College Fellows

Stephen John

College Research Fellow, Hughes Hall

Research interests: Public health ethics; epistemology and ethics

Selected publications

[In press] 'Security, knowledge and well-being', Journal of Moral Philosophy
[In press] 'In defence of bad science and irrational policies: a re-interpretation of the precautionary principle', Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
[In press] 'Supreme emergencies, epistemic murkiness and epistemic transparency', Philosophy and Management (special issue on crises)
[In press] 'Risk and Precaution' in Dawson, A. ed., Public Health Ethics: Key Concepts and Issues in Policy and Practice, Cambridge University Press
(2009) 'Why health is irrelevant to public health policy', Journal of Applied Philosophy 26(2) May 2009
(2009) 'Do we have a moral obligation to participate in medical research?' in McMillan, J. ed., Beyond Consent, Oxford University Press
'Ordinary and extraordinary means' in A. Dawson, J. McMillan and R. Ashcroft (eds) Principles of Healthcare Ethics, 2nd edition, John Wiley and Sons
'How to take deontological concerns seriously in risk-cost-benefit-analysis: a reinterpretation of the precautionary principle', Journal of Medical Ethics 33 (2007), 221-224
'Titanic ethics, pirate ethics, bioethics', review of E. Paul, F. Miller and J. Paul (eds) Bioethics, in Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 35 (2004), 177-184