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Professor Ben Mepham Ben Mepham is Special Professor in Applied Bioethics. A graduate of University College London, he was formerly Reader in Physiology in the University, specialising in research on the physiology and biochemistry of lactation. Among his many publications in that field are the books: 'Secretion of Milk' (1976), Edward Arnold, London; 'Biochemistry of Lactation' (1983), Elsevier, Amsterdam (editor); and 'Physiology of Lactation' (1987), J Wiley, Chichester.Since 1993 he has directed the research and teaching programmes (see Applied Bioethics modules) of the Centre for Applied Bioethics, which apparently remains the only UK university centre with a specific focus on agricultural and food bioethics. Apart from university activities he has (held) membership of: 
The Food Ethics Council (Executive Director
1998-2003) UK
Government's Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission (AEBC)
(2000-2003) Board
of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics: EURSAFE (1996- European
Association for Animal Production 'Agriculture after BSE' working party
(2001-2003) European
Commission Animal Health and Welfare Committee of enquiry into the use
of bovine somatotrophin in dairying (1998-2000) Society
for Applied Philosophy (1997- ) UK
branch of the International Forum on Genetic Engineering (IfGene) (1996-
) Animal
Welfare Science, Ethics and Law Veterinary Association (1998- ) Editorial
Board of Agriculture and Human Values (1995- ) Editorial
Board of the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics (2000- ) Editorial
Board of International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food
Ethics (2000- )His publications in this field include: 'Food Ethics' (1996) Routledge, London (editor); 'Issues in Agricultural Bioethics' (1995) Nottingham University Press (co-editor); 'Agricultural Ethics' in the Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics' (1997) and 'Novel Foods' in the 'Concise Encyclopedia of the Ethics of New Technologies': both edited by R C Chadwick and published by Academic Press, San Diego. He has just completed a bioethics textbook 'Bioethics: an introduction for the Biosciences' commissioned by Oxford University Press (to be published February 2005). He has appeared on several radio and television programmes and played a major role in a documentary on xenotransplantation in the Jury (Central, 1996).
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