John Harris

John Morley Harris, FMedSci, FRSA, FRSB (born 21 August 1945) is a British bioethicist and philosopher. He is professor emeritus at the University of Manchester and founded the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation.

Education Harris was educated at the University of Kent gaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966

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-consequentialist approaches to issues in bioethics.

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