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From reason to practice
in bioethics

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN BIOETHICS, LAW AND MEDICAL HUMANITIES

Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, Law and Medical Humanities includes internationally respected book-length works primarily monographs and edited collections, but also specialist textbooks on bioethics and the humanities. The series focuses on the strong foundations and reputation of the University of Manchesters world-leading scholars in bioethics, and its internationally respected Centre for Social Ethics and Policy and Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation. It includes publications from across the humanities, brought to bear on contemporary, historical, and indeed future bioethical questions of the highest social and moral concern and interest.

Edited by John Coggon, Sarah Chan, Sren Holm and Thomasine Kushner

From reason to
practice in bioethics

An anthology dedicated to the works of John Harris

Manchester University Press

Copyright Manchester University Press 2015

While copyright in the volume as a whole is vested in Manchester University Press, copyright in individual chapters belongs to their respective authors, and no chapter may be reproduced wholly or in part without the express permission in writing of both author and publisher.

Published by Manchester University Press
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First published 2015

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Dedicated to John Harris
A man for all seasons: incomparable friend and colleague, true leader of
thought, and inspirational intellectual

Contributors

Richard Ashcroft is Professor of Bioethics in the School of Law at Queen Mary, University of London. He taught previously in the medical schools of Queen Mary, Imperial College London, and Bristol University. He trained in history and philosophy of science at Cambridge University, where he received his BA and PhD degrees. He was Deputy Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics under John Harris and Sren Holm, and serves on the editorial boards of several journals including Bioethics, Developing World Bioethics, and the Medical Law Review. He is a member of the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians and of the Ethics of Research and Public Involvement Committee of the Medical Research Council. He works mainly on public health ethics, human rights, and research ethics, and is co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Incentives in Health. He is a Fellow of the Society of Biologists, and has held visiting appointments at Bristol, Melbourne, and the Ethox Centre, Oxford.

Margaret P. Battin (nicknamed Peggy) is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics, at the University of Utah. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, and holds an MFA in fiction-writing and a PhD in philosophy from the University of California at Irvine. The author of prize-winning short stories and recipient of the University of Utahs Distinguished Research Award, she has authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited some twenty books, among them a study of philosophical issues in suicide; a scholarly edition of John Donnes Biathanatos (Taylor and Francis, 1982); a collection on age-rationing of medical care and two collections of her essays on end-of-life issues, The Least Worst Death (Oxford University Press, 1994) and Ending Life (Oxford University Press, 2005). She is lead author for The Patient as Victim and Vector (Oxford University Press, 2009) and for Drugs and Justice (Oxford University Press, 2008). In 2000, she received the Rosenblatt Prize, the University of Utahs most prestigious award. She has been named one of the Mothers of Bioethics.

Deryck Beyleveld is Professor of Law and Bioethics at Durham University and Professor of Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics at the University of Utrecht. He is the author, inter alia, of the Dialectical Necessity of Morality (Chicago University Press, 1991), a comprehensive defence of Alan Gewirths moral epistemology, and co-author with Roger Brownsword of Law as a Moral Judgment (Sweet and Maxwell, 1986), Human Dignity in Bioethics and Biolaw (Oxford University Press, 2001), and Consent in the Law (Hart, 2007), all of which apply Gewirthian theory. Before taking up his post at Durham, he was Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Sheffield, where he founded the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics in 1993, which he directed until 2006. He is currently undertaking a comprehensive study of the differences and similarities between Gewirthian and Kantian moral theory and exploring the relationship between aesthetics and morality.

Margaret Brazier is Professor of Law at the University of Manchester. She is co-author with Emma Cave of Medicine, Patients and the Law (fifth edition, Penguin, 2011). With Suzanne Ost she wrote Bioethics and Medicine in the Theatre of the Criminal Process (Cambridge University Press, 2013), and she is a former Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Law Review. She has written widely in the area of medical law. Her public appointments include being Chair of the Animal Procedures Committee (199398), Chair of the Review of Surrogacy Arrangements (199698), Chair of the Retained Organs Commission (20012004), and Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party on The Ethics of Prolonging Life in Fetuses and the Newborn (20042006).

Alastair V. Campbell is the Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor of Medical Ethics and Director of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Biomedical Ethics, University of Otago and then Professor of Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol. He is a former President of the International Association of Bioethics. He is a recipient of the HK Beecher Award, Honorary Vice-President of the Institute of Medical Ethics, elected Fellow of the Hastings Centre and elected Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His recent books include Health as Liberation (Pilgrim Press, 1996), Medical Ethics (with D.G. Jones and G. Gillet, third edition, Oxford University Press, 2005), The Body in Bioethics (Routledge-Cavendish, 2009) and Bioethics: the Basics (Routledge, 2013). He was formerly chair of the Ethics and Governance Council of UK Biobank and Vice-Chair of the UK Retained Organs Commission. Professor Campbell is currently a member of the Bioethics Advisory Committee to the Singapore Government and of the National Medical Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Health. He is also a Board Member of the Singapore National Medical Research Council.

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