- Christoph Rehmann-Sutter
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Christoph Rehmann-Sutter (*1959 in Laufenburg) is a Swiss Bioethicist and has been the president of the Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics for many years. He is professor for Theory and Ethics in the Biosciences at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Science Studies at the University of Lübeck in Germany.
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Academic Degrees
- 2009 Professor of Theory and Ethics in the Biosciences, University of Lübeck
- 2007 Professor of Philosophy, University of Basel (Titularprofessur)
- 2000 Assistant Professor of Bioethics, University of Basel
- 2000 Habilitation (venia docendi) in philosophy at University of Basel (title of PD = Privatdozent of philosophy)
- 1995 Doctor philosophiae (PhD); Technical University, Darmstadt/Germany
- 1988 Lizentiat in Philosophy and Sociology, University of Basel/Switzerland
- 1984 Diploma in Biology, University of Basel / Switzerland
Professional career
He started out as a student for Molecular Biology with a Diploma from the Biocenter at the University of Basel, and then a second full training with in Philosophy and Sociology at the Universities of Basel and Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany).
His Doctoral dissertation in Philosophy at the Technical University of Darmstadt (supervisor Prof. Gernot Böhme) was finished in 1995. In the years from 1995 - 2000 he worked on methodology and bioethics for his Habilitation in Philosophy at the University of Basel.
Since 1996 he established and directed the Unit for Ethics in the Biosciences in Basel, in collaboration with Dr. Jackie Leach Scully, which hosted a research group and a series of funded projects.
From 1997 to 1998 he was a research fellow in the Departments of Environmental Science, Policy and Management (ESPM) at the University of California, Berkely.
1999 - 2002 he was President of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Ethics.
From the years 2001 until 2009 he was Chair of the Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics, which is elected by the Swiss Government, advising parliament and government in matters of bioethics.
In 2008 he was a visiting Professor at the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences (PEALS) Research Centre, Newcastle University, and since 2008 also a visiting Professor at the London School of Economics (LSE).
His work in Lübeck started in spring 2009 and he is the Chair of Theory and Ethics in the Biosciences since then.
Research interests
- Hermeneutic philosophical approaches to ethics, interdisciplinary and pluriperspective bioethics, with qualitative social research and cultural approaches
- Transnational bioethics
- Governance in medicine and biotechnologies, ethics committees
- Techno-ecological risks
- Biomedical research ethics
- Genetics and genomics
- Reproductive medicine and stem cell research
- Decision-making at the end of life
External links
Categories:- 1959 births
- Living people
- Swiss academics
- Bioethicists
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