolutionize diagnostics, treatments, and efficiency, but it is not infallible. What happens when these promises are accompanied by harms that are difficult to define,…
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Stop asking if remote workers are lazy – Focus on Directing Effort Effectively
I believe that the debate about remote work reveals fundamental misconceptions about what laziness really means. When we label someone as lazy—a criticism that can have severe consequences for an individual’s career and wellbeing—we should …
Read MoreCollective Responsibility and collective meeting of needs, and the question of Land redistribution in Zimbabwe
Written by Dr Dennis Masaka, Great Zimbabwe University and AfOx Fellow at the Uehiro Oxford Institute https://www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-dennis-masaka In my proposed work as an AfOx Fellow at Oxford, I seek to initiate a conversation aro…
Read MoreAssisted dying: what we might learn from experience of other controversial decisions in medicine
Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford Following the second reading (and parliamentary support) of Labour MP Kim Leadbetter’s terminally ill adults (end of life) bill on November 29, much of the public debate in England and Wales will now …
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