Professor Capps’ research interests include One Health, stem cell science and ethics, ethics rationalism, and neuroethics. His work investigates issues relating to the nexus between applied ethics, normative theory and legal doctrine. His overall aim is to impart substantive theoretical guidance (or ethical grounding and critique) that has professional and wider social impact.

Capps, B. In press 2016. The Funding of Medical Research by Industry: Can a Good Tree bring Forth Evil Fruit? British Medical Bulletin 118(1):5-15. Capps, B. In Press. Public Goods in the Ethical Reconsideration of Research Innovation. In: Capps, P. and Patterson, S. (Eds) Ethical Rationalism and the Law. Hart Publishing. Capps, B., Bailey, M., Bickford, D., Coker, R., Lederman, Z., Lover, A., Lysaght, T., and Tambyah, P. 2015. Introducing One Health to the Ethical Debate about Zoonotic Diseases in South East Asia. Bioethics doi:10.1111/bioe.12145. Capps, B. and Van Der Ejik. 2014. The Tobacco Industry, Researchers, and Ethical Access to UK Biobank: Using the Public Interest and Public Good. American Journal of Public Health 104(10): 1833-1839. Capps, B. and Campbell, AV. eds. 2010. Contested Cells: Global Perspectives on the Stem Cell Debate. London. Imperial College Press. Carter, A., Capps, B. and Hall, W. (lead authors and editorial group; with contributions from R. Ashcroft, R. ter Meulen & D. Nutt). 2009. Addiction Neurobiology: Ethical and Social Implications. European Monitoring Centre on Drugs and Drug Addiction Monographs: Number Nine. EMCDDA, Lisbon; & Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg.