Dr. Emily Postan

Biography

Emily Postan is a Senior Lecturer and Chancellor's Fellow at the Edinburgh Law School focusing on bioethics. She serves as the Deputy Director of the Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences, and Law, leading the Institute's policy engagement portfolio. Her interdisciplinary background in philosophy informs her research, which critically interrogates the roles played by biomedical technologies and health informatics in shaping personal identities and ethical implications. Her wider research interests include data ethics, AI ethics, neuroethics, genomic and reproductive ethics, and health research regulation. Postan was previously a Senior Research Fellow on a Wellcome-funded project aimed at health research regulation and has contributed to the Scottish Feminist Judgments Project. She delivered a Rising Star lecture in 2018 for the Nuffield Council on Bioethics related to novel neurotechnologies. She holds a doctorate from the University of Edinburgh, along with philosophy degrees from the University of Edinburgh and the University of Stirling, and an LLM from the University of Edinburgh. Her monograph, 'Embodied Narratives: Protecting Identity Interests in Ethical Governance of Bioinformation,' was published by Cambridge University Press in July 2022. Currently, she is involved in a project titled 'Identity Algorithm: Ethical Impacts of Categorization in Health AI.'

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