Richard B. Gibson

Richard B. Gibson is a Lecturer in Law at Aston University, Birmingham, and a News Analyst for The Prindle Post. He received his PhD in Bioethics and Medical Jurisprudence from the University of Manchester, where he also taught in the Department of Law, and later held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Bioethics & Health Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch. His research examines socially disruptive technologies, with publications on topics ranging from social conscription and violent video games to neuroprosthetics, moral bioenhancement, and gene drives. His current work centres on the ethics of death, focusing in particular on assisted dying and the practice of cryonics.