John Harris (bioethicist)
| John Harris | |
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| Born | 21 August 1945[1] |
| Institutions |
University of Kent University of Oxford University of Manchester City of Birmingham Polytechnic Brunel University |
| Alma mater |
University of Kent (undergraduate) Balliol College, Oxford (postgraduate) |
| Thesis | Violence and negative actions (1976) |
| Known for |
Philosophy Ethics Bioethics[2] |
| Notable awards |
FMedSci FRSA |
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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]
References
- 1 2 "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)
- ↑ Harris, J.; Sulston, J. (2004). "Opinion: Genetic equity". Nature Reviews Genetics. 5 (10): 796–800. PMID 15510171. doi:10.1038/nrg1454.
- ↑ "People". Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation.
- ↑ Harris, J. (2007). "Interview with John Harris". Rejuvenation Research. 10 (1): 107–111. PMID 17378758. doi:10.1089/rej.2006.9093.
- ↑ Brassington, I. (2007). "John Harris' Argument for a Duty to Research". Bioethics. 21 (3): 160–168. PMID 17845487. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8519.2007.00539.x.
- ↑ Harris, John Morley (1976). Violence and negative actions (PhD thesis). University of Oxford.
- ↑ "Editorial Board". Journal of Medical Ethics.
- ↑ Watts, G. (2007). "John Harris: Leading libertarian bioethicist". The Lancet. 370 (9596): 1411. PMID 17950853. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61595-5.
- ↑ Harris, John (2010). Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People (New in Paper) (Science Essentials). Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-14816-3.
- ↑ Bioethics Oxford Readings in Philosophy Series. (2001) ISBN 978-0-19-875257-8
- ↑ Clones, Genes and Immortality: Ethics and the Genetics Revolution (1998) ISBN 978-0-19-288080-2
- ↑ The Value of Life (1985) ISBN 978-0-415-04032-7
- ↑ "John Harris CV" (PDF).