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  • University of Melbourne

CURRENT RESEARCH

Criminal Justice Ethics

  • Police Corruption
  • Loyalty, Whistleblowing and Witness Protection More

Business and
Professional Ethics

  • Corporate Responsibility for Economic and Ethical Sustainability
  • Regulating Communication in the Professions More

Ethical Issues
in Biotechnology

  • The Ethics of Life-extending Technology
  • The Ethics of Sex Selection More

IT and Nanotechnology
Ethics of Emergent
Technology

  • E-Government
  • The Precautionary Principle in Nanotechnology More

Political Violence and
State Sovereignty

  • Morality of "Dirty Hands" as an Issue in Political Leadership
  • Ethics, Technology and the "New Wars" More

Welfare Ethics

  • Obligations of Individual Citizens of Wealthy Nations in Relation to International Poverty
  • The Obligations of Welfare Recipients More

WHAT'S NEW

What's new in CAPPE publications?
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MULTIMEDIA CENTRE

Multimedia Centre

ONLINE

Morality and Political Violence by Tony Coady

AUDIO

Public Ethics Radio

   Inaugural Program

Thomas Pogge on Pharmaceutical Innovation

UPCOMING
EVENTS

CAPPE ANU Seminar

What is Really Wrong With Slavery? - Professor Christopher Wellman (Washington/CAPPE)
Wednesday 30th July 2008 More

CAPPE UniMelb Seminar

Animal Equality - a Less Radical Path to Animal Liberation - Siobhan O'Sullivan (Melbourne)
Wednesday 30th July 2008 More

Globalising Ethics & Politics

Prospective ANU Research student workshop
24th-26th July 2008 More

The freedom paradox - Clive Hamilton

Book launch
5th August 2008 More

Dr Michael Selgelid

Ethical Issues in Biotechnology

Welfare Ethics

Michael.Selgelid@anu.edu.au
Telephone +61 (02) 6125-4355
Facsimile +61 (02) 6125-6579
View my cv (.pdf)

BS, PhD

Biography

Michael Selgelid earned a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego. He is Senior Research Fellow at CAPPE and the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the Australian National University, where he is a founding and Executive Board member of the National Centre for Biosecurity. He was previously the Sesquicentenary Lecturer in Bioethics in the Centre for Values, Ethics and the law in Medicine (VELIM) and the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney, where he coordinated the proposal and development of a successful new Postgraduate Program in Bioethics. He also held previous appointments in the Department of Philosophy and the Bioethics Division (School of Clinical Medicine) at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Fields of special interest

  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Professional and Applied Ethics
  • Science and Ethics
  • Bioethics
  • Public Health Ethics
  • Ethics and Infectious Disease
  • Ethics and Genetics
  • Biosecurity and Bioterrorism
  • The Dual-Use Dilemma
  • Synthetic Biology
  • Health Care in Developing Countries
  • Tuberculosis
  • Intellectual Property Rights
  • Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ethics

Publications

Books

Ethics of Dual Use Science and Technology. Co-authored with Seumas Miller. Work in progress; under contract. 2008.

Health Rights . Edited by Michael J. Selgelid and Thomas Pogge. Forthcoming, Ashgate, 2008. ISBN 0 7546 2794 2. Work in progress; under contract.

Ethical and Philosophical Consideration of the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Biological Sciences. Co-authored with Seumas Miller. In press, Springer, 2008.

Ethics and Infectious Disease. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2006. Edited by Michael J. Selgelid, Margaret P. Battin, and Charles B. Smith. See https://www.blackwellpublishing.com/contents.asp?ref=140514596X&site=1.

Policing Virtue? Proceedings of the 7th Annual Seminar of the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine. Sydney: VELIM ; 2004, 98pp. ISBN 1 84687 716. Edited by Chris Jordens, Ian Kerridge, and Michael J. Selgelid.

Societal Decision Making and the New Eugenics. In the Grey Series of the European Academy (Europaische Akademie) for the Study of Consequences of Scientific and Technological Advance, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler GmbH, Germany, Nr. 30, March 2002, 62 pp., available (free) at http://www.ea-aw.de/fileadmin/downloads/Graue_Reihe/GR_30_Eugenics_042002.pdf.