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Jan Deckers, Senior lecturer in Health Care Ethics in the School of Medicine at Newcastle University
Episode 19
Monday, 24 March, 2025
Jan Deckers is a Senior Lecturer in Health Care Ethics in the School of Medicine at Newcastle University. His specialisms include animal ethics, ethics of genetics, naturalness, reproductive ethics, and veganism. He spent his undergraduate years studying philosophy, religious studies, and theology at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) before obtaining a PhD from the University of St Andrews (Scotland) with a dissertation on ecological ethics. He started his work at Newcastle University in 2001. He published ‘Animal (De)liberation: Should the Consumption of Animal Products Be Banned?’ with Ubiquity Press in 2016 and ‘Fundamentals of Critical Thinking in Health Care Ethics and Law’ with Owl Press in November 2023. You can read more about his work here: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/medicine/people/profile/jandeckers.html book 1: Animal (De) LiberationRetail price: Hardback: £24.99; Paperback: £15.99Digital formats free thanks to a grant from the Wellcome Trust: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bay/book 2: Fundamentals of Critical Thinking in Health care Ethics and Law Retail price: £22.00; available from various outlets, including: https://www.centralbooks.com/fundamentals-of-critical-thinking-in-health-care-ethics-and.html Table of contents:Chapter 1: A short introduction to health care ethics and lawChapter 2: Autonomy and its limitsChapter 3: Duties of care, confidentiality, candour, and cost minimisationChapter 4: The creation and use of human embryos for human reproductionChapter 5: When is it acceptable to use non-human animals to promote human health?Chapter 6: Research ethicsChapter 7: Ethics in relation to pregnancy terminationChapter 8: Is genetic engineering justified?Chapter 9: Human embryo research in embryonic stem cell and cloning debatesChapter 10: Ethical and legal issues related to the end of life
