Professor John McMillan

2024

Authored Book - Research

Malatesti, L., & McMillan, J. (2024). The methods of neuroethics: Cambridge elements: Bioethics and neuroethics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 69p. doi: 10.1017/9781009076173

Journal - Research Other

Jecker, N. S., Savulescu, J., Caplan, A., Capron, A., McMillan, J., Ghaly, M., … Ravitsky, V. (2024). Bioethics' duty to conference in Qatar: Reply to Magnus. American Journal of Bioethics, 24(4), 4-7. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2326363

McMillan, J., Earp, B. D., Kong, W. M., Sulemani, M., & Shahvisi, A. (2024). The wrong word for the job? The ethics of collecting data on 'race' in academic publishing. Journal of Medical Ethics, 50(3), 149-151. doi: 10.1136/jme-2024-109915

Zohny, H., Porsdam Mann, S., Earp, B. D., & McMillan, J. (2024). Generative AI and medical ethics: The state of play. Journal of Medical Ethics, 50(2), 75-76. doi: 10.1136/jme-2023-109834

McMillan, J. (2024). Being ethical in difficult times. Journal of Medical Ethics, 50(1), 1. doi: 10.1136/jme-2023-109777

2023

Journal - Research Article

Porsdam Mann, S., Earp, B. D., Nyholm, S., Danaher, J., Møller, N., Bowman-Smart, H., … McMillan, J., & Savulescu, J. (2023). Generative AI entails a credit–blame asymmetry. Nature Machine Intelligence, 5, 472-475. doi: 10.1038/s42256-023-00653-1

Journal - Research Other

McMillan, J. (2023). Generative AI and ethical analysis. American Journal of Bioethics, 23(10), 42-44. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2023.2249852

McMillan, J. (2023). Humility. Journal of Medical Ethics, 49(4), 227-228. doi: 10.1136/jme-2023-109064

Frith, L., & McMillan, J. (2023). Broadening the debate: The future of JME feature articles. Journal of Medical Ethics, 49(3), 155. doi: 10.1136/jme-2023-108936

Zohny, H., McMillan, J., & King, M. (2023). Ethics of generative AI. Journal of Medical Ethics, 49(2), 79-80. doi: 10.1136/jme-2023-108909

McMillan, J. (2023). The unconscious and the nuances of autonomy. Journal of Medical Ethics, 49, 1. doi: 10.1136/jme-2022-108834

Other Research Output

McMillan, J. (2023, July). Epistemic humility and bioethics. Bioethics Seminar, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Department Seminar].

2022

Edited Book - Research

Malatesti, L., McMillan, J., & Šustar, P. (Eds.). (2022). Psychopathy: Its uses, validity and status. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 309p. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-82454-9

Chapter in Book - Research

Snelling, J., & McMillan, J. (2022). Antisocial personality disorders and Public Protection Orders in New Zealand. In L. Malatesti, J. McMillan & P. Šustar (Eds.), Psychopathy: Its uses, validity and status. (pp. 43-57). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-82454-9_4

McMillan, J. (2022). Reappraising psychopathy. In L. Malatesti, J. McMillan & P. Šustar (Eds.), Psychopathy: Its uses, validity and status. (pp. 7-18). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-82454-9_2

Malatesti, L., McMillan, J., & Šustar, P. (2022). Introduction to the volume. In L. Malatesti, J. McMillan & P. Šustar (Eds.), Psychopathy: Its uses, validity and status. (pp. 1-4). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-82454-9_1

Journal - Research Other

Auckland, C., Blumenthal-Barby, J., Boyd, K., Earp, B. D., Frith, L., Fritz, Z., McMillan, J., … Sulemani, M. (2022). Medical ethics and the climate change emergency. Journal of Medical Ethics, 48(12), 939-940. doi: 10.1136/jme-2022-108738

McMillan, J. (2022). Concise argument: impact and pandemic reasonableness. Journal of Medical Ethics, 48(9), 577-578. doi: 10.1136/jme-2022-108560

McMillan, J. (2022). Legitimising values [Concise argument]. Journal of Medical Ethics, 48(6), 357. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2022-108385

McMillan, J. (2022). Trust and medical ethics [Concise argument]. Journal of Medical Ethics, 48(3), 153. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2022-108199

2021

Chapter in Book - Research

Walker, S., & McMillan, J. (2021). Ethical concepts in clinical decision-making and ethics teaching. In M. Mant & C. Mounsey (Eds.), The history and bioethics of medical education: "You've got to be carefully taught". (pp. 130-146). New York, NY: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003107156-11

Journal - Research Article

Malatesti, L., & McMillan, J. (2021). Some methodological issues in neuroethics: The case of responsibility and psychopathy. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 30(4), 681-693. doi: 10.1017/s0963180121000153

Journal - Research Other

McMillan, J., & Gavaghan, C. (2021). Mature minors and gender dysphoria: A matter for clinicians not courts. Journal of Medical Ethics, 47(11), 717-718. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2021-107924

McMillan, J. (2021). Futility: A perennial issue for medical ethics [Concise argument]. Journal of Medical Ethics, 47(10), 649. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2021-107866

McMillan, J. (2021). Cleckley's psychopaths. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology, 28(2), 105-107. doi: 10.1353/ppp.2021.0015

McMillan, J. (2021). Words [Concise argument]. Journal of Medical Ethics, 47(9), 589. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2021-107787

McMillan, J. (2021). Less nonsense upon stilts: The analysis of rights in medical ethics. Journal of Medical Ethics, 47(4), 203-204. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2021-107380

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Douglass, A., Young, G., McMillan, J., & Co-authors of "A toolkit for assessing mental capacity". (2021, July). Using a capacity-based approach when working with those living with mental challenges: What does this mean in practice? Panel discussion at the New Zealand Medico-Legal Congress: Analysing the Interface of Clinical and Legal Practice, Healthcare Policy, Regulation, and Biomedical Ethics, Wellington, New Zealand.

2020

Authored Book - Research

Douglass, A., Young, G., & McMillan, J. (2020). Assessment of mental capacity: A New Zealand guide for doctors and lawyers. Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington Press, 607p.

Journal - Research Article

Cheung, D., Dunn, M., Fistein, E., Bartlett, P., McMillan, J., & Petersen, C. J. (2020). Articulating future directions of law reform for compulsory mental health admission and treatment in Hong Kong. International Journal of Law & Psychiatry, 68, 101513. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2019.101513

Bennett, H., Macmillan, A., Jones, R., Blaiklock, A., & McMillan, J. (2020). Should health professionals participate in civil disobedience in response to the climate change health emergency? Lancet, 395(10220), 304-308. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(19)32985-x

Journal - Research Other

Blumenthal-Barby, J., Boyd, K., Earp, B. D., Frith, L., McDougall, R. J., McMillan, J., & Wall, J. (2020). Pandemic medical ethics. Journal of Medical Ethics, 46(6), 353-354. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2020-106431

McMillan, J. (2020). Medical ethics and broadening the context of debate [Concise argument]. Journal of Medical Ethics, 46(2), 65. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2020-106094

Other Research Output

Douglass, A., Young, G., & McMillan, J. (2020, September). Assessment of mental capacity: A New Zealand guide for doctors and lawyers. Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Department Seminar].

2019

Chapter in Book - Research

McMillan, J. (2019). Psychosurgery. In H. LaFollette (Ed.), International encyclopedia of ethics. Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781444367072.wbiee064.pub2

McMillan, J. (2019). Psychiatric ethics. In H. LaFollette (Ed.), International encyclopedia of ethics. Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781444367072.wbiee070.pub2

McMillan, J. (2019). Alastair V. Campbell and the 'why' of medical ethics. In V. T. Chuan, R. Huxtable & N. Peart (Eds.), Healthcare ethics, law and professionalism: Essays on the works of Alastair V. Campbell. (pp. 33-44). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Journal - Research Article

McMillan, J., Lawn, S., & Delany-Crowe, T. (2019). Trust and community treatment orders. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10, 349. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00349

Journal - Research Other

McMillan, J. (2019). Responsibility for health [Concise argument]. Journal of Medical Ethics, 45(10), 627-628. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2019-105830

McMillan, J. (2019). Clinical ethics and the duty of care. Journal of Medical Ethics, 45(6), 355-356. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2019-105613

McMillan, J. (2019). The concise argument: The importance of consent and choice. Journal of Medical Ethics, 45(5), 285-286. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2019-105509

McMillan, J. (2019). Grounded ethical analysis. Journal of Medical Ethics, 45(1), 1-2. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2018-105272

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Zeng, J., Chen, V., Fisher, C., Gibson, B., Lyons, K., McMillan, J., & Foster, L. (2019). Developing a social accountability measure in dentistry: An exploratory factor analysis approach. Proceedings of the Australasian Epidemiological Association (AEA) Annual Scientific Meeting: Epidemiology in the Real World. (pp. 65). Retrieved from http://www.aea2019.com

Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report

Penman, D., Scott, B., Allison, J., Buckley, T., Dearden, P., Drummond, A., … Henaghan, M., … Matisoo-Smith, L., … Robertson, S., Wilcox, P., Everett-Hincks, J., McMillan, J., & Snelling, J. (2019). Gene editing: Scenarios in healthcare. (pp. 1-27). Wellington, New Zealand: Royal Society Te Apārangi. [Technical/Scientific Report].

2018

Authored Book - Research

McMillan, J. (2018). The methods of bioethics: An essay in meta-bioethics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 196p.

Chapter in Book - Research

McMillan, J. (2018). Containing violence and controlling desire. In D. Birks & T. Douglas (Eds.), Treatment for crime: Philosophical essays on neurointerventions in criminal justice. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Journal - Research Other

Jurjako, M., Malatesti, L., & McMillan, J. (2018). Psychopathy: Philosophical and empirical challenges [Introduction]. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 14(1), 5-14.

McMillan, J. R. (2018). Different ways to argue about medical ethics. Journal of Medical Ethics, 44(11), 727-728. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2018-105180

McMillan, J. R. (2018). The importance of ethical expertise. Journal of Medical Ethics, 44(12), 799-800. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2018-105237

McMillan, J. (2018). Good medical ethics. Journal of Medical Ethics, 44(8), 511-512. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2018-105041

McMillan, J., Malpas, P., Walker, S., & Jonas, M. (2018). Ethics education in New Zealand medical schools. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 27(3), 470-473. doi: 10.1017/S096318011700086X

McMillan, J. (2018). Acquired brain injury, mental illness, and the subtleties of competence assessment. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology, 25(1), 25-27. doi: 10.1353/ppp.2018.0005

Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles

Lon, L., & McMillan, J. (2018). Should Official Information Act requests be used as a research tool? HRC Ethics Notes, (August). Retrieved from http://hrc.govt.nz

Other - Edited Journal

Jurjako, M., Malatesti, L., & McMillan, J. (Eds.). (2018). European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 14(1) [Special issue: Psychopathy: Philosophical and Empirical Challenges. [Guest Editors].

2017

Chapter in Book - Research

Snelling, J., & McMillan, J. (2017). Equality: Old debates, new technologies. In R. Brownsword, E. Scotford & K. Yeung (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of law, regulation, and technology. (pp. 69-89). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199680832.013.3

McMillan, J. (2017). Empirical bioethics and the fact/value distinction. In J. Ives, M. Dunn & A. Cribb (Eds.), Empirical bioethics: Theoretical and practical perspectives. (pp. 17-32). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781139939829

Journal - Research Article

McMillan, J., & King, M. (2017). Why be moral in a virtual world? Journal of Practical Ethics, 5(2), 30-48. Retrieved from http://www.jpe.ox.ac.uk/

Kerruish, N. J., McMillan, J., & Wheeler, B. J. (2017). The ethics of parental refusal of newborn vitamin K prophylaxis. Journal of Paediatrics & Child Health, 53(1), 8-11. doi: 10.1111/jpc.13364

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

MacLachlan, A., McMillan, J., Walker, S., & Wheeler, B. (2017). Adolescent autonomy revisited. Proceedings of the University of Otago Student Research Symposium: Te Wānaka Rakahau: Ākoka. (pp. 52). Retrieved from http://www.otago.ac.nz/graduate-research/scholarships/otago643219.html

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

McMillan, J. (2017, August). Consent, confidentiality and mature minors. Plenary presentation at the 8th South General Practice Conference & Medical Exhibition (GP CME), Christchurch, New Zealand.

2016

Chapter in Book - Research

McMillan, J. (2016). Conservative and critical morality in debate about reproductive technologies. In S. Clarke, J. Savulescu, C. A. J. Coady, A. Giubilini & S. Sanyal (Eds.), The ethics of human enhancement: Understanding the debate. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198754855.003.0007

McMillan, J., Snelling, J., & Gavaghan, C. (2016). Psihopati, sigurnosno zatvaranje po punom izvršenju kazne zatvora i retorika rizika [Psychopaths, post-sentence preventive detention and the rhetoric of risk]. In S. Prijić-Samaržija, L. Malatesti & E. Baccarini (Eds.), Moralni, politički i epistemološki odgovori na društvene devijacije [Moral, political, epistemological responses to social deviations]. (pp. 201-217). Rijeki, Croatia: Filozofski facultet u Rijeci.

Journal - Research Article

Foster Page, L. A., Chen, V., Gibson, B., & McMillan, J. (2016). Overcoming structural inequalities in oral health: The role of dental curricula. Community Dental Health, 33(2), 168-172. doi: 10.1922/CDH_3719Foster05

Lawn, S., Delany, T., Pulvirenti, M., Smith, A., & McMillan, J. (2016). Examining the use of metaphors to understand the experience of community treatment orders for patients and mental health workers. BMC Psychiatry, 16, 82. doi: 10.1186/s12888-016-0791-z

Chen, V., Foster Page, L., McMillan, J., Lyons, K., & Gibson, B. (2016). Measuring the attitudes of dental students towards social accountability following dental education: Qualitative findings. Medical Teacher, 38(6), 599-606. doi: 10.3109/0142159X.2015.1060303

Journal - Research Other

McMillan, J. (2016). What are clinical ethics advisory groups for? New Zealand Medical Journal, 129(1441), 8-9. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal

Ballantyne, A., Gavaghan, C., McMillan, J., & Pullon, S. (2016). Pregnancy and the culture of extreme risk aversion. American Journal of Bioethics, 16(2), 21-23. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2015.1120801

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Fisher, C., Foster Page, L., Zeng, J., McMillan, J., Lyons, K., Chen, V., & Gibson, B. (2016). Development of a social accountability measure for the dental environment. Proceedings of the Sir John Walsh Research Institute Research Symposium. (pp. 20). Retrieved from http://www.otago.ac.nz/sjwri/news/otago621026

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Tumilty, E., Walker, S., & McMillan, J. (2016, June). Battling upstream: An institutional ethnography of researchers working with disadvantaged populations in Aotearoa New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) World Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2015

Chapter in Book - Research

Walker, S., & McMillan, J. (2015). Memory, identity and dementia. In T. Schramme & S. Edwards (Eds.), Handbook of the philosophy of medicine. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-94-017-8706-2_64-1

McMillan, J. (2015). Bioethics. In E. Handsley, C. MacDougall & M. Rich (Eds.), Children's wellbeing in the media age: Multidisciplinary perspectives from the Harvard-Australia Symposium. (pp. 77-89). Sydney, Australia: Federation Press.

Snelling, J., & McMillan, J. (2015). Psychosurgery. In H. ten Have (Ed.), Encyclopedia of global bioethics. Springer International. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_356-1

Journal - Research Article

Lawn, S., Delany, T., Pulvirenti, M., Smith, A., & McMillan, J. (2015). A qualitative study examining the presence and consequences of moral framings in patients' and mental health workers' experiences of community treatment orders. BMC Psychiatry, 15, 274. doi: 10.1186/s12888-015-0653-0

Broadbent, J. M., Wills, R., McMillan, J., Drummond, B. K., & Whyman, R. (2015). Evaluation of evidence behind some recent claims against community water fluoridation in New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 45(3), 161-178. doi: 10.1080/03036758.2015.1056193

Kerruish, N., & McMillan, J. R. (2015). Parental reasoning about growth attenuation therapy: Report of a single-case study. Journal of Medical Ethics, 41, 745-749. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2013-101913

de Lacey, S. L., Peterson, K., & McMillan, J. (2015). Child interests in assisted reproductive technology: How is the welfare principle applied in practice? Human Reproduction, 30(3), 616-624. doi: 10.1093/humrep/deu343

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

McMillan, J. (2015, June). Where do we go from here with a National CEAG Network? Verbal presentation at the Clinical Ethics Advisory Group (CEAG) National Meeting, Wellington, New Zealand.

2014

Chapter in Book - Research

McMillan, J. (2014). Sex selection. In Bioethics. (4th ed.) (pp. 2723-2728). Cengage Learning.

McMillan, J. (2014). Electroconvulsive therapy [Addendum]. In Bioethics. (4th ed.) (pp. 916-918). Cengage Learning.

Journal - Research Article

Jiang, Y., Foster Page, L. A., McMillan, J., Lyons, K., Broadbent, J., & Morgaine, K. C. (2014). Is New Zealand water fluoridation justified? New Zealand Medical Journal, 127(1406). Retrieved from http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal

McMillan, J., Walker, S., & Hope, T. (2014). Valuing hope. Monash Bioethics Review, 32(1-2), 33-42. doi: 10.1007/s40592-014-0006-7

McMillan, J., & Bowyer, L. (2014). An unfortunate experiment? The future of ethical review in New Zealand. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 23(3), 268-271. doi: 10.1017/S096318011300087X

McMillan, J. (2014). Making sense of child welfare when regulating human reproductive technologies. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 11(1), 47-55. doi: 10.1007/s11673-013-9495-y

Malatesti, L., & McMillan, J. (2014). Defending psychopathy: An argument from values and moral responsibility. Theoretical Medicine & Bioethics, 35(1), 7-16. doi: 10.1007/s11017-014-9277-5

McMillan, J. (2014). The kindest cut? Surgical castration, sex offenders and coercive offers. Journal of Medical Ethics, 40, 583-590. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2012-101030

Pulvirenti, M., McMillan, J., & Lawn, S. (2014). Empowerment, patient centred care and self-management. Health Expectations, 17(3), 303-310. doi: 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2011.00757.x

Journal - Research Other

King, M., Gavaghan, C., & McMillan, J. (2014). Medical regulation of cognitive enhancement devices: Some concerns. Journal of Law & the Biosciences, 1(3), 334-339. doi: 10.1093/jlb/lsu020

McMillan, J. (2014). Surgical castration, coercive offers and coercive effects: It is still not about consent. Journal of Medical Ethics, 40(9), 596. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2013-101507

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

McMillan, J., & Kerruish, N. (2014). When argument fails: How to reason publicly with those who are being unreasonable. Proceedings of the 12th World Congress of Bioethics. Retrieved from http://bioethicsmexico.mx/

Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)

Tumilty, E., Walker, S., & McMillan, J. (2014, September). When the numbers don't add up: Health inequality and research practice in Aotearoa New Zealand. Poster session presented at the Division of Health Sciences Research Forum: Learning Different Research Languages, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

McMillan, J. (2014, June). The recent research ethics reforms in New Zealand [Roundtable discussion: Regulation of research, efficiency and internationalization: Does one size fit all?]. Verbal presentation at the 12th World Congress of Bioethics, Mexico City, Mexico.

Commissioned Report for External Body

Gavaghan, C., Snelling, J., & McMillan, J. (2014). Better and better and better? A legal and ethical analysis of preventive detention in New Zealand. Commissioned by New Zealand Law Foundation. Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago. 94p.

2013

Chapter in Book - Research

McMillan, J. (2013). Psychosurgery. In H. LaFollette (Ed.), International encyclopedia of ethics. (pp. 4206-4211). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781444367072.wbiee064

McMillan, J. (2013). Psychiatric ethics. In H. LaFollette (Ed.), International encyclopedia of ethics. (pp. 4186-4195). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781444367072.wbiee070

Journal - Research Article

Lawn, S., McMillan, J., Comley, Z., Smith, A., & Brayley, J. (2013). Mental health recovery and voting: Why being treated as a citizen matters and how we can do it. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing. doi: 10.1111/jpm.12109

McMillan, J., Hope, T., & Wilkinson, D. (2013). Precision and the rules of prioritization. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 22, 336-345. doi: 10.1017/S0963180113000182

Hope, T., Tan, J., Stewart, A., & McMillan, J. (2013). Agency, ambivalence and authenticity: The many ways in which anorexia nervosa can affect autonomy. International Journal of Law in Context, 9(1), 20-36. doi: 10.1017/S1744552312000456

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

McMillan, J. (2013). Conversion therapies: Why it is wrong to 'treat' homosexuality. Proceedings of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL) Conference. Retrieved from http://www.conferencedesign.com.au/aabhl2013/

McMillan, J., & deLacey, S. (2013). Social justice and assisted reproductive technologies. Proceedings of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL) Conference. Retrieved from http://www.conferencedesign.com.au/aabhl2013/

Gillett, G., Kerruish, N., McMillan, J., & Snelling, J. (2013). Growth attenuation in children with profound developmental disabilities. Proceedings of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL) Conference. Retrieved from http://www.conferencedesign.com.au/aabhl2013/

Kerruish, N., & McMillan, J. (2013). When argument fails: How to reason publicly with those who are being unreasonable. Proceedings of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL) Conference. Retrieved from http://www.conferencedesign.com.au/aabhl2013/

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

McMillan, J. (2013, March). Cross cultural bioethics: Why we need empirical ethics and the social sciences. Verbal presentation at the Symposium on Comparative and Cross-Cultural Bioethics, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Other Research Output

McMillan, J. R. (2013). Written expert statement for the defendant, South Taranaki District Council, on the ethics of water fluoridation. In the matter of New Health New Zealand Inc. v the South Taranaki District Council. High Court of New Zealand, New Plymouth, New Zealand. [Government Submission].

2012

Journal - Research Article

Hope, T., & McMillan, J. (2012). Physicians' duties and the non-identity problem. American Journal of Bioethics, 12(8), 21-29. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2012.692432

Hope, T., McMillan, J., & Hill, E. (2012). Intensive care triage: Priority should be independent of whether patients are already receiving intensive care. Bioethics, 26(5), 259-266. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2010.01852.x

Journal - Research Other

McMillan, J. R. (2012). Psychiatric ethics and the methodological virtues of bioethics. Journal of Medical Ethics, 38(4), 194. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2012-100566

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

McMillan, J., Hope, T., & Wilkinson, D. (2012, January). Precision, the right and the rules of prioritisation. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Bioethics Conference: No Country for Old Men (or Women), Dunedin, New Zealand.

2011

Chapter in Book - Research

McMillan, J. (2011). Public health research ethics: Is non-exploitation the new principle for population-based research ethics? In A. Dawson (Ed.), Public health ethics: Key concepts and issues in policy and practice. (pp. 174-190). Cambridge University Press.

Journal - Research Article

Lawn, S., McMillan, J., & Pulvirenti, M. (2011). Chronic condition self-management: Expectations of responsibility. Patient Education & Counseling, 84(2), e5-e8. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2010.07.008

McMillan, J., & Gillett, G. (2011). A Husserlian account of mental distance and unconscious desire. Journal for Philosophy & Psychiatry, (April). Retrieved from http://www.jfpp.org/80+M544f671c0ee.html

Journal - Research Other

Hope, T., & McMillan, J. (2011). Advance decisions, chronic mental illness, and everyday care. Lancet, 377(9783), 2076-2077.

2010

Edited Book - Research

Malatesti, L., & McMillan, J. (Eds.). (2010). Responsibility and psychopathy: Interfacing law, psychiatry, and philosophy. Oxford University Press, 329p.

Chapter in Book - Research

Malatesti, L., & McMillan, J. (2010). Conclusions: Psychopathy and responsibility, a rejoinder. In L. Malatesti & J. McMillan (Eds.), Responsibility and psychopathy: Interfacing law, psychiatry, and philosophy. (pp. 319-323). New York: Oxford University Press.

McMillan, J., & Malatesti, L. (2010). Responsibility and psychopathy. In L. Malatesti & J. McMillan (Eds.), Responsibility and psychopathy: Interfacing law, psychiatry, and philosophy. (pp. 185-197). New York: Oxford University Press.

Malatesti, L., & McMillan, J. (2010). Defending PCL-R. In L. Malatesti & J. McMillan (Eds.), Responsibility and psychopathy: Interfacing law, psychiatry, and philosophy. (pp. 79-91). New York: Oxford University Press.

McMillan, J., & Malatesti, L. (2010). Introduction: Interfacing law, philosophy, and psychiatry. In L. Malatesti & J. McMillan (Eds.), Responsibility and psychopathy: Interfacing law, psychiatry, and philosophy. (pp. 1-5). New York: Oxford University Press.

McMillan, J. (2010). Prozac, authenticity, and the Aristotelian mean. In M. Häyry, T. Takala, P. Herissone-Kelly & G. Árnason (Eds.), Arguments and analysis in bioethics. (pp. 185-196). Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Journal - Research Article

Schmidt, H., Mehring, S., & McMillan, J. (2010). Interpreting the Declaration of Helsinki (2008): "Must", "should" and different kinds of obligation. Medicine & Law, 29(4), 565-591.

McMillan, J. (2010). Understanding and Jaspers: Naturalizing the phenomenology of psychiatry. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 6(1), 43-54.

McMillan, J. (2010). Human rights: The normative engine of fairness and research in developing countries. American Journal of Bioethics, 10(6), 47-49. doi: 10.1080/15265161003728811

McMillan, J., & Hope, T. (2010). Balancing principles, QALYs, and the straw men of resource allocation. American Journal of Bioethics, 10(4), 48-50. doi: 10.1080/15265161003632971

Stones, M., & McMillan, J. (2010). Payment for participation in research: A pursuit for the poor? Journal of Medical Ethics, 36, 34-36. doi: 10.1136/jme.2009.030965

Journal - Research Other

McMillan, J. (2010). Coercive offers and research participation: A comment on Wertheimer and Miller [Commentary]. Journal of Medical Ethics, 36, 383-384. doi: 10.1136/jme.2010.035931

McMillan, J., & Coveney, J. (2010). What took you so long? Sociology's recent foray into food [Editorial]. Health Sociology Review, 19(3), 282-284.

McMillan, J., & Hope, T. (2010). Justice-based obligations in intensive care. Lancet, 375(9721), 1156-1157. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60503-X

2009

Edited Book - Research

Corrigan, O., McMillan, J., Liddell, K., Richards, M., & Weijer, C. (Eds.). (2009). The limits of consent: A socio-ethical approach to human subject research in medicine. Oxford University Press, 256p. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199231461.001.0001

Journal - Research Article

McMillan, J., Wright, B., Davidson, G., & Bennett, J. (2009). Criminal records and studying medicine: Should a spent conviction prevent entry to medical school? Student BMJ, 17, b935. doi: 10.1136/sbmj.b935

Commissioned Report for External Body

Working Party on Dementia: Ethical Issues, including McMillan, J. (2009). Dementia: Ethical issues. London, UK: Nuffield Council on Bioethics. 172p.

2008

Edited Book - Research

Widdershoven, G., McMillan, J., Hope, T., & van der Scheer, L. (Eds.). (2008). Empirical ethics in psychiatry. Oxford University Press, 264p.

2007

Edited Book - Research

Ashcroft, R. E., Dawson, A., Draper, H., & McMillan, J. (Eds.). (2007). Principles of health care ethics (2nd ed.). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 864p.

Chapter in Book - Research

McMillan, J. R. (2007). Mental illness and compulsory treatment. In R. E. Ashcroft, A. Dawson, H. Draper & J. McMillan (Eds.), Principles of health care ethics. (2nd ed.) (pp. 443-448). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.

McMillan, J. R. (2007). Introduction. In R. E. Ashcroft, A. Dawson, H. Draper & J. McMillan (Eds.), Principles of health care ethics. (2nd ed.) (pp. 1-2). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.

Journal - Research Article

McMillan, J. (2007). The return of the inseminator: Eutelegenesis in past and contemporary reproductive ethics. Studies in History & Philosophy of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, 38, 393-410. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2007.03.006

2006

Journal - Research Article

McMillan, J., Sheehan, M., Austin, D., & Howell, J. (2006). Ethics and opportunity costs: Have NICE grasped the ethics of priority setting? Journal of Medical Ethics, 32, 127-128. doi: 10.1136/jme.2005.014860

Foster, C., Hope, T., & McMillan, J. (2006). Submissions from non-existent claimants: The non-identity problem and the law. Medicine & Law, 25(1), 159-173.

2005

Journal - Research Other

McMillan, J., & Gillett, G. (2005). Moral responsibility, consciousness and psychiatry. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 39, 1018-1021. doi: 10.1080/j.1440-1614.2005.01720.x

McMillan, J., & Sheehan, M. (2005). Ethical review and ethical behaviour [Commentary]. BMJ, 330(7489), 473.1. doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7489.473

McMillan, J. (2005). Doing what's best and best interests [Commentary]. BMJ, 330(7499), 1069.2. doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7499.1069-a

2004

Journal - Research Article

McMillan, J. (2004). Is corporate money bad for bioethics? Studies in History & Philosophy of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, 35, 167-175. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2003.12.012

McMillan, J. R., & Conlon, C. (2004). The ethics of research related to health care in developing countries. Journal of Medical Ethics, 30, 204-206. doi: 10.1136/jme.2002.001263

Tan, J. O. A., & McMillan, J. R. (2004). The discrepancy between the legal definition of capacity and the British Medical Association's guidelines. Journal of Medical Ethics, 30(5), 427-429. doi: 10.1136/jme.2003.003822

Hope, T., & McMillan, J. (2004). Challenge studies of human volunteers: Ethical issues. Journal of Medical Ethics, 30(1), 110-116. doi: 10.1136/jme.2003.004440

Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles

McMillan, J., & Hope, T. (2004). The morning after the morning-after pill. Lancet, 363(9417), 1330. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)16021-2

Lewens, T., & McMillan, J. (2004). Defining disease. Lancet, 363(9409), 664. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(04)15616-x

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Skinner, M. W., Lillicrap, D. P., McMillan, J., Castro Ozelo, M., & Pierce, G. F. (2004). What is a cure and how do we get there? Haemophilia, 10(Suppl. 4), (pp. 115-118). doi: 10.1080/j.1440-1614.2005.01720.x

2003

Journal - Research Other

McMillan, J. R. (2003). NICE, the draft fertility guideline and dodging the big question [Editorial]. Journal of Medical Ethics, 29(6), 313-314. doi: 10.1136/jme.29.6.313

Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles

Hope, T., & McMillan, J. (2003). Ethical problems before conception. Lancet, 361(9375), 2164. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(03)13697-5

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

McMillan, J. R. (2003). Dangerousness, mental disorder, and responsibility. Journal of Medical Ethics, 29(4), (pp. 232-235). doi: 10.1136/jme.29.4.232

2002

Chapter in Book - Research

Gillett, G., & McMillan, J. (2002). Consent as empowerment: the roles of postmodern and narrative ethics. In K. W. M. Fulford, D. Dickinson & T. H. Murray (Eds.), Health Care Ethics and Human Values: an introductory text with readings and case studies. (pp. 225-228). Oxford: Blackwell.

Journal - Research Article

McMillan, J. (2002). Sex selection in the United Kingdom. Hastings Center Report, 32(1), 28-31. doi: 10.2307/3528294

Journal - Research Other

Slowther, A., & McMillan, J. (2002). The development of healthcare (clinical) ethics committees in the U.K. [Editorial]. HEC Forum, 14(1), 1-3. doi: 10.1023/A:1020914010640

Slowther, A., Hill, D., & McMillan, J. (2002). Clinical ethics committees: Opportunity or threat? HEC Forum, 14(1), 4-12. doi: 10.1023/A:1020952813366

McMillan, J. (2002). Ethics and clinical ethics committee education. HEC Forum, 14(1), 45-52. doi: 10.1023/A:1020921415184

2001

Authored Book - Research

Gillett, G., & McMillan, J. (2001). Consciousness and intentionality. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 261p.

Journal - Research Article

McHaffie, H. E., Laing, I. A., Parker, M., & McMillan, J. (2001). Deciding for imperilled newborns: Medical authority or parental autonomy? Journal of Medical Ethics, 27(2), 104-109. doi: 10.1136/jme.27.2.104

Journal - Research Other

Fazel, S., & McMillan, J. (2001). A climate of secrecy undermines public trust [Commentary]. British Medical Journal, 322(7296), 1239-1240.

1999

Journal - Research Article

Gauld, R. D. C., & McMillan, J. (1999). Ethics committees and qualitative health research in New Zealand. New Zealand Medical Journal, 112(1089), 195-197.

1998

Journal - Research Other

McMillan, J. (1998). [Review of the book Competence to consent]. Theoretical Medicine & Bioethics, 19(2), 161-166. doi: 10.1023/A:1009930710639

Awarded Doctoral Degree

McMillan, J. R. (1998). Noetic consciousness and psychiatry: A theory of intentional mental content and some of its implications for psychiatry (PhD). University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. 244p.

1997

Journal - Research Article

McMillan, J. R. (1997). Bioethics in an interdependant world. Otago Bioethics Report, 6(1), 1-2.

McMillan, J. R., & Anderson, L. C. (1997). Knowledge and power in the clinical setting. Bioethics, 11(3-4), 265-270.

1996

Edited Book - Research

McMillan, J., & Hall, K. H. (Eds.). (1996). Bioethics Research Centre Summer Seminar 1996. Dunedin: University of Otago Press.

Journal - Research Article

McMillan, J. R. (1996). A commentary on Moore's and Mulgan's open letter to National Ethics Committee on assisted human reproduction. Otago Bioethics Report, 5(3), 7-8.

Gillett, G. R., & McMillan, J. R. (1996). Ethical issues raised by assisted human reproduction: an introduction. Otago Bioethics Report, 5(3), 3-4.