Professor Richard Huxtable
L.L.B.(Nott.), M.A.(Sheff.), Ph.D.(Bristol)
Current positions
Professor of Medical Ethics and Law
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Contact
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Research interests
Richard’s research primarily concerns legal and ethical issues in end-of-life decision-making, surgery and paediatrics. He is the author of Law, Ethics and Compromise at the Limits of Life: To Treat or Not to Treat? (Routledge-Cavendish, 2012), Euthanasia, Ethics and the Law: From Conflict to Compromise (Routledge-Cavendish, 2007) and (with Dickenson & Parker) The Cambridge Medical Ethics Workbook (CUP, 2nd edn, 2010), plus numerous articles and chapters. His research has been funded by organisations including the Wellcome Trust and the European Commission and he has given invited presentations at the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal College of Surgeons, as well as conferences worldwide.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8064 emPOWER EP/T020792/1
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical SchoolDates
01/03/2021 to 28/02/2026
Good Grief, Bristol: Bristol Grief Festival 2020
Principal Investigator
Role
Collaborator
Description
Grief affects everyone, yet remains taboo, with bereaved people often unsupported and isolated. We will hold a city-wide festival on grief and bereavement in 2020/21 (Good Grief, Bristol), focussed on…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/11/2019 to 31/10/2020
Balancing Best Interests in Health Care, Ethics and Law (BABEL)
Principal Investigator
Description
The project explores healthcare decisions that are made in the “best interests” of patients who are unable to make decisions for themselves because they lack (what the law calls) mental…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/09/2018 to 31/08/2023
Evaluation of patient access to medical test result services in General Practice
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Patients are increasingly being offered the opportunity to access their
medical test results electronically through online access. This could
benefit both patients and GP practices, by patients being able to access
the information…Managing organisational unit
Dates
16/04/2018 to 16/04/2020
Thesis supervisions
ACCORD – ACCESSING CLINICAL ETHICS COMMITTEES FOR RAPID DISCUSSION
Supervisors
ACCORD – ACCESSING CLINICAL ETHICS COMMITTEES FOR RAPID DISCUSSION
Supervisors
Exploring Chinese bioethics through the practice of palliative care
Supervisors
RESPOND
Supervisors
Critical reflections upon the origins, nature, limits and impact of empirical bioethics
Supervisors
Understanding the ethical challenges in the practice of specialist palliative care in Uganda
Supervisors
The ethical and regulatory issues pertaining to surgical innovation
Supervisors
Exploration of Ethical Issues in Primary Care in England, UK
Supervisors
What is "Moral Distress" in Nursing and How Should We Respond to It?
Supervisors
Towards a Coherent Model of Informed Consent
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/08/2024In risk we trust? Making decisions about knee replacement
Social Science and Medicine
Preparing for responsive management versus preparing for renal dialysis in multimorbid older people with advanced chronic kidney disease (Prepare for Kidney Care)
Trials
Public views of coronavirus science and scientists
Wellcome Open Research
Complex and alternate consent pathways in clinical trials: methodological and ethical challenges encountered by underserved groups and a call to action
Trials
Exploring physician approaches to conflict resolution in end-of-life decisions in the adult intensive care unit
BMJ Open
Thesis
Irrationality, English Law and Assisted Death: The Search for A Pragmatic Compromise
Supervisors
Award date
01/01/2002
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