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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.

    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.

    When picture-perfect is flawed
    Margaret Somerville | 20 Aug 2008
    To the organisers in Beijing, it was a detail, but lip-synching in the opening ceremony struck at the heart of the Olympic spirit. 

    Affirming life
    Margaret Somerville | 15 Aug 2008
    “I am carrying this baby as long as he will let me, and will not be the killing hand.”

    Speaking to a secular age
    Margaret Somerville | 6 Aug 2008
    Battles in the public square are won with words -- but which ones?

    Correctly squelched
    Margaret Somerville | 1 Jul 2008
    A first-person account of manning the barricades against political correctness.

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