John Morley Harris, FMedSci, FRSA, FRSB (born 21 August 1945), is a British bioethicist and

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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

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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 Libertarianism (from french: libertaire, "libertarian"; from la, libertas, "freedom") is a political philosophy that upholds liberty as a core value. Libertarians seek to maximize autonomy and political freedom, and minimize the state's e ...

- 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

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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 profile

John Harris
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