John Harris (bioethicist)

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John Harris
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Harris in 2008
Born (1945-08-21) 21 August 1945 (age 79) [1]
Alma mater University of Kent (undergraduate)
Balliol College, Oxford (postgraduate)
Known for Philosophy
Ethics
Bioethics [2]
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. [3] He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Manchester [4] and founded the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation. [5] [6]

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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. [7]

Career

Appearing on After Dark in 1997 with among others Bernard Nathanson (to Harris's right) Television programme "After Dark" on 1 November 1997.jpg
Appearing on After Dark in 1997 with among others Bernard Nathanson (to Harris's right)

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. [8] Throughout his career, he has defended broadly libertarian-consequentialist approaches to issues in bioethics. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

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References

  1. 1 2 "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)
  2. ↑ Harris, J.; Sulston, J. (2004). "Opinion: Genetic equity". Nature Reviews Genetics. 5 (10): 796–800. doi:10.1038/nrg1454. PMID   15510171. S2CID   2311070.
  3. ↑ "People". Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation.
  4. ↑ Uehiro Oxford Institute
  5. ↑ Harris, J. (2007). "Interview with John Harris". Rejuvenation Research. 10 (1): 107–111. doi:10.1089/rej.2006.9093. PMID   17378758.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ Harris, John Morley (1976). Violence and negative actions (PhD thesis). University of Oxford.
  8. ↑ "Editorial Board". Journal of Medical Ethics.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ Bioethics Oxford Readings in Philosophy Series. (2001) ISBN   978-0-19-875257-8
  12. ↑ Clones, Genes and Immortality: Ethics and the Genetics Revolution (1998) ISBN   978-0-19-288080-2
  13. ↑ The Value of Life (1985) ISBN   978-0-415-04032-7
  14. ↑ "John Harris CV" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
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