Edward Shotter, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Edward Shotter

British Anglican Dean

Date of Birth: 29-Jun-1933

Date of Death: 03-Jul-2019

Profession: priest

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Edward Shotter

  • Edward Frank Shotter (29 June 1933 – 3 July 2019) was an Anglican priest and author.Shotter was educated at Humberstone Foundation School and Durham University and ordained in 1961.
  • He began his ordained ministry as a curate at St Peter's Plymouth, after which he was intercollegiate secretary of the Student Christian Movement (SCM).
  • From 1966 to 1989 he was Director of Studies at the London Medical Group when he was appointed Dean of Rochester, a post he held until retirement in 2003.Shotter is most notable for founding the London Medical Group in the mid-1960s.
  • This was a forum for the discussion of the ethical issues of medicine and grew out of his work with the Student Christian Movement, the Diocese of London and the London Medical Deaneries.
  • This group was widely exported to other UK medical schools.
  • The group, its activities and members presaged the Society for the Study of Medical Ethics, later the Institute of Medical Ethics, which set up the Journal of Medical Ethics.
  • Shotter continues to be involved with the IME.
  • Despite being involved with the LMG and its descendant organisations for over four decades he never lectured on the any particular medical ethical topic.
  • He only ever chaired two meetings of the LMG, once because of the last-minute cancellation of the arranged chair.
  • Ensuring that LMG was not seen as a 'chaplaincy exercise' was important to its success; Shotter ensured its impartiality and an even-handed representation all parties in debates.On 9 December 2016 Shotter was presented with the Hastings Center’s Henry Knowles Beecher Award for 2017.He died on 3 July 2019, four days after his 86th birthday.

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