Biography
Professor Joshua Hordern is Professor of Christian Ethics in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of Harris Manchester College and Lecturer in Theology at Jesus College.
He has worked extensively with colleagues in healthcare with particular foci on compassion in healthcare, medical professionalism, precision medicine and trauma. He co-founded the Oxford Healthcare Values Partnership in 2014. In 2024, he also co-founded the Oxford Collaboration on Theology and Artificial Intelligence.
He has been awarded grants for his research by, among others, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Wellcome Trust and the McDonald Agape Foundation.
Josh has served on the Royal College of Physicians Committee for Ethical Issues in Medicine and was Member of the Royal Society of Medicine Open Section Council. Before coming to Oxford, he was Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, Associate Director of KLICE and an elected councillor with St Edmundsbury Borough Council.
Publications include Compassion in Healthcare: Pilgrimage, Practice and Civic Life (OUP, 2020), Advancing Medical Professionalism (Royal College of Physicians, 2018) and Political Affections: Civic Participation and Moral Theology (OUP, 2013). Coedited collections include Personalised Medicine: The Promise, The Hype and the Pitfalls (The New Bioethics 2017), Marketisation, Ethics and Healthcare: Policy, Practice and Moral Formation (Routledge, 2018), and Illuminating the Darker Side of Ageing (Journal of Population Ageing, 2021).
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Links
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-joshua-hordern
