Charles Foster is a Fellow of Green Templeton College, a Research Associate at the Ethox and HeLEX Centres, University of Oxford, and a practising barrister. His current research interests concern human enhancement, theories of dignity, the limits of autonomy and problems of personalization in dementia. His practice at the Bar is entirely in medical law. He has been involved in many of the key cases in recent years, including Purdy in the House of Lords and Tony Nicklinson’s attempt to invoke the defence of necessity as a defence to medical murder |
