Автор: Max Charlesworth

A former Professor of Philosophy and Foundation Dean of the School of Humanities at Deakin University, Max Charlesworth AO”s interest in bioethics extended over many years. He was a member of various government committees including the National Bioethics Consultative Committee, the Australian Health Ethics Committee and the Victorian Standing Review Committee on Infertility. Max Charlesworth was also a member of the Monash University Centre for Human Bioethics and of the editorial committee of the international journal Bioethics. His well known publication, Bioethics in a Liberal Society (1993), has been translated into German, Italian and Spanish. He has also authored many books on religion and philosophy, including The Problem of Religious Language, The Golden Bough and After: One Hundred Years of the Scientific Study of Religion. His book Religion in Aboriginal Australia was published by UQP in 1984 and Philosophy for Beginners, first published in 2007, has been translated into French and Korean.