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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). Bioethics, 35(9), 964-965. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12936

Encountering offenders in community palliative care settings: challenges for care provision. (2018)
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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..

Is Mitochondrial Donation Germ-Line Gene Therapy? Classifications and Ethical Implications (2016)
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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)
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Wrigley. (2016). Marieke Vervoort – and how the right to euthanasia can help some people to live better

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)
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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.

Mitochondrial Replacement: ethics and identity (2015)
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Wrigley, A., Wilkinson, S., & Appleby, J. (2015). Mitochondrial Replacement: ethics and identity. Bioethics, 631-638. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12187

Mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRTs) have the potential to allow prospective parents who are at risk of passing on debilitating or even life-threatening mitochondrial disorders to have healthy children to whom they are genetically related. Eth... Read More about Mitochondrial Replacement: ethics and identity.

Rethinking Moral Expertise (2014)
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Priaulx, N., Weinel, M., & Wrigley, A. (2014). Rethinking Moral Expertise. Health Care Analysis, 393-406. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-014-0282-7

We argue that the way in which the concept of expertise is understood and invoked has prevented progress in the debate as to whether moral philosophers can be said to be ‘moral experts’. We offer an account of expertise that draws on the role of taci... Read More about Rethinking Moral Expertise.

Ethics and end of life care: the Liverpool Care Pathway and the Neuberger Review (2014)
Journal Article
Wrigley. (2014). Ethics and end of life care: the Liverpool Care Pathway and the Neuberger Review. Journal of Medical Ethics, 639-643. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2013-101780

The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying has recently been the topic of substantial media interest and also been subject to the independent Neuberger Review. This review has identified clear failings in some areas of care and recommended the Liverpoo... Read More about Ethics and end of life care: the Liverpool Care Pathway and the Neuberger Review.