Margaret Somerville



Margaret Somerville

Margaret Somerville is Samuel Gale Professor of Law, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, and Founding Director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University, Montreal.

She authored several books — The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit (Penguin2000); Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide (MQUP 2002); and The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit (Anansi 2006), which she delivered as the nationally broadcast CBC 2006 Massey Lectures — and has edited others.

Professor Somerville consults, nationally and internationally, to a wide variety of bodies including governments and NGOs. She has received many honours and awards including the Order of Australia, seven honorary doctorates and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2003 she was chosen by an international jury as the first recipient of the UNESCO Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science.

Talks

Margaret Somerville - The Link Between Spirituality and Morality

Margaret Somerville defines spirituality as “first of all amazement, then awe, then wonder,...