Professor Julian Savulescu

Distinguished International Visiting Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne; Visiting Professorial Fellow, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics Director, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics; Co-Director, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford

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Health & Medicine

The moral status of human-monkey chimeras

As scientists create human-monkey chimera embryos for the first time, the research raises the philosophical and ethical issue of moral status: how should we treat other life forms?

Health & Medicine

Making the case for the global kidney exchange

The Global Kidney Exchange, which aims to expand the kidney donor pool, has been criticised as ‘organ trafficking’, but the counter argument is that it will save the lives of rich and poor patients alike

Health & Medicine

The simple, ethical case for gene editing

Gene editing is a form of ‘ultimate cure’: it treats disease at its very root. This edited extract from the new book, Genes for Life, explores the ethical implications of this rapidly evolving technology

Arts & Culture

Blade Runner 2049: Identity, humanity and discrimination

Blade Runner 2049, like the original, is about what it means to be human. But the ethical implications of cloning could prophesize an ethically fraught future