John Harris (bioethicist) explained
John Morley Harris, FMedSci, 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
- 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]
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: HARRIS, Prof. John Morley . Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press .
- Harris . J.. Sulston . J. . John Sulston. 10.1038/nrg1454 . Opinion: Genetic equity . Nature Reviews Genetics . 5 . 10 . 796–800 . 2004 . 15510171. 2311070 .
- Web site: People. Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation.
- Harris . J.. Interview with John Harris. 10.1089/rej.2006.9093. Rejuvenation Research. 10. 1. 107–111. 2007. 17378758.
- Brassington . I.. John Harris' Argument for a Duty to Research. 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2007.00539.x. Bioethics. 21. 3. 160–168. 2007. 17845487. 6741067.
- PhD . John Morley. Harris . Violence and negative actions . University of Oxford . 1976 .
- Web site: Editorial Board. Journal of Medical Ethics.
- Watts . G. . John Harris: Leading libertarian bioethicist . 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61595-5 . The Lancet . 370 . 9596 . 1411 . 2007 . 17950853. 45166071 .
- Book: Harris, John . Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People (New in Paper) (Science Essentials) . Princeton University Press . Princeton, NJ . 2010 . 978-0-691-14816-8 .
- Bioethics Oxford Readings in Philosophy Series. (2001)
- Clones, Genes and Immortality: Ethics and the Genetics Revolution (1998)
- The Value of Life (1985)
- Web site: John Harris CV. 7 June 2011. 7 October 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20111007050245/http://www.isei.manchester.ac.uk/about/people/JHarrisfullcv.pdf. dead.