oncology and genetics

Name: Professor Bobbie Farsides

Academic position: Professor of Clinical and Biomedical Ethics

Contact details:

Medical Research Building 2.09
University of Sussex
Falmer
Brighton BN1 9PH
UK

Tel: +44 (0)1273 877630
Fax: +44 (0)1273 877884

E-mail:

Biography:

B.Sc. (Econ)1978-1981. London School of Economics, University of London
Ph.D. 1992. London School of Economics
Lecturer (Temporary part-time)1982-86. London School of Economics, Department of Government and Department of Social Science and Administration
Research Assistant 1985-86
Temporary Lecturer 1986-90. Keele University , Department of Philosophy
Permanent Lecturer 1990-96. Keele University, Department of Philosophy
Director, Centre for Contemporary Ethical Studies, Keele University, 1992-96
Lecturer in Medical Ethics, Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College London, 1996-99
Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics, Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King’s College London, 1999-2006

Current activities:

Co-Editor of Clinical Ethics
Reader/Referee for Blackwells, Routledge, Oxford University Press and BMA Publishing
Referee for Medical Law Review, Palliative Medicine, International Journal of Palliative Nursing
Member of the National Council for Palliative Care Working Party on Ethics (1997- )
Referee for Nuffield Trust Bioethics Programme and Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Programme and Arts and Humanities Research Council
Member of Advisory Board of ESRC/MRC Innovative Technologies Programme Project
One stop first trimester prenatal screening: social implications of an emerging technology (grant no: L21825042). Principal Investigator Professors Lewando-Hundt ( Warwick University)

Research focus:

Ethical issues relating to healthcare, especially ante-natal screening and testing, reproductive technologies, palliative care and issues around death and dying. A current project is Mapping Stem Cell Innovation In Action; click here for details.

Key/recent publications:

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Farsides B Alderson P and Williams C* ‘Aiming towards ‘moral’ equilibrium’: healthcare professionals’ views on working within the morally contested field of antenatal screening. Journal of Medical Ethics 30: 505-509.

Alderson, P., Williams, C., Farsides, B* . Practitioners’ views about equity within prenatal services. Sociology 38: 61-80 2004.

Toscani F and Farsides B ‘Deception, Catholicism and Hope: understanding problems in the communication of unfavourable prognoses in traditionally-Catholic Countries’ The American Journal of Bioethics January 2006

Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. Cribb, A. Farsides, B. & Michael, M. (in press) Ethical boundary-work in the embryonic stem cell laboratory. In de Vries, R. et al (Ed) The View from Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences , SHI Monograph, Oxford: Blackwell.

Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. Cribb, A. Farsides, B. & Michael, M. (in press) Ethical boundary-work in the embryonic stem cell laboratory. Sociology of Health & Illness, Special Issue, de Vries, R. et al (Ed) 'The View from Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences'.

Wainwright, S.P. Williams, C. & Michael, M. Farsides, B. & Cribb, A. (in press) From bench to bedside? Biomedical scientists' expectations of stem cell science as a future therapy for diabetes. Social Science & Medicine.

Ehrich, K., Williams, C., Scott, R., Sandall, J., & Farsides, B. (2006) Social welfare, genetic welfare? Boundary work in the IVF/PGD clinic. Social Science and Medicine.

Invited Submissions

Report to Mr Justice Gage in the case of AB v Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust (34 pages) 2004

Confidential Report to Wellcome Trust on Future of funding in Biomedical Ethics 2004

Report to House of Lords Select committee on Assisted Dying and Terminal Illness Bill Analysis of empirical data relating to assisted dying in the Netherlands 2005

Report to House of Lords Select committee on Assisted Dying and Terminal Illness Bill Analysis of empirical data relating to assisted dying in Oregon 2005

Book Chapters

'Can consent ever be fully informed?' in P. Webb (ed.) Ethics in Palliative Care, Hochland and Hochland (2000) pp81-1000 2nd edition 2005

‘Informed consent and research on assisted conception’ with Heather Draper in Informed Consent in Medical Research Ethics ed. Len Doyal and J. Tobias, BMJ Books, London 2000 pp 222-229

‘Lives not worth Living’ Quality of Life eds. Carr AJ, Higginson IJ, and Robinson Peter G BMJ Books, London 2002 pp.113-20

‘The Ethics of Clinical Research’ in The Manual of Research Ethics ed. Sue Eckstein Cambridge University Press January 2003 pp 5-15 (chosen as sample chapter for the book on the CUP website)

with Wlliams C and Alderson P ‘Interdisciplinary Research: culture clash or best of both worlds?’ pp91-94 Reflecting on Research: the realities of doing social science research N.Hallowell, J Lawton and S Gregory eds Open University Press