John Harris (bioethicist)
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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, FRSA, FMedSci (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]
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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
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- ↑ 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
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- Living people
- 1945 births
- Bioethicists
- British philosophers
- Academics of the University of Manchester
- Alumni of the University of Kent
- Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
- Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- British atheists
- British libertarians
- Consequentialists
