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Dr James Wilson

  Dr James Wilson

James Wilson is Lecturer in Philosophy and Health at UCL. His research has focused on three areas: the regulation of intellectual property, public health ethics and research ethics.

Recently he has been working on methodology in normative thinking - in particular the role of reflective equilibrium in ethical thinking, the way that heuristics and biases shape our moral intuitions, what bioethicists can learn from political philosophers, and what political philosophers should learn from bioethicists. He is joint coordinator of the International Association of Bioethics’s Philosophy and Bioethics Network. For further details, and to download open access versions of his papers see James’s homepage.

 
 

Recent publications include:

  1. Wilson J. (2011). “Why It’s Time to Stop Worrying About Paternalism in Health Policy”, Public Health Ethics 4(3): 269-279.
  2. Edwards S. and Wilson J. (2011). “Hard Paternalism and Clinical Research: Why Not”, Bioethics 26(2): 68–75.
  3. Wilson J. and Hunter D. (2010). “Research Exceptionalism”, American Journal of Bioethics 10(8): pp. 45–54. Target article, with nine commentaries.
  4. Wilson J. and Dawson A. (2010). “Giving Liberty Its Due, But No More: Trans Fats, Liberty and Public Health”, American Journal of Bioethics 10(3): pp.34–36.
  5. Wilson J. (2009). “Justice and the Social Determinants of Health: an overview”, Public Health Ethics 2(3): pp. 210–213.
  6. Wilson J. (2009). “Towards a Normative Framework for Public Health Ethics and Policy”, Public Health Ethics 2(2): pp. 184–194.
  7. Wilson J. (2009). “Could there be a Right to Own Intellectual Property?”, Law and Philosophy 28(4): pp. 393–427.
  8. Wilson J. (2009). “Not So Special After All? Daniels and the Social Determinants of Health”, Journal of Medical Ethics 35(1), pp. 3–6.