Staff Profile
Professor Jackie Leach Scully
Executive Director, PEALS
- Email: jackie.scully@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7502
- Address: PEALS (Policy, Ethics & Life Sciences) Research Centre
Newcastle University
18-20 Windsor Terrace
Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HE
United Kingdom
Background
Introduction
My first degree was in biochemistry, and my PhD in cellular pathology. I held research fellowships in oncology and neurobiology at research institutes in Switzerland, before moving to help establish the first interdisciplinary unit for bioethics at the University of Basel. Over the next few years I followed my developing research interests in the regulation of genetic and reproductive medicine, and in the more general areas of bioethics, disability, the social construction of moral issues, and in feminist and psychoanalytic approaches to understanding moral processes. Between 2002 and 2004 I was temporarily based at the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Institute at Newcastle with a Wellcome Trust-funded project investigating ethical issues in prenatal sex selection. In 2006 I returned to Newcastle to join Sociology, and in 2008 joined PEALS (the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre) as Director of Research.
I am a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of the Royal Society of Arts.
Roles and Responsibilities
Executive Director, PEALS
University Senate member
Chair, University Disability Interest Group
Qualifications
BA in Biochemistry, University of Oxford, 1985
PhD in Cellular Pathology, University of Cambridge, 1989
MA in Psychoanalytic Theory, Sheffield University, 2008
Previous Positions
Postdoctoral research fellow, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Epalinges
Postdoctoral research fellow, Institute of Physiology, University of Basel
Tutor in Biology, with responsibility for European students, Open University
Lecturer, Institute for Applied Ethics and Centre for Gender Studies, University of Basel
Senior research associate, Unit for Ethics in the Biosciences, University of Basel, Switzerland
Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Newcastle University
Reader in Social Ethics and Bioethics, Newcastle University
Current External Roles
Editor in Chief, International Journal for Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
Chair, Independent Ethics Committee, EVERREST
Member, Genomics England Task and Finish Group on Genomic Volunteers
Memberships
International Association for Bioethics
Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network (Co-coordinator 2008-12, Chair of Congress Organizing Committee 2010-2014)
Swiss Society for Biomedical Ethics
Feminist Ethics and Social Theory
American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities
British Association for Human Identification
Languages
English, German, French, and a bit of BSL
Research
Research Interests
Overview
Bioethics; moral reasoning and the formation of moral understandings; how personal and social identities shape and reflect moral understandings and responses; disability and embodiment; assisted reproductive and genetic technologies; identification technologies, especially in the context of natural and human disasters; feminist bioethics; neuroethics; empirical methodologies in ethics; public engagement in bioethical evaluation and policy making.
I have an overarching interest in the development of moral questions, frameworks of understanding, and identities in the bioethical arena. My most recent research is part of the ‘sociological move’ within bioethics, and reflects a longstanding interest in the responses of socially marginalised groups and religious groups to health and life science developments and policy.
A second, related research area is in the body, and the place of ‘normal’ and ‘anomalous’ embodiment in social and moral life, as well as the effect of biomedical and biotechnological innovations on the relationship between the body and identity. These areas of interest include a substantial amount of work on disability, and more recent activity looking at the socioethics of recovering and identifying human remains, in contemporary and historical contexts.
Much of my work uses or is based on empirical methodologies, and I have contributed to the bioethical debate about the use of empirical material in normative theory.
A large selection of my publications is available to download from Newcastle University's e-Prints service.
Current Work
From 2011-2014 I was Principal Investigator on an ESRC-funded project, "Faithful Judgements: the role of religion in laypeople's ethical evaluations of new reproductive and genetic technologies" (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/peals/research/project/3979). Together with Dr Jackie Haq (PEALS), Professor Sarah Banks (Durham) and Dr Robert Song (Durham), this study explored the ways in which people who identify as Christian or Muslim deliberate and make bioethical judgements to do with new reproductive and genetic technologies such as egg donation or preimplantation genetic diagnosis. We also investigated the experiences of people of faith in the clinical setting of these technologies, and the opinions of faith group leaders involved in giving guidance on their use. We are currently writing and publishing a series of papers based on our findings, and devising policy and practitioner briefings.
I am collaborating with colleagues at Northumbria University's Centre for Forensic Studies (NUCFS) in an investigation of the socioethics of forensic identification in mass fatality events, especially but not exclusively the technique of DNA profiling. In December 2012 we convened an expert workshop, with support from the Fondation Brocher, Geneva, "Naming the dead: social, ethical, legal and political issues of disaster victim identification by DNA." This theme was developed further in PEALS 15th Annual International Symposium in April 2014, "Technologies of Identification and Responses to Mass Death", supported with funding by the Wellcome Trust. Part of this interest is being developed through my membership of the COST Action "Disaster Bioethics".
I continue to write and research in the general area of embodiment and disability, with a focus on disability as a factor forming moral evaluations and relationships. In this context I am a member of the international consortium "Practices of Responsibility in Change", funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (http://www.nwo.nl/en/research-and-results/research-projects/42/2300181442.html).
Research Roles
I am currently Executive Director of the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences (PEALS) Research Centre of Newcastle University.
Postgraduate Supervision
I would be happy to supervise students in any of the following areas: Bioethics in general, especially ethics of new reproductive and genetic technologies, neuroscience, pharmacogenomics, the pharmaceutical industry; moral reasoning and identity; disability; feminist bioethics; global bioethics.
Currently supervising:
Erica Timoney (self-funded), Falling through the gap: Muslim women and the construction of identities in tension. Supervision with Dr Stephanie Lawler and Dr Lisa Garforth.
Jacqui Close (ESRC 3 funded), Ideals and expectations: Representations, practices and governance of contemporary motherhood. Supervision with Dr Stephanie Lawler and Dr Mark Casey.
Completed:
Alexis Paton (self-funded), Oncofertility: the experiences of premenopausal breast cancer patients and their health care professionals of fertility preservation discussions. Supervision with Professor Erica Haimes.
Michelle Addison (ESRC1 3-funded), The classed and gendered contours of emotional labour. Supervision with Dr Stephanie Lawler.
Rouven Porz (Swiss National Science Foundation), Zwischen Entscheidung und Entfremdung: Patientenperspektiven in der Gendiagnostik und Albert Camus' Konzepte zum Absurden. University of Basel.
Regula Ott (Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Zurich, URPP funded), Cognitive neuroenhancement
Esteem Indicators and Professional Service
I am Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia, and was Visiting Professor in the Law Faculty at the University of Technology, Sydney, in November 2013. From September 2012 to January 2013 I was also Visiting Professor at the Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University, Berlin.
I am Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, and serve on the editorial boards of New Genetics and Society, Disability and Society, and Quaker Studies. I review regularly for a number of journals, among them Social Science and Medicine, Sociology of Health and Illness, Bioethics, Disability and Society, and the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry.
I am a member of the ESRC Peer Review College and an International Assessor for the Australian Research Council.
I was an invited member of the Oversight Group for the HFEA's public consultation on prevention of mitochondrial disease in 2012-2013 (http://www.hfea.gov.uk/6896.html), and have been invited to give evidence or opinion to consultations organised by the Nuffield Council of Bioethics, the HFEA, and the Parliamentary Office of Science and technology. I also served on the ethics subcommission of the Swiss Academy for Medical Science which drew up the professional guidelines Behandlung und Betreuung von behinderten Menschen (Treatment and Care of People with Disabilities).
I am currently Chair of the Independent Ethics Committee of EVERREST, a clinical trial investigating maternal gene therapy to improve foetal growth http://euram.ltd.uk/EVERREST/.
Recent funding
2018: Vulnerability and justice in global health emergency regulation: developing future ethical models. Wellcome Trust Seed Award to Dr Agomoni Mitra, Edinburgh. £66,060
2017: Baseline mapping of UK key stakeholders in genome editing and their views on ethical and social aspects of research and application of this field. GPS Small Research Grants. £975
2017: Faithful judgements in reflection and discernment. NE ESRC Impact Acceleration Award. £7760
2017: MusicEmbryo: using music to represent embryo morphology; Newcastle University Institute of Creative Practice/Faculty of Medical SciencesENGAGE. £4500
2016: Social and Ethical Aspects of Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Sociology for Health and Illness Foundation Research Grant Development Award. £5919.38
2016: Disabled in Disaster: disability inclusion in humanitarian aid responses. GPS Small Grant. £894.01
2014: Faithful Judgements in Policy and Practice. NE ESRC Impact Acceleration Award. £8356.02
2011: Naming the dead: social, ethical, legal and political issues of disaster victim identification by DNA. Brocher Foundation, Geneva. Approx. CHF 25,000.
2011: Faithful Judgements: the role of religion in laypeople's ethical evaluations of new reproductive and genetic technologies. ESRC. £215, 954
2011: Known soldiers: the ethics of identifying military remains. School of GPS Research Committee Small Bids Fund. £800.
2009: Parenthood and non-parenthood in an age of assisted conception. British Academy Small Grant, with Dr Stephanie Lawler.
2005-2008: Ethical decisions about the fate of embryos: the views and approaches of couples undergoing IVF. Swiss National Science Foundation grant 1115-65990, Euro 233 917.00, and Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, Euro 31 550.00.
Teaching
Current undergraduate teaching
SOC3097 Dissertation module (module leader)
SOC1030 Sociological Imagination (co-taught)
SOC2056 Sociology of Health and Illness
Previous undergraduate teaching
SOC1029 Doing Sociology
SOC2058 Understanding Social Change and Transformation
SOC3062 Sociology of Disability
SOC3074 Sociology of Evil
Previous postgraduate teaching
SOC8041 Feminist methodologies
SOC8133 Disability studies
Publications
- Scully JL. Choice, chance and acceptance. In: Parens E; Johnston J, ed. Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, pp.143-156.
- Scully JL. Disability and the challenge of genomics. In: Gibbon, S; Prainsack, B; Hilgartner, S; Lamoreaux, J, ed. Routledge Handbook of Genomics, Health and Society. Routledge, 2018, pp.186-194.
- Scully JL. Epistemic exclusion, injustice, and disability. In: Wasserman, D; Cureton, A, ed. Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Scully JL. From "She would say that, wouldn't she?" to "Does she take sugar?" Epistemic injustice and disability. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2018, 11(1), 106-124.
- Kim J, Scully JL, Katsanis S. Ethical Challenges in Missing Persons Investigations. In: Morewitz,SJ;Colls,DS, ed. Handbook of Missing Persons. Springer, 2017, pp.163-175.
- Scully JL. Feminist empirical bioethics. In: Ives, J; Dunn, M; Cribb, A, ed. Empirical Bioethics: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp.105-221.
- Scully JL. Re: A (conjoined twins). An ethical commentary. In: Smith SL et al, ed. Ethical Judgements: Rewriting Medical Law. Oxford: Hart, 2017, pp.31-37.
- Scully JL. A Mitochondrial Story: Mitochondrial Replacement, Identity and Narrative. Bioethics 2016, 31(1), 37-45.
- Scully JL, Banks S, Song R, Haq J. Experiences of faith group members using new reproductive and genetic technologies: A qualitative interview study. Human Fertility 2016, 20(1), 22-29.
- Donchin A, Scully JL. Feminist Bioethics. Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy 2015.
- Scully JL, Williams R. Approaching disaster victim identification. New Genetics and Society 2014, 33(3), 233-238.
- Scully JL. Naming the dead: DNA-based identification of historical remains as an act of care. New Genetics and Society 2014, 33(3), 313-332.
- Scully JL. On unfamiliar moral territory: about variant embodiment, enhancement and normativity. In: Eilers, M; Grueber, K; Rehmann-Sutter, C, ed. The Human Enhancement Debate and Disability: New Bodies for a Better Life. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, pp.23-37.
- Scully JL. Body alienation and the moral sense of self. Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics 2013, 3(1), 26-28.
- Scully JL. Disability and vulnerability: on bodies, dependence and control. In: Mackenzie, C; Rogers, W; Dodds, S, ed. Vulnerability: New Essays in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp.204-221.
- Scully JL. Disability: ethical and societal aspects. In: Jennings,B; Eckenwiler,L; Kaebnick,G; Koenig,B; Krimsky,S; Latham,SR; Mercurio,MR, ed. Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Michigan, U.S.A: Macmillan Reference, 2013.
- Scully JL. Quakers and Ethics. In: Angell, SW; Dandelion, P, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp.535-548.
- Scully JL. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and cultural understandings of disability. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 2013. In Press.
- Rommetveit K, Scully JL, Porz R. The role of moral imagination in patients' decision-making. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 2013, 38(2), 160-172.
- Evison M, Graham E, Haimes E, Scully JL, Ludwig A, Maguire C, Toom V, Williams R. A comment on the Hill–Turney exchange: from normative antagonism to interdisciplinary collaboration. New Genetics and Society 2012, 31(4), 385-390.
- Scully JL. Auf moralisch unsicherem Terrain: ueber Embodiment, Enhancement, und Normativitaet. In: Eilers, M., Grueber, K., Rehmann-Sutter, C, ed. Verbesserte Koerper - Gutes Leben?: Bioethik, Enhancement Und Die Disability Studies. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2012, pp.147-163.
- Scully J. Deaf identities in disability studies: with us or without us?. In: Watson, N; Roulstone, A; Thomas, C, ed. Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies. Abingdon, Oxon: UK: Routledge, 2012, pp.109-121.
- Scully JL. Disability and the thinking body. In: Gonzalez-Arnal, S., Jagger, G., Lennon, K, ed. Embodied Selves. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp.139-159.
- Leach Scully J, Haimes E, Mitzkat A, Porz R, Rehmann-Sutter C. Donating embryos to stem cell research: the "problem" of gratitude. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 2012, 9(1), 19-28.
- Rehmann-Sutter C, Porz R, Scully JL. How to relate the empirical to the normative: Toward a phenomenologically informed hermeneutic approach to bioethics. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2012, 21(4), 436-447.
- Scully JL, Woodward R. Naming the unknown of Fromelles: DNA profiling, ethics and the identification of First World War bodies. Journal of War and Culture Studies 2012, 5(1), 59-72.
- Scully JL. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Cultural Understandings of Disability. In: Anderson, J., Philips, J, ed. Disability and Universal Human Rights: Legal, ethical and conceptual implications of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Utrecht: Universiteit Utrecht, 2012, pp.71-84.
- Scully JL. ‘Choosing disability’, symbolic law, and the media. Medical Law International 2011, 11(3), 197-212.
- Scully JL. Disability and the pitfalls of recognition. In: McLaughlin, J., Phillimore, P., Richardson, D, ed. Contesting Recognition: Culture, Identity and Citizenship. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp.36-52.
- Scully J, Baldwin-Ragaven LE, Fitzpatrick P, ed. Feminist Bioethics: At the Center, on the Margins. Baltimore, Maryland, USA: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
- Scully J. Hidden labor: disabled/nondisabled encounters, agency and autonomy. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2010, 3(2), 25-42.
- Scully J, Rehmann-Sutter C, Porz R. Human embryos: donors' and non-donors' perspectives on embryo moral status. In: Nisker J; Baylis F; Karpin I; McLeod C; Mykitiuk R, ed. The 'Healthy' Embryo: Social, biomedical, legal and philosophical perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp.16-31.
- Woods S, Scully JL, McCormack P, Turkmendag I. Response to report by Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Give and take? Human bodies in medicine and research: consultation summary. London: Nuffield Council on Bioethics, 2010. Available at: http://nuffieldbioethics.org/wp-content/uploads/Simon-Woods-Jackie-Leach-Scully-Pauline-McCormack-and-Ilke-Turkmendag-of-the-Policy-Ethics-and-Life-Sciences-Research-Centre.pdf.
- Rehmann-Sutter C, Scully JL. Which ethics for (of) the nanotechnologies?. In: Kaiser M; Kurath M; Maasen S; Rehmann-Sutter C, ed. Governing Future Technologies: Nanotechnology and the rise of an assessment regime. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010, pp.233-252.
- Scully JL. Die Bedeutung des Leibes in der Neurowissenschaft. Phänomenologische Überlegungen zur Embodied cognition am Beispiel der Körperbehinderung. In: Müller O, Clausen J, Maio G, ed. Das technisierte Gehirn: Neurotechnologien als Herausforderung für Ethik und Anthropologie. Paderborn: Mentis, 2009, pp.439-462.
- Scully JL. Receiving and interpreting information: a joint enterprise. In: Rehmann-Sutter, C., Mueller, H.-J, ed. Disclosure Dilemmas: Ethics of genetic prognosis after the 'right to know'/'not to know' debate. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009, pp.205-218.
- Rehmann-Sutter C, Porz R, Scully JL. Sourcing human embryonic tissue: the ethical issues. In: Meyer, U., Handschel, J., Meyer, T., Wiesmann, H.P, ed. Fundamentals of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2009, pp.37-46.
- Scully JL. Towards a bioethics of disability and impairment. In: Atkinson P; Glasner P, Lock M, ed. Handbook of Genetics and Society: Mapping the New Genomic Era. London: Routledge, 2009, pp.367-381.
- Haimes E, Porz RC, Scully JL, Rehmann-Sutter C. "So, what is an embryo?" A comparative study of the views of those asked to donate embryos for hESC research in the UK and Switzerland. New Genetics and Society 2008, 27(2), 113-126.
- Scully JL. „Das Schiff, das sang.“ Die neuro-maschinelle Schnittstelle als Prosthese, Verlängerung, Rettung oder Flucht?. In: Aus der Au C, ed. Körper, Leib, Seele, Geist: Schlüsselbegriffe einer aktuellen Debatte. Zürich: Theologischer Verlage, 2008, pp.35-50.
- Porz RC, Bürkli P, Barrazetti G, Scully JL, Rehmann-Sutter C. A challenged choice: donating spare embryos to stem cell research in Switzerland. Swiss Medical Weekly 2008, 138(37-38), 551-556.
- Scully JL. Disability and genetics in the era of genomic medicine. Nature Reviews Genetics 2008, 9(10), 797-802.
- Scully JL. Disability and the thinking body. In: Kristiansen, K.; Vehmas, S.; Shakespeare, T, ed. Arguing about disability: philosophical perspectives. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2008, pp.57-74.
- Scully JL. Disability Bioethics: Moral Bodies, Moral Difference. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.
- Scully JL. Moral bodies: epistemologies of embodiment. In: Lindemann, H.; Verkerk, M.; Walker, M.U, ed. Naturalized bioethics: towards responsible knowing and practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp.23-41.
- Porz RC, Scully JL, Rehmann-Sutter C. The absurd in the field of genetic diagnosis. In: Margerrison, C.; Orme, M.; Lincoln, L, ed. Albert Camus in the 21st century: A reassessment of his thinking at the dawn of the new millennium. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2008, pp.157-168.
- Scully JL. Virtuous friends: morality and Quaker identity. In: Dandelion, P.; Collins, P, ed. The Quaker condition: the sociology of a liberal religion. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, pp.107-123.
- Rehmann-Sutter C, Scully JL. Vom verantwortungsvollen Umgang mit genetischem Wissen: ethische Überlegungen. In: Carrel T; Hagmann A; Schweiz M-S, ed. Herzsache: Gesundheitskompetenz und Empowerment bei chronischen körperliche Beeinträchtigungen am Beispiel des Marfan-Syndroms. Zurich: Marfan Stiftung Schweiz, 2008, pp.64-77.
- Porz R, Rehmann-Sutter C, Scully JL. Die Unsicherheit – ein moralisches Gut?. In: Abbt C; Diggelmann O, ed. Zweifelsfälle. Bern: Stämpfli Verlag, 2007, pp.81-96.
- Porz R, Rehmann-Sutter C, Scully JL, Zimmermann-Acklin M, ed. Gekauftes Gewissen? Zur Rolle der Bioethik in Institutionen. Paderborn: Mentis, 2007.
- Scully JL, Dandelion P, ed. Good and evil: Quaker perspectives. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2007.
- Scully JL. Kommentar zu Baruch Brody et al: Bioethik-Beratung im Privatsektor. In: Porz R; Rehmann-Sutter C; Scully JL; Zimmermann-Acklin M, ed. Gekauftes Gewissen? Zur Rolle der Bioethik in Institutionen. Paderborn: Mentis, 2007, pp.301-313.
- Mackenzie C, Scully JL. Moral imagination, disability and embodiment. Journal of Applied Philosophy 2007, 24(4), 335-351.
- Scully JL. The secular ethics of Liberal Quakerism. In: Scully JL; Dandelion P, ed. Good and Evil: Quaker Perspectives. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, pp.219-231.
- Scully JL, Porz RC, Rehmann-Sutter C. 'You don't make genetic test decisions from one day to the next': Using time to preserve moral space. Bioethics 2007, 21(4), 208-217.
- Scully JL, Banks S, Shakespeare TW. Chance, choice and control: Lay debate on prenatal social sex selection. Social Science & Medicine 2006, 63(1), 21-31.
- Scully JL, Rehmann-Sutter C. Creating donors: The 2005 Swiss law on donation of ‘spare’ embryos to hESC research. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 2006, 3(1-2), 81-93.
- Scully JL, Shakespeare TW, Banks S. Gift not commodity? Lay people deliberating social sex selection. Sociology of Health & Illness 2006, 28(6), 749-767.
- Scully JL. Inheritable genetic modification and disability: normality and identity. In: Rasko, J.E.J.; O'Sullivan, G.M.; Ankeny, R.A, ed. The ethics of inheritable genetic modification: a dividing line?. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp.179-192.
- Banks S, Scully JL, Shakespeare TW. Ordinary ethics: lay people's deliberations on social sex selection. New Genetics and Society 2006, 25(3), 289-303.
- Scully JL. Time, tests, and moral space. In: Pfleiderer G; Rehmann-Sutter C, ed. Zeithorizonte des Ethischen. Zur Bedeutung der Temporalität in der Fundamental- und Bioethik. Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 2006, pp.151-164.
- Scully JL. Admitting all variations? Postmodernism and genetic normality. In: Shildrick, M. and Mykitiuk, R, ed. Ethics of the body: postconventional challenges. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2005, pp.49-68.
- Scully JL. Disabled embodiment and an ethic of care. In: Düwell M; Mieth D, ed. Bioethics in Cultural Contexts: Reflections on Methods and Finitude. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005, pp.247-261.
- Porz R, Scully JL, Rehmann-Sutter C. Fuer Sie ein Bild, fuer mich ein Test: Schwangerschaftsultraschall und ethische Implikationen. Bioethica Forum 2005, 46, 9-13.
- Scully JL. Genetics. In: Albrecht G, ed. Encyclopaedia of Disability. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2005.
- Scully JL. Nothing like a gene. In: Rehmann-Sutter, C. and Neumann-Held, E, ed. Genes in development: rereading the molecular paradigm. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 2005.
- Rehmann-Sutter C, Porz R, Scully JL. Stabilität oder Fragilität? Die Gendiagnostik aus Patientensicht. In: Grunwald A; Bora A, ed. Technik in einer fragilen Welt: Die Rolle der Technikfolgenabschätzung. Berlin: Edition Sigma, 2005, pp.153-162.
- Scully JL. Diskriminierung, Genetik und Behinderung. In: Graumann S; Grüber K; Nicklaus-Faust J; Schmidt S; Wagner-Kern M, ed. Ethik und Behinderung: Ein Perspektivenwechsel. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2004, pp.46-57.
- Rehmann-Sutter C, Porz R, Scully JL. Genetische Untersuchungen bei Kindern: einige ethische Aspekte. Schweizerische Ärztezeitung 2004, 51, 2787-2791.
- Scully JL, Rippberger C, Rehmann-Sutter C. Non-professionals' evaluations of gene therapy ethics. Social Science & Medicine 2004, 58(7), 1415-1425.
- Scully JL. What is a disease? Disease, disability and their definitions. EMBO Reports 2004, 5(7), 650-653.
- Scully JL. Disability: stigma and discrimination. In: Cooper, D, ed. Encyclopaedia of the Human Genome. London: Nature Publishing Group, 2003.
- Scully JL. Drawing lines, crossing lines: ethics and the challenge of disabled embodiment. Feminist Theology 2003, 11(3), 265-280.
- Scully JL. A postmodern disorder: moral encounters with molecular models of disability. In: Corker, M. and Shakespeare, T.W, ed. Disability/postmodernity: embodying disability theory. London: Continuum, 2002, pp.48-61.
- Scully JL. Humangenetik: Reflektionen der Betroffenenperspektiven. edition ethik kontrovers 2002, 10, 31-36.
- Scully JL. Quaker approaches to moral issues in genetics. Lewiston, N.Y: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
- Porz R, Scully JL, Rehmann-Sutter C. Welche Rolle spielt der Faktor 'Zeit' bei Entscheidungsprozessen zu genetischen Tests?. Medizinische Genetik 2002, 14, 382-384.
- Scully JL. Drawing a line: situating moral boundaries in genetic medicine. Bioethics 2001, 15(3), 189-204.
- Rehmann-Sutter C, Scully JL. Verbessernde Gentherapier?. BioWorld 2001, 2, 1-4.
- Scully JL, Rehmann-Sutter C. When norms normalize: the case of genetic enhancement. Human Gene Therapy 2001, 12(1), 87-96.
- Scully JL. Genetic technology, disability and difference. In: Carroll, A., Skidmore, C, ed. Inventing Heaven?. Reading: Sowle Press, 1999, pp.54-65.
- Scully JL. Contemporary Quaker attitudes to science and technology. Quaker Studies 1998, 3(1), 52-70.
- Scully JL. Feminist theology and the Human Genome Project. Feminist Theology 1998, 17, 59-73.
- Scully JL. When embodiment isn't good. Theology and Sexuality 1998, 9, 10-28.
- Scully JL. Des enfant dans la cour de recreation. Les Cahiers Protestants: Bioethique 1997, 17-22.
- Scully JL, Otten U. Neurotrophin expression modulated by glucocorticoids and estrogen in hippocampal neuronal cell lines. Molecular Brain Research 1996, 31, 158-164.
- Scully JL, Otten U. Glucocorticoids, neurotrophins and neurodegeneration. Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 1995, 52, 391-401.
- Scully JL, Otten U. NGF: not just for neurons. Cell Biology International 1995, 19, 459-469.
- Otten U, Scully JL, Ehrhard PB, Gadient RA. Neurotrophins: signals between the nervous and immune systems. Progress in Brain Research 1994, 103, 293-305.
- Scully JL, Otten U. Glucocorticoid modulation of neurotrophin expression in immortalized mouse hippocampal neurons. Neuroscience Letters 1993, 155, 11-14.
- Bracci-Laudiero L, Aloe L, Levi-Montalcini R, Galeazzi M, Schilter D, Scully JL, Otten U. Increased levels of NGF in sera of systemic lupus erythematosus patients. NeuroReport 1993, 4, 563-565.
- Scully JL. Exploiting other species. Audenshaw Papers 1992, 40.
- Scully JL, Edwards PAW. Transformation of a mammary epithelial cell line by the v-raf and v-mos oncogenes. International Journal of Cancer 1991, 48, 128-135.
- Johnson MR, Norman C, Reeve MA, Scully J, Proudfoot NJ. Tripartite sequences within and 3' to the sea urchin H2A histone gene display properties associated with a transcriptional termination process. Molecular and Cellular Biology 1986, 6, 4008-4018.
- Dorrington-Ward P, McCartney AC, Holland S, Scully J, Carter G, Alaghband-Zadeh J, Wise P. The effect of spironolactone on hirsutism and female androgen metabolism. Clinical Endocrinology 1985, 23, 161-167.
- Goodfellow A, Alaghband-Zadeh J, Carter G, Cream JJ, Holland S, Scully J, Wise P. Oral spironolactone improves acne vulgaris and reduces sebum excretion. British Journal of Dermatology 1984, 111, 209-214.