Staff and publications
Dr Jill Creagie
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Jill holds a Research Fellowship in Psychiatry and Philosophy and teaches Medical Ethics on the MA in Medical Ethics and Law. She joined the Centre in 2008 after completing her doctorate in Philosophy at Monash University. She previously received a BSc (Hons) in Neuroscience from the University of Melbourne. Jill’s research brings together her philosophical interests in moral psychology and rationality with interests in mental illness and moral cognition.
Professor Jonathan Glover
www.jonathanglover.co.uk
Email: jonathan.glover@kcl.ac.uk
Jonathan Glover has written several books on ethics, including Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century and Causing Death and Saving Lives. He chaired a European Commission Working Party on Assisted Reproduction. He is interested in questions raised by the Human Genome Project. He is currently interested in a number of issues in global ethics and in ethical issues in psychiatry.
Professor Glover is also a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He gave the inaugural Uehiro Lecture series in 2004, published as Choosing Children: Genes, Disability, and Design.
Professor Penney Lewis
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Professor Genevra Richardson CBE
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Professor Rosamund Scott
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Dr Neema Sofaer
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Neema joined the Centre in 2009 as a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow to conduct research on the ethical and legal aspects of post-trial access to trial drugs, health care and information. She obtained a BA in English and Philosophy, and an additional Part II and M.Phil. in Philosophy, from Trinity College, Cambridge. After studying philosophy and classics at Harvard University as a Kennedy Memorial Scholar, she received her PhD in Linguistics and Philosophy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She then returned to Harvard as a Research Fellow in Ethics and Health, where she trained in social scientific methods. Neema’s research interests in both philosophy and social science include research on human beings and the allocation of resources for health care and research. She has been Manager of Research Governance in the Department of Experimental Medicine in Imperial College London and has experience in policy consulting and in the private sector.
Ms Pat Walsh, Lecturer in Medical Ethics
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Pat Walsh joined the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics in 1994 after teaching philosophy at University College London, LSE and Kingston University. She teaches a wide range of philosophical and ethical issues on both of the Centre's Masters programmes - the MA in Medical Ethics and Law and the MA in Human Values and Contemporary Global Ethics. She is currently a member of the Ethics Advisory Committee of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and chairs and coordinates a group of experts in the field of autism, called the Autism Ethics Group. In the field of medical ethics her research interests are end of life issues and resource allocation. More recently her. research has focussed on the ethical questions associated with autism and autistic spectrum disorders.
Professor Leif Wenar
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Leif Wenar joined the Centre in 2008. After earning his Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Stanford, he went to Harvard to study with John Rawls. He wrote his Harvard qualifying thesis on Marx’s theory of history, and his Ph.D. dissertation on property rights with Robert Nozick and T.M. Scanlon.
He works in moral, political and legal theory. Much of his current research focuses on international issues such as war, human rights, severe poverty, development aid, and inequalities among nations. His most abstract theoretical work concerns the nature and justification of rights. Most of his scholarly writings have focused on the work of John Rawls, and he co-edited the autobiographical volume Hayek on Hayek.
He has been a Visiting Professor and a Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values, a Fellow of the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at The Murphy Institute of Political Economy, and a Fellow of the Program on Justice and the World Economy at The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs.