Peter Sowerby Professor of Philosophy and Medicine

Last updated

The Peter Sowerby Professor of Philosophy and Medicine is an endowed chair at King's College London named after Peter Sowerby (physician and philanthropist). It was established in 2015 and is supported by the Peter Sowerby Foundation. The Chair leads the Philosophy and Medicine Project which is a joint venture between Department of Philosophy, the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, and the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery. [1] [2]

Contents

Peter Sowerby Professors of Philosophy and Medicine

Related Research Articles

Utrecht University University in the Netherlands

Utrecht University is a public research university in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Established 26 March 1636, it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2018, it had an enrolment of 31,801 students, and employed 7,191 faculty and staff. In 2018, 525 PhD degrees were awarded and 6,948 scientific articles were published. The 2018 budget of the university was €857 million.

University College London, officially known as UCL since 2005, is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a member institution of the federal University of London. It is the largest university in the United Kingdom by total enrolment apart from the Open University, and the largest by postgraduate enrolment.

Kings College London Public research university in London, United Kingdom

King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a founding college and member institution of the federal University of London. King's was established in 1829 by King George IV and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, when it received its first royal charter, and is one of the oldest universities in England. In 1836, King's became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London. In the late 20th century, King's grew through a series of mergers, including with Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College of Science and Technology, the Institute of Psychiatry, the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals and the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Queen Mary University of London Public research university in London, England

Queen Mary University of London is a public research university in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It dates back to the foundation of London Hospital Medical College in 1785. Queen Mary College, named after Mary of Teck, was admitted to the University of London in 1915 and in 1989 merged with Westfield College to form Queen Mary and Westfield College. In 1995 Queen Mary and Westfield College merged with St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College and the London Hospital Medical College to form the School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Heythrop College, University of London public research university in London, United Kingdom

Heythrop College, University of London was a constituent college of the University of London between 1971 and 2018, last located in Kensington Square, London. It comprised the University's specialist faculties of Philosophy and Theology with Social Sciences, offering undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses and five specialist institutes and centres to promote research. It had a close affiliation with the Roman Catholic church, through the British Province of the Society of Jesus whose scholarly tradition went back to a 1614 exiled foundation in Belgium and whose extensive library collections it housed. While maintaining its denominational links and ethos the college welcomed all faiths and perspectives, women as well as men.

The Bartlett

The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment is the academic centre for the study of the built environment at University College London (UCL), part of the University of London in London, United Kingdom. It is home to twelve departments that have expertise in individual fields of the built-environment, including the Bartlett School of Architecture, Bartlett School of Planning, Bartlett Development Planning Unit, and Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. The Bartlett is consistently ranked the highest in Europe and the UK and among the highest in the world for the "Architecture and the Built-Environment" category in all major rankings. In the 2019 QS World University Rankings, it was ranked first in the world, but fell to third in the 2020 Rankings.

Sherrilyn Roush is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy in UCLA Department of Philosophy specializing in the philosophy of science and epistemology.

The Academy of Medical Sciences is an organisation established in the UK in 1998. It is one of the four UK National Academies, the others being the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society.

The School of Law at the University of Glasgow provides undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Law, and awards the degrees of Bachelor of Laws, Master of Laws, LLM by Research, Master of Research (M.Res.) and Doctor of Philosophy, the degree of Doctor of Laws being awarded generally only as an honorary degree.

Frank W. Stahnisch is a historian of medicine and neuroscience at the University of Calgary in Canada, where he holds the endowed Alberta Medical Foundation/Hannah Professorship in the History of Medicine and Health Care. He is jointly appointed in the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, and the Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, and is a member of the Calgary Hotchkiss Brain Institute and the O'Brien Institute for Public Health. He has also received an adjunct professorship in the Department of Classics and Religion of the Faculty of Arts. His research interests in the history and philosophy of the biomedical sciences cover: the development of modern physiology and experimental medicine, the history of neuroscience and the history of psychiatry, as well as the development of modern medical visualization practices. Since 2015, he has succeeded Professor Malcolm Macmillan as an Editor-in-Chief of the international "Journal of the History of the Neurosciences".

The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, England, was established in 1903. It is part of Oxford's Humanities Division.

Evelyn Kathleen Welch is an American-English scholar of the Renaissance and Early Modern Period, and professor of Renaissance Studies, Provost, and Senior Vice President at King’s College London. She will serve as the College's Interim President & Principal from January to June 2021.

Sir Terence John Stephenson, is a Northern Irish consultant paediatric doctor and chair of the General Medical Council (GMC). He is currently the Nuffield Professor of Child Health at University College London (UCL). Stephenson was most notable for guiding the RCPCH in agreeing 10 published national standards, Facing the Future: Standards for Paediatric Services. This was the first time the College committed publicly to a defined set of standards for all children receiving inpatient care or assessment across the UK.

Roy MacLeod

Roy Malcolm MacLeod is an American-born historian who has spent his career working in the United Kingdom and Australia. He is a leading specialist on the history and social studies of science and knowledge.

Department of Philosophy, Kings College London

The Department of Philosophy is an academic division in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. It is one of the largest and most distinguished centres for the study of philosophy in the United Kingdom.

Department of Classics, Kings College London Academic division in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Kings College London

The Department of Classics is an academic division in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. It is one of the oldest and most distinguished centres for the study of classical languages, literature, thought, religion, art, archaeology and history in the United Kingdom.

Alexander James Bird is a British philosopher and Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.

Elisabeth Marjolijn (Elselijn) Kingma is a Dutch philosopher. She is a professor at King's College London where she holds the Peter Sowerby Chair in Philosophy and Medicine.

References

  1. "King's College London". Peter Sowerby Foundation. 8 December 2019.
  2. "Professor Elselijn Kingma the newly-appointed Peter Sowerby Chair in Philosophy and Medicine". www.kcl.ac.uk.