John Keown
John Keown MA (Cantab) DPhil (Oxon) PhD (Cantab) DCL (Oxon) holds the Rose Kennedy Chair in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. He was previously a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Cambridge. The second edition of his book Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy, acclaimed as ‘the classic text’ on the issue, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. His surname is pronounced like that of the former Arsenal and England footballer.
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Physician-Assisted Suicide
Download Publication Online Reader A report by Policy Exchange criticising the quality of the Parliamentary debate on the last bill seeking to legalise physician-assisted suicide is being republished in light of the imminent debate on a similar bill introduced in the House of Commons by Kim Leadbeater MP. The report, written by Professor John Keown, one of the world’s leading authorities on medical law and ethics and author of ‘the […]