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It’s Only a Game
Written by Stephen Rainey Footballers are increasingly prominent in speaking against social and political ills. They can draw attention to serious issues, given their public profile. If more of us followed their example, beyond supporting their causes, we could make a world less accommodating for moral complacency.
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Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: May the Use of Violent Civil Disobedience Be Justified as a Response to Institutional Racism?
This essay was the joint runner up in the graduate category of the 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics. Written by University of Oxford student Oshy Ray The summer of 2020 saw people across the world participating in racial justice protests, demanding the end of state violence against Black people, and calling for…
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Press Release: New Tavistock Legal Ruling on Puberty Blockers
“The legal decision this morning, in the Family division of the High Court, provides important clarification. It is likely to be a relief to young people with gender dysphoria and their families. In December, the High Court found that young people under 16 with gender dysphoria were highly unlikely to be able to understand the…
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Cross Post: There’s no Need to Pause Vaccine Rollouts When There’s a Safety Scare. Give the Public the Facts and Let Them Decide
Written By: Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford; Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford; Jonathan Pugh, University of Oxford, and Margie Danchin, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. When someone gets sick after receiving a vaccine, this might be a complication or coincidence.…
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Press Release: Majority of UK public want choice at the end of life – survey
Most people in the UK would like the option of being heavily sedated, having a general anaesthestic or to having euthanasia, if they were dying, according to Oxford research published today in the medical journal PLOS One. Professor Dominic Wilkinson, Professor Julian Savulescu and colleagues from the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, surveyed more…
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Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Should Feminists Endorse a Universal Basic Income?
This essay was the joint runner up in the graduate category of the 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics. Written by University of Oxford student Rebecca L Clark 1 Introduction A UBI is a regularly remitted, non-means-tested cash grant which is given to every individual with no conditions attached.[1] Within these constraints, UBI…
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Ethics, iBlastoids, and Brain Organoids: Time to Revise Antiquated Laws and Processes
Written by Julian Savulescu Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and Wellcome Centre for Ethics, University of Oxford Biomedical Ethics Research Group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Jose Polo and his team at Monash University have successfully reprogrammed human adult cells (fibroblasts – skin cells) to form “iBlastoids”. These are structures which are like early human…
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Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Why, If At All, Is It Unethical For Universities To Prioritise Applicants Related To Their Alumni?
This essay was the runner up in the undergraduate category of the 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics. Written by University of Oxford student Tanae Rao Introduction Most notably in the United States, some prestigious universities[1] consider whether or not a student is closely related to one or more alumni when evaluating her…
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Suspending The Astra-Zeneca Vaccine and The Ethics of Precaution
By Jonathan Pugh, Dominic Wilkinson, and Julian Savulescu The authors are working on the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator project – @PandemicEthics_. This project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of UKRI’s Covid-19 funding. All authors are affiliated to the University of Oxford. Summary Points Preliminary Reviews suggest that the number…