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Dishonesty, Context, and Virtue Ethics: The Importance of Embedding Moral Theory in the Law of Dishonesty (2025)
Book Chapter
Wrigley, A. (2025). Dishonesty, Context, and Virtue Ethics: The Importance of Embedding Moral Theory in the Law of Dishonesty. Dishonesty, Liability and the Law: Exploring the Moral Importance of Context (pp. 17). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003470588/dishonesty-liability-law-sotirios-santatzoglou-martin-wasik-anthony-wrigley

Honesty and dishonesty are primarily ethical concepts yet are also central to determining the legality of certain conduct. This generates two central legal problems: one is defining honest and dishonest conduct; the other is to establish a reliable t... Read More about Dishonesty, Context, and Virtue Ethics: The Importance of Embedding Moral Theory in the Law of Dishonesty.

Distrust, Fear, and Science-Denial in Medicine and Healthcare (2024)
Book
Wrigley, A., & Wolfensberger, M. (2024). Distrust, Fear, and Science-Denial in Medicine and Healthcare. Routledge

Over recent decades, the decline of trust, mounting of fears, and increasing denial of science appear as a marked shift of societal attitudes towards many institutions and professionals. This book analyses these developments and looks at their role i... Read More about Distrust, Fear, and Science-Denial in Medicine and Healthcare.

Hope and exploitation in commercial provision of assisted reproductive technologies (2023)
Journal Article
Wrigley, A., Watts, G., Lipworth, W., & Newson, A. (2023). Hope and exploitation in commercial provision of assisted reproductive technologies. Hastings Center Report, 53(5), https://doi.org/10.1002/hast.1513

Innovation is a key driver of care provision in Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART). ART providers offer a range of ‘add-on’ interventions, aiming to augment standard IVF protocols and improve the chances of a live birth. Particularly in the con... Read More about Hope and exploitation in commercial provision of assisted reproductive technologies.

Exploiting hope: How the promise of a new medical intervention sustains US—and makes us vulnerable. Jeremy Snyder. Oxford University Press: New York, 2020. vii+ 333 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐750125‐2. $45/£29.99 (Hardback). (2021)
Journal Article
Wrigley, A. (2021). Exploiting hope: How the promise of a new medical intervention sustains US—and makes us vulnerable. Jeremy Snyder. Oxford University Press: New York, 2020. vii+ 333 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐19‐750125‐2. $45/£29.99 (Hardback). [Review of the book]. Bioethics, 35(9), 964-965. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12936

Encountering offenders in community palliative care settings: challenges for care provision. (2018)
Journal Article
Lillie, A., Corcoran, M., Wrigley, A., & Read, S. (2018). Encountering offenders in community palliative care settings: challenges for care provision. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 368 - 375. https://doi.org/10.12968/ijpn.2018.24.8.368

BACKGROUND: There is very little research into the way that offender management strategies impinge on the practices and decision-making of palliative care personnel in community settings. AIMS: To improve understanding of the challenges that communit... Read More about Encountering offenders in community palliative care settings: challenges for care provision..

Death, dying and maintaining hope: ethical tensions and responsibilities for end of life care in the prison setting (2018)
Book Chapter
Wrigley, A. (2018). Death, dying and maintaining hope: ethical tensions and responsibilities for end of life care in the prison setting. Loss, Dying and Bereavement in the Criminal Justice System. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315270166-3

This chapter focuses on the need for one vital yet oft-ignored aspect of end of-life care: that of hope. End-of-life care for prisoners is therefore delivered in a highly strict and rigid environment offering far from ideal end-of-life care condition... Read More about Death, dying and maintaining hope: ethical tensions and responsibilities for end of life care in the prison setting.

Is Mitochondrial Donation Germ-Line Gene Therapy? Classifications and Ethical Implications (2016)
Journal Article
Wrigley, A., & Newson, A. (2016). Is Mitochondrial Donation Germ-Line Gene Therapy? Classifications and Ethical Implications. Bioethics, 55-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12312

The classification of techniques used in mitochondrial donation, including their role as purported germ-line gene therapies, is far from clear. These techniques exhibit characteristics typical of a variety of classifications that have been used in bo... Read More about Is Mitochondrial Donation Germ-Line Gene Therapy? Classifications and Ethical Implications.

Marieke Vervoort – and how the right to euthanasia can help some people to live better (2016)
Journal Article
Wrigley. (2016). Marieke Vervoort – and how the right to euthanasia can help some people to live better. The Conversation (Website). http://theconversation.com/marieke-vervoort-and-how-the-right-to-euthanasia-can-help-some-people-to-live-better-65485

Belgian Paralympic athlete Marieke Vervoort, who won a silver medal in the T52 400 metre event at the 2016 Rio games, recently disclosed that she likely would already have attempted suicide if she had not been able to legally plan to undergo euthanas... Read More about Marieke Vervoort – and how the right to euthanasia can help some people to live better.

Ethical and Legal Issues in Mitochondrial Transfer (2016)
Journal Article
Newson, A., Wilkinson, S., & Wrigley, A. (2016). Ethical and Legal Issues in Mitochondrial Transfer. EMBO Molecular Medicine, 589-591. https://doi.org/10.15252/emmm.201606281

The US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine recently provided conditional endorsement for mitochondrial transfer. While its approach is more conservative in some respects than that of the United Kingdom (which passed its own regula... Read More about Ethical and Legal Issues in Mitochondrial Transfer.