Margaret Somerville • McGill University
Margaret Somerville holds professorships in both the Faculty of Law –where she holds the Samuel Gale Chair– and the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University and was the founding director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law. She has been active in the worldwide development of bioethics and in the study of the wider legal and ethical aspects of medicine and science. Professor Somerville is widely published and has been an invited speaker at numerous international conferences on ethical and legal aspects of science and society. In 2004 she was named the first recipient of the UNESCO Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science and delivered the 2006 Massey Lectures.
Professor Somerville's books include:
The Ethical Canary: Science, Society, and the Human Spirit and
Death Talk: the Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide.
Read the essay "
Creating the ethics of synthetic biology" from
The Ottowa Citizen.
Visit Professor Somerville's
university web page for her full curriculum vitae.
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