Christiane Woopen

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Christiane Woopen (2015)

Christiane Woopen (born December 12, 1962 in Cologne ) is a German medical ethicist .

Since 2009 she has held the professorship for ethics and theory of medicine at the University of Cologne and has been managing director of the inter-faculty center ceres , which is supported by the rectorate and five of the six faculties of the university, since 2013 . She also heads the ethics research center of the medical faculty and is its vice dean for academic development and gender. From 2001 to 2008 she was a member of the National Ethics Council, the predecessor organization of the German Ethics Council. She was its member from 2008 to 2016, initially as Deputy Chair from 2008 to 2012, then as its Chair. In addition, she was President of the Global Summit of National Ethics / Bioethics Committees from 2014 to 2016 and has been Chair of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies, which advises the European Commission, since 2017 .

Life

Christiane Woopen studied medicine at the University of Cologne from 1982 to 1988 . From 1983 to 1988 she received a scholarship from the Bischöfliche Studienförderung Cusanuswerk eV. From 1990 to 1995 she studied philosophy in Bonn and Hagen . She received her doctorate in 1993 as Dr. med. at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. From 1989 Christiane Woopen worked for 18 months as an intern and until 1991 as an assistant doctor in the gynecological department of the Evangelical Hospital Weyertal in Cologne . From 1991 to 1994 she was a freelancer for the Cusanuswerk.

In 1992 Christiane Woopen worked on the project Genetic Deviation and the normative terms disease and disability within the framework of the EC program Analysis of the Human Genome . From 1993 to 1997 she worked on a study on the scientific and medical state of affairs in the field of human genetics as part of a DFG / BMBF project jointly carried out by universities on the naturalness of nature and the reasonableness of risks. In 1994 she became a research assistant at the Bonn Institute for Science and Ethics in the department for biomedical ethics of Ludger Honnefelder . From 1998 she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Cologne with Klaus Bergdolt , where she was given a teaching position for medical ethics in the courses of medicine and health economics. From 1998 to 2002 Woopen conducted a DFG-funded study on the subject of selection based on genetic diagnostics? Medical, ethical and legal aspects of pre-fertilization and pre-implantation diagnostics .

In 2005, she completed her habilitation at the University of Cologne, where she has held a professorship for ethics and theory of medicine at the medical faculty since 2009. There she is also director of the Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics and Social Sciences of Health . In 2007 she became a member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Foundation Mother and Child of the Federal Ministry for Families, Seniors, Women and Youth. Woopen has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) since 2009 . In 2010 she was appointed to the International Bioethics Committee (IBC) of UNESCO . Various periodicals have published biographical portraits of her.

In 2019 Christiane Woopen received the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her social commitment and was elected to the Academia Europaea .

Memberships

Christiane Woopen was a member of the working group of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Medical Association for Declaration on Abortion after Prenatal Diagnosis in 1997/1998 and a member of the Preimplantation Diagnosis working group from 1998 to 2001 . In 1998/1999 she was a member of the expert commission for scabies at the Diakonie Michaelshoven in Cologne and in 1998/1999 a member of the working group on abortions in the case of an expected illness or disability of the child within the scope of the medical indication of the Central Committee of German Catholics. From 1999 to 2001 she was also a member of the scientific advisory board for the model project development of counseling criteria for counseling pregnant women with expected disabilities of the child at the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth . Since 1999 she has been a member of the ethical and medical-legal fundamental questions committee of the German Medical Association, and from 2000 to 2007 a member of the federal board of donum vitae . and from 2000 to 2005 member of the state board of women advising / Donum vitae e. V. NRW. Her appointment as a member of the National Ethics Council by decision of the Federal Cabinet took place in 2001; From 2012 to the end of 2016 she was the chairwoman of the successor body of the German Ethics Council . From 2002 to 2006 Christiane Woopen was also a member of the Working Group Guidelines for Assisted Reproduction of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Medical Association and, since 2002, a member of the ethical-legal-social-scientific steering group of the competence network Stem Cell Research NRW of the Ministry for Sport, Science and Research. In spring 2015 she was accepted into the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg. Woopen has been a member of the German Federal Government's data ethics commission since July 2018 .

Publications (selection)

  • To claim the medical-social indication for termination of pregnancy. Life, physical integrity and self-determination as conflicting rights. In: Gynecologist. 32 (1999), pp. 974-977.
  • Preimplantation Diagnostics and Selective Abortion. On the analogy of embryo selection in vitro and termination of pregnancy after prenatal diagnosis in the context of the medical indication of Section 218a (2) StGB from an ethical perspective. In: Journal of Medical Ethics. 45 (1999), pp. 233-244.
  • The genetic oracle - or what can humans reject from their design? In: Medical Genetics. 12, 3 (2000), pp. 359-364.
  • Knowledge - Selecting - Changing: Quo vadis, reproductive medicine? In: JW Dudenhausen, Schwinger, E. (Ed.): Reproductive medicine: possibilities and limits. A guide from the foundation for disabled children to promote preventive care and early detection. Medical publishing company Environment & Medicine, Frankfurt am Main 2000, pp. 21–32.
  • Indication and quality assurance as a guardian against ethical boundaries? Problems of medical action in pre-implantation diagnostics. In: Ludger Honnefelder , C. Streffer (Hrsg.): Yearbook for Science and Ethics. Volume 5, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2000, pp. 117-139.
  • Ethical issues in prenatal diagnosis. In: Practice of child psychology and child psychiatry. 50, 9/10, 2001, pp. 695-703.
  • Medical action as an object of ethics, quality management and health economics. In: K. Lauterbach , M. Schrappe (Ed.): Health economics, quality management and evidence based medicine. Schattauer, Stuttgart 2001, pp. 10-25.
  • Therapeutic and reproductive cloning - remarks from a medical-ethical and anthropological point of view. In: Journal for Medical Training and Quality Assurance. 96, 2002, pp. 455-458.
  • Reproduction between naturalness and artificiality. On the ethical and anthropological significance of individual initial conditions. In: Reproductive Medicine. 18 (5), 2002, pp. 233-240.
  • Selection based on genetic diagnostics? The ethics of goods based on the theory of action and their application using the example of pre-implantation diagnostics. In: L. Honnefelder, C. Streffer (Ed.): Yearbook for Science and Ethics. Volume 10, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, pp. 343–353.
  • with A. Rohde: Psychosocial counseling in the context of prenatal diagnostics. Evaluation of the model projects in Bonn, Düsseldorf and Essen. Deutscher Ärzteverlag, Cologne 2007.
  • Solidarity Health Care - What Do We Owe Each Other? In: D. Schäfer, A. Frewer, E. Schockenhoff , V. Wetzstein (eds.): Health concepts in change. History, Ethics and Society. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, pp. 189–199.
  • The doctor as a healer and manager. For the necessary integration of the seemingly incompatible. In: C. Katzenmeier, K. Bergdolt: The image of the doctor in the 21st century. Springer, Heidelberg 2009, pp. 181-194.
  • Ethical Aspects of Neuromodulation. In: Clement Hamani, Elena Moro (Eds.): Emerging Horizons in Neuromodulation. Vol 107, International Review Neurobiology, UK: Academic Press, 2012, pp. 315-332. doi: 10.1016 / B978-0-12-404706-8.00016-4
  • with L. Timmermann and J. Kuhn: An ethical framework for outcome assessment in psychiatric DBS. In: AJOB Neuroscience. 3 (2012) 1, pp. 50-55. doi: 10.1080 / 21507740.2011.635631
  • with AK Pauls, A. Koy, E. Moro and L. Timmermann: Early application of deep brain stimulation: Clinical and ethical issues. In: Progress in Neurobiology. (2013) Nov 110, pp. 74-88. doi: 10.1016 / j.pneurobio.2013.04.002 Epub 2013 Apr 27.
  • Weimar Speeches 2014: Emancipate Yourself! - The uneducated sick person. About the rule and mastery of medicine. (Audio)
  • The importance of quality of life from an ethical perspective. In: Z Evid Fortbild Qual Gesundh.wesen. (ZEFQ) 108 (2014), pp. 140-145. doi: 10.1016 / j.zefq.2014.03.002
  • Health literacy. In: D. Sturma , B. Heinrichs (Ed.): Handbuch Bioethik. JB Metzler, Stuttgart 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evidence with audio contributions on SWR2 on topics of the ethics council under SWR blog 1000 replies ('www.swr.de/blog/1000 Answeren/ Answer/author/christianewoopen).
  2. ↑ Interview on taking office as deputy chairwoman of the German Ethics Council in: Dtsch Arztebl 2008; 105 (39): A-2032 / B-1746 / C-1706.
  3. ^ Christiane Woopen from Cologne new chairwoman of the ethics council. on: nachrichten.rp-online.de , April 27, 2012.
  4. ↑ Professor for Ethics and Theory of Medicine, University of Cologne ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.privacyconference2018.org
  5. ↑ CV - German. Retrieved April 11, 2018 .
  6. ^ The European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE): MINUTES - First Meeting of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE) under its new mandate Brussels, 24-25 April 2017. European Commission, 25. April 2017, accessed April 18, 2018 .
  7. ↑ a b Commitment to ethics Christiane Woopen receives Federal Cross of Merit, First Class. In: Kölnische Rundschau. January 9, 2019, accessed January 9, 2019 .
  8. ^ Mittelstraß and Woopen in UNESCO committees - German UNESCO Commission. In: unesco.de. Archived from the original on October 27, 2011 ; Retrieved October 27, 2011 .
  9. ↑ Markus Feldenkirchen: VALUES on the threshold. In: Der Spiegel. 41/2012. October 8, 2012, accessed February 20, 2016 .
  10. ↑ A woman for final questions. In: FOCUS-Online October 8, 2012. Accessed February 20, 2016 .
  11. ^ Heike Schmoll: Christiane Woopen Sturmerprobte Katholikin. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. September 26, 2014, accessed February 20, 2016 .
  12. ↑ The Conscience of the Nation - Christ and the World. www.christundwelt.de, August 30, 2012, accessed on February 20, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Data Ethics Commission. Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs, July 18, 2018, accessed on September 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Woopen, Christiane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne