(Online publication January 11 2011)
Sheelagh McGuinness, L.L.B., Ph.D., is a lecturer at the Centre for Professional Ethics at Keele University, United Kingdom. Her principal research interests are in the legal and ethical issues raised by reproductive technologies, embryos, conscientious objection, organ donation, transgender medicine, the relationship between ethical and legal normativity, and the relationship between legal and philosophical concepts in practice.