Hatton-WYNG Junior Research Fellow in Law, Medicine and Life Sciences
Dr Ira Chadha-Sridhar works primarily in the fields of moral, political, and legal philosophy at the University of Cambridge. As the Hatton-WYNG Junior Research Fellow in Law, Medicine and Life Sciences at Hughes Hall, Ira’s research project focusses on the ‘ethics of care’ and its intersection with doctrinal questions in medical law. The ethics of care – a moral theory with feminist origins that emerged in the early 1980s – emphasizes that caring actions are morally valuable. Given that the actions performed in medical contexts are predominantly caring actions, care ethics emerges as a highly relevant philosophical framework for examining medical law. During the tenure of her Fellowship with Hughes Hall and the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences at Cambridge, Ira is working on her monograph wherein she will develop a conceptual account of care – encompassing a descriptive theory of caring actions and a care-evaluation framework. This framework aims to make substantial contributions to ongoing discussions in doctrinal medical law and public health policy.
Ira holds a PhD and an LLM from the University of Cambridge, and a BA.LLB (Hons) from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata, India.
