Christoph Rehmann-Sutter

Christoph Rehmann-Sutter

Christoph Rehmann-Sutter (born February 26, 1959 ) is a philosopher and bioethicist . He teaches the theory and ethics of life sciences at the Institute for Medical History and Science Research (IMGWF) at the University of Lübeck .

Career

Christoph Rehmann-Sutter grew up as the son of the sculptor Erwin Rehmann and the teacher Margrit Rehmann (-Hüsser) in Laufenburg / Switzerland. School education in Laufenburg and Aarau. He studied molecular biology ( diploma ) until 1984 at the University of Basel and a second degree in philosophy and sociology ( licentiate in 1988) at the universities of Basel and Freiburg i. Brsg.

He completed his doctorate in 1995 at the Technical University of Darmstadt under Gernot Böhme on the subject of “Describing life. About contexts of action in biology ”. During this time he was a research assistant for natural philosophy and bioethics in Werner Arber's research group at the University of Basel. In 1996 he founded the Ethics Unit in the Biosciences at the University of Basel. There he completed his habilitation in 2000 on the subject of “Living Self - Living Others. Ethics in Biomedical and Ecological Contexts ”.

While working on his habilitation thesis, he was a research fellow in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management (ESPM) at the University of California, Berkeley . In 2000 he was appointed assistant professor for ethics in the life sciences and biotechnology at the University of Basel. In 2001 he was elected President of the then newly established National Ethics Commission in the field of human medicine by the Swiss government. He held this office until 2009. In spring 2009 he started work as a professor of theory and ethics in the biosciences at the University of Lübeck .

He has previously held visiting professorships at the following institutions:

• Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences (PEALS) Research Center at the University of Newcastle (2008)

• London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2009-2011)

• Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College London (since 2012)

Rehmann-Sutter is married to the theologian Luzia Sutter Rehmann .

Research focus

• Development of hermeneutical-philosophical approaches to ethics, interdisciplinary and multi-perspective bioethics with the inclusion of qualitative social research
• Regulatory issues in medicine and biotechnologies
• Phenomenological approaches to the concept of life
• Climate ethics and techno-ecological risks
• Research ethics
• Genetics and genomics
• Reproductive Medicine and Stem Cell Research
• Gene therapy, genetic testing and genome analysis
• Decision-making processes at the end of life

Projects

• Democracy and technical-ecological risks (with Andres Klein, Hansjörg Seiler and Adrian Vatter; Human-Society-Environment Foundation, University of Basel 1994–1996)
• Genome and organism. Philosophical interpretation of developmental biology (with Eva Neumann-Held; Human-Society-Environment Foundation, University of Basel 1997–2000)
• Perceptions of Healing Needs: Somatic gene therapy, disability and identity (with Jackie Leach Scully; Swiss National Science Foundation 1998–2000)
• Time as a Contextual Element in Ethical Decision Making in the Field of Genetic Diagnostics (with Jackie Leach Scully and Rouven Porz; Swiss National Science Foundation 2002–2005)
• BIONET - Ethical Governance of Biological and Biomedical Research: Chinese-European Co-operation (Chairman of the European-Chinese Expert Group on the Ethical Governance of Research in the Life Sciences and Biomedicine; coordinated by Nikolas Rose, EU-FP 6 2006–2009)
• Ethical decisions about the fate of embryos: the views and approaches of couples undergoing IVF (with Jackie Leach Scully and Rouven Porz; Swiss National Science Foundation 2005–2008)
• Wishes at the end of life, especially dying wishes for palliative patients (with Heike Gudat, Kathrin Ohnsorge and Nina Streeck; funded by various foundations, including Oncosuisse and the Swiss National Fund 2006-2016)
• The best interests of the child in conflict. Stem cell transplants between siblings (with Christina Schües, Martina Jürgensen and Madeleine Herzog; Fritz Thyssen Foundation and German Federal Ministry of Education and Research 2011–2019)
• Determinants for guideline-congruent care of older cancer patients in statutory health insurance, philosophical project part (with Christina Schües and Frank Wörler, PI: Alexander Katalinic; Innovation Fund 2017–2020)
• Prenatal Genetics in Germany and Israel: Meanings and Practices (with Aviad Raz, Christina Schües, Yael Hashiloni-Dolev, Stefan Reinsch, Hannes Foth and Tamar Nov Klaiman; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 2017-2020)

Fonts (selection)

a) monographs

• Between the molecules. Contributions to the philosophy of genetics. Francke, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-7720-8114-2 .

• Describe life. About interrelationships in biology. Dissertation Darmstadt 1994. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1996, ISBN 3-8260-1189-9 .

• with Adrian Vatter and Hansjörg Seiler: Participatory risk policy. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen / Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-531-13222-9 .

b) Editorships

• What death means to us. Kadmos, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86599-396-0 .

• with Thorsten Moos and Christina Schües: Fringe zones of the will. Decision and consent in borderline medical situations. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-653-96868-2 .

• with Malte Dreier and Jeanette Erdmann: Genetic Transparency? Ethical and Social Implications of Next Generation Genomics and Genetic Medicine. Brill Rodopi, Amsterdam 2016, ISBN 978-90-04-30668-4 .

• with Heike Gudat and Kathrin Ohnsorge: The Patient's Wish to Die. Research, Ethics, and Palliative Care. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-871398-2 .

• with Christina Schües: Saving siblings. Ethical aspects of consent in pediatric stem cell transplantation. Mentis, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-95743-010-6 .

• with Miriam Eilers and Katrin Grüber: The Human Enhancement Debate and Disability. New Bodies for a Better Life. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2014, ISBN 978-1-137-40553-1 .

• with Miriam Eilers and Katrin Grüber: Improved bodies - good life? Bioethics, Enhancement and the Disability Studies. “Practical Philosophy Controversial” series. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-631-63065-5 .

• with Rouven Porz, Jackie Leach Scully and Markus Zimmermann-Acklin: Bought conscience? The role of bioethics in institutions. Mentis, Paderborn 2007, ISBN 978-3-89785-582-3 .

• with Marcus Düwell and Dietmar Mieth: Bioethics in Cultural Contexts. Reflections on Methods and Finitude. Springer, Dordrecht 2006, ISBN 1-4020-4241-8 .

• with Eva M. Neumann-Held: Genes in Development. Re-reading the molecular paradigm. Duke University Press, Durham 2006, ISBN 0-8223-3667-7 .

• with Hansjakob Müller: Ethics and gene therapy. 2nd Edition. Francke, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-89308-223-9 .

• with Michael Hauskeller and Gregor Schiemann: Knowledge of nature and being nature. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-518-28927-6 .

Web links

• Publications by and about Christoph Rehmann-Sutter in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Profile on the website of the IMGWF