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Professor Martyn Evans

Co-Director Centre for Medical Humanities, Prof of Humanities in Medicine in the Medicine and Health, School of
Co-Director Centre for Medical Humanities, Prof of Humanities in Medicine in the Centre for Medical Humanities
Principal of Trevelyan College

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Biography

Martyn Evans is Professor of Humanities in Medicine and co-Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities, School of Medicine and Health. He joined Durham University in July 2002 as Principal of John Snow College, at the Queen's Campus, Stockton, having previously taught philosophy and ethics of medicine at the University of Wales.

Martyn is now Principal of Trevelyan College, Durham University. He is married to Janet Evans, a professional pianist and teacher of piano and woodwind; they have two teenage sons.

Indicators of Esteem

  • 2007: Visiting Fellow, University of Sydney:
  • 2005: Honorary Fellow, Royal College of General Practitioners:
  • 2005: Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Strategy Committee: On-going.
  • 2004: Visiting Fellow, University of Sydney:
  • 2004: Visiting Professor, University of Otago: Appointed 2004, on-going.
  • 2001: RCGP Ethics Committee: On-going.
  • 2000: Medical Humanities journal, joint editor: Medical Humanities (BMJ Specialists journals/Institute of Medical Ethics); on-going

Publications

Books: authored

  • Evans, H. M. & Evans, D. 1996. A Decent Proposal: Ethical Review of Clinical Research. Chicester: John Wiley & Sons. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H.M. 1990. Listening to Music. London: Macmillan.

Books: edited

  • Evans, H. M., Louihala, P. & Puustinen, R. 2004. Philosophy for Medicine: applications in a clinical context. Oxford: Radcliffe Medical Press. (Additional information)
  • Finlay IG & Evans HM 2001. Medical Humanities. “Philosophy and the medical humanities”. LONDON: BMJ Books. (Additional information)
  • Evans, Martyn 1998. Critical Reflections on Medical Ethics. Connecticut USA: JAI Publishers. (Additional information)

Books: sections

  • Evans, H. M. 2005. Clinical ethics committees: a personal commentary. In Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of Child Healthcare. Cartlidge, P Elsevier.
  • Evans, H. M. 2004. First let's consider your left thumb - an introduction to the philosophy of medicine. In Philosophy for Medicine: applications in a clinical context. Evans, H. M. , Louihala, P. & Puustinen, R. Oxford: Radcliffe Medical Press. 3-14.
  • Evans, H.M. 2004. Madness, medicine and creativity in Mann's The Magic Mountain. In Madness and Literature. Saunders, C. & Macnaughton, R. J. London: Palgrave. 159-174.
  • Evans, HM 2004. Madness, medicine and creativity in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. In Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture. Saunders, C & Macnaughton, RJ London: Palgrave Macmillan. 159-174. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Evans, H. M. 2004. Mix and Match? Conjectures on heterogeneous trial populations. In Delivering Quality in the NHS. Rawlins, M. & Littlejohns. Oxford: Radcliffe Medical Press.
  • Evans, H. M. 2002. A plea for the heart. In Applied Ethics: critical concepts in philosophy. Chadwick, R & Schroeder, D London: Routledge. 275-279.
  • Evans, H. M. 2002. The concept of the person. In Bioethics in a European Perspective. ten. Have, H. & Gjordin, B Dordrecht: Kluwer. 141-155. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H.M. 2001. Medical humanities for postgraduates:an integrated approach and its implications for teaching. In Medical Humanities: a Practical Introduction. Kirlin, D. Dr & Richardson, R. Dr London: Royal College of Physicians. 61-72.
  • Evans, H. M. 2001. Philosophy and the medical humanities. In Medical Humanities. Evans, H. M. & Finlay, I. London: BMJ Books. 250-263. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H. M. & Potts, M. 2000. A narrative case against brain death. In Beyond Brain Death: the Case Against Brain-Based Criteria for Human Death. Potts, M., Byrne, P. A. & Nilges, R. G. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 237-247. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H. M. 2000. The mind-body question. In Philosophy meets Medicine. Louhiala, P & Stenman, S Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. 105-115. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H. M. 1998. Learning to see in medical ethics education. In Critical Reflections on Medical Ethics. Evans, H. M. Conneticut: JAI Press. 99-111. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H. M. 1998. The utility of the body. In Ownership of the Human Body. ten Have, H.A.M.J. & Welie, J.M.V. Dordrecht: Kluwer. 207-226. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H. M. 1996. Human individuation and moral justification. In Conceiving the Embryo. Evans, H. M. & Pickering, N. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. 75-85. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H. M. 1996. The idea of the person. In Philosophical Problems in Health Care. Greaves, D. & Upton, H. Aldershot: Avebury. 23-25. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H. M. , Greaves, D., Jarvis, R., Morgan, D. & Pickering, N. 1995. Bioethics in the United Kingdom and Ireland 1991-1993. In Regional Developments in Bioethics. Lustig, B. A., Brody, B. A., Engelhardt, H. T. Jr. & McCullough, L. B. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 127-152. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H. M. 1995. Patient-centred approaches to the evaluation of health care: a commentary. In Essential Pracitce in Patient-Centred Care. Fulford, K. W. M., Ersser, S. & Hope, R. A. Oxford: Blackwell Science Ltd. 240-243. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H. M. 1994. Against brainstem death. In Principals of Healthcare Ethics. Gillon, R. & Lloyd, A. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. 1041-1051. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H.M. 1993. Against the definition of brainstem death. In Death Rites. Morgan, D. & Lee, R. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1-10. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H.M. 1993. Dying to help. In Death, Dying and Bereavement. Dickenson, D. & Johnson, M London: Sage/Open University. 135-141. (Additional information)

Journal papers: academic

  • Evans, H.M 2007. Do patients have duties? Journal of Medical Ethics 33.
  • Evans, H.M & Hungin, A.P.S 2007. Uncomfortable implications: placebo equivalence in the management of functional illness. Journal of Medical Ethics 33.
  • Evans HM 2006. Commentary on: Defining death: when physicians and families differ. Journal of Medical Ethics 2006 (Forthcoming). (Additional information)
  • Evans, H. M. 2005. Is medicine a 'cultural good'? Medical Journal of Australia 185(1): 3-4.
  • Evans, H.M. 2004. “Should patients be allowed to veto their participation in clinical research?”. Journal of Medical Ethics 30(2): 198-203. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Butler, C. C., Evans, H. M., Greaves, D. & Simpson, S. 2004. Medically unexplained symptoms: the biopsychosocial model found wanting. Journal of the Royal Socieyt of Medicine 97: 219-222. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H. M. & Greaves, D. 2003. Coming of age? Association for Medical Humanities holds first annual conference. Journal of Medical Ethics: Medical Humanities 29(2): 57-8.
  • Evans, H. M. & Greaves, D. 2003. Looking for emerging themes in medical humanities. Journal of Medical Ethics: Medical Humanities 29(1): 1-3.
  • Evans, H. M. 2003. Roles for literature in medical education. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 9: 380-386. (Additional information)
  • McCune, C. A., Ravine, D., Worwood, M., Jackson, H. A., Evans, H. M. & Hutton, D. 2003. Screening for hereditary haemochromatosis within families and beyond. The Lancet 362: 1897. (Additional information)
  • Evans, Martyn 2002. “Reflections on the humanities in medical education”. Medical Education 36(6): 508-513. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H. M. & Greaves, D. 2002. Medical Humanities - What's in a name? Journal of Medical Ethics: Medical Humanities 28(1): 1-2.
  • Evans, H. M. & Greaves, D 2002. Medical Humanities among the healing arts. Journal of Medical Ethics: Medical Humanities 28(2): 57-60.
  • Evans, H. M. 2002. Medicine, philosophy and the medical humanities. British Journal of General Practice 52(479): 447-449. (Additional information)
  • Habiba, Marwan & Evans, Martyn 2002. The inter-role confidentiality conflict in recruitment for clinical research. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 27(5): 565-587. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Evans, Martyn 2001. “The ‘medical body’ as philosophy’s arena”. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 22(1): 17-32. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Evans, H. M. & Greaves, D 2001. A renaissance for the sense of wonder? Journal of Medical Ethics: Medical Humanities 27(1): 1. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H. M. 2001. Designer babies - why not? New Zealand Bioethics Journal 1(2): 17-25. (Additional information)
  • Greaves, D & Evans, H. M. 2001. Medical progress, reason and the imagination. Journal of Medical Ethics: Medical Humanities 27(2): 1. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H. M. 2001. Viewpoint: What's wrong with retained organs? Journal of Clinical Pathology 54: 824-6. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H. M. & Greaves, D. 2000. Conceptions of medical humanities. Journal of Medical Ethics: Medical Humanities 26(2): 1. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H. M. 2000. Justified deception? The single blind placebo in drug research. Journal of Medical Ethics 36: 188-193. (Additional information)
  • Greaves, D. & Evans, H. M. 2000. Medical humanities. Journal of Medical Ethics: Medical Humanities 26(1): 1. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H. M. & Greaves, D. 2000. Medical Humanities. Wellcome History 14: 4-5.
  • Evans, H. M. 1999. Bioethics and the newspapers. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 24(2): 164-180. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H. M. & Greaves, D. 1999. Exploring the medical humanities. British Medical Journal 319(1216). (Additional information)
  • Butler, C. C., Evans, H. M. & Welsh Philosophy and GP discussion group 1999. The 'heartsink' patient revisited. British Journal of General Practice 49: 230-233.
  • Evans, D. & Evans, H. M. 1996. Fertility, infertility and the human embryo: ethics, law and practice of human artifical procreation. Human Reproduction Update 2(3): 208-224.
  • Holm, S. & Evans, H. M. 1996. Product names, proper claims? More ethical issues in the marketing of drugs. British Medical Journal 313: 1627-9. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H. M. 1996. Resource allocation in cancer care. Health Care Analysis 4(1): 40-44. (Additional information)
  • Evans, H. M. 1994. Conflicts of interest in research on children. Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics 3(4): 549-559. (Additional information)

Reports: official

  • Evans, H. M. (1999). Reconciling Conflicting Values in Health Policy. School for Health. London,

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