Raanan Gillon

Raanan Gillon
Raanan Gillon at training on Wikipedia editing in 2014
Born1941
Medical career
ProfessionPhysician
InstitutionsImperial College London
Sub-specialtiesMedical 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]

  1. ^ a b "Dr Raanan Gillon | Gresham College". www.gresham.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 17 June 2022. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  2. ^ "An Approach to the Principles Of Medical Ethics". Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society. Archived from the original on 17 June 2022. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  3. ^ a b Boyd, K. The Discourses of Bioethics in the United Kingdom. In Baker, R.B. & McCullough (Eds) The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics. Cambridge University Press. p.488.