Julian Koplin

Emerging moral status issues

Julian J Koplin, Christopher Gyngell

Journal article  |  2020  |  Monash Bioethics Review

Many controversies in bioethics turn on questions of moral status. Some moral status issues have received extensive bioethical att..

'It's not worse than eating them': the limits of analogy in bioethics

Julian J Koplin

Journal article  |  2020  |  Monash Bioethics Review

Bioethicists often defend novel practices by drawing analogies with practices that we are already familiar with and currently tole..

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..

Germline Gene Editing and the Precautionary Principle

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..