Edward Shotter

Edward Frank Shotter
Shotter in December 2016
Personal details
Born29 June 1933
Died3 July 2019(2019-07-03) (aged 86)

Edward Frank Shotter (29 June 1933 – 3 July 2019) was an Anglican priest and author.[1] He is most notable for starting the London Medical Group in the mid-1960s. This was a forum for the discussion of the ethical issues of medicine. He went on to enable the establishment of similar groups in other UK medical schools, and in the 1970s both to found the Journal of Medical Ethics, today among the most widely read and cited in its field, and the Institute of Medical Ethics, which today coordinates and supports teaching, learning and research in medical ethics nationwide. From 1966 to 1989 he was Director of Studies at the London Medical Group when he was appointed Dean of Rochester, a post he held until retirement in 2003.[2]

Shotter died on 3 July 2019, four days after his 86th birthday.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Among other books, he has written or edited Matters of Life and Death (1970); Life Before Birth (1986); and The Saints of Rochester (2003).
  2. ↑ Debrett's People of Today London, 2008 Debrett's, ISBN 978-1-870520-95-9
  3. ↑ Edward Shotter