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10/09/2006: ""

Hello. I'm Colin Gavaghan, and this is my wee acre of cyber-turf.

Since 1998, I've been a lecturer in medical law and ethics at the School of Law, University of Glasgow. In 2005, I graduated with a PhD looking at the law and ethics of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis. Early in 2007, I published my first book, based largely on the arguments in the thesis; details on right of this page.

Apart from the teaching aspect (and the universally loathed marking) I write a bit and give the odd non-Uni talk. Sometimes very odd indeed.

I grew up and was 'educated' in deepest, darkest Ayrshire. The most interesting snippet about those days? My secondary school is sinking by a few millimetres every year, thereby confirming my lingering suspicion that I did indeed go to school over a Hellmouth.

As well as medical law/bioethics, I am also enthusiastic about a whole load of stuff, in no particular order: politics, food, football, wine, music, history, Football Manager, the former Yugoslavia, anarchism, artificial intelligence, CivIII, films, and science fiction. It is not unlikely that some of these will feature at some point in my Blog.

This web-page has very generously and adroitly been put together for me by my old mate Mr Lusiphur. Although the content is entirely mine, he can take a degree of responsibility for helping shape my views over (literally, and terrifyingly) decades of late-night discussions and (literally, and equally terrifyingly) gallons and gallons of coffee and wine. Respect, mate!