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. |
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?
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.
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