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Ethics
Parent category: Ethics, Religion & Beliefs
Dr Sandra Bell
Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
Senior Lecturer, Health and Human Sciences
Specialist expertise:
- Buddhism in Britain
- environmental anthropology/European wetlands
Dr Thom Brooks
Reader, Durham Law School
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 44365
Associate , Department of Philosophy
Centre for the History of Political Thought
Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics, Law and the Life Sciences)
Specialist expertise:
- British Idealism
- British politics
- Capabilities
- Capital Punishment
- Citizenship
- Criminal Justice
- Criminal Law
- German Idealism
- Global Justice
- Hegel
- Immigration
- Jurisprudence
- Jury Trial
- Justice
- Kant
- Life in the UK test
- Plato
- Political Communication
- Political Philosophy
- Political Strategy
- Punishment
- Rawls
- Restorative Justice
- Sentencing
Dr JP Cassidy
Lecturer, Department of Theology and Religion
Principal, St Chad's College
Specialist expertise:
- Canadian affairs
- Church of England
- college affairs & funding
- ethical issues in medicine
- medical ethics
- religion in North America
Professor DE Cooper
Emeritus Professor, Department of Philosophy
Specialist expertise:
- animal issues
- art & language
- environmental ethics
- environmental policy
- existentialism
- history of Philosophy
- religion (eastern and western)
- sexual ethics
Mr Benjamin DeVan
Department of Theology and Religion
Mobile telephone: 001-919-452-8182
Specialist expertise:
- Comparative Religion, Ethics, Theology: The New Atheism, Christian-Muslim Relations, Evangelical Christianity, Religion and Science, Islam
Dr PJ Gates
Visitor, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41304
Specialist expertise:
- crops/agriculture
- environment issues, especially:
- environmental issues, especially:
- ethical issues in science, genetic engineering & biotechnology
- plant breeding
- wildlife
Dr Caspar Hewett
Research Associate, Department of Geography
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 43481
Mobile telephone: +44 (0)7790 470846
Specialist expertise:
- The notion of progress - I am interested in how the idea has become almost solely associated with technological change and divorced from the idea of social change in an era when the few belive that social and political change are possible.
Dr Simon Paul James
Senior Lecturer/Chair DEC/Acting Admissions Tutor, Department of Philosophy
Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics, Law and the Life Sciences)
Specialist expertise:
- Environmental ethics
Dr Shaun D Pattinson
Reader, Durham Law School
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 46863
Human Rights Centre
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Director, Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics, Law and the Life Sciences)
Specialist expertise:
- Medical ethics
- Medical law
Prof Charlotte Roberts
Professor, Department of Archaeology
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41154
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Telephone: 41154
Mobile telephone: +44 (0) 1677 450106
Specialist expertise:
- Air quality and health in past populations
- Ancient DNA analysis and its contribution to understanding infectious disease in the past
- Disease in Britain from 10,500 BC to the mid 19th century AD
- Ethical issues and the study of human remains from archaeological sites
- Infectious disease: leprosy in past populations
- Infectious disease: treponemal disease (syphilis) in past populations
- Infectious disease: tuberculosis in past populations
- Medical and surgical treatment in the past: trepanation as seen in human remains (skull surgery)
- Reconstructing activity/occupation in the past using skeletal remans
- The study of human remains from archaeological sites, and particularly the evidence for disease
Dr Robin Skeates
Reader, Department of Archaeology
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41156
Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East
Specialist expertise:
- Archaeological ethics
- Mediterranean prehistory - Italy, Malta, etc
- Museum studies
- Visual culture studies
Dr Robert Song
Senior Lecturer, Department of Theology and Religion
Telephone: 0191 33 43959
Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics, Law and the Life Sciences)
Specialist expertise:
- biotechnology/genetic engineering
- Christianity and politics
- ethics in biotechnology/genetic engineering