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. |
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.
Manipulating pain
Margaret Somerville | 28 Jul 2009
The euthanasia lobby insists on confusing pain relief with euthanasia. There is a clear distinction.
Competing sorrows
Margaret Somerville | 22 Jul 2009
The swine flu pandemic is a reminder that we may be forced to make painful decisions about who lives and who dies.
A failure of ethical imagination
Margaret Somerville | 2 Jul 2009
Some scientists cannot understand that our most treasured values are at stake in research on human embryos.
Gatekeepers of life
Margaret Somerville | 24 Jun 2009
How should doctors deal with potential conflict-of-interest when prescribing expensive drugs?
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