Robin Downie

Robin Downie FRSE, FRSA is Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow and Professorial Research Fellow. His main philosophical writings include studies of his great predecessors in the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow University — Francis Hutcheson and Adam Smith — and in the philosophy and ethics of medicine. Along with Sir Kenneth Calman he began the movement known as 'medical humanities' and he has been a member of many national committees concerned with medical ethics. His many books on medical issues have been written with doctors as co-authors and he acknowledges what he has learned from these collaborations. But as we enter the post-pandemic period he saw the need to examine the practice of medicine from a more detached philosophical point of view. This book is the result.