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Paula Boddington
Recent Publications
- Boddington Paula and Parker Michael (2008) Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis for Familial Hypercholesterolaemia: a Commentaty on the Recent HFEA Decision Clinical Ethics, 3:145-148.
- Gregory M, Boddington Paula, Dimond R, Atkinson P, Clarke A, and Collins P (2007) Communicating about haemophilia within the family: the importance of context and experience Haemophilia, 13:189-198.
- Boddington Paula and Hogben S (2006) Working up policy: the use of specific disease exemplars in formulating general principles governing childhood genetic testing Health Care Analysis, 14(1):1-13.
- Plows A and Boddington Paula (2006) Trouble with biocitizenship: duties, responsibilities, identity Genomics, Society and Policy, 2(3):115-135.
- Hogben S and Boddington Paula (2005) Policy recommendations for carrier testing and predictive testing in childhood: a distinction that makes a real difference Journal of Genetic Counselling, 14(4):271-282.
| 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 |
Biography
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).
