Margaret A. Somerville

Author of The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit

About the Author

Margaret Somerville, the first winner of Unesco's Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science, is the founding director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law

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Works by Margaret A. Somerville

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The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit (2006) 127 copies, 2 reviews

The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit (2000) 67 copies

Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide (2001) 20 copies

Bird on an Ethics Wire: Battles about Values in the Culture Wars (2015) 14 copies

Transdisciplinarity: reCreating Integrated Knowledge (2000) 6 copies

Consent to medical care : a study paper (1979) 5 copies

Experimentation on the person : a comparative survey of legal and extra-legal controls : a comparative survey of the control of medical research 1 copy

Landscapes and Learning: Place Studies for a Global World (Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education) (2009) 1 copy

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Christian Thought in the Twenty-First Century: Agenda for the Future (2012) — Contributor — 2 copies

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Birthdate: 1942-04-13
Gender: female

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The Ethical imagination: journeys of the human spirit by Margaret Somerville

Science and technology force us to ask some of the most challenging and unprecedented ethical questions in the world today. These issues encompass what it means to be human, how we relate to others and our world, and how we find meaning in life. How we can find a shared ethics for an interdependent world? Margaret Somerville tackles some of the most contentious issues of our times, and proposes a brilliant new kind of ethical language and thought to help us navigate them

May 11, 20201 other review

Neil_Luvs_Books 202 reviews

The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit by Margaret Somerville

I like this rating system by ashleytylerjohn of LibraryThing (https://www.librarything.com/profile/ashleytylerjohn) that I have also adopted:
(Note: 5 stars = rare and amazing, 4 = quite good book, 3 = a decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful.)

Oct 2, 20211 other review