FMedSci., Member, Academia Europaea., FRSA.,  B.A., D.Phil., Hon. D.Litt. is Professor Emeritus,  University of Manchester and Visiting Professor in Bioethics, King’s College London.
His books Include: The Value of Life, Routledge, London, 1985.  On Cloning,  Routledge, London, 2004. Enhancing Evolution, Princeton University Press 2007 and How to be Good, Oxford University Press, 2016.  John Harris studied at the University of Kent and at Balliol College, Oxford.
Recently, perhaps the most famous figure in contemporary philosophy, the Editor of the influential Review of Applied Ethics, Isabel Dalhousie, in a rare appraisal of a living philosopher characterized  Harris as “a kind man and a very subtle philosopher”.