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. |
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.
The pain of watching children die
Margaret Somerville | 16 May 2008
The father of an 11-year-old Canadian boy with leukemia wants to stop his painful treatment. The doctors say No. Who’s right?
Who dare call it futile?
Margaret Somerville | 13 Mar 2008
A Canadian man’s life depends on a ventilator. His relatives want to keep it on; his doctors want to turn it off.
Abortion: giving new life to the debate
Margaret Somerville | 26 Jan 2008
Anniversaries of court decisions in the United States and Canada highlight the need for open discussion of this moral issue in the public square.
Crossing the species boundary
Margaret Somerville | 8 Nov 2007
The possibility of creating a bewildering variety of human-animal combinations requires profound ethical reflection.
Balancing feminism and femininity
Margaret Somerville | 30 Sep 2007
However politically incorrect it may sound, nature meant women and men to have complementary roles and mentalities.
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