Professor John Harris

Professor Emeritus in Bioethics, University of Manchester; Honorary Professor in Medical Law and Ethics at the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, Kings College London; and a Distinguished Research Fellow in the Oxford University Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics

Interests

Ethics, Practical Ethics, Medical Law, Bioethics

Background

John Harris FMedSci., FRSA., B.A., D.Phil., Hon. D.Litt. is a Lord Alliance Professor of Bioethics and Director, Institute for Science,  Ethics and Innovation, School of Law. He was educated at the University of Kent and at Balliol College, Oxford.

From 2004-2011, John was the joint Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Medical Ethics, the leading journal in medical and applied ethics. He was elected a Fellow of the United Kingdom Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2001 – the first philosopher to have been elected to Fellowship of this new National Academy, which was established to serve “the medical sciences in the same way as the Royal Society serves the natural sciences (and) the British Academy serves the humanities”.  He was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts in 2006 of the Society of Biology in 2011 and is a Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) 2011. He 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 and many other journals.

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