Alberto Giubilini

Datos Biográficos

ID336706
NOMBREAlberto Giubilini
NOMBRESAlberto
APELLIDOGiubilini
FIRMAGIUBILINI A
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Oxford
ORCID0000-0001-5163-3017
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS29
TOTAL DE CITAS15
TOTAL COMO AUTOR28
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2013
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Ethics Review of AI research

    Open AccessAngeliki Kerasidou, Karen Melham et al.ARTICLEResearch Ethics2026

    The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), and data science more broadly, have led to a proliferation of new methods and tools, such as machine learning (ML), that are used in all kinds of scientific research, from biomedical research through to environmental and education research. Research ethics review bodies are increasingly required to review AI research protocols that cover these different fields of enquiry. Questions have bee…

  • Professional obligations and the demandingness of acting against one’s conscience

    Open AccessAlberto GiubiliniARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2026

    Conscience is typically invoked in healthcare to defend a right to conscientious objection, that is, the refusal by healthcare professionals to perform certain activities in the name of personal moral or religious views. On this approach, freedom of conscience should be respected when the individual is operating in a professional capacity. Others would argue, however, that a conscientious professional is one who can set aside one’s own moral or r…

  • Human Identity and Biotechnologies

    Open AccessAlberto Giubilini, Andrew MoellerARTICLEBioethics2026

    Human DNA, the capacity for self‐awareness or for symbolic language, a sense of mortality, plasticity and adaptability, the disposition to pray, being created in the image of God. These are only a few of the answers that science, philosophy, (philosophical) anthropology, psychology, and theology have offered to the question of what makes us human. The relevance of the question contrasts sharply with the difficulty of understanding what exactly we…

  • Privacy and Human-AI Relationships

    Open AccessCharles Register, Maryam Ali Khan et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy & Technology2025

    Artificial intelligence (AI) agents such as chatbots and personal AI assistants are increasingly popular. These technologies raise new privacy concerns beyond those posed by other AI systems or information technologies. For example, anthropomorphic features of AI chatbots may invite users to disclose more information with these systems than they would otherwise, especially when users interact with chatbots in relationship-like ways. In this paper…

  • What in the world is global health? A conceptual analysis

    Open AccessAlberto GiubiliniARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2025

    This article suggests that the concept of global health – and to an extent the field that it designates ‐ is problematic in various ways. Within public health, the concept of the ‘public’ has been widely investigated. However, “global health” has been introduced in academic, policy, and public discussion with comparably lower level of conceptual, philosophical scrutiny. Thus, while public health ethics addresses the ethical and political issues t…

  • Pandemic preparedness

    Open AccessSally Frampton, Kingsley Stephen Orievulu et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Whilst many lessons were learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing reflection is needed to develop and maintain preparedness for future outbreaks. Within the field of infectious disease and public health there remain silos and hierarchies in interdisciplinary work, with the risk that humanities and social sciences remain on the epistemological peripheries. However, these disciplines offer insights, expertise and tools that contribute to underst…

  • Conscientious commitment, professional obligations and abortion provision after the reversal of Roe v Wade

    Open AccessAlberto Giubilini, Udo Schuklenk et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2024

    We argue that, in certain circumstances, doctors might be professionally justified to provide abortions even in those jurisdictions where abortion is illegal. That it is at least professionally permissible does not mean that they have an all-things-considered ethical justification or obligation to provide illegal abortions or that professional obligations or professional permissibility trump legal obligations. It rather means that professional or…

  • Conscientious refusal or conscientious provision

    Open AccessRyan Kulesa, Alberto GiubiliniARTICLEBioethics2024

    Some authors argue that it is permissible for clinicians to conscientiously provide abortion services because clinicians are already allowed to conscientiously refuse to provide certain services. Call this the symmetry thesis. We argue that on either of the two main understandings of the aim of the medical profession—what we will call “pathocentric” and “interest‐centric” views—conscientious refusal and conscientious provision are mutually exclus…

  • Vaccine mandates for healthcare workers beyond Covid-19

    Open AccessAlberto Giubilini, Julian Savulescu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2023

    We provide ethical criteria to establish when vaccine mandates for healthcare workers are ethically justifiable. The relevant criteria are the utility of the vaccine for healthcare workers, the utility for patients (both in terms of prevention of transmission of infection and reduction in staff shortage), and the existence of less restrictive alternatives that can achieve comparable benefits. Healthcare workers have professional obligations to pr…

  • Freedom, diseases, and public health restrictions

    Open AccessAlberto GiubiliniARTICLEBioethics2023

    The debate around lockdowns as a response to the recent pandemic is typically framed in terms of a tension between freedom and health. However, on some views, protection of health or reduction of virus‐related risks can also contribute to freedom. Therefore, there might be no tension between freedom and health in public health restrictions. I argue that such views fail to appreciate the different understandings of freedom that are involved in the…

  • Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK

    Open AccessDaniel Freeman, Bao Sheng Loe et al.ARTICLEPsychological Medicine2022

    Background Our aim was to estimate provisional willingness to receive a coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine, identify predictive socio-demographic factors, and, principally, determine potential causes in order to guide information provision. Methods A non-probability online survey was conducted (24th September−17th October 2020) with 5,114 UK adults, quota sampled to match the population for age, gender, ethnicity, income, and region. The Oxford …

  • Governing Global Antimicrobial Resistance

    Isaac Weldon, Susan Rogers Van Katwyk et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 7

  • Return to Status Quo Ante

    Open AccessStephen Rainey, Alberto GiubiliniARTICLECambridge Quarterly of Healthcare…2021

    This paper presents a normative analysis of restrictive measures in response to a pandemic emergency. It applies to the context presented by the Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global outbreak of 2019, as well as to future pandemics. First, a Millian-liberal argument justifies lockdown measures in order to protect liberty under pandemic conditions, consistent with commonly accepted principles of public health ethics. Second, a wider argument…

  • A focused protection vaccination strategy

    Open AccessAlberto Giubilini, Sunetra Gupta et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2021

    Cameron et al ’s1 ethical considerations about the ‘Dualism of Values’ in pandemic response emphasise the need to strike a fair balance between the interests of the less vulnerable to COVID-19 (most notably, their freedom) and the interests of the more vulnerable (most notably, their protection from COVID-19). Those considerations are at the basis of ethical defences of focused protection strategies.2 One example is the proposal put forward in th…

  • Spoonful of honey or a gallon of vinegar? A conditional Covid-19 vaccination policy for front-line healthcare workers

    Open AccessOwen M Bradfield, Alberto GiubiliniARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2021

    Seven COVID-19 vaccines are now being distributed and administered around the world (figure correct at the time of submission), with more on the horizon. It is widely accepted that healthcare workers should have high priority. However, questions have been raised about what we ought to do if members of priority groups refuse vaccination. Using the case of influenza vaccination as a comparison, we know that coercive approaches to vaccination uptake…

  • Queue questions

    Open AccessAlberto Giubilini, Julian Savulescu et al.ARTICLEBioethics2021

    The rapid development of vaccines against COVID‐19 represents a huge achievement, and offers hope of ending the global pandemic. At least three COVID‐19 vaccines have been approved or are about to be approved for distribution in many countries. However, with very limited initial availability, only a minority of the population will be able to receive vaccines this winter. Urgent decisions will have to be made about who should receive priority for …

  • Stopping exploitation

    Open AccessAlberto Giubilini, Julian SavulescuARTICLEBioethics2021

    We argue that we should provide extra payment not only for extra time worked but also for the extra risks healthcare workers (and those working in healthcare settings) incur while caring for COVID‐19 patients—and more generally when caring for patients poses them at significantly higher risks than normal. We argue that the extra payment is warranted regardless of whether healthcare workers have a professional obligation to provide such risky heal…

  • Online Social Endorsement and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the United Kingdom

    Open AccessAndrew Chadwick, Johannes Kaiser et al.ARTICLESocial Media + Society2021Citada por: 12Referencias: 49

    We explore the implications of online social endorsement for the Covid-19 vaccination program in the United Kingdom. Vaccine hesitancy is a long-standing problem, but it has assumed great urgency due to the pandemic. By early 2021, the United Kingdom had the world's highest Covid-19 mortality per million of population. Our survey of a nationally representative sample of UK adults ( N = 5,114) measured socio-demographics, social and political atti…

  • Fair go

    Olivia Grimwade, Julian Savulescu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2020

    We thank the authors of the five commentaries for their careful and highly constructive consideration of our paper,1 which has enabled us to develop our proposal. Participation in research has traditionally been viewed as altruistic. Over time, payments for inconvenience and lost wages have been allowed, as have small incentives, usually in kind. The problem, particularly with controlled human infection model (CHIM) research or ‘challenge studies…

  • Payment in challenge studies

    Open AccessOlivia Grimwade, Julian Savulescu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2020

    Controlled Human Infection Model (CHIM) research involves the infection of otherwise healthy participants with disease often for the sake of vaccine development. The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasised the urgency of enhancing CHIM research capability and the importance of having clear ethical guidance for their conduct. The payment of CHIM participants is a controversial issue involving stakeholders across ethics, medicine and policymaking with all…

  • The Artificial Moral Advisor. The “Ideal Observer” Meets Artificial Intelligence

    Open AccessAlberto Giubilini, Julian SavulescuARTICLEPhilosophy & Technology2018

    We describe a form of moral artificial intelligence that could be used to improve human moral decision-making. We call it the “artificial moral advisor” (AMA). The AMA would implement a quasi-relativistic version of the “ideal observer” famously described by Roderick Firth. We describe similarities and differences between the AMA and Firth’s ideal observer. Like Firth’s ideal observer, the AMA is disinterested, dispassionate, and consistent in it…

  • Quarantine, isolation and the duty of easy rescue in public health

    Open AccessAlberto Giubilini, Thomas Douglas et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2018

    We address the issue of whether, why and under what conditions, quarantine and isolation are morally justified, with a particular focus on measures implemented in the developing world. We argue that the benefits of quarantine and isolation justify some level of coercion or compulsion by the state, but that the state should be able to provide the strongest justification possible for implementing such measures. While a constrained form of consequen…

  • Taxing Meat

    Open AccessAlberto Giubilini, Patrick Birkl et al.ARTICLEJournal of Agricultural and…2017Referencias: 2

    Antibiotic use in animal farming is one of the main drivers of antibiotic resistance both in animals and in humans. In this paper we propose that one feasible and fair way to address this problem is to tax animal products obtained with the use of antibiotics. We argue that such tax is supported both by (a) deontological arguments, which are based on the duty individuals have to compensate society for the antibiotic resistance to which they are co…

  • The Ethics of Human Enhancement

    C A J Coady, Steve Clarke et al.BOOKEthics of Human Enhancement2016

    We humans can enhance some of our mental and physical abilities above the normal upper limits for our species with the use of particular drug therapies and medical procedures. We will be able to enhance many more of our abilities and be able to do so in more ways in the not-too-distant future. Some commentators have welcomed the prospect of human enhancement technologies becoming widely used, while others have viewed it with alarm and have made c…

  • Ethics of Human Enhancement

    Alberto Giubilini, C A J Coady et al.BOOKEthics of Human Enhancement2016