Eve-Marie Engels

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Eve-Marie Engels (born February 23, 1951 in Düsseldorf ) is an expert in bioethics with a focus on biomedical research, a philosopher and science historian.

Life

Eve-Marie Engels studied Philosophy , Romance Studies and English / American Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum . After that she received to 1977 a doctoral and research scholarship of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation , during which they as a research associate from 1976 to 1977 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook worked.

She then worked as a research assistant until 1979 and then as a research assistant at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Bochum until 1989, where she worked with Gert König with the theory of science and the history of science , where she also received her doctorate in 1981 and qualified as a professor in 1988. From 1988 to 1989 she headed the research project of the German Research Foundation DFG "Possibilities and Limits of Evolutionary Ethics".

From 1989 to 1991 she held several substitute professorships at the universities in Bielefeld , Göttingen and Hamburg . She then received a Heisenberg grant from the DFG until 1993 , during which time she was a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Science in Society in Blacksburg , Virginia (USA) in 1992 .

In 1993 she took over a professorship for philosophy with a focus on "theoretical philosophy" at the University of Kassel . Here she mainly worked in the areas of epistemology and philosophy of science as well as natural philosophy .

Since 1996 she has held the chair for ethics in the biosciences at the Faculty of Biology at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen . From 1997 to 2001 she was a board member and from 1999 to 2001 first chairwoman of the German Society for the History and Theory of Biology . In 2001 she was appointed a member of the National Ethics Council. From 2001 to 2011 she was also the spokesperson for the International Center for Ethics in Science (IZEW) at the University of Tübingen.

Works

Monographs, edited volumes and studies
  • The teleology of the living. Critical reflections on reformulating the teleological problem in Anglo-American philosophy of science. A historical-systematic study. , Duncker & Humblot, Berlin (1982)
  • Knowledge as adaptation? A study on evolutionary epistemology , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main (1989)
  • with Gisela Badura-Lotter and Silke Schicktanz (eds.): New perspectives in transplant medicine in an interdisciplinary dialogue. Nomos Publishing Company, Baden-Baden (2000)
  • with Sibylle Gaisser, Bärbel Hüsing and René Zimmer: Cellular Xenotransplantation. Study by the Center for Technology Assessment at the Swiss Science and Technology Council, TA 39/2001, Bern
  • with Rainer Frietsch, Sibylle Gaisser, Bärbel Hüsing, Klaus Menrad, Beatrix Rubin, Lilian Schubert, Rainer J. Schweizer and René Zimmer: Human stem cells. Study by the Center for Technology Assessment at the Swiss Science and Technology Council, TA 44/2003, Bern
  • Eve-Marie Engels: Charles Darwin . Munich: CH Beck, 2007. ISBN 978-3-406-54763-8
Essays
  • (1998) The Moral Status of Embryos and Fetuses - Research, Diagnosis, Abortion. in: Düwell, Marcus and Dietmar Mieth (eds.): Ethics in human genetics . The more recent developments in genetic early diagnosis from an ethical perspective. Francke, Tübingen pp. 272-301, ²2000
  • (2000) Ethical aspects of transplant and reproductive medicine using the example of research on human embryonic stem and germ cells. In: Anna M. Wobus , Ulrich Wobus and Benno Parthier (eds.): The availability of the living. Gatersleben meeting 1999. Nova Acta Leopoldina. Vol. 82, No. 315. Halle (Saale): German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina eV, pp. 159–183
  • (2000) Xenotransplantation - A New Release Problem. Philosophical and ethical aspects of their risk assessment. In: Engels, E.-M., G. Badura-Lotter and S. Schicktanz (eds.): New perspectives in transplant medicine in an interdisciplinary dialogue. Nomos, Baden-Baden pp. 170-195
  • (2001) Orientation towards nature? On the ethics of the human-animal relationship. In: Manuel Schneider (Ed.): Do justice to the animals. On the ethics and culture of the human-animal relationship . Animal husbandry series Volume 27. Schweisfurth Foundation . Publishing house of the University of Kassel, pp. 68–87.
  • (2002) Human embryonic stem cells. The German Debate. In: Nature Reviews Genetics . 3: 636-641.
  • (2002) From natural ethical insight to moral action. An outline of the problem. In: Axel Beyer (Ed.): Fit for Sustainability? Biological-anthropological foundations of education for sustainable development. Leske + Budrich, Opiaden, pp. 163-191.
Editing

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personal data
SURNAME Engels, Eve-Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, expert on bioethics and science historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf