John Harris (bioethicist)

John Morley Harris, FMedSci, FRSA, FRSB (born 21 August 1945) is a British bioethicist and philosopher.^[3] He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Manchester^[4] and founded the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation.^[5][6]

John Harris FMedSci FRSA FRSB
Harris in 2008
Born	(1945-08-21) 21 August 1945 (age 79)[1]
Education	University of Kent (BA, 1966) Balliol College, Oxford (DPhil, 1976)
Known for	Survival lottery
Scientific career
Fields	Philosophy Ethics Bioethics[2]
Institutions	University of Manchester City of Birmingham Polytechnic Brunel University
Thesis	Violence and negative actions (1976)
Website	www.manchester.ac.uk/research/john.harris

Education

Harris was educated at the University of Kent gaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966^[1] and Balliol College, Oxford where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1976 from the Faculty of Literae Humaniores.^[7]

Career

Appearing on After Dark in 1997 with among others Bernard Nathanson (to Harris's right)

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.^[8] Throughout his career, he has defended broadly libertarian-consequentialist approaches to issues in bioethics.^{[9][10][11][12][13]}

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 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^[14]