Lovro Savic
Postdoctoral Researcher
Lovro Savić is a postdoctoral researcher at the Ethox Centre. In 2024, he
obtained his DPhil at the Ethox Centre by defending the thesis titled 'On
the Concept of Public Health Activity.' Prior to his DPhil, he received an MSc in Bioethics (KU
Leuven, Belgium, 2018) and an MRes in Philosophy (University of Groningen, the Netherlands,
2017). His areas of interest and specialisation include the philosophy of public health, public
health ethics, bioethics, and the philosophy of medicine and psychiatry. He is an associate editor
of the European Journal of Analytic Philosophy.
He teaches courses and tutorials in medical ethics and law, ethics of medical technology, public
health ethics, philosophy of health and disease, ethics of AI in healthcare, and digital forensics.
He is currently interested in philosophical and ethical issues surrounding the ideas of common
goods and public goods in public health and medicine, the ethics of advising, global health
justice, the ethics of antimicrobial resistance, the concept of respect in bioethics, deep moral
disagreement, and methods in bioethics.
He welcomes supervision inquiries from prospective students in any of these areas.
Recent publications
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Three Harm-Based Arguments for a Moral Obligation to Vaccinate
Journal article
Ivanković V. and Savić L., (2022), Health Care Analysis, 30, 18 - 34
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Political Philosophy in a Pandemic: Routes to a More Just Future
Chapter
Viktor I. and Savic L., (2021), Political Philosophy in a Pandemic Routes to a More Just Future
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The Ethics of Mindfulness-Based Interventions: A Population-Level Perspective
Chapter
Schmidt A. and Savic L., (2021), The Oxford Handbook of Psychotherapy Ethics
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Does Mental Discipline Partially Restore the Responsibility of BCI Users?
Journal article
Ivanković V. and Savić L., (2020), AJOB Neurosci, 11, 67 - 70
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Against the integrative turn in bioethics: burdens of understanding
Journal article
Savić L. and Ivanković V., (2018), Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 21, 265 - 276
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Precautionary Principle and the Problem of Counterproductivity
Journal article
Maheshwari K. and Savić L., (2017), The American Journal of Bioethics, 17, 58 - 59
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Integrative Bioethics: A Conceptually Inconsistent Project
Journal article
Ivanković V. and Savić L., (2016), Bioethics, 30, 325 - 335
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Gupta, Mona: Is evidence-based psychiatry ethical?
Journal article
Savić L., (2015), Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 36, 439 - 443