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Alexander (R.A.A.) "Sandy" McCall Smith,
CBE,
FRSE, (born
August 24 1948) is a
Rhodesian-born
British writer and
Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the
University of Edinburgh,
Scotland. In the late 20th century McCall Smith became a respected expert on medical law and
bioethics and served on British and international committees concerned with these issues. He has since become internationally known as a writer of fiction, most widely known as the creator of the
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series.
Biography
Born in
Bulawayo,
Rhodesia, Alexander McCall Smith was educated at
CBC Bulawayo before moving to Scotland to study law at the
University of Edinburgh. After returning to southern
Africa to teach law at the
University of Botswana, he returned once more to
Edinburgh, where he lives today with his wife, Elizabeth (an Edinburgh doctor), and their two daughters Lucy and Emily. He was sometime Professor of Medical Law at the
University of Edinburgh and is now
Emeritus Professor at its School of Law. He retains a further involvement with the University of Edinburgh in relation to the
James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
He is the former chairman of the
British Medical Journal Ethics Committee (until 2002), the former vice-chairman of the
Human Genetics Commission of the
United Kingdom, and a former member of the
International Bioethics Commission of
UNESCO. Due to his late success as a writer these other commitments couldn't be continued.
He is an amateur
bassoonist, and co-founder of
The Really Terrible Orchestra
. He is also the author of a testimonial in
The Future of the NHS (
2006) (ISBN 1-85811-369-5) edited by Dr
Michelle Tempest.
He was appointed a CBE in the December 2006
New Year's Honours List. In June 2007 he was awarded the
Honorary Degree of
Doctor of Laws at a ceremony celebrating the tercentenary of
Edinburgh University's School of Law.
Bibliography
Professor Dr. von Igelfeld Entertainments Series
2003 Portuguese Irregular Verbs
2003 The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs
2003 At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances
also known as Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries
2004 The Sunday Philosophy Club
2005 Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
2006 The Right Attitude to Rain
2007 The Careful Use of Compliments
44 Scotland Street Series
2005 44 Scotland Street
2005 Espresso Tales
2006 Love over Scotland
2007 The World According to Bertie
2008 The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
Short story collections
1991 Children of Wax: African Folk Tales
1995 Heavenly Date: And Other Flirtations
2004 The Girl Who Married a Lion: And Other Tales from Africa
Children's books
1984 The Perfect Hamburger
1988 Alix and the Tigers
1990 The Tin Dog
1991 Calculator Annie
1991 The Popcorn Pirates
1992 Akimbo and the lions
1992 The Doughnut Ring
1993 Akimbo and the Crocodile man
1994 Paddy and the Ratcatcher
1995 The Muscle Machine
1996 The Bubblegum Tree
1997 Bursting Balloons Mystery
1997 The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean
1999 Chocolate Money Mystery
2000 Teacher Trouble
2005 Akimbo and the elephants
2006 Dream Angus
2006 Akimbo and the snakes
2008 Akimbo and the baboons
Academic texts
1978 Power and Manoeuvrability (with Tony Carty)
1983 Law and Medical Ethics (with J Kenyon Mason) (this text has gone through several editions: a seventh, by Mason and Graeme Laurie, was published in 2006. McCall Smith contributed to all six previous editions.)
1987 Butterworths Medico-Legal Encyclopaedia (with J Kenyon Mason)
1990 Family Rights: Family Law and Medical Advances (with Elaine Sutherland)
1992 The Criminal Law of Botswana (with Kwame Frimpong)
1993 The Duty to Rescue (with Michael Menlowe, 1993)
1992 Scots Criminal Law (with David H Sheldon, second edition published 1997)
1997 Forensic Aspects of Sleep (with Colin Shapiro)
2000 Justice and the Prosecution of Old Crimes (with Daniel W Shuman)
2001 Errors, Medicine and the Law (with Alan Merry)
2003 A Draft Criminal Code for Scotland (with Eric Clive, Pamela Ferguson and Christopher Gane)
2004 Creating Humans: Ethical questions where reproduction and science collide (collected lectures, audio recordings)Further Information
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