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Margaret Somerville

Margaret Somerville is Samuel
Gale Professor of Law, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, and Founding Director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University, Montreal. She has an extensive national and international publishing and speaking record and frequently comments in all forms of media. Her books include The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit (Penguin 2000); and The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit (Anansi 2006; CBC 2006 Massey Lectures).  Among her many honours and awards are the Order of Australia, seven honorary
doctorates, and the UNESCO Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science.

    Are babies prizes or gifts?
    Margaret Somerville | 18 Oct 2011
    A Canadian radio station created world-wide controversy recently when it ran a "win a baby" competition.

    Riots and wrongs against society
    Margaret Somerville | 8 Sep 2011
    The result of intense individualism can be massive upheavals in society, even though none was intended.

    Too much information?
    Margaret Somerville | 23 Aug 2011
    The PR department of a hospital thought so, but patients are entitled to consider all sides of an issue such as euthanasia.

    The case against
    Margaret Somerville | 28 Jul 2011
    Whose rights do we value most: those of children or of homosexual adults?

    Storm over baby's gender
    Margaret Somerville | 31 May 2011
    A Canadian couple is keeping their baby’s sex secret as an experiment in gender creativity.

    What I did on April 29
    Margaret Somerville | 19 May 2011
    Apart from watching the glorious Royal Wedding of Kate and William and dining with the cynical Gore Vidal, not much, really.

    The tangled web of surrogacy
    Margaret Somerville | 22 Feb 2011
    Should a grandmother agree to bear her daughter’s son? Is the child her son or her grandson?

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