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Mark Sheehan
Recent Publications
- Sheehan Mark (2009) 'Making Sense of the Immorality of Unnaturalness' Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 18(2):177-188.
- Sheehan Mark, Liao Matthew, and Clarke Steve (2009) 'The Duty to Disclose Adverse Clinical Trial Results' American Journal Of Bioethics, 9(8):24-32.
- Sheehan Mark, Liao Matthew, and Clarke Steve (2009) 'Disclosing Clinical Trial Results:Publicity, Significance and Independence' American Journal of Bioethics, 9(8):W3-W5.
- Sheehan Mark (2008) 'Is gene therapy for the treatment of male infertility ethical' Nature Clinical Urology, 5(11):596-597.
- Sheehan Mark (2008) 'Should Research Ethics Committees meet in Public?' Journal of Medical ethics, 34:631-635.
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Mark Sheehan
Mark Sheehan is Oxford BRC Ethics Fellow at the Ethox Centre and a James Martin Research Fellow in the Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences. He received his PhD in Philosophy from The City University of New York, an MA (Hons) and a BA (Hons)/BSc from the University of Melbourne. Prior to coming to Oxford he was a lecturer in the Centre for Professional Ethics at Keele University, Ethics Fellow at the Mt. Sinai Medical School, New York and Adjunct Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at The City College of New York.
As BRC Ethics Fellow, Mark is involved in Research Ethics and Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) across the Oxford BRC themes. This involvement includes discussions with researchers about research ethics issues in their work, collaborating on research proposals with ethical components and conducting research on issues in research ethics, ethics generally and PPI that engage with the research themes within the BRC.
As a member of the Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences, Mark is involved in research identifying and critically analysing ethical issues and problems arising in stem cell science, cloning, artificial reproduction and genetics. The Program is part of the James Martin 21st Century School and so is also involved in numerous collaborations with other parts of the School.
Mark has set up and teaches (with the considerable help of colleagues at Ethox) a series of sessions on research ethics aimed at researchers in the Medical Sciences Division and at the ORH. He is in the process of expanding this series to include a series of advanced, special issues in research ethics. He also teaches Medical Ethics and Law to the Graduate Entry Medical students at the Medical School.
He has published in such journals as the Journal of Applied Philosophy, the Journal of Medical Ethics, the Cambridge Quarterly on Healthcare Ethics and the American Journal of Bioethics. With colleagues from the Centre for Professional Ethics at Keele University, he is in the process of completing an EC funded textbook on research ethics.
He is a member of the Oxfordshire Priorities Forum for the Oxfordshire PCT and sits on the University’s Social Sciences and Humanities Inter-Divisional Research Ethics Committee. He is affiliated with St. Cross College.
Current Research Themes:
1. Research Ethics and Governance
2. Ethics and Reproductive Technologies
3. Ethical issues in Resource Allocation
4. Commercialisation and Health
5. Methodology in Applied Ethics and Bioethics
