Elselijn Kingma appointed New Sowerby Professor

We are delighted to announce that Professor Elselijn Kingma is taking up the Peter Sowerby Chair in Philosophy and Medicine.

She said about her new appointment: “I look forward to consolidating the Project’s international profile as a centre of excellence in teaching and research in Philosophy and Medicine, and to advancing and disseminating Peter Sowerby’s vision for embedding philosophy in clinical teaching and training“.

Professor Kingma’s main research focuses on:

• The philosophy of medicine: especially concepts of health and disease; the epistemology of evidence-based medicine; and the role of values in medical evidence and clinical decision-making.

• The philosophy of pregnancy, birth and early motherhood: especially the rights and obligations of pregnant and birthing women, as well as those of their health care providers; the nature of pregnancy; and applications such as artificial gestation and contract pregnancy.
  
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