Alastair Campbell (bioethicist)

Professor
Alastair Vincent Campbell
Born 1938 (age 79–80)
Motherwell, Scotland
Nationality United Kingdom
Alma mater
Website www.bris.ac.uk/social-community-medicine/people/alastair-v-campbell/

Professor Alastair Vincent Campbell MA, BD, ThD, FRSE (born 1938) is a British theologian and bioethicist. His is currently Emeritus Director and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore.[1] He was the founding editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics and received the Henry K. Beecher award from the Hastings Centre in 1999.[2]

Early Life


Campbell was born in Motherwell, Scotland. He obtained an MA, philosophy (1st class hons), bachelor of divinity BD from the University of Edinburgh. He was awarded Harkness Fellowship of the Commonwealth Fund of New York and completed a doctorate in theology jointly awarded by the San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union, San Francisco.[3]

Academic Career


Campbell worked as an Associate Chaplain to the University of Edinburgh from 1964 to 1969 and was a part-time lecturer in ethics at the Royal College of Nursing, Scotland from 1966 to 1972.[3] He was later Associate Dean in the Faculty of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh from 1987 to 1990.

With Kenneth Boyd, Campbell was joint secretary of the Edinburgh Medical Group. These medical groups were forerunners of the Society for the Study of Medical Ethics, founded in 1975, and which later became the Institute of Medical Ethics.[4] From 1975-1980 Campbell was the founding editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics.[5]

He was a Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (1986) and Otago Medical School (1986/87), where he was later appointed Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Bioethics Research Centre (1990-1996).

From 1996–2006 Campbell was Professor of Ethics in Medicine at the University of Bristol, becoming emeritus on retirement.[6] He then became Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor of Medical Ethics and Director of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, from August 2006.[3][7]

He has serve as President of the International Association of Bioethics; as a member of the Medical Ethics Committee of the British Medical Association; as Vice-Chairman of the UK Retained Organs Commission from 2001 to 2004; and as chair of the Ethics and Governance Council of UK Biobank from 2005 to 2006.[3] as President of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society (2003; and, since 2006, he has been the Honorary Vice-President of the Institute of Medical Ethics, UK.[8]

Awards and Honours


In 1999 Campbell was awarded the Henry K Beecher Award by the Hastings Centre.[9] In 2011, Campbell was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh[10]. In 2018 the Singaporian Government awarded him the Public Service Medical as part of its National Day Awards.[11]

References

  1. ↑ http://cbme.nus.edu.sg/people/all-staff/professor-alastair-campbell
  2. ↑ https://www.thehastingscenter.org/who-we-are/service-to-bioethics/henry-knowles-beecher-award/
  3. 1 2 3 4 Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2007), Medical Ethics Education in Britain, 1963–1993, Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, ISBN 978-0-85484-113-4 , Wikidata Q29581753
  4. ↑ Reynolds, L.A., and E.M. Tansey, eds. "Medical Ethics Education in Britain, 1963–1993." London: UK: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2007.
  5. ↑ Reynolds, L.A., and E.M. Tansey, eds. "Medical Ethics Education in Britain, 1963–1993." London: UK: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2007.
  6. ↑ "Professor Alastair Campbell – School of Social and Community Medicine". University of Bristol. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  7. ↑ "Centre for Biomedical Ethics". cbme.nus.edu.sg. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  8. ↑ http://www.instituteofmedicalethics.org/website/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=4&layout=blog&Itemid=11
  9. ↑ https://www.thehastingscenter.org/who-we-are/service-to-bioethics/henry-knowles-beecher-award/
  10. ↑ "Professor Alastair Vincent Campbell FRSE - The Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  11. ↑ https://www.pmo.gov.sg/national-day-awards/recipients?f[0]=field_award%3A151&f[1]=field_year%3A2018
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