Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders was an English nurse, social worker, physician and writer. She is noted for her work in terminal care research and her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasising the importance of palliative care in modern medicine.
Julian Charles Roland Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton is a British meteorologist who was Director General and Chief Executive of the British Meteorological Office from 1992 to 1997. He was made a Life Peer of the Labour Party by Tony Blair in 2000. He was the leader on the Labour group of Cambridge City Council in the 1970s.
Povl Riis (1925-2017) was a Danish gastroenterologist.
Sir Ian McColl Kennedy, QC is a British academic lawyer who has specialised in the law and ethics of health. He was appointed to chair the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority in 2009.
Non-voluntary euthanasia is euthanasia conducted when the explicit consent of the individual concerned is unavailable, such as when the person is in a persistent vegetative state, or in the case of young children. It contrasts with involuntary euthanasia, when euthanasia is performed against the will of the patient.
Richard Gordon McBride Budgett OBE is a British Medical and Scientific Director of the International Olympic Committee. He won an Olympic rowing gold medal in coxed four at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He was chief medical officer at the London 2012 Summer Olympics.
The Herald is a state-owned daily newspaper published in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.
Sir James Learmonth Gowans, is a British physician and immunologist. In 1945 while studying medicine at King's College Hospital, he assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary medical student.
Sydney Selwyn was a British physician, medical scientist, and professor. He was a medical microbiologist with an interest in bacteriology, authority on the history of medicine, avid collector, writer, lecturer, world traveller, and occasional radio and TV broadcaster.
The Journal of Medical Ethics is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of bioethics that was established in 1975. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.889, ranking it third out of 16 journals in the category "Medical Ethics" and 6th out of 51 journals in the category "Ethics".
Len Doyal FRSA FRSocMed is emeritus professor of medical ethics at Queen Mary, University of London and a medical ethicist. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1944 and studied philosophy and sociology at Georgia State University, earning his undergraduate degree in 1966. That same year he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study with Karl Popper at the London School of Economics.
Marcus de Laune "Marc" Faunce, CVO, AM, OBE, FRCP, FRACP was a Canberra consultant physician, head of Royal Canberra Hospital, doctor to five Australian Prime Ministers and six Governors-General of Australia and former Senior Physician Consultant to the RAAF.
Richard Burkewood Welbourn, FRCS was a British scientist and educator, specializing in surgical endocrinology. He was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital.
Edward Frank Shotter was an Anglican priest and author.
Edward Frederick Carpenter was an Anglican priest and author.
Bryanston Films was a British film company formed by Michael Balcon and Maxwell Setton in mid-1959 following the collapse of Ealing Studios. Neither a production studio, nor a distributor, it released independent British films through British Lion Films In operation until 1963, it was intended to be an unofficial group of independent film producers.
Professor Kenneth Dawson Bagshawe, FRS is a British oncologist, and Emeritus Professor of Medical Oncology, at Charing Cross Hospital.
Raanan Evelyn Zvi Gillon FRCP was a professor of medical ethics at Imperial College London (1995–1999) where he now holds an emeritus chair. A general practitioner until his retirement in 2002, he edited the Journal of Medical Ethics from 1980 to 2001. He is the current president of the BMA (2019/20) having been elected President-elect in 2018.
Professor Alastair Vincent Campbell MA, BD, ThD, FRSE is a British theologian and bioethicist. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics and received the Henry K. Beecher award from the Hastings Centre in 1999.
