John Harris (bioethicist)
John Harris | |
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Brunel University | |
| Thesis | Violence and negative actions (1976) |
| Website | www |
John Morley Harris,
FRSA, FRSB (born 21 August 1945), is a British bioethicist and philosopher.[3] He is the Lord Alliance Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester.[4][5]
Education
Harris was
educated at the University of Kent gaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966[1] and Balliol College, Oxford where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1976 from the Faculty of Literae Humaniores.[6]
Career
Harris was one of the Founder Directors of the International Association of Bioethics and is a founder member of the Board of the journal Bioethics and a member of the editorial board of the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. He is also the joint Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Ethics.[7] Throughout his career, he has defended broadly libertarian-consequentialist approaches to issues in bioethics.[8][9][10][11][12]
Awards
After Dark in 1997 with among others Bernard Nathanson
(to Harris's right)- Fellow of the United Kingdom Academy of Medical Sciences(FMedSci) in 2001, the first philosopher to have been elected to Fellowship of the then new National Academy
- Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts in 2006
- Member of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences, 1994
- Medal of the University of Helsinki, 1995
- Honorary Member of The International Forum for Biophilosophy, 2001
- Fellow of The Hastings Centre, 2004
- D.Litt. (honoris causa), University of Kent, 2010[13]
References
- ^ a b "HARRIS, Prof. John Morley". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
- S2CID 2311070.
- ^ "People". Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation.
- PMID 17378758.
- S2CID 6741067.
- ^ Harris, John Morley (1976). Violence and negative actions (PhD thesis). University of Oxford.
- ^ "Editorial Board". Journal of Medical Ethics.
- S2CID 45166071.
- ISBN 978-0-691-14816-8.
- ISBN 978-0-19-875257-8
- ISBN 978-0-19-288080-2
- ISBN 978-0-415-04032-7
- ^ "John Harris CV" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
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