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Paula Boddington
Recent Publications
- Boddington Paula (2009) Heart Disease and Social Inequality: Ethical issues in the aetiology, treatment and prevention of heart disease Bioethics, 23(2):123-130.
- Boddington Paula (2009) 'Shared responsibility agreements: causes of contention' In: The Philosophy of Public Health, ed. by Angus Dawson. Ashgate, Aldershot, chap. 4, pp. 85-100.
- Boddington Paula and Raisanen Ulla (2009) Theoretical and practical issues in the definitionof health: Insights from an Aboriginal Australian Health definition Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 34(1):68-90.
| paula.boddington@ethox.ox.ac.uk | |
| Fax | 01865 287884 |
| Contact address | The Ethox Centre Division of Public Health and Primary Health Care University of Oxford Badenoch Building Old Road Campus Headington Oxford OX3 7LF |
| Department | Department of Public Health |
Paula is working on the Procardis project, a European consortium, co-ordinated at Oxford University, which aims to identify novel susceptibility genes for early onset coronary artery disease and to provide more efficient tools for the diagnosis treatment and prevention of coronary artery disease. Paula will be aiming to identify and analyse ethical issues arising from this project. She will be collaborating on this project with Mike Parker.
Paula has a degree in philosophy and psychology from the University of Keele, a BPhil and DPhil in philosophy (with a thesis on self-deception) from the University of Oxford and an LLM in Legal Aspects of Medical Practice from Cardiff University. She has lectured in philosophy at Bristol University and the Australian National University. Prior to starting work at Ethox, Paula worked across various research projects on ethical and social aspects of genomics at Cardiff University, based in the Institute of Medical Genetics and working in collaboration with researchers at CESAGen (the ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics).
