Julian Koplin

Why genomics researchers are sometimes morally required to hunt for secondary findings.

Julian J Koplin, Julian Savulescu, Danya F Vears

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC Medical Ethics

BACKGROUND: Genomic research can reveal 'unsolicited' or 'incidental' findings that are of potential health or reproductive signif..

Lessons from Frankenstein 200 years on: brain organoids, chimaeras and other 'monsters'.

Julian Koplin, John Massie

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Medical Ethics

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has captured the public imagination ever since it was first published over 200 years ago. While the na..

Do we have a right to an unmanipulated genome? The human genome as the common heritage of mankind

Julian J Koplin, Christopher Gyngell, Julian Savulescu

Journal article  |  2020  |  Bioethics

The precautionary principle aims to influence decision-making in contexts where some activity poses uncertain but potentially grav..

How should we treat human-pig chimeras, non-chimeric pigs and other beings of uncertain moral status?

Julian Koplin, Dominic Wilkinson

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Medical Ethics

Moral uncertainty and the farming of human-pig chimeras

Julian Koplin, Dominic Wilkinson

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Medical Ethics

It may soon be possible to generate human organs inside of human-pig chimeras via a process called interspecies blastocyst complem..

Organs, embryos, and part-human chimeras: further applications of the social account of dignity.

Julian Koplin

Journal article  |  2018  |  Monash Bioethics Review

In their recent paper in this journal, Zümrüt Alpinar-Şencan and colleagues review existing dignity-based objections to organ mark..

Commodification and Human Interests

Julian J Koplin

Journal article  |  2018  |  Journal of Bioethical Inquiry

Beyond Fair Benefits: Reconsidering Exploitation Arguments Against Organ Markets.

Julian J Koplin

Journal article  |  2018  |  Health Care Analysis

One common objection to establishing regulated live donor organ markets is that such markets would be exploitative. Perhaps surpri..

Kidney Sales and Market Regulation: A Reply to Semrau

Julian J Koplin

Journal article  |  2017  |  The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine

The Body as Gift, Commodity, or Something in Between: Ethical Implications of Advanced Kidney Donation

Julian J Koplin

Journal article  |  2017  |  The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine

From blood donation to kidney sales: the gift relationship and transplant commercialism.

Julian J Koplin

Journal article  |  2015  |  Monash Bioethics Review

In The Gift Relationship, Richard Titmuss argued that the practice of altruistic blood donation fosters social solidarity while ma..