Dr Agneta Sutton
Email: a.sutton@heythrop.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 775 4263
Bibliography
Agneta has a Fil. kand., from Lund University (1966: Philosophy and Mathematics); a M.Sc.(Econ) from University of London (LSE, 1968: History of Political Thought); a M.Phil., from University of London (Birkbeck College, 1982: Philosophy); a PhD, University of London (King’s College, 2001). Her doctoral thesis was a critical study comparing the sexual ethics and methodology of John Paul II and Karl Barth.
Agneta is a Visiting Lecturer at Heythrop College since 2003. She is married to Michael Sutton. They have four adult children. Raising a family and moving from England to Belgium and back she taught at Swedish Schools in London and Brussels in the 1970s. From 1986-1994 she worked at the Linacre Centre for Health Care Ethics, London. Then from 1944-2003 she worked at the Centre for Bioethics and Public Policy, London. Taking up university employment, she worked from September 2000 to December 2003 as Associate Lecturer in the Department of Theology at University College Chichester, now University of Chichester. From December 2003 to August 2008 she was Senior Lecturer at the University of Chichester in the Department of Theology. In the winter term of 1999 and the autumn term of 2004 she worked temporarily in the Department of Theology at King’s College, London University.
Formerly Chairman of the Ethics and Medicine Trust (1997-2000) Agneta is Associate Editor of Ethics and Medicine (peer-reviewed international journal) since June 2001. From October 1997 to September 2002 she was Treasurer of the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME). Agneta is a member of the Catholic Guild of Writers, Catholic Theological Association, the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics and the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics.
Current Teaching
Agneta teaches two 3rd year undergraduate half modules: ‘Interpersonal and Sexual Ethics and Bioethics. She also teaches one MA module: Sexual Ethics and Medical Ethics.
Publications
Books:
Christian Bioethics; A Guide for the Perplexed, London and New York: T&T Clark, 2008.
Commitment and Responsibility in Nursing: A Faith-Based Approach, ed Bart Cusveller, Agneta Sutton and Donal O’Mathuna, Iowa, USA: Dort College Press, 2004.
Man-Made Man: Ethical and Legal Issues in Genetics, ed. Peter Doherty and Agneta Sutton, Dublin: Open Air, 1997.
Infertility and Medically Assisted Conception, London: Catholic Bishops’ Bio-ethics Committee, 1994.
Prenatal Diagnosis: Confronting the Ethical Issues, London: The Linacre Centre, 1990.
Infertility, London: CTS, London, 2003.
Prenatal Diagnosis, London: CTS, 2002.
Recent articles:
‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’, Catholic Medical Quarterly, 2009, Vol. LVIII, No. 2.
‘Is Ireland heading Down the Slippery Slope?’, Catholic Medical Quarterly, ,2008, Vol. LVIII, No. 3, 20-25.
‘The Embryology Bill: What is at Stake?’, Thinking Faith (e-journal), 29, April, 2008.
‘Do Human-Animal Hybrids and Chimeras Mean the Abolition of Man?’, Medicina e Morale, 2007, Vol. 2, 329-344.
‘Hybrids and Chimeras: Partly Human & Partly Animal’, Catholic Medical Quarterly, 2007, Vol. LVII, No. 1, 5-12.
‘”No” to Embryonic Stem-cell Research’, Southern Medical Journal, 2006, Vol. 99, Issue 12, 1442-1444.
‘”Yes” to Adult Stem-cell Research’, Southern Medical Journal, 2006, Vol. 99, Issue 12, 144-1446.
The Complementarity and Symbolism of the Two Sexes: Karl Barth, Hans Urs von Balthasar and John Paul II’, New Blackfriars, 2006, Vol. 87, No. 1010, 418-433.
‘Abraham and Mary: Kierkegaard’s Model of Faith compared with That of John Paul II’, One in Christ, 2006, Vol. 41, No. 1, 77-84..
‘Care of the Elderly’, Catholic Medical Quarterly, 2005, Vol. LV, No 3 (309), 11-17.
‘Saviour Siblings’, Medicine e Morale, 2004, Vol. 6, 1179-1188.
‘Recent Developments in Stem cell Research in the UK: Facts and Moral Assessment’, Catholic Medical Quarterly, 2004, Vol. LIV, No.4, 19-25.
‘Therapeutic Babies and Savior Siblings’, bmj.com, 1 Aug 2004.
‘Cloning Conference: A Report’, Catholic Medical Quarterly, 2004, Vol. LIV, No.1, 15-18.
‘The Symbolism of Marriage and of the Parent-child Relationship; a Comparison between Karl Barth and John Paul II’, New Blackfriars, 2003, Vol. 84, No. 984, 64-79.
‘Revisiting Reproductive Technology’s Slippery Slope in the Light of the Concepts of Imago Dei, Co-creation and Stewardship’, Ethics and Medicine, 2002, Vol. 18:3, 145-154.
Papers in Books
‘Facing the Sexual Revolution: John Paul II’s Language of the Body’,in ed., William Oddie, John Paul the Great: Maker of the Post-Conciliar Church, London: CTS & The Catholic Herald, 2003.
‘Prenatal Diagnosis: Fears and Expectations’, in ed., Antonio G Spagnolo & Gabriella Gambino, Women’s Health Issues, Rome: Società Editrice Universo, 2003.
'Predictive Genetic Testing: Confidentiality and Disclosure of Information' in Individual Wellbeing and Common Wellbeing, (Proceedings of Conference organised by the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics in Coimbra 1997), Coimbra: Centro de Estudos do Bioethica, 1997.
'Social Aspects of Infertility', in ed.In Vitro Fertilisation in the 1990s: Towards a Medical, Social and Ethical Evaluation, ed., Elisabeth Hildt and Dietmar Mieth, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998.
Research Interests
Agenta’s main areas of research are bioethics and sexual ethics.