Prof Donna Dickenson - Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Professor Donna Dickenson is Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of London and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. Previously she taught at Imperial College School of Medicine, London, working extensively with clinicians in both research and teaching. For many years she served on the Ethics Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, helping to draw up guidelines for practice in controversial areas. On the international level, she was Principal Investigator of four European Commission projects in such areas as evidence-based medicine and property in human tissue. She is the author of 25 books and over a hundred academic articles, with her most recent books including Property in the Body (second edition, Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Me Medicine vs. We Medicine: Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good (Columbia University Press, 2013). In 2006 she became the first woman to win the high-profile International Spinoza Lens Award for her contribution to public debate on ethics.