Thomas Faunce
Thomas Faunce, Phillipa Weekes Staff Library, ANU College of Law, 2015
Personal details
Born
Thomas Alured Faunce

(1958-08-08)8 August 1958
Canberra, Australia
Died7 July 2019(2019-07-07) (aged 60)
Canberra, Australia
SpouseRose Faunce (née Passos)
ChildrenOne son, Blake Faunce
Alma materThe Australian National University
OccupationAcademic, Doctor and Lawyer

Thomas Faunce (Thomas Alured Faunce) (1958–2019) was a professor at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia. He practiced both law and medicine, and his professorship was a joint one, being in both the ANU College of Law and Medical School. His research spanned across health law, bioethics, the regulatory governance of pharmaceutical industry and artificial photosynthesis in addressing environment sustainability issues. He was awarded research funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for several Discovery Projects, and in 2009 was awarded a Future Fellowship to study nanotechnology and global public health.[1] [2][3][4]

Early life and education

Born in Canberra, ACT, the eldest child of Marcus Faunce (1922–2004) and Marjorie Morison (1927–1995). Descendant of Alured Tasker Faunce (1808–1856) of Clifton, near Bristol, England, senior captain of the 4th (King's Own) Regiment who arrived in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1832, and was appointed the first salaried police magistrate in Queanbeyan, NSW, in 1837.

Thomas Faunce was educated at Canberra Grammar School, graduating in 1976, achieving first place in the New South Wales Higher School Certificate in Ancient History and English.[5] He undertook a double Bachelor of Arts and Law (honours) at the Australian National University, graduating in 1982.[6] While an undergraduate, he won prizes for contracts and air and space law, and was part of the Australian National University team that won the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington, D.C., on 25 April, 1981.[7] Faunce graduated from medicine at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1993. Faunce was conferred a Doctor of Philosophy by the Australian National University in 2001. His doctoral thesis, which reconceptualises the doctor-patient relationship, was awarded the J.G. Crawford Prize,[8] and was developed into a book.[9]

Career

In 1983, Faunce was legal associate to Justice Lionel Murphy of the High Court of Australia, the year when the court was involved in significant decisions about Australian constitutional power in the case Commonwealth v Tasmania about the Franklin River dam, and the Australian constitutional meaning of religion in the appeal Church of the New Faith v. Commissioner of Pay-roll Tax.[10] He practiced as a solicitor in commercial law for a few years then returned to university to study medicine. In 1993, he undertook graduate training in Emergency Medicine at Wagga Wagga Base Hospital, then enrolled in specialty training in Intensive Care, working as a registrar at the Canberra Hospital and at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne.[11] He published a popular study guide on anaesthetics and intensive care.[12]

In 2002, Faunce accepted a dual appointment at the Australian National University in the College of Law and Medical School. Faunce served on the editorial board of the Journal of Medical Humanities (UK) and the Journal of Law and Medicine (Australia).

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ Fearon, Thomas (11 July 2019). "Remembering Professor Thomas Faunce, beloved teacher and bold bioethicist". ANU College of Law. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  2. ^ Jacobs, Genevieve (11 July 2019). "Tom Faunce represented "all the very best qualities of our great university"". The RiotACT. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  3. ^ Obituaries: Faunce, Thomas Alured (1958–2019), Journal of Law and Medicine, Volume 26, Part 4, pp. 949–950
  4. ^ Obituary: Thomas Faunce (1958–2019), Canberra Times on Jul. 17, 2019
  5. ^ "Canberra Times", 11 January 1976, p. 1.
  6. ^ Thomas Faunce, "Procedures for the creation of social consensus in the United Nations general assembly and its political organs: an alternative to the rule of law", Australian National University Honours thesis, 1982.
  7. ^ The members of the team were Vivienne Bath, Andrew Byrnes, Christopher Erskine, Thomas Faunce. 'ANU Team Wins Mooting Competition', The Canberra Times, 27 April 1981, p. 3.
  8. ^ The J. G. Crawford Award recognises the highest level of academic excellence across all disciplines at ANU. Named in honour of Australian economist Sir John Crawford (1910–1984). https://www.anu.edu.au/students/program-administration/prizes/j-g-crawford-prize
  9. ^ Published as a monograph, Pilgrims in Medicine: Conscience, Legalism and Human Rights. An Allegory of Medical Humanities, Foundational Virtues, Ethical Principles, Law and Human Rights in Medical Personal and Professional Development, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2004. https://brill.com/view/title/11049
  10. ^ Church of the New Faith v Commissioner of Pay-roll Tax (Victoria) [1983] HCA 40, (1983) 154 CLR 120 (27 October 1983), High Court.
  11. ^ James J. Fox., ed. (2021) Life Celebrations: ANU Obituaries 2000-2021, p. 137.
  12. ^ "The Australian and New Zealand intensive care and anaesthesia primary exam : a complete annotated syllabus, including references to Australian military medical history, canonical literature and numerous mnemonics", Canberra, 2000.
  13. ^ Leeder, S. R. (2008). "Who owns our health? Medical professionalism, law and leadership beyond the age of the market state", Medical Journal of Australia, 188 (12), 697.
  14. ^ Legge, D. (2009). "Who Owns Our health? Medical Professionalism, Law and Leadership Beyond the Age of the Market State. Australian and New Zealand", Journal of Public Health, 33 (3), 296–297.
  15. ^ Anderson, G. F. (2007). "Who Owns Our Health? Medical Professionalism, Law and Leadership Beyond the Age of the Market State", Journal of the American Medical Association, 298 (24), pp. 2914–2920.
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