Lectureship (Assistant Professor) in The Philosophy & Politics of Health (EXPIRED)

50th Anniversary Lectureships - Philosophy & Politics
Salary:   £33,574 to £46,414
Closing Date:   Monday 29 February 2016
Interview Date:   To be confirmed
Reference:  AL11

PPR (the Department of Politics, Philosophy, and Religion) seeks to appoint a researcher capable of producing world-leading work on the philosophical and/or political challenges raised by illness, disease and health.  The person appointed will have a strong track record in Ethics, Philosophy, Political Theory, or a closely related area, and will be expected to develop (under the mentorship of Stephen Wilkinson, Professor of Bioethics) a programme of conceptual or philosophical work on illness, disease and health; this may include but is not limited to bioethics.  The research programme must be one which has the potential to attract substantial external research income.

The precise area of research within the Philosophy and Politics of Health is open.  However, a non-exhaustive indicative list of possible topics follows.

• Definitions and concepts of ‘health’ and ‘disease’ and their implications for questions concerning the tendency in some contexts to ‘medicalise’ or ‘pathologise’ behaviours and lifestyle choices
• The ethics, politics, and regulation of emerging biotechnologies
• The ethics, politics, and regulation of human reproduction
• The fair and efficient allocation of healthcare and public health resources
• The ethics, politics, and regulation (or prohibition) of international markets in healthcare (e.g. cross-border travel for healthcare) and in human bodily parts and services (e.g. eggs, organs, surrogacy)
• Ethical and policy issues relating to organ donation
• Ethical issues relating to children’s health and the medical treatment of children
• Conceptual questions about consent (insofar as these relate to health and healthcare)

For informal enquiries please contact Professor Stephen Wilkinson on +44 1524 594964 or [email protected]

For further information on the Anniversary Lectureships visit www.lancaster.ac.uk/anniversary-lectureships