Research

  • For a complete list of publications, here's my CV.
  • All my papers are available through the links below, but email me if there's anything you can't find. 
  • My books are also listed below. A Theory of Bioethics is available open access! The rest, sadly, are not free, but I've included discount codes in the links. ​
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Articles

parenthood
  •  Millum, J., The Moral Foundations of Parenthood. Oxford University Press (2018). Link
  •  Brake, E. and J. Millum, ‘Procreation and Parenthood’. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2016). Link
  • Millum, J.‘The Foundation of the Child's Right to an Open Future’. Journal of Social Philosophy. Vol. 45 No. 4 (2014): 522–538. pdf
  • Millum, J. ‘How Do We Acquire Parental Rights?’ Social Theory and Practice Vol. 36 No. 1: 112-132 (January 2010). pdf
  • Millum, J. ‘How Do We Acquire Parental Responsibilities?’ Social Theory and Practice Vol. 34 No. 1: 71–93 (January 2008). pdf
consent​
  • Millum, J. and D. Bromwich ‘Informed Consent: What Must be Disclosed and What Must be Understood?’ American Journal of Bioethics. 21 (5):46-58. pdf
  • Millum, J. and D. Bromwich ‘Respect for Persons’. In D. Mackay and Ana Iltis (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Research Ethics (2020). pdf
  • Millum, J. and M. Garnett ‘How Payment for Research Participation Can Be Coercive’ The American Journal of Bioethics (2019) 19(9): 21-31. pdf
  • Millum, J. and D. Bromwich ‘Understanding, Communication, and Consent’ Ergo 5(2) (2018): 45-68. pdf
  • Bromwich, D. and J. Millum ‘Lies, Control, and Consent: A Response to Dougherty and Manson’ Ethics128(2) (2018): 446-461. pdf
  • Mukherjee, A., Livinski, A.A., Millum, J., Chamut, S., Boroumand, S., Iafolla, T.J., Adesanya, M.R. and Dye, B.A., 2017. ‘Informed consent in dental care and research for the older adult population: A systematic review’ Journal of the American Dental Association. (2017) Apr;148(4):211-220. pdf
  • Bromwich, D. and J. Millum ‘Informed Consent to HIV Cure Research’ Journal of Medical Ethics. (2017) 43(2):108-113. pdf
  • Bromwich, D. and J. Millum ‘Disclosure and Consent to Medical Research Participation’. Journal of Moral Philosophy. Vol. 12 (2015): 195-219. pdf
  • Millum, J. ‘Consent Under Pressure: The Puzzle of Third Party Coercion’. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. Volume 17, Issue 1 (2014): 113–127. pdf
  • Mandava, A. and J. Millum ‘Manipulation in the Enrollment of Research Participants’. Hastings Center Report43, no. 2 (2013): 38-47. pdf
  • Ellis R.D., I. Sagara, A. Durbin, A. Dicko, D. Shaffer, L. Miller, M. H. Assadou, M. Kone, B. Kamate, O. Guindo, M. P. Fay, D. A. Diallo, O. K. Doumbo, E. J. Emanuel, and J. Millum ‘Comparing the Understanding of Subjects receiving a Candidate Malaria Vaccine in the United States and Mali’ American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 83(4), 2010: 868–872. pdf
research ethics
  • Grubbs, J.C., J. Millum, C.A. Rietmeijer, P.H. Kilmarx, ‘Return of Positive Test Results to Participants in Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevalence Studies’ Sexually Transmitted Diseases. March 19, 2021. pdf
  • Iyer, A., J. Millum, C. Grady, D. Wendler ‘Avoiding Exploitation in Multinational COVID-19 Vaccine Trials’ The BMJ. 372 (2021): n541. pdf
  • Millum, J. and D. Bromwich ‘Informed Consent: What Must be Disclosed and What Must be Understood?’ American Journal of Bioethics. Forthcoming. pdf
  • ​Wendler, D., J. Ochoa, J. Millum, C. Grady, H. Taylor ‘COVID-19 vaccine trial ethics once we have efficacious vaccines’ Science. Vol. 370, Issue 6522, (2020): 1277-1279. pdf
  • ​Millum, J. ‘International Clinical Research and Justice in the Belmont Report’. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 63(2) (2020): 374–388. pdf
  • ​Millum, J., Beecroft, B., Hardcastle, T.C., Hirshon, J.M., Hyder, A.A., Newberry, J.A., Saenz, C. ‘Emergency care research ethics in low- and middle-income countries’ BMJ Global Health(2019) 4(S6):e001260. pdf
  • Millum, J., Campbell, M., Luna, F., Malekzadeh, A., Karim, Q.A. ‘Ethical Challenges in Global Health-related Stigma Research’ BMC Medicine(2019) 17:84. pdf
  • Millum, J. and D. Wendler ‘The Duty to Rescue and Randomized Controlled Trials Involving Serious Diseases’ Journal of Moral Philosophy. 15 (2018): 298-323. pdf
  • Barsdorf, N. and J. Millum ‘The Social Value of Research and the Worst Off’ Bioethics 31 (2) 2017: 105-115. pdf
  • Millum, J. ‘The Ethics of Transactions in an Unjust World’. In K. Zeiler and E. Malmqvist (eds.) Bodily Exchanges, Bioethics and Border Crossing: Perspectives on Giving, Selling and Sharing Bodies. Routledge: Oxon (2016): 185-196. pdf
  • Mandava, A., Millum, J., Berkman, B. E., ‘When Should Genomic Researchers Disclose Misattributed Parentage?’ Hastings Center Report. 45;4 (2015): 28-36. pdf
  • Mandava, A. and J. Millum ‘What should geneticists do when they find out family secrets?’ Aeon, 18 December, 2015. Link
  • Millum, J., Sina, B., Glass, R. ‘International Research Ethics Education’. Journal of the American Medical Association. Vol. 313. No. 5 (2015): 461-462. pdf
  • Millum, J. and B. Sina ‘Introduction: International Research Ethics Education’. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. Vol. 9, No. 2 (2014): 1-2. pdf
  • Matar, A., S. Garner, J. Millum, B. Sina, H. Silverman ‘Curricular Aspects of the Fogarty Bioethics International Training Programs’.Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. Vol. 9, No. 2 (2014): 12–23. pdf
  • Littler, K., J. Millum, D. Wassenaar ‘The Global Forum for Bioethics in Research: Past, Present and Future’. South African Journal of Bioethics and Law. 2014;7(1):5-8. pdf
  • Millum, J., Grady, C., Keusch, G., Sina, B. ‘Introduction: The Fogarty International Research Ethics Education and Curriculum Development Program in Historical Context’. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. Vol. 8, No. 5 (2013): 3–16. pdf
  • Millum, J., D. Wendler, E. J. Emanuel ‘The 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Helsinki: Progress but Many Remaining Challenges’. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2013; 310(20): 2143-2144. pdf
  • Millum, J. and C. Grady ‘The Ethics of Placebo-controlled Trials: Methodological Justifications’. Contemporary Clinical Trials. Volume 36, Issue 2 (2013): 510–514. pdf
  • Danis, M., E. Largent, D. Wendler, S. C. Hull, S. Shah, J. Millum, B. Berkman, and C. Grady, Research Ethics Consultation: A Casebook. Oxford University Press (2012). Link
  • Millum, J. ‘Canada’s new ethical guidelines for research with humans: A critique and comparison with the United States’. Canadian Medical Association Journal 2012; 184: 657-661. pdf
  • Millum, J. ‘Introduction: Case Studies in the Ethics of Mental Health Research’. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease2012; 200: 230-235. pdf
  • Millum, J. ‘Sharing the Benefits of Research Fairly: Two Approaches’. Journal of Medical Ethics 2012; 38: 219-223. pdf 
  • Millum, J. ‘Post-Trial Access to Antiretrovirals: Who Owes What to Whom?’ Bioethics 2011;25(3):145-154. pdf
  • Millum, J. and J. Menikoff ‘Streamlining Ethical Review’ Annals of Internal Medicine. 2010;153(10):655-657. pdf
  • Millum, J. ‘How Should the Benefits of Bio-prospecting Be Shared?’ Hastings Center Report 40 No. 1: 24-33 (2010). pdf 
  • Millum, J. and E. Emanuel ‘The Ethics of International Research with Abandoned Children,’ Science 318: 1874–1875 (2007). pdf
health care priority-setting
  • ​Zionts, J., and J. Millum, ‘How Not to Count the Health Benefits of Family Planning’ Journal of Medical Ethics. Online first. pdf
  • Wasserman, D., G. Persad, and J. Millum ‘Setting Priorities Fairly in Response to Covid-19: Identifying Overlapping Consensus and Reasonable Disagreement’. Journal of Law and the Biosciences. Volume 7, Issue 1, January-June 2020. pdf
  • ​Millum, J. and G. Persad, ‘Fair Coronavirus Triage Guidelines – Not Business as Usual – Will Save More Patients with Disabilities’. Denver Post, 7 April, 2020. Link
  • John, T., and J. Millum ‘First-Come, First-Served?’ Ethics. Vol. 130, no. 2 (January 2020): 179-207. pdf
  • Norheim, O.F., J. Millum, E. J. Emanuel (eds.) Global Health Priority-Setting: Beyond Cost-Effectiveness. Oxford University Press (2020). Link
  • Millum, J., Gamlund, E., Ngamasana, E., and Solberg, C.T. ‘Age and the Disvalue of Death’. In Norheim, O.F., J. Millum, E. J. Emanuel (eds.) Global Health Priority-Setting: Beyond Cost-Effectiveness. Oxford University Press (2020): 239-261. pdf
  • T. Ottersen, Millum, J., Prah Ruger, J., Verguet, S., Johansson, K.A., Emanuel, E.J., Jamison, D., Norheim, O.F., ’The future of priority setting in global health’. In Norheim, O.F., J. Millum, E. J. Emanuel (eds.) Global Health Priority-Setting: Beyond Cost-Effectiveness. Oxford University Press (2020): 317-325. pdf
  • Duran, D., Asada, Y., Millum, J., Gezmu, M. ‘Harmonizing Health Disparities Measurement’ American Journal of Public Health109, no. S1 (January 1, 2019): S25-S27. pdf
  • Millum, J. ‘Putting a Number on the Harm of Death’. In Espen Gamlund & Carl Tollef Solberg (eds.) Saving People from the Harm of Death. Oxford University Press (2019): 61-75. pdf
  • Sharp, D. and J. Millum ‘Prioritarianism for Global Health Investments: Identifying the Worst Off’ Journal of Applied Philosophy (2018) 35(1): 112-132. pdf
  • John, T., J. Millum, and D. Wasserman ‘How to allocate scarce health resources without discriminating against people with disabilities’ Economics & Philosophy 33.2 (2017): 161-186. pdf
  • Du Toit, J. and J. Millum ‘Are indirect benefits relevant to health care allocation decisions?’ Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. 41 (5) (2016): 540-557. pdf
  • Heazell, A., Siassakos, D., Blencowe, H., Bhutta, Z.A., Cacciatore, J., Dang, N., Das, J., Flenady, V., Gold, K.J., Mensah, O.K., Millum, J., Nuzum, D., O’Donoghue, K., Redshaw, M., Rizvi, A., Roberts, T., Saraki, H.E.T., Storey, C., Wojcieszek, A.M., Downe, S., and the Stillbirth Series Steering Group. ‘Stillbirths: Economic and Psychosocial Consequences’ The Lancet. Vol.387, No.10018, (2016):604–616. pdf
  • Qureshi, Z.U., J. Millum, H. Blencowe, M. Kelley, E. Fotrell, J. E. Lawn, A. Costello, T. Colbourn. ‘Stillbirth should be given greater priority on the global health agenda’ The BMJ 351 (2015):h4620. pdf
  • Sharp, D. and J. Millum ‘The Post-2015 Development Agenda: Keeping Our Focus On the Worst Off’ American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 92(6) (2015):1087–1089. pdf
  • Millum, J. ‘Age and Death: A Defense of Gradualism’. Utilitas Vol.27, No.3 (2015): 279-297. pdf
  • Phillips, J. and J. Millum ‘Valuing Stillbirths’. Bioethics. Vol. 29. No. 6 (2015): 413-423. pdf
research priority setting
  • Millum, J. 'Should health research funding be proportional to the burden of disease?' Politics, Philosophy & Economics. Online first. pdf 
  • Miller, J., and J. Millum, ‘Ethical considerations in international clinical trial site selection’ BMJ Global Health2022;7:e008012. pdf
  • Millum, J. ‘How to Identify Priority Questions for Bioethics Research’ The American Journal of Bioethics, 22:1 (2022): 17-18. pdf
  • Pierson, L., and J. Millum, ‘Health Research Priority Setting: Do Grant Review Processes Reflect Ethical Principles?’ Global Public Health. Online first. pdf
  • Pierson, L., Gibert, S., Berkman, B., Danis, M., & Millum, J. (2020). ‘Allocation of scarce biospecimens for use in research’. Journal of Medical Ethics. Online First. pdf
  • Pierson, L. and J. Millum ‘Health Research Priority-Setting: The Duties of Individual Funders’ The American Journal of Bioethics 18(11) (2018):6-17. pdf
other
  • Millum, J. ‘Transmitting Cholera to Haiti’. In Drue H. Barrett, Gail Bolan, Angus Dawson, Leonard Ortmann, Andreas Reis, Carla Saenz (eds.) Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe. Springer (2016): 270-274. pdf
  • Rulli, T. and J. Millum ‘Rescuing the Duty to Rescue’. Journal of Medical Ethics. 42 (2016):260-264. pdf
  • Lieber, S. and J. Millum ‘Preventing Sin: The Ethics of Vaccines Against Smoking’. Hastings Center Report43, no. 3 (2013): 23-33. pdf
  • Millum, J. and E. J. Emanuel (eds.) Global Justice and Bioethics. Oxford University Press (2012). Link
  • Millum, J. ‘Global Bioethics and Political Theory’. In Millum, J. and E. J. Emanuel (eds.) Global Justice and Bioethics. Oxford University Press (2012): 17-42. pdf
  • Millum, J. and E. J. Emanuel, ‘Introduction: Global Justice and Bioethics’. In Millum, J. and E. J. Emanuel (eds.) Global Justice and Bioethics. Oxford University Press (2012): 1-14. pdf
  • Lepora, C. and J. Millum, ‘The Tortured Patient: A Medical Dilemma’. Hastings Center Report 2011 Vol. 41 No. 3: 38-47. pdf
  • Millum, J. ‘A Biological Alternative to Moral Explanations,’ The Southern Journal of Philosophy Vol. 46 No. 3 (Fall 2008). pdf
  • Millum, J. ‘Are Pharmaceutical Patents Protected By Human Rights?’ Journal of Medical Ethics 34:e25 (2008). pdf
  • Millum, J. ‘Natural Goodness and Natural Evil,’ Ratio 19(2): 199–213 (June 2006). pdf

Books


​David DeGrazia & Joseph Millum, A Theory of Bioethics. Cambridge University Press (2021). Buy it or download for free here.




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​Norheim, O.F., J. Millum, E. J. Emanuel (eds.) Global Health Priority-Setting: Beyond Cost-Effectiveness. Oxford University Press (2020). Buy it here at a discount. 

​Millum, J. The Moral Foundations of Parenthood. Oxford University Press (2018). Buy it here at a discount.

​Millum, J. and E. J. Emanuel (eds.) Global Justice and Bioethics. Oxford University Press (2012). Buy it here at a discount. 

​Danis, M., E. Largent, D. Wendler, S. C. Hull, S. Shah, J. Millum, B. Berkman, and C. Grady, Research Ethics Consultation: A Casebook. Oxford University Press (2012). Buy it here at a discount.