Publications

You can explore my articles in an interactive way through my Google Scholar profile.
Open access versions of the vast majority of my publications are available freely from UCL Discovery. If you would like a copy of anything that is still under a publisher’s embargo, let me know.

Books

Edwards S. and Wilson J. (under contract, delivery 2012). Evidence, trials and translation: an Introduction to Translational Clinical Science (Oxford University Press).

Journal Articles

  1. Wilson J. (2012). “Persons, Post-Persons and Thresholds”, Journal of Medical Ethics 38(3): 143-4.
  2. Yvonne Rydin, Ana Bleahu, Michael Davies, Julio D Davila, Sharon Friel, Giovanni De Grandis, Nora Groce, Pedro Hallal, Ian Hamilton, Philippa Howden-Chapman, University of Otago Ka Man Lai, CJ Lim, Juliana Martins, David Osrin, Ian Ridley, Ian Scott, Myfanwy Taylor, Paul Wilkinson, James Wilson (2012). “Shaping Cities For Health: The Complexity Of Planning Urban Environments In The 21st Century,” The Lancet (in press).
  3. Kessel A. and Wilson J. “The quest for culturally sensitive health care systems in Scotland: insights for a multi-ethnic Europe” (2012). Journal of Public Health 34(1): 12-13.
  4. Wilson J. (2011). “Why It’s Time to Stop Worrying About Paternalism in Health Policy”, Public Health Ethics 4(3): 269-279.
  5. Wilson J. (2011). “Freedom of Information and Research Data”, Research Ethics 7(3): 107-111.
  6. Edwards S. and Wilson J. (2011). “Hard Paternalism and Clinical Research: Why Not”, Bioethics 26(2): 68–75.
  7. Wilson J. and Hunter D. (2010). “Research Exceptionalism”, American Journal of Bioethics 10(8): pp. 45–54. Target article, with nine commentaries.
  8. Hunter D. and Wilson J. (2010). “Research Exceptionalism – Responses to Open Peer Commentaries”, American Journal of Bioethics 10(8): pp. W4–W6
  9. 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.
  10. Wilson. J. (2010) “Ontology and the Regulation of Intellectual Property”, The Monist 93(3): pp. 453–66.
  11. Wilson J. (2009). “Justice and the Social Determinants of Health: an overview”, Public Health Ethics 2(3): pp. 210–213.
  12. Wilson J. (2009). “Towards a Normative Framework for Public Health Ethics and Policy”, Public Health Ethics 2(2): pp. 184–194.
  13. Wilson J. (2009). “Could there be a Right to Own Intellectual Property?”, Law and Philosophy 28(4): pp. 393–427.
  14. Wilson J. (2009). “Not So Special After All? Daniels and the Social Determinants of Health”, Journal of Medical Ethics 35(1), pp. 3–6.
  15. Athanassoulis N. and Wilson J. (2009). “When is Deception in Research Ethical?”, Clinical Ethics 4(1): pp. 44–49.
  16. Wilson J. and Sokol D. (2009). “Do we need a concept of intraoperative complication?”, World Journal of Surgery 33, p.1102.
  17. Sokol, D. and Wilson, J. (2008). “What is a surgical complication?”, World Journal of Surgery 32(6), pp. 942–44. Target article, with seven invited commentaries.
  18. Wilson, J. (2007). “Is Respect for Autonomy Defensible?”, Journal of Medical Ethics 33, pp. 353–356.
  19. Wilson, J. (2007). “Transhumanism and Moral Equality”, Bioethics 21, pp. 419–425.
  20. Wilson, J. (2007). “GM Crops: Patently Wrong?”, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 20, pp. 261–283.
  21. Wilson, J. (2006). “Microsoft on Copyright: an Ethical Analysis”, ICFAI Journal of Intellectual Property Rights 5(4), pp. 73-83. Reprinted in Digital Copyright: Infringement Issues, ed. V. Audhinarayana (Hyderabad: Amicus Books, 2008) and Microsoft Way: a Growth Strategy, ed. N. Kalai Selvan (Hyderabad: ICFAI Books, 2008).

Chapters in Books

  1. Wilson J. (2012). “Drug Resistance, Patents and Justice”, in John Coggon ed. Global Health and Global Goods (Bloomsbury Academic).
  2. Wilson J. (2012). “On the value of the intellectual commons”. In New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Intellectual Property (ed. Annabelle Lever, Cambridge University Press).
  3. Wilson J. (2011). “Health Inequities”. In Public Health Ethics: Key Concepts in Policy and Practice, ed. A. Dawson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  4. Gopfert M., McLelland N. and Wilson J. (2010) “Maternal Mental Health: an ethical base for best practice”. The Oxford Textbook of Women and Mental Health ed. D. Kohen, chapter 8 pp. 59-71.
  5. Wilson, J. (2007). “Rights”. In Principles of Healthcare Ethics eds. R. Ashcroft, A. Dawson, H. Draper and J. McMillan. Chester: John Wiley and Sons, pp. 239-246.
  6. Wilson, J. (2007). “Nietzsche and Equality”. In Nietzsche and Ethics ed. G. von Tevenar. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 221-240.

Reports

  1. Hunter D. and Wilson J. (2011). Hyper-expensive treatments: ethical and policy issues. Background paper for Nuffield Council on Bioethics Forward Look seminar.

Reviews

  1. Wilson, J. (2009). “Review of Choosing Life, Choosing Death”, Times Higher Education, July 2 2009.
  2. Wilson, J. (2003). “Review of Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited”, Journal of Speculative Philosophy 17(4), pp. 323-5.