Sarah Chan
Reader/ Chancellor's Fellow
- Usher Institute
- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Usher Institute – University of Edinburgh
Old Medical School
Teviot Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
Background
Dr Chan is an Chancellor's Fellow interested in the field of ethics.
Research summary
Sarah has a wide interest in the ethics of medical research including stem cells, embryo research and reproductive medicine. Human enhancement, gene therapy and genetic modification, along with animal ethics and research ethics, are also areas of study.
Project activity
Sarah's projects include work on constructing the value of 'species' in conservation ecology.
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Contested Futures: Envisioning “Personalized,” “Stratified,” and “Precision” Medicine
In:
New Genetics and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2019.1637720
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Tissue-Engineering the Intestine : The Trials before the Trials
(5 pages)
In:
Cell Stem Cell, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 855-859
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2019.04.018
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Ethical considerations in the use of GPS-based movement tracking in health research - lessons from a care-seeking study in rural west India
In:
Journal of Global Health, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 010323
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.09.010323
Contribution to journal › Review article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Patienthood and participation in the digital era
In:
Digital Health, vol. 5, pp. 2055207619845546
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2055207619845546
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Biomedicine, self and society: An agenda for collaboration and engagement
In:
Wellcome Open Research , vol. 4, pp. 9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15043.1
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
Health and Sport Committee Human Tissue (Authorisation) (Scotland) Bill : Submission from: The Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and the Law, University of Edinburgh, School of Law
(6 pages)
(Published) -
Mason Institute symposium on healthcare professionals’ duty of care : Should it extend from patients to genetic relatives?
(20 pages)
(Published) -
What's in a Name? The Politics of ‘Precision Medicine’
In:
American journal of bioethics, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 50-52
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2018.1431324
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
The social sciences, humanities, and health
In:
The Lancet, vol. 391, no. 10129, pp. 1462-1463
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30669-X
Contribution to journal › Comment/debate (Published) -
Research translation and emerging health technologies: Synthetic biology and beyond
(16 pages)
In:
Health care analysis, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 310-325
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-016-0334-2
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)