Professor Joshua Hordern
My research interests include compassion in healthcare, medical professionalism and precision medicine. I lead the Oxford Healthcare Values Partnership (www.healthcarevalues.ox.ac.uk), collaborating with a variety of colleagues around the university and beyond on health-related project. I am a member of the Royal College of Physicians Committee for Ethical Issues in Medicine and co-author of the RCP’s report Advancing Medical Professionalism (2018). On the basis of this report, I am co-leading a project to introduce and embed humanities scholarship in Oxford’s undergraduate curriculum, focussing first on neurology, psychiatry, palliative care and pain.
For the Humanities Division, I lead the Medical Humanities and Humanities and Healthcare projects. This has included an emphasis on growing scholarly community and funding, especially for early career researchers, and on developing humanities policy engagement. A document aimed at supporting policy work by humanities researchers is available here.
My publications include Political Affections: Civic Participation and Moral Theology (OUP, 2013) and Compassion in Healthcare: Pilgrimage, Practice and Civic Life (OUP, forthcoming 2020). 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 Concepts of Disease: Dysfunction, Responsibility and Sin (Theology, 2018).
Recent talks include presentations at the European Alliance for Personalised Medicine (Belfast/Milan), the Federation of European Academies of Medicine (Geneva), the Centre for Personalised Medicine (Oxford) and the British Gynaecological Cancer Society (Cambridge). Previously I was a research fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.
