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Members of staff and their fields of special interest

HELGA KUHSE Medical end-of-life decisions, new reproductive technologies, nursing ethics, resource allocation, partiality and impartiality in ethics, feminist ethics.

JOHN MCKIE Ethical theory; resource allocation including theories of justice; moral psychology and moral development.

JUSTIN OAKLEY Ethical issues in patient care, especially involving autonomy and confidentiality; ethics of clinical trials; surrogacy; ethical theory, especially virtue ethics and its applications, and the connections between moral psychology and ethical theory; emotions and their relevance to ethics.

PETER SINGER Bioethics, especially the moral status of human beings and non-human animals; resource allocation and genetic engineering; the nature of ethics, including the contribution of ethical theory to our understanding of ethics, and the role of impartiality in ethics; environmental ethics; ethics and non-human animals; ethics and self-interest.


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