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 animals persons?
Margaret Somerville | 27 Jan 2010
If we grant personhood to some animals, we will end up withdrawing it from some human beings.
Suffering with dignity
Margaret Somerville | 22 Jan 2010
We must find meaning in dying, to make it the last great act of living.
The puzzle of human dignity
Margaret Somerville | 26 Nov 2009
Both sides of the euthanasia debate claim to be advancing the cause of human dignity. Whom should we believe?
The euthanasia debate resurfaces
Margaret Somerville | 29 Oct 2009
There are deeply-rooted cultural reasons why the Western world returns again and again to euthanasia as a solution to the problems of suffering and death.
Do genetic ties matter?
Margaret Somerville | 19 Oct 2009
Should adopted children have the right to be connected in some way to their biological parents?
Perilous quest for perfection
Margaret Somerville | 10 Aug 2009
Imperfections are part of what makes each of us unique and if we eliminate them, we risk losing our souls.
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