Dunstan, G(ordon) R(eginald)

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DUNSTAN, G(ordon) R(eginald)

DUNSTAN, G(ordon) R(eginald). British, b. 1917. Genres: Biography, Theology/Religion, Medicine/Health. Career: Ordained priest of Church of England, 1942, Chaplain to the Queen, 1976-87. Curate of Churches of England in Halifax, 1942-45, and Huddersfield, England, 1945-46; St. Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, England, sub-warden, 1946-49; vicar of Sutton Courtney with Appleford, England, 1949-55; minor canon of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England, 1955-59, and at Westminster Abbey, 1959-67; University of London, England, fellow of King's College and F.D. Maurice Professor of Moral and Social Theology, 1967-82, professor emeritus, 1982-. Canon theologian of Leicester Cathedral, 1966-82. Lecturer at William Temple College, 1947-49, and Ripon Hall, Oxford, 1953-55; Prideaux Lecturer at University of Exeter, 1968; Gresham's Professor in Divinity at City University, 1969-71; Moorhouse Lecturer at University of Melbourne, 1973; Stephenson Lecturer at University of Sheffield, 1980; honorary research fellow of University of Exeter, 1982-. Deputy priest in ordinary to The Queen, 1959-64, priest in ordinary, 1964-76; select preacher at Cambridge University, 1960, and University of Leeds, 1970; Hulsean Preacher, 1977. Publications: The Sacred Ministry, 1970; The Artifice of Ethics, 1974; A Moralist in the City, 1974; The Status of the Human Embryo: Perspectives from Moral Tradition, 1988. EDITOR: The Episcopal Register of Edmund Lacy, Bishop of Exeter, 1420-1455, 5 vols., 1963-72; Duty and Discernment, 1975; (with A.S. Duncan and R.B. Welbourn) Dictionary of Medical Ethics, 1977, rev. ed., 1983; (with M.J. Seller) Consent in Medicine, 1983; (with E.A. Shinebourne) Doctors' Decisions: Ethical Conflicts in Medical Practice, 1989; The Human Embryo: Aristotle and the Arabic and European Traditions, 1990; (with P.J. Lachmann) Death, Dying, and the Medical Duty, 1996. Address: 208 Kingsgate, Pennsylvania Rd, Exeter EX4 6DH, England.