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Ruth Chadwick

- Professor of Bioethics

Phone: +44 (0) 1524 592832
Email:
r.chadwick@lancaster.ac.uk

Ruth Chadwick is Professor of Bioethics at Lancaster University and Director of CESAGen. She held positions in Liverpool, Cardiff and Preston before joining the University in 2000. She co-ordinated the Euroscreen projects (1994-6; 1996-9) funded by the European Commission and co-edits the journal Bioethics. She is Vice-Chair of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) Ethics Committee and a member of the Food Ethics Council, the National Committee for Philosophy, the Research Development Grant Assessment Panel of the Scottish Higher Education Council, the Research Assessment Exercise (2001) assessment panel for Philosophy and the Medical Research Council Advisory Committee on Scientific Advances in Genetics.

Principal Research Interests
- Applied Ethics, especially Biomedical Ethics; Ethical Issues in Genetics and Biotechnology, especially Pharmacogenetics
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Kant

Principal Research Interests
- At IEPPP
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Bioethics

Selected Publications
1. Ruth Chadwick (Editor) - Ethics, Reproduction and Genetic Control, Croom Helm, London (1987) ISBN 0-415-05188-6, xii + 200 pp; Reprinted in paperback, Routledge (1990); Revised edition (Routledge, 1992);
Reprinted 1994

2. Ruth Chadwick and Win Tadd - Ethics and Nursing Practice: a case study approach, Macmillan, Basingstoke (1992) ISBN 0-333-52045-9, x + 198 pp.

3.Andrew Belsey and Ruth Chadwick (Editors) - Ethical Issues in Journalism and the Media, London (1992) ISBN 0-415-069262-2; Reprinted 1994

4. Ruth Chadwick (Editor) - Kant: Critical Assessments Volume 1, Kant Criticism from His Own Time to the Present Day, Routledge, London (1992) ISBN 0-415-07410-X, 314pp.

5. Ruth Chadwick and Clive Cazeaux (Editors) - Kant: Critical Assessments Volume 2 Kant?s Critique of Pure Reason, Routledge, London (1992) ISBN 0-415-07411-8, 374 pp.

6. Ruth Chadwick (Editor) - Kant: Critical Assessments Volume 3, Kant?s Moral and Political Philosophy, Routledge, London (1992) ISBN 0-415-07412-6, 412 pp.

7.Ruth Chadwick and Clive Cazeaux (Editors) - Kant: Critical Assessments Volume 4, Kant?s Critique of Judgement, Routledge, London (1992) ISBN 0-415-07413-4, 396 pp.

8. Ruth Chadwick (Editor) - Ethics and the Professions, Avebury, Aldershot (1994) ISBN 1-85628-632-0

9.Andrew Belsey and Ruth Chadwick (Editors) - Etica e giornalismo, Società Editrice Internazionale, Italy (1996) ISBN 8 80505 629 4, pp. 246

10.Ruth Chadwick, Mairi Levitt and Darren Shickle (Editors) - The right to know and the right not to know, Avebury, Aldershot (1997) ISBN 1 85972 424 8, 100 pp. 112

11.Ruth Chadwick (Editor-in-Chief) - Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, 4 volumes Academic Press (1997) ISBN 0-12-227065-7

12.Ruth Chadwick and Mairi Levitt (Editors) - Ethical Issues in Community Health Care, Arnold: London (1998) ISBN 0-340-66195-X

13.Ruth Chadwick and Alison Thompson (Editors) - Genetic Information Acquisition, Access, and Control. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York (1998) ISBN 0-306-46052-1

14.Ruth Chadwick, Darren Shickle, Henk ten Have and Urban Wiesing (Editors) - The Ethics of Genetic Screening, Kluwer: Dordrecht (1999) ISBN 0-7923-5614-4

15.Ruth Chadwick (Editor) - Concise Encyclopedia of the Ethics of New Technologies, Academic Press: San Diego (2001) ISBN 0-12-166355-8

16.Ruth Chadwick (Editor) - Concise Encyclopedia of the Ethics in Politics and the Media, Academic Press: San Diego (2001) ISBN 0-12-166255-1

17.Ruth Chadwick and Doris Schroeder (Editors) - Applied Ethics (in six volumes), Routledge, London (forthcoming in 2001)