Fellow and Director of Studies in Philosophy and Theology, Peterhouse, Cambridge (1988-1994)
F. D. Maurice Professor of Moral and Social Theology, King's College London (1994-2004)
Professor of Ethics and Social Policy in the Life Sciences, Edinburgh (2004-2006)
Director of the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum
Dean of Trinity College, Cambridge (2006-)
He chaired a MAFF Committee of Enquiry on the Ethics of Emerging Technologies in the Breeding of Farm Animals, 1993-5; the Department of Health’s CJD Incidents Panel, 2000-3; and from 1998-2006 he chaired the Home Office's Animal Procedures Committee. He has been a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and of the Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission.
Consultant Editor (2006-2007) for Studies in Christian Ethics
While at King's he supervised the PhDs of Brian Brock, Luke Bretherton, Christopher Roberts
Major Works
The Justification of Science and the Rationality of Religious Belief (Clarendon, 1990)
'Bioethics and Public Opinion: Do They Meet?', Technology, Innovation and Society (1995), 5-6.
'Ethics, Society and Policy: A Way Forward' in Animal Biotechnology and Ethics, (eds.) Alan Holland and Andrew Johnson (1998), pp.325-340
Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems (CUP, 1999)
The Practice of Abortion: A Critique (DLT, 1999)
'Catholics and Anglicans and Contemporary Bioethics: Divided or United?' in Issues for a Catholic Bioethic, ed. Luke gormally (Lincare CEntre, 1999), pp.34-57
(ed.) with Alan Torrance, The Doctrine of God and Theological Ethics (T & T Clark, 2006)
'A Doctrine of Human Being' in The Doctrine of God and Theological Ethics (T & T Clark, 2006), pp.139-146
A Brief History of Ethics (Blackwell, forthcoming 2007)
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