Julian Savulescu

Datos Biográficos

ID328542
NOMBREJulian Savulescu
NOMBRESJulian
APELLIDOSavulescu
FIRMASAVULESCU J
AFILIACIONESNational University of Singapore
ORCID0000-0003-1691-6403
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS146
TOTAL DE CITAS41
TOTAL COMO AUTOR142
TOTAL COMO EDITOR5
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2001
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H4

  • Eliciting normative judgments for ethically and politically legitimate policy-making

    Open AccessLydia Tsiakiri, Shang Long Yeo et al.ARTICLEMonash Bioethics Review2026

    Contemporary societies face pressing ethical and policy challenges that require politically legitimate decision-making processes. This paper comparatively assesses how two public decision-making procedures – referendums and the empirical bioethical method of Collective Reflective Equilibrium in Practice (CREP) – perform in generating politically legitimate policymaking, using personal responsibility for health in healthcare resource allocation as…

  • The ethics of wegovy for children

    Open AccessNanette Ryan, Julian SavulescuARTICLEMonash Bioethics Review2026

    Semaglutide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) marketed as Wegovy, has gained international attention for its appetite-suppressing and weight-loss effects. Approved by the U.S. FDA in 2022 for paediatric use in children aged 12 and older, Wegovy has since received similar approvals in several countries. Despite this, uptake among youth has been limited. While some clinicians advocate for broader paediatric use of Wegovy as an …

  • Leaving no one behind

    Open AccessNancy S Jecker, Tamar Schiff et al.ARTICLEResearch Ethics2026

    If geroscience research delivers on its promise to increase healthy life years, societies around the globe will face profound moral questions. Unlike research addressing diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, or diabetes, biological targeting of the process of senescence has a far wider, almost unprecedented sweep, potentially benefiting all people across the lifespan and future generations. This paper proposes that geroscience products…

  • All you need is…. justification

    Open AccessAnantharaman Muralidharan, Julian SavulescuARTICLEEthics and Information Technology2026

    Most ethical guidelines on AI tout algorithmic transparency, the openness of an algorithm’s inner workings to human scrutiny, as an important desideratum in algorithmic deployment. Algorithmic transparency has been touted as important for valuable goals like procedural fairness, AI trustworthiness, contestability and planning around AI decision-making. This paper argues that these goals are better served by a distinct desideratum, algorithmic jus…

  • The ethics of Wegovy

    Open AccessNanette Ryan, Julian SavulescuARTICLEMedicine Health Care and Philosophy2026

    Semaglutide, marketed as Wegovy, Ozempic, and Rybelsus, is a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) that has attracted significant global attention for its appetite-suppressing and weight-loss effects. Approved for pediatric use in children aged 12 and older, Wegovy has been described as a “miracle drug” and hailed as a potential solution to the so-called “obesity epidemic.” However, prescribing medication to children raises complex …

  • Exploring the ethics of tuberculosis human challenge models

    Open AccessAbie Rohrig, Josh Morrison et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2026

    We extend recent conversation about the ethics of human challenge trials to tuberculosis (TB). TB challenge studies could accelerate vaccine development, but ethical concerns regarding risks to trial participants and third parties have been a limiting factor. We analyse the expected social value and risks of different challenge models, concluding that if a TB challenge trial has between a 10% and a 50% chance of leading to the authorisation and n…

  • Who is a man and who is a woman? Implications of the UK Supreme Court decision

    Shalom Chalson, Brian D Earp et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2026

    On 16 April 2025, the Supreme Court of the UK ruled that when interpreting the UK’s Equality Act (2010)—the Act of the UK Parliament that details protections against unlawful discrimination—the terms ‘man’, ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ pick out ‘biological sex’ (defined in the Court’s ruling as ‘the sex of a person at birth’) and not also ‘certificated sex’ (defined in the Court’s ruling as ‘the sex attained by the acquisition of a Gender Recognition Certif…

  • There is no consequentialist ethical justification for registries of conscientious non-objectors

    Udo Schuklenk, Julian SavulescuARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2026

  • When to create embryos or organoids for research

    Open AccessSebastian Porsdam Mann, Julian Savulescu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2026

    The development of brain organoids and use of human embryonic neural structures for research each raise distinct ethical considerations that require careful analysis. We propose that rather than attempting to resolve longstanding debates about embryonic moral status, a more productive approach is to examine how different positions on this fundamental question lead to distinct conclusions about appropriate research strategies. For those who ground…

  • In vitro fertilisation mix-ups and contested parenthood

    Open AccessSinead Prince, Andrew Mcgee et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2026

    In 2025, an Australian couple asked to have their remaining embryos moved to another clinic, only to discover that the child they had birthed 2 years earlier had not come from their own embryos, but an embryo belonging to a different couple. These situations can lead to disputes about who is recognised as ‘the parents’ in the biological or social sense, as well as who has moral or legal claims to parental rights and responsibilities. In terms of …

  • Suicide is not a public health issue and perhaps very few things should be

    Tessa Jane Holzman, Julian SavulescuARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2026

    In her interesting response ‘Suicide is always a public health issue’, Susan Pennings puts forward a critique of a current controversy article written by us, ‘When is suicide a public health issue?’. Most notably, Pennings argues that national suicide prevention strategies have an important expressive function and that the framework proposed in our original piece would undermine this function. In this article, we will be responding to some of the…

  • Which AI doctor would you like to see? Emulating healthcare provider–patient communication models with GPT-4

    Open AccessHazem Zohny, Jemima Winifred Allen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2026

    Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated potential in enhancing various aspects of healthcare, including health provider–patient communication. However, some have raised the concern that such communication may adopt implicit communication norms that deviate from what patients want or need from talking with their healthcare provider. This paper explores the possibility of using LLMs to enable patients to choose their preferred communication …

  • The Ethics of Ozempic and Wegovy

    Open AccessNanette Ryan, Julian SavulescuARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2026

    Semaglutide, sold under the brand names of Ozempic, Rybelsus and Wegovy, is one of the most popular drugs on the market. Manufactured by Novo Nordisk, semaglutide is the newest in a family of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists used most commonly to treat type II diabetes. To date, the results of semaglutide for the treatment of type II diabetes have been overwhelmingly positive. It is for the drug’s effects on appetite suppression and weig…

  • Misalignments of values and preferences

    Open AccessYi Jiao Tian, Yi Jiao Angelina Tian et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2026

    The ageing of the global population prompts many countries to appropriately allocate healthcare resources that ensure adequate elder care. Nevertheless, the shortages in and burdens of professional care continue to persist. Assistive and remote monitoring technologies for home-use support professional carers in providing care to older persons. With secondary analyses of semistructured interviews with 27 older persons and 23 professional carers in…

  • Forget Plagiarism

    Open AccessJulian Savulescu, Udo SchuklenkARTICLEBioethics2026

    Recent technological advances in AI text generation have arguably made influential concepts in academic integrity guidance and policy documents obsolete. Plagiarism is probably the most high-profile victim of AI text generation. Before we get there, let's take a step back and ask why there are prohibitions—in academic research publishing—against duplicate or redundant publications, of which plagiarized content is only one such variety. In times g…

  • Assessing Risk Thresholds in Controlled Human Infection Models (CHIM)

    Open AccessAlexa Nord‐Bronzyk, Barnaby Young et al.ARTICLEBioethics2026

    Controlled Human Infection Models (CHIMs) are a type of clinical trial involving deliberately exposing human volunteers to an infectious agent. Compared to studies of natural infection, CHIMs offers distinctive benefits, from the ability to study presymptomatic infection to a direct assessment of the efficacy of vaccines and therapeutics in a shorter time and involving fewer participants. Although the CHIMs do not fundamentally differ from other …

  • Digital Doppelgängers, Human Relationships, and Practical Identity

    Open AccessCristina Voinea, Sebastian Porsdam Mann et al.ARTICLEBioethics2026

    In this paper, we examine the potential effects of relationships with Large Language Model (LLM)‐based digital doppelgängers (DDs) on users' values, concerns, and interests, that is, on their practical identity. DDs are artificially intelligent conversational agents trained on individuals' data to replicate their speech patterns, mannerisms, and personality traits. We start by showing that practical identity is largely defined by the relationship…

  • Should Terminal Sedation Be Expanded to Individuals Who Choose to Die Via the Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking

    Open AccessLaura Gilbertson, Dominic Wilkinson et al.ARTICLEBioethics2026

    The voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED) is a phenomenon whereby an individual with decision‐making capacity chooses to cease eating and drinking with the intention of ending their own life. This is widely acknowledged as a lawful, albeit uncommon, end‐of‐life decision. It is now generally accepted that patients undertaking VSED should have access to appropriate palliative care, as per any other form of dying. However, it remains uncl…

  • Public Justification and Normatively Meaningful Bias

    Open AccessAnantharaman Muralidharan, Julian Savulescu et al.ARTICLEBioethics2026

    In a number of policy, institutional, activist and advocacy contexts, attributing bias to an algorithm does not just describe the algorithm but also imposes a particular, normatively laden conception of bias on others. Given the normative content of such bias attributions, this would involve making moral demands on others to rectify the algorithm, compensate the victims of such bias and/or not unselectively deploy the algorithm. It is also the ca…

  • The Ethics of Wegovy in Pediatric Mental Health

    Open AccessNanette Ryan, Julian SavulescuARTICLEBioethics2026

    Semaglutide (Wegovy), a glucagon‐like peptide‐1 receptor agonist (GLP‐1 RA), has attracted global attention for its appetite‐suppressing and weight‐loss effects. Approved by the U.S. FDA in 2022 for adolescents aged 12 and older, it has since been authorized in several other countries. Despite this, its use among youth remains limited, with ongoing concerns about its long‐term safety, efficacy, and suitability during periods of growth and develop…

  • When Is It Safe to Introduce an AI System Into Healthcare? A Practical Decision Algorithm for the Ethical Implementation of Black‐Box AI in Medicine

    Open AccessJemima Winifred Allen, Dominic Wilkinson et al.ARTICLEBioethics2026

    There is mounting global interest in the revolutionary potential of AI tools. However, its use in healthcare carries certain risks. Some argue that opaque (‘black box’) AI systems in particular undermine patients' informed consent. While interpretable models offer an alternative, this approach may be impossible with generative AI and large language models (LLMs). Thus, we propose that AI tools should be evaluated for clinical use based on their i…

  • Is Consent-GPT valid? Public attitudes to generative AI use in surgical consent

    Open AccessJemima Winifred Allen, Ivar R Hannikainen et al.ARTICLEAI & Society2026

    Healthcare systems often delegate surgical consent-seeking to members of the treating team other than the surgeon (e.g., junior doctors in the UK and Australia). Yet, little is known about public attitudes toward this practice compared to emerging AI-supported options. This first large-scale empirical study examines how laypeople evaluate the validity and liability risks of using an AI-supported surgical consent system ( Consent-GPT ). We randoml…

  • AI preference prediction and policy making

    Open AccessJeehyun Lim, Julian SavulescuARTICLEAI & Society2026

    Democratic decision-making is difficult. Representatives often fail to represent the preferences of their constituents, and directly consulting members of the public can be costly. Inspired by these difficulties, several scholars have discussed the use of artificial intelligence (AI) models to support democratic decision-making. One such particular application is the use of AI to represent public policy preferences by predicting them. In this pap…

  • Critical Engagement

    Open AccessJeehyun Lim, James Edgar Lim et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy & Technology2026

    Why is transparency important for the use of AI in healthcare? Responses to this question typically claim that transparency is something owed to the patient – because it is a condition for informed consent, legitimacy, accountability to the patient, etc. In this paper, we draw attention to why transparency can be valuable for medical practitioners. We claim that transparent AI models facilitate critical engagement by medical practitioners with AI…

  • Institutional objection to abortion care in Australia

    Open AccessCasey M Haining, Bronwen Merner et al.ARTICLESSM - Qualitative Research in…2026

    Each Australian jurisdiction has decriminalised abortion. Despite this, abortion-seekers face multiple barriers to access, among them is encountering objection by individual health practitioners (conscientious objection) or institutions (institutional objection [IO]). This article reports on a qualitative interview study that examined 41 key interest-holders’ perspectives and experiences of institutional objection to abortion. Framework analysis …