Margaret Somerville

Margaret Somerville (1942 -) is a ethician, a lawyer and a Canadian and Australian professeure. It occupies the pulpit Samuel Gale of the Université McGill and teaches in the medical colleges and of right.

After having supplemented studies Pharmaceutical S with the University of Adelaide in 1963, it obtains a LL.B with the Université of Sydney in 1973.

In 1978, it supplements a Doctorat in civil right to the McGill university. In 1984, it becomes professeure Titulaire. It will found then the center of medicine, ethics and right of the university, which it directs of 1986 to 1996.

Consulting in medical ethics and Bioethics with the international scales, she worked with ONUSIDA and the the World Health Organization.

Auteure of several works, conferences and articles of newspapers, it moreover argued against the legalization of the Euthanasie. It also was critical vis-a-vis the Circoncision, the Female genital mutilations and the Homosexual marriage.

Its fields of interest are the ethical , the medical Droit, the medical Droit compared, the criminal Droit and the civil Délit.

Works published

  • Authorizes to medical care: At study paper, 1979
  • Human immunodeficiency virus antibody testing in Canada, 1988
  • The song off death: The lyrics off euthanasia, 1993
  • Images off Justice Volume 1: Women in-Law, 2000
  • Are physicians deaf to old voices?: The ethics and law off withholding and withdrawing treatment, 2001
  • Stud bulldozers, Human Embryos, and the Incorrect Politically, 2001
  • C We Care?: Renewing Canada' S Commitment to Health: Proceedings off the First Directions for Canadian Health Care Conference
  • Death Talk: The Puts Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide, 2002
  • Transdisciplinarity: Recreating Integrated Knowledge, 2003
  • the ethical canary: Science, company and spirit, 2004
  • The Ethical Imagination, 2006
  • What We Owe Each Other, 2006

Honors

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