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Title: Mr. Job Title: Innogen Research Fellow Tel: +44 (0) 131 651 4267 Fax: +44 (0) 131 650 6317 Email: shawn.harmon@ed.ac.uk Building: AHRC Centre, Law, University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL Room Number:
Shawn is currently a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh (Law) and a Research Fellow at Innogen investigating the interaction between ethics and law in the regulation of genomics and biotechnologies.
In addition, he is a Research Associate at AHRC SCRIPT, a Tutor in medical law and ethics and a variety of other courses, and Editor-in-Chief of SCRIPTed - A Journal of Law, Technology & Society. In addition, Shawn is the Principle Investigator on an ESRC-funded project entitled "Governing Emerging Technologies: Social Values in Stem Cell Regulation in Argentina" (Award No. RES-000-22-2678)
Shawn H.E. Harmon CV - Aug 2009 (PDF 85.4kb)
Shawn is involved in the following innogen projects:
Shawn's research interests revolve around ethico-legal and intellectual property issues in medical practice, medical research and biotechnology innovation. More specifically, his interests include the process of rule-making in the bioscience/biotech field, the content and trajectories of regulatory instruments, both domestic and international, and the translation of moral/social values into legal rules in the bioscience/biotech fields. Shawn favours an internationalist and cross-jurisdictional comparative approach with particular attention to developing countries.
Selected Presentations "Consent and Capacity to Consent: Ethical Considerations" for Legal Services Agency, "Capacity and Consent", Seminar, February 22, 2008, Edinburgh.
"Innovation, InnoGen and Argentina" for Argentine Science & Technology Agency, "Biotech Governance", Conference, November 29-30, 2007, Buenos Aires.
"Values in Genomics Governance: From Rhetoric to Reality" for ACLRC, "One Origin, One Race, One Earth", Conference, November15-17, 2007, Calgary.
"Stem Cell Ethics" for the Medical & Dental Defence Union of Scotland, CPD, September 10, 2007, Glasgow.
"Stem Cell Research Regulation: Motivating Values and Regulatory Models" for UCL, "Twelfth International Interdisciplinary Colloquium: Law & Bioethics", Conference, July 2-3, 2007, London.
"Patenting Particulars - Software & Biotechnology" (with A. Guadamuz) for Shepherd & Wedderburn, CPD, November 6, 2006, Edinburgh/Aberdeen/London.
"Regulation: Genomics, Development and Intellectual Property" for INNOGEN, "Genomics for Development? The Life Sciences and Poverty Reduction", September 5-6, 2006, London. (Session Organizer/Chair)
"Red Shift: An Astronomical Metaphor for Legal and Ethical Regulation of Human Genomics" for HUMGEN, "Genomics & Public Health: 4th International DNA Sampling Conference", June 4-7, 2006, Montreal. (Poster Presentation)
"From Engagement to Re-Engagement: Participation and Values in Patenting Proceedings" for CSG & CESAGen, "Genomics & Society Conference: Towards a Socially Robust Science?", April 20-21, 2006, Amsterdam.
Journal articles
Harmon, S. H. E., Castle, D., Dutfield, G. (2010) ‘Floating the Knowledge Management Boat in a Sea of Intellectual Property Rights’ SCRIPTed forthcoming
Harmon, S. H. E., (2010) ‘Regulation of stem cell and regenerative science: stakeholder opinions, plurality and actor space in the Argentine social science setting’ Law, Innovation and Technology (forthcoming)
Haddow, Gill , Bruce, Ann , Calvert, Jane , Harmon, Shawn H. E. and Marsden, Wendy (2010) 'Not "human" enough to be human but not "animal" enough to be animal - the case of the HFEA, cybrids and xenotransplantation in the UK', New Genetics and Society, 29: 1, 3 – 17
Shawn H.E. Harmon (2009) 'New Technologies and Moral Duties: Valuing the Person as a Means to an End' Science as Culture 18(4) 505-510
Bruce, Ann and Harmon, Shawn H.E. (2009) Discursive Typologies and Moral Values in Stem Cell Politics, Regulation and Commercialisation: Some Preliminary Observations (Part I), Journal for International Biotechnology Law, Volume 6 Issue 2, p61-66
Harmon, Shawn H. E (2009) International Public Health Law: Not so much WHO as why, and not enough WHO and why not? Medicine, Health Care & Philosophy Vol 12 Issue 3 p245 - 255
Harmon, Shawn H. E (2009) Of Plants and People: Why Do We Care About Dignity? EMBO Reports Vol 10, Issue 9 p1-3
Caulfield, Timothy; Zarzeczny, Amy et al (2009) International Stem Cell Environments: A World of Difference Nature Reports Stem Cells doi:10.1038/stemcells.2009.61
Harmon, Shawn H. E (2009) Semantic, Pedantic or Paradigm Shift? Recruitment, Retention and Property in Modern Population Biobanking European Journal of Health Law, Volume 16, Issue 1, p27-43
Harmon, Shawn H. E.(2008) Ethical rhetoric: genomics and the moral content of UNESCO’s "universal" declarations, Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol 34 Issue 11 p24
Harmon, Shawn H. E and Kim, Na-Kyoung (2008) A Tale of Two Standards: Drift and Inertia in Modern Korean Medical Law SCRIPTed, Vol 5 Issue 2, p267-293
Harmon, Shawn H. E and Kim, Na-Kyoung (2008) Medical Research Governance in Korea: The New Bioethics and Biosafety Amendment Bill (Draft 17-8353) or 'Inertia Reiterated' SCRIPTed, Vol 5, Issue 3, p575-582 Harmon, S. (2008) "Emerging Technologies and Developing Countries: Stem Cell Research (and Cloning) Regulation and Argentina" Developing World Bioethics, Vol 8, Issue 2, p138 - 150
Harmon, S. (2007) 'Imagining Argentina: From the Moral to the Legal in Cloning and Stem Cell Research Governance in Argentina' Panoptica, Vol. 2, Issue 10, pp. 1-16
Harmon, S. (2007) 'Biotechnology Innovation and Patenting in the Developing World: China - A Giant Among Nations?' Journal of Intellectual Property Rights, Vol 12, pp.72-85 Harmon, S. (2006) 'Solidarity: A (New) Ethic for Global Health Policy' Health Care Analysis, Vol.14, Issue 4, pp.215-236 Harmon, S. (2006) 'The Rules of Re-Engagement: The Use of Patent Proceedings To Influence the Regulation of Science ('What The Salmon Does When Comes Back Downstream')' Intellectual Property Quarterly, Vol 4, p378-403. Harmon, S. (2006) 'From Engagement to Re-Engagement: The Expression of Moral Values in Patenting Proceedings, Present and Future' European Law Review, Vol. 31, Issue 5, pp. 642-666 Harmon, S. (2006) 'A Penny For Your Thoughts, A Pound For Your Flesh: Implications of Recognizing Property in Human Body Parts' Medical Law International, Vol. 7, Issue 4, pp. 329-354.
Harmon, S. (2006) ' 'The Recommendation on Research on Biological Materials of Human Origin: Another Brick in the Wall' European Journal of Health Law, Vol.13, Issue 3, pp.289-297
Harmon, S. (2005) 'The Significance of UNESCO's Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights' SCRIPTed, Vol.2, Issue 1, pp.18-47
Book Chapters
Harmon, S. Gertz, R. and Pradella, G.(2006) Chapter 12: 'Ethico-Legal Issues in Genetics' Genes and Common Disease - Genetics in Modern Medicine, edited by A.Wright & N. Hastie, Cambridge: CUP
Policy Papers
"Memorandum of the Arts and Humanities Research Council to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee Inquiry into Genomic Medicine" (with G. Laurie and others), for House of Lords Science & Technology Committee, April 16, 2008.
"Issues for NHS Lothian Clinical Reinvestment" (with G. Laurie), for NHS Lothian, August 9, 2007.
Review Articles
"Gene Patents and Public Health" (by G. Overwalle, ed.) (2008) forthcomingin SCRIPTed.
"Morality in a Technological World" (by L. Magnani) (2008) forthcoming inGenomics, Society and Policy.
"Ethics and Law of Intellectual Property: Current Problems in Politics,Science and Technology" (by C. Lenk, N. Hoppe & R. Andorno, eds.) (2008)forthcoming in Medicine, Health Care & Philosophy.
"The Law and Ethics of Medical Research" (by A. Plomer) (2007) 4:2 SCRIPTed237-240.
"Human Dignity and Human Cloning" (by S. Vonecky & R. Wolfrum, eds.) (2006)13(1) European Journal of Health Law 79-84.
Working Papers
Gertz, R., Harmon, S., Laurie, G. and Pradella, G. (2006) "Developments in Medical Law in the United Kingdom: 2005-2006" European Journal of Health Law, Vol.13, Issue 2, pp.135-149
S. Harmon, "Regulation of Human Genomics and Genetic Biotechnology: Risks, Values and Analytical Criteria" (2005), INNOGEN WP-40
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