Professor John Keown DCL (Oxford) is a Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. He formerly taught medical law at Cambridge and is the author of the ‘classic text’ on euthanasia: Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy: An Argument against Legalisation (Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed, 2018). He delivered the inaugural lecture of the Bios Centre at King’s College London in 2019.
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