Janet Radcliffe Richards
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Janet Radcliffe Richards (1944- ) is a British feminist philosopher and bioethicist. She reads bioethics and is Director of the Centre for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine at University College London[1], is the author of several books, papers and articles, and has sat on a variety of advisory and working committees in areas of philosophy and bioethics.[2] She is also a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics[3] and posts regularly at the University of Oxford’s Practical Ethics: Ethical Perspectives on the News website [4]. At present, her name often arises in articles and discussions on organ transplantation, in particular the idea of a legitimate organ trade (eg. [5]). Her identification with feminism and her focus on bioethics both occurred “by accident”[6](p. 27) during the writing of her first book, The Sceptical Feminist: A philosophical enquiry (Routledge, 1980; Penguin, 1982) - bioethics being central to the abortion debate.[7]
Her second book, Human Nature After Darwin: A Philosophical Introduction (Routledge, 2001) explores the so-call Darwin Wars, including what implications Darwinism raises for philosophy and the application of critical thinking to various arguments put forward in the debate.[8]
[edit] Further reading
All by Janet Radcliffe Richards:
- The Sceptical Feminist, (1980)
- Human Nature After Darwin: A Philosophical Introduction, (2001)
- "Why Feminist Epistemology Isn't" (1997) in The Flight from Science and Reason P. Gross, N. Levitt & M. Lewis; Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Organs For Sale
[edit] References
1 University College London (faculty listings) www.ucl.ac.uk
2 Royal College of General Practitioners, http://www.rcgp.org.uk/get_involved/committees/medical_ethics_committee/about_the_committee/members/janet_radcliffe-richards.aspx
3 Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, http://www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/nstaff.htm
4 Practical Ethics: Ethical Perspectives on the News [9]
5 Erin, CA, Harris, J, ‘Janet Radcliffe Richards on our modest proposal’, Journal of Medical Ethics, 2003, v29:141, http://jme.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/29/3/141
6 Baggini, J, Stangroom, J, What Philosophers Think 2003/2005: Continuum http://www.philosophers.co.uk/wpt.htm.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 as reviewed by Macaro, A, Practical Philosophy, 2001, v4:2, http://www.practical-philosophy.org.uk/Volume4Reviews/AfterDarwin.htm
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