Political theory, especially in relation to applied ethics, health and economic justice.

Ethics and policy on organ transplantation Public health ethics Allocation of health care resources Paternalism.

Martin supervised at all levels on a range of topics, including autonomy in bioethics, justice in the labour market, the ethics of public health interventions, justice between generations, paternalism, and the liberal state. I am happy to talk to prospective research students about their research ideas.

Publications over the last decade or so.

 

Book

 

Freedom, Efficiency and Equality, Palgrave, 2000, pp. xi + 199.

 

 

Articles and chapters

 

2010 `Deontic Efficiency and Equality’ in C. Favor, G. Gaus, and J. Lamont (eds.) Values, Justice and Economics (Stanford University Press – forthcoming)

2009, `Contagious Disease and Rights’ in A. Dawson (ed.) The Philosophy of Public Health (Ashgate - forthcoming)

2009 `Making People Healthier’ Journal Of Primary Health Care (forthcoming).

2008, CROCKETT, R.; WILKINSON, T.M., and MARTEAU, T. `Social Patterning of Screening Uptake and the Impact of Facilitating Informed Choice: Psychological and Ethical Analyses’, Health Care Analysis 16, 17-30.

2007, `Living Donor Organ Transplantation’ in R. Ashcroft, A. Dawson, H. Draper, and J. McMillan (eds.) Principles of Health Care Ethics (2^nd Edn.) Wiley, 483-8.

2007 `Racist Organ Donors and Saving Lives' Bioethics 21, 63-74.

2007 `Individual and Family decisions About Organ Donation’ Journal of Applied Philosophy  24, 26-40.

2007 `Contagious Disease and Self-Defence’ Res Publica 13, 339-59.

2005 `Payments to Research Subjects' Monash Bioethics Review 24, 70-4

2005 `Individual and Family Consent to Organ and Tissue Donation: Is the current position coherent?' Journal of Medical Ethics 31, 587-90.

2004 `Individualism and the Ethics of Research on Humans' HEC Forum 16, 6-26.

2004 `The Ethics and Economics of the Minimum Wage’, Economics and Philosophy 20, 351-74.

2003, `Against Dworkin’s Endorsement Constraint’, Utilitas 15, 175-93.

2003 `What's Not Wrong with Conditional Donation?' Journal of Medical Ethics 29, 163-4.

2002, `Research on the Dead’, Journal of Applied Philosophy 19, 31-41.

2001, `Parental Consent and the Use of Dead Children's Bodies', Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 11, 337-58.

2001, `Research, Informed Consent, and the Limits of Disclosure', Bioethics 15, 341-63.

1999, WILKINSON, M. and MOORE, A. `Inducements Revisited’ Bioethics 13, 114-130.

1997, WILKINSON, M. and MOORE, A. `Inducement in Research' Bioethics 11, 373-89.

 

 

Book Reviews

 

2009 Review of Daniel Sperling Posthumous Interests in Journal of Value Inquiry (forthcoming)

2009 `Reason, Paternalism, and Disaster’ Review Essay on Cass Sunstein Worst-case Scenarios and R. Thaler and C. Sunstein Nudge Res Publica

2008 Review Essay on Norman Daniels’s Just Health in Public Health Ethics 1, 268-72

2007 `The Confiscation and Sale of Organs’, Review Essay on Cecile Fabre’s Whose Body is it Anyway? and James Stacey Taylor’s Stakes and Kidneys in Res Publica 13, 327-37.

2005, `Bioethics, Bodies and Care(ful thinking)', Review Essay on Stephen Wilkinson's, Bodies For Sale in Res Publica 11, 75-83.

2005 `The Sick, Lame, and Lazy' Review Essay on Stuart White’s The Civic Minimum in Imprints 8, 156-66.

2001, `Equality and the Moral Revolution', Review Essay on G.A. Cohen's If You’re An Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich? in Imprints 5, 272-82.

 

Martin Wilkinson has undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Oxford University. He worked in the Department of Political Studies from 1993-2002 and returned in 2009 after several years working in the medical school. He is the author of a book on economic incentives, Freedom, Efficiency and Equality (Palgrave 2000) and numerous articles on equality, paternalism, the labour market, research ethics, age discrimination and, latterly, public health ethics and the ethics of acquiring organs for transplantation. He is currently writing a book on transplantation. He has also been involved in policy-making, notably as chair of a ministerial advisory committee on bioethics.

Political Studies
Course				Title		Availability in 2010
POLITICS 245				Capitalism and its Critics		Semester 1
POLITICS 741				Political Theory, Public Policy and Health		Semester 1