Professor Richard Huxtable

Summary

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.

Biography

Richard Huxtable is Professor of Medical Ethics & Law, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Ethics in Medicine at the University of Bristol.  He has held visiting positions at the Ethox Centre in the University of Oxford, the Centre for Biomedical Ethics in the National University of Singapore and the Hastings Center, New York. A long-standing participant in clinical ethics consultation, Richard is a member of the UHBT Clinical Ethics Advisory Group and a Trustee of the National Council for Palliative Care.

Teaching

Richard has an extensive teaching portfolio, and his teaching has been commended by the General Medical Council and Universities UK. Richard directs the intercalated BSc (Hons) in Bioethics, as well as leading sessions on the MBChB Medicine, the MSc in Health Care Ethics and Law, and continuing professional development and other programmes.

Keywords

• medical law
• medical ethics
• end-of-life decision-making
• surgery
• paediatrics
• compromise

Expertise

Research focuses on medical law and ethics, particularly decision-making at the end of life (e.g. assisted dying, withdrawing treatment, advance directives), in surgery (e.g. facial transplantation, separation of conjoined twins), and in relation to children and young people (e.g. children's rights to consent to, and refuse, treatment).

Memberships

Organisations

School of Social and Community Medicine

Centres, collaborations and units

• Centre for Ethics in Medicine

Recent publications

• McNair, AGK, Brookes, ST, Whistance, RN, Forsythe, RO, Macefield, RC, Rees, JRE, Jones, J, Smith, G, Pullyblank, AM, Avery, KNL, Thomas, MG, Sylvester, PA, Russell, A, Oliver, A, Morton, D, Kennedy, R, Jayne, DG, Huxtable, R, Hackett, R, Dutton, S, Coleman, M, Card, M, Brown, J, Blazeby, JM & , 2016, ‘Trial outcomes and information for clinical decision-making: a comparative study of opinions of health professionals’. Trials, vol 17.
• McNair, AGK, Whistance, RN, Forsythe, RO, Macefield, R, Rees, J, Pullyblank, AM, Avery, KNL, Brookes, ST, Thomas, MG, Sylvester, PA, Russell, A, Oliver, A, Morton, D, Kennedy, R, Jayne, DG, Huxtable, R, Hackett, R, Dutton, SJ, Coleman, MG, Card, M, Brown, J & Blazeby, JM, 2016, ‘Core Outcomes for Colorectal Cancer Surgery: A Consensus Study’. PloS Medicine, vol 13.
• Birchley, G, Jones, K, Huxtable, R, Dixon, J, Kitzinger, J & Clare, L, 2016, ‘Dying Well with Reduced Agency: A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of the decision-making process in dementia, traumatic brain injury and frailty’. BMC Medical Ethics, vol 17.
• Mcnair, AGK, Whistance, RN, Forsythe, RO, Rees, J, Jones, JE, Pullyblank, AM, Avery, KNL, Brookes, ST, Thomas, MG, Sylvester, PA, Russell, A, Oliver, A, Morton, D, Kennedy, R, Jayne, DG, Huxtable, R, Hackett, R, Dutton, SJ, Coleman, MG, Card, M, Brown, J & Blazeby, JM, 2015, ‘Synthesis and summary of patient-reported outcome measures to inform the development of a core outcome set in colorectal cancer surgery’. Colorectal Disease, vol 17., pp. O217-O229
• Huxtable, R & Ives, J, 2015, ‘License to kill: A new model for excusing medically assisted dying?’. in: New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia. Springer International Publishing AG, pp. 149-168
• Mcnair, A, Whistance, R, Forsythe, R, Rees, J, Jones, J, Pullyblank, AM, Avery, K, Brookes, S, Thomas, M, Sylvester, P, Russell, A, Oliver, A, Morton, D, Kennedy, R, Jayne, D, Huxtable, R, Hackett, R, Dutton, S, Coleman, M, Card, M, Brown, J, Blazeby, J & , 2015, ‘Synthesis and summary of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to inform the development of a core outcome set in colorectal cancer surgery’. Colorectal Disease, vol 17., pp. O217-29
• Birchley, G & Huxtable, R, 2015, ‘Critical Decisions for Critically Ill Infants: Principles, Processes, Problems’. in: C Stanton, T Hervey, A Farrell, A Mullock (eds) Pioneering Healthcare Law: Essays in Honour of the Work of Margaret Brazier. Routledge, pp. 116-128
• Huxtable, R & Mullock, A, 2015, ‘Voices of Discontent? Conscience, Compromise, and Assisted Dying’. Medical Law Review, vol 23., pp. 242-262
• Huxtable, R, 2015, ‘Dignity's steer, dignity's subjects, dignity's synonyms?: Three questions for dignity's supporter(s)’. Journal of Medical Ethics.
• Huxtable, R, 2015, ‘Introduction: All of the Future Exists in the Past?’. in: Richard Huxtable, Ruud ter Meulen (eds) The Voices and Rooms of European Bioethics. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 1-8

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