Martyn Evans (academic)
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H. Martyn Evans is a Welsh academic and Professor of Philosophy of Music and Member of the School of Medicine and Health at the University of Durham.[1] From 2002 to 2008, he was Principal of John Snow College, Durham. From 2008 to 2019, he was Principal of Trevelyan College, Durham.
Career[]
Professor Evans started his career at the University of Wales, Swansea, where he became Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Philosophy and Healthcare.[2] He has a doctorate in the Philosophy of Music.[3]
He joined Durham in 2002 where he became the first Principal of John Snow College, in 2008 he became Principal of Trevelyan College. His current academic positions include being the Co-Director Centre for Medical Humanities at the School of Medicine and Health as well as the Centre for the Medical Humanities and a Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute.[1]
He had been a visiting fellow at the University of Sydney. He is currently a visiting Professor at the University of Otago and joint editor of the . He is an Honorary Fellow of Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and the Royal College of Physicians. He sits on the Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Strategy Committee and RCGP Ethics Committee.[1]
He has authored or co-authored 30 scientific/philosophical papers.[1]
He has a wife and two sons.[1]
Bibliography[]
- Symptom: Medical Humanities Companion Volume One", Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing, 2008 (co-editor/co-author)
- Diagnosis: Medical Humanities Companion Volume Two", Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing, 2010 (co-editor/co-author)
- A Decent Proposal: Ethical Review of Clinical Research, Chicester: John Wiley & Sons, 1996 (co-author)
- Listening to Music, London: Macmillan, 1990 (sole author)
- Philosophy for Medicine: applications in a clinical context, Oxford: Radcliffe Medical Press, 2004(co-editor)
- Medical Humanities. “Philosophy and the medical humanities”, London: BMJ Books, 2001 (co-editor)
- Critical Reflections on Medical Ethics, Connecticut USA: JAI Publishers, 1998 (editor)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f http://www.dur.ac.uk/school.health/staff/?username=dhs0hme[full citation needed]
- ^ Evans, M (2001). "Medical Humanities at the University of Wales Swansea". Medical Humanities. 27 (1): 51–52. doi:10.1136/mh.27.1.51. PMID 16381099.
- ^ Evans, Martyn (2018). "Roles for literature in medical education". Advances in Psychiatric Treatment. 9 (5): 380–385. doi:10.1192/apt.9.5.380.
- Principals of Trevelyan College
- Living people
- Academics of Durham University
- Academics of Swansea University
- Welsh philosophers
- 20th-century British philosophers
- 21st-century British philosophers