Claudia Wiesemann

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Claudia Wiesemann (* 1958 in Herford ) is a German doctor, medical ethicist, medical historian and university professor. She is a full professor (C4) for medical ethics and medical history at the University of Göttingen and director of the department of ethics and history of medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen .

Career

Claudia Wiesemann studied medicine, philosophy, modern history and medical history at the University of Münster and received her doctorate in medical history in 1990 with a thesis on therapeutic nihilism in the 19th century. In 1995 she completed her habilitation at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with a thesis on the history of the term addiction for the history and ethics of medicine. In 1998 she accepted a call to the C4 professorship for medical ethics and medical history at the University of Göttingen . From 1985 to 1988 she gained practical experience in medicine as a doctor in cardiology, pulmonology and intensive care medicine at the Bad Oeynhausen Municipal Hospital .

From 2002 to 2012 Wiesemann was President of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine (AEM), the German scientific society for medical ethics. She is also a member of the Central Ethics Committee of the German Medical Association . From 2002 to 2011 she was a member of the Central Ethics Commission for Stem Cell Research.

She researches ethical questions of reproductive medicine , the importance of autonomy and trust in modern medicine, children's rights in medicine, especially ethical questions of intersexuality , the history and ethics of organ transplantation and medical theory topics. In April 2012, at the suggestion of the SPD parliamentary group, she was appointed to the German Ethics Council for a first term and in April 2016 for a second term and was elected deputy chairperson. After eight years of membership, she will leave the Ethics Council in 2020.

Private

Claudia Wiesemann is the sister of the incumbent Bishop of Speyer , Karl-Heinz Wiesemann .

Works

  • Moral Equality, Bioethics, and the Child. (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine), Springer, 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-32402-9 .
  • Autonomy and trust. Key Terms in Modern Medicine. (together with H. Steinfath and others), Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 3658110732 .
  • Patient autonomy. Theoretical foundations - practical applications. (together with A. Simon), mentis, Münster 2013, ISBN 3897858045 .
  • Human Tissue Research. A European Perspective on the Ethical and Legal Challenges. (together with C. Lenk, N. Hoppe, K. Beier), Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011, ISBN 9780199587551 .
  • Teaching Ethics in Organ Transplantation and Tissue Donation. (together with S. Schicktanz, S. Wöhlke, and Amnon Carmi, UNESCO Chair in Bioethics), Universitätsverlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-941875-40-1 .
  • The responsibility of having a child. An ethic of parenting. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3406542725 .
  • Medical ethics. Thieme, Stuttgart 2005 (together with N. Biller-Andorno). ISBN 3-13-138241-4
  • Brain death. On the cultural history of the determination of death. (together with Thomas Schlich), Suhrkamp 2001, ISBN 978-3518291252 .
  • The secret illness. On the history of the term addiction. frommann-holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2000. ISBN 3-7728-2000-X
  • Josef Dietl and therapeutic nihilism. On the historical and political background of a medical thesis. Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 1991. ISBN 3-631-42684-4

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personal data
SURNAME Wiesemann, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical ethicist, medical historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford