Michael Campbell
Assistant Professor, Kyoto University
In practical ethics I have written on the ethics of tattooing as well as issues in transcultural bioethics, healthcare and distributive justice.
I am co-editor, with Hon Lam Li, of Public Reason and Bioethics: Three Approaches (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021).
I am a project member of Pandemic ELSI, a major project run by Satoshi Kodama to archive the ethical, legal and social implications of the coronavirus pandemic in Japan.
I am on the steering committee of the BRIDGES: BKY project, which develops links between the universities of Bristol, Kyoto and Yonsei.
I am a member of the Center for Applied Philosophy and Ethics (CAPE) at Kyoto University.
Selected Publications
Understanding Japan’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic (second author, with Satoshi Kodama, Miho Tanaka and Yusuke Inoue), J Med Ethics 2022;48:173
'Tis but a Scratch': on the Moral Neutrality of Tattoos E-LOGOS – Electronic Journal for Philosophy 2022;29(1) 4–18
A Chip off the Old Block? Character, Transparency and the Ethics of Tattooing Ethical Inquiries After Wittgenstein, Beran,Hämäläinen & Salskov (Eds), Springer 2022
Public Reason and the Right to Healthcare Public Reason and Bioethics: Three Approaches, Campbell & Li (Eds), Palgrave Macmillan 2021
'Where Our Common Language Lies': Vision, Embodiment and Faith in Pursuit of a Global Bioethics (with Jingbao Nie) in Healthcare Ethics, Law and Professionalism
Essays on the Works of Alastair V. Campbell, Chuan, Huxtable & Peart (Eds), Routledge 2020.