John Morley Harris,
FMedSci,
FRSA,
FRSB (born 21 August 1945), is a British
bioethicist and
philosopher
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. He is the Lord Alliance Professor of Bioethics and Director of the
Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the
University of Manchester.
Education
Harris was
educated at the
University of Kent gaining a
Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966
and
Balliol College, Oxford
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where he was awarded a
Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1976 from the Faculty of Literae Humaniores.
Career
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. Throughout his career, he has defended broadly
libertarian
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-
consequentialist approaches to issues in bioethics.
[''The Value of Life'' (1985) ]
Awards
* Fellow of the United Kingdom
Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2001, the first philosopher to have been elected to Fellowship of the then new National Academy
* Fellow of The
Royal Society of Arts
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in 2006
* Member of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences, 1994
* Medal of the
University of Helsinki, 1995
* Honorary Member of The International Forum for Biophilosophy, 2001
* Fellow of The Hastings Centre, 2004
* D.Litt. (honoris causa),
University of Kent, 2010
References
External links
University of Manchester profileJohn Harrisat ''
The Guardian''
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Living people
1945 births
Bioethicists
British philosophers
Academics of the University of Manchester
Alumni of the University of Kent
Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)
British libertarians
Consequentialists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Biology