uowphilosophy

LECTURER

BA, PhD (Monash)

Email: dneil@uow.edu.au
Phone: (02) 4221 4068
Location: 19:1085

David Neil is a lecturer in the Philosophy Program and his teaching is primarily in the area of ethics. His research interests are in political philosophy, ethical theory and applied ethics (particularly medical ethics). Prior to his appointment at UOW David was a lecturer in the School of Philosophy and Bioethics at Monash University.

Journal Articles

• Neil, D. A. (2008). Pushing drugs: global profits and local markets in the pharmaceutical industry. Australian Review of Public Affairs, pp. 1-5.
• Neil, D. A., Coady, C. A J., Thompson, J. & Kuhse, H. (2007). End-of-life decisions in medical practice: a survey of doctors in Victoria (Australia). Journal of Medical Ethics, 33 (12), pp. 721-725.
• Neil, D. A., S. Clarke and J. G Oakley (2004). Public reporting of individual surgeon performance information: United Kingdom developments and Australian issues. Medical Journal of Australia, Vol. 181, pp. 266-268
• Neil, D. A. and J. Craigie (2004). The Ethics of Pharmacogenomics. Monash Bioethics Review, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 9-20.
• Neil, D. A. (1998). The Uses of Anachronism: Deleuze’s History of the Subject. Philosophy Today, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 418-431.

Book Chapters

• Neil, D. A. (2008). Genetic preselection and the moral equality of individuals. In Janna Thompson and Loane Skene (eds.), The Sorting Society: The Ethics of Genetic Testing and Therapy, pp. 99-109. Cambridge University Press.
• Neil, D. A. (2007). Against the informed consent argument for surgeon report cards. In Stephen Clarke and Justin Oakley (eds.), Informed Consent and Clinician Accountability: the ethics of auditing and reporting surgeon performance, pp. 147-156. Cambridge University Press.
• Neil, D. A. (2006). The emperor’s new scar: The ethics of placebo surgery. In David Benatar (ed.) Cutting to the Core: Ethics of Contested Surgeries, pp. 197-210. Rowman & Littlefield.