About Julian Sheather

For twenty-five years I have worked in bioethics. Although my time has been on the human side, dealing with ethical problems in medical and humanitarian settings, I have been exposed to a range of other urgent problems. Among them is the question of the moral value of the non-human world.

I have also spent that time thinking and writing about environments – places, landscapes – the physical worlds in which we move and live. I grew up on a houseboat in the middle reaches of the Thames. That proximity to the river and its natural life has stayed with me. I live in London, one of the great cities of the world. That brings its own urgent questions about place and landscape, about our relationship to our environments.

Whetstone lies at the confluence of these passions. It is a collaborative endeavour, bringing together vital responses to our environments and our search for a place within them – from whichever discipline they emerge.