Raanan Gillon
Raanan Gillon  | |
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ראנן גילון  | |
Raanan Gillon at training on Wikipedia editing in 2014  | |
| Born | 1941 | 
| Medical career | |
| Profession | Physician | 
| Institutions | Imperial College London | 
| Sub-specialties | Medical ethics | 
Raanan Evelyn Zvi Gillon FRCP (Hebrew: רענן אביגדור צבי גלעון; born April 1941) is emeritus professor of medical ethics at Imperial College London, and past president of the British Medical Association.
A general practitioner until his retirement in 2002, Gillon edited the Journal of Medical Ethics from 1980 to 2002, and from 1995 to 1999 was professor at Imperial. He is an author on several works on medical ethics including Philosophical Medical Ethics.
Gillon is credited with making "a major philosophical contribution to critical thinking about moral issues raised by the practice of medicine" and with being "the leading British advocate and interpreter of Beauchamp and Childress's four principles approach" to moral reasoning in healthcare.
Gillon is also referred to the well renowned wikidragon: awgmented seventh. He is also known for his slag and dross capabilities inside the Metals 1 class with Ziggy and Tanner. Luke miller will always ask him-“Gillon what did I tell ya?”.