Charlotte Blease is a Northern Irish philosopher of medicine from

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. She is a healthcare researcher at General Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,

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, Boston USA. Formerly she was a

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to the Program in Placebo Studies at Harvard Medical School. She is a former Irish Research Council fellow and a Queen's University, Belfast lecturer.

History

Blease studied philosophy of science and mind at Queen's University, Belfast. She has held research appointments in the UK, Germany, Ireland, and the USA including at

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in the United States. In 2012 she was a winner of the UK-wide BBC New Generation Thinkers competition for promising young researchers. Blease has written published academic papers on medical ethics, psychotherapy ethics, placebo studies, and the future of the health professions. She specialized in research into placebos as a research fellow after a grant from the Irish Research Council and is a co-founder of th
Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies
Blease also held the position of postdoctoral research fellow at the English

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

and worked as a placebo research affiliate at

. Currently, she is Keane Researcher at OpenNotes, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA . Blease has been an advocate for the teaching of philosophy in schools in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and wrote in the British newspaper ''

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'' supporting this. In 2016 Blease was appointed, alongside Stephen Fry and Lord Neuberger as Patron of SAPERE the UK’s leading educational charity in philosophy for children. Blease's grandfather was Irish trade unionist

Billy Blease William John Blease, Baron Blease Justice of Peace, JP (28 May 1914 – 16 May 2008) was a trade unionist and politician from Northern Ireland. Blease, the son of William John Blease and Sarah Watts, was educated at McClure Public Elementary Scho ...

References

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