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Dr Thomas Douglas
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Tom Douglas is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Uehiro Centre, and a Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College. He qualified as a medical doctor at the University of Otago (New Zealand) before taking up a Rhodes Scholarship in Oxford, where he received his BA in Philosophy, Politics & Economics in 2005, and his DPhil in Philosophy in 2010. His research lies mainly in normative and practical ethics and currently focuses on the ethics of enhancing or modifying moral capacities, the nature of moral improvement, and the ethics of producing and disseminating dangerous knowledge. He has also written on the philosophical foundations of compensation for injury and illness, slippery slope arguments, reproductive ethics, and organ donation policy.
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