Raanan Gillon | |
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Born | 1941 |
Medical career | |
Profession | Physician |
Institutions | Imperial College London |
Sub-specialties | Medical ethics |
Raanan Evelyn Zvi Gillon FRCP (born April 1941) is emeritus professor of medical ethics at Imperial College London, and past president of the British Medical Association.[1]
A general practitioner until his retirement in 2002, Gillon edited the Journal of Medical Ethics from 1980 to 2002, and from 1995 to 1999 was professor at Imperial.[1] He is an author on several works on medical ethics including Philosophical Medical Ethics.[2]
Gillon is credited with making "a major philosophical contribution to critical thinking about moral issues raised by the practice of medicine"[3] and with being "the leading British advocate and interpreter of Beauchamp and Childress's four principles approach" to moral reasoning in healthcare.[3]