Alastair Campbell

Alastair Campbell

Emeritus Professor

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Professor Alastair V. Campbell is the Emeritus Professor of CBmE. Prior to this, he was Professor of Ethics in Medicine in the Medical School of the University of Bristol and Director of its Centre for Ethics in Medicine. He is a former President of the International Association of Bioethics. Professor Campbell is a prolific writer with more than 30 books and book chapters as well as dictionary entries to his name; and many more articles in refereed journals. Recent books include Health as Liberation (Pilgrim Press, 1995), Medical Ethics, 4th Edition, co-authored with Grant Gillett and Gareth Jones (Oxford University Press, 2005), The Body in Bioethics (Routledge-Cavendish, 2009) and Bioethics: The Basics (Routledge 2013). In 1999, Professor Campbell was a recipient of the prestigious Henry Knowles Beecher award, which recognizes his lifetime of contribution to ethics and the life sciences, and his excellence in scholarship, research and ethical inquiry. He is also Honorary Vice-President of the Institute of Medical Ethics, UK, an elected Fellow of The Hastings Center, New York, of the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, and he was elected in 2011 as a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.