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. |
Between life and death
Margaret Somerville | 16 Apr 2009
A Montreal couple is suing a hospital for not allowing their brain-damaged newborn to die. The outcome will deliver important messages about attitudes towards the disabled.
Incorrectly labelled
Margaret Somerville | 24 Feb 2009
University life has turned toxic when unpopular opinions are reviled, stigmatised and silenced, writes a leading ethicist.
The campaign against God
Margaret Somerville | 2 Feb 2009
To privilege secularism in the public square is anti-democratic.
Aping their betters
Margaret Somerville | 5 Dec 2008
If animals co-operate to benefit their community, does it mean they are ethical beings?
Death talk in a secular age
Margaret Somerville | 18 Nov 2008
We must formulate a moral argument against euthanasia without resorting to religion.
Brave new babies
Margaret Somerville | 12 Sep 2008
Reproductive technologies are creating children who have no real biological parents. They deserve better.
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