John Harris (bioethicist)
John Harris, FRSA, FMedSci (born 21 August 1945), is a British bioethicist and philosopher.[1] He is the Lord Alliance Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester. He was educated at the University of Kent and Balliol College, Oxford. He 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.[2]
He has throughout his career defended broadly libertarian - consequentialist approaches to issues in bioethics.[3]
Notable works
Books
- Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People (2007) ISBN 978-0691148168
- Bioethics Oxford Readings in Philosophy Series. (2001) ISBN 978-0198752578
- Clones, Genes and Immortality: Ethics and the Genetics Revolution (1998) ISBN 978-0192880802
- The Value of Life (1985) ISBN 978-0415040327
Honours
- 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[4]
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British bioethicist and philosopher |
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