Stuart Oultram
Dr. Stuart Oultram
Contact Details:
Email: stuart.oultram@bristol.ac.uk
Telephone: 0117 33 10725
Biography
Stuart is a Teaching Fellow at the Centre for Ethics in Medicine. Stuart has a BA (Hons) in History and Philosophy (Keele), an MA in Medical Ethics and Law (Keele), and a PhD in Ethics (Keele University). The subject of Stuart’s doctoral thesis was an examination of child centred moral objections to the practice of commercial surrogate motherhood.
Prior to joining the Centre for Ethics in Medicine Stuart held a Teaching Fellowship at the Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University.
Teaching and Professional Training Activities
Stuart has leadership roles in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. In the undergraduate MBChB, he is Element Lead for Ethics in Year 3 and also involved in years 1 & 2. He also teaches and supervises students on the Centre’s BSc in Bioethics. At Postgraduate level Stuart is Programme Director of the Certificate and MSc in Health Care Ethics and Law and also coordinates a number of Units on this course. Finally, Stuart is also second supervisor for one PhD project.
NOTE: Stuart will be covering Dr Ainsley Newson’s teaching duties while she is away on leave.
Research Interests
Stuart’s research interests lie primarily in applied ethics (broadly construed) with a particular focus on biomedical ethics.
To date Stuart’s research interests have focused on three (often inter-related) themes, these being: reproductive ethics, the ethics of emerging and/or innovative uses of technology, and the ethics of therapeutic and non-therapeutic bodily modification.
Selected Publications
Journal Publication
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Stuart Oultram, “All Hail the New Flesh: Some thoughts on scarification, adults, and children”, Journal of Medical Ethics 2009; 35; 607-610
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Stuart Oultram & David Hunter, “The Challenge of Sperm Ships: The need for the global regulation of medical technology”, Journal of Medical Ethics 2008;34:552-556.
Chapters in edited collections
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Stuart Oultram, “Does the Baby-Selling Objection to Commercial Surrogacy Misuse Immanuel Kant?”, Published in M. Hayry, T. Takala & P. Herisson-Kelly (Editors), Values in Bioethics: Arguments and Analysis in Bioethics, Rodopi (Amsterdam) 2010
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Stuart Oultram, ‘Disability, Reproductive Intervention & Moral Consistency’, Published in I. Lange & Z. Norridge (Editors), At the Interface: Making Sense of Health Illness and Disease, Inter-Disciplinary Press (Oxford), UK (Internet Publication). ( Forthcoming)
Selected Presentations
‘Commercial Surrogacy & Baby-Selling’, Presented at the Society for Applied Philosophy International Conference, University of Oxford, July 2005.
‘Disability, Reproductive Intervention & Moral Consistency’, Presented at the 4th Global Conference: Making Sense of: Health, Illness & Disease, University of Oxford, July 2005.
‘Commercial Surrogate Children as Post Human Products: Does it Matter?’, Presented at the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine European Conference, University of Barcelona, August 2005.
‘What Should Be The Aim of Teaching Moral Theory To Students on Ethics Courses?’, Presented at the C.A.P.E Conference: Ethics in a Virtual World, University of Rohampton, August 2005.
‘The Challenge of Sperm Ships: the need for the global regulation of medical technology’, Presented at the Association for Legal & Social Philosophy Conference, Keele University, April 2007.
‘Vaccination, Smoking, and Public Health’, Presented at the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine European Conference, University of Cardiff, August 2007.