John Harris (bioethicist)
Topic: Biography
From HandWiki - Reading time: 3 min
John Harris | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Harris in 2008 | |
| Born | 21 August 1945[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Kent (undergraduate) Balliol College, Oxford (postgraduate) |
| Awards | FMedSci FRSA |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Kent University of Oxford University of Manchester City of Birmingham Polytechnic Brunel University |
| Thesis | Violence and negative actions (1976) |
| Website | www |
John Morley Harris, FMedSci, FRSA, FRSB (born 21 August 1945), is a British bioethicist and philosopher.[2] He is the Lord Alliance Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester.[3][4]
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.[5]
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.[6] Throughout his career, he has defended broadly libertarian-consequentialist approaches to issues in bioethics.[7][8][9][10][11]
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[12]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "HARRIS, Prof. John Morley". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press. http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U19176.(Subscription content?)
- ↑ "People". Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation. http://www.isei.manchester.ac.uk/about/people.
- ↑ Harris, J. (2007). "Interview with John Harris". Rejuvenation Research 10 (1): 107–111. doi:10.1089/rej.2006.9093. PMID 17378758.
- ↑ Brassington, I. (2007). "John Harris' Argument for a Duty to Research". Bioethics 21 (3): 160–168. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8519.2007.00539.x. PMID 17845487.
- ↑ Harris, John Morley (1976). Violence and negative actions (PhD thesis). University of Oxford.
- ↑ "Editorial Board". Journal of Medical Ethics. http://jme.bmj.com/site/about/edboard.xhtml.
- ↑ Watts, G. (2007). "John Harris: Leading libertarian bioethicist". The Lancet 370 (9596): 1411. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61595-5. PMID 17950853.
- ↑ Harris, John (2010). Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People (New in Paper) (Science Essentials). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-14816-8.
- ↑ 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". http://www.isei.manchester.ac.uk/about/people/JHarrisfullcv.pdf.
External links
 |  |
EncycloReader
is supported by the 
KSF