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.

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Patenting life

Margaret Somerville | 21 Jun 2007

An American biologist's race to create artificial life raises knotty ethical questions.

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Why are they throwing brickbats at God?

Margaret Somerville | 1 Jun 2007

A campaign by eminent atheist Richard Dawkins to discredit religion makes little sense, says a Canadian ethicist.

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The silver lining in the climate change cloud

Margaret Somerville | 18 May 2007

The risks of climate change offer a unique opportunity to have a serious ethical discussion -- whatever your ethics may be.

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Why Canada should re-visit same-sex marriage

Margaret Somerville | 11 Oct 2006

Children are being ignored as adults re-engineer the family, claims one of Canada's leading ethicists.

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Talking us to death

Margaret Somerville | 26 May 2006

To legalize euthanasia would fundamentally change the way we understand ourselves, human life and its meaning.

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