Hazem Zohny

Biographic Data

ID9592071
NAMEHazem Zohny
GIVEN NAMESHazem
FAMILY NAMEZohny
SIGNATUREZOHNY H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oxford
ORCID0000-0002-7734-2186
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • 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 …

  • Reframing ‘dehumanisation’

    Hazem ZohnyARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2025

    Warnings that large language models (LLMs) could ‘dehumanise’ medical decision-making often rest on an asymmetrical comparison: the idealised, attentive healthcare provider versus a clumsy, early-stage artificial intelligence (AI). This framing ignores a more urgent reality: many patients face rushed, jargon-heavy, inconsistent communication, even from skilled professionals. This response to Hildebrand’s critique argues that: (1) while he worries…

  • When Two Become One

    Open AccessHazem Zohny, Julian SavulescuARTICLECambridge Quarterly of Healthcare…2024

    Advances in brain–brain interface technologies raise the possibility that two or more individuals could directly link their minds, sharing thoughts, emotions, and sensory experiences. This paper explores conceptual and ethical issues posed by such mind-merging technologies in the context of clinical neuroethics. Using hypothetical examples along a spectrum from loosely connected pairs to fully merged minds, the authors sketch out a range of facto…

  • Generative AI and medical ethics

    Hazem Zohny, Sebastian Porsdam Mann et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2024

  • Ethics of generative AI

    Hazem Zohny, John Mcmillan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2023

  • Animal researchers shoulder a psychological burden that animal ethics committees ought to address

    Open AccessMike King, Hazem ZohnyARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2022

    Animal ethics committees (AECs) typically focus on the welfare of animals used in experiments, neglecting the potential welfare impact of that animal use on the animal laboratory personnel. Some of this work, particularly the killing of animals, can impose significant psychological burdens that can diminish the well-being of laboratory animal personnel, as well as their capacity to care for animals. We propose that AECs, which regulate animal res…

  • Affirmative action in healthcare resource allocation

    Open AccessHazem Zohny, Ben Davies et al.ARTICLEBioethics2022

    This article is about the potential justification for deploying some form of affirmative action (AA) in the context of healthcare, and in particular in relation to the pandemic. We call this Affirmative Action in healthcare Resource Allocation (AARA). Specifically, we aim to investigate whether the rationale and justifications for using prioritization policies based on race in education and employment apply in a healthcare setting, and in particu…

  • Rethinking Moral Status

    Steve Clarke, Hazem Zohny et al.BOOKRethinking Moral Status2021

    Common-sense morality implicitly assumes that reasonably clear distinctions can be drawn between the ‘full’ moral status usually attributed to ordinary adult humans, the partial moral status attributed to non-human animals, and the absence of moral status, usually ascribed to machines and other artefacts. These assumptions were always subject to challenge; but they now come under renewed pressure because there are beings we are now able to create…