John Harris (bioethicist)

Short description: British bioethicist and philosopher

John Harris

Harris in 2008

Born|  (1945-08-21) 21 August 1945 (age 80)[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.manchester.ac.uk/research/john.harris

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]

## Contents

* 1 Education
* 2 Career
* 3 Awards
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## 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

Appearing on After Dark in 1997 with among others Bernard Nathanson (to Harris's right)

* 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. ↑ 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?)
2. ↑ "People". Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation. http://www.isei.manchester.ac.uk/about/people.
3. ↑ Harris, J. (2007). "Interview with John Harris". Rejuvenation Research 10 (1): 107–111. doi:10.1089/rej.2006.9093. PMID 17378758.
4. ↑ 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.
5. ↑ Harris, John Morley (1976). Violence and negative actions (PhD thesis). University of Oxford.
6. ↑ "Editorial Board". Journal of Medical Ethics. http://jme.bmj.com/site/about/edboard.xhtml.
7. ↑ Watts, G. (2007). "John Harris: Leading libertarian bioethicist". The Lancet 370 (9596): 1411. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61595-5. PMID 17950853.
8. ↑ 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.
9. ↑ Bioethics Oxford Readings in Philosophy Series. (2001) ISBN 978-0-19-875257-8
10. ↑ Clones, Genes and Immortality: Ethics and the Genetics Revolution (1998) ISBN 978-0-19-288080-2
11. ↑ The Value of Life (1985) ISBN 978-0-415-04032-7
12. ↑ "John Harris CV". http://www.isei.manchester.ac.uk/about/people/JHarrisfullcv.pdf.

## External links

* University of Manchester profile
* John Harris at The Guardian

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