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British bioethicist and philosopher
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]
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]
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]
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
[13]
^
a
b
"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.
doi :
10.1038/nrg1454 .
PMID
15510171 .
S2CID
2311070 .
^
"People" .
Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation .
^ 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 .
S2CID
6741067 .
^ 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.
doi :
10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61595-5 .
PMID
17950853 .
S2CID
45166071 .
^ 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" (PDF) . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 7 June 2011 .
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