Giovanni Maio

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Giovanni Maio in the show Hart but Fair , 2017

Giovanni Maio (* 1964 in San Fele , Italy ) is a German physician , philosopher , medical ethicist and university professor for bioethics in Freiburg im Breisgau .

Career

Maio and his parents moved to the Freiburg area in 1970 . After graduating from high school, he studied medicine and philosophy at the universities of Freiburg , Strasbourg and Hagen . In addition to his doctorate as Dr. med in Freiburg, he completed further training as a specialist in internal medicine from 1989 . In 2000 he qualified as a professor at the University of Lübeck for ethics and history of medicine with a topic on the ethics of research on incapable of consenting patients . In 2002 he was appointed to the Central Ethics Committee for Stem Cell Research. After working as a research assistant in Freiburg, Aachen and Lübeck, he has been Professor of Bioethics and Medical Ethics at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg since 2005 and also heads the interdisciplinary ethics center there. Maio is a member of the committee for ethical and legal questions of principle of the German Medical Association .

Positions

Maio is a critic of pre-implantation diagnostics ; it contradicts the unconditional acceptance of every human being, regardless of his ability, his performance or whether he corresponds to the wishes of others, and thus the principle of human dignity anchored in the Basic Law. The difference to abortion without punishment lies in the fact that the woman is not in a plight in the pre-implantation diagnosis.

He also criticizes the increasing commercialization of medicine due to the trend towards medically non-indicated cosmetic operations in aesthetic surgery. If the doctor is no longer guided solely by the patient's well-being and the goal of alleviating suffering, but instead makes his actions dependent on market trends, he is leaving the basis of his special position in society. The doctor would then be just a normal craftsman; the particular nimbus he enjoys would then be abused. In addition, the acceptance of older and less attractive people would also suffer, which is undesirable from a social perspective.

Awards

  • 2013: Apollonia Prize

Publications (selection)

As an author

  • Ethics of research on humans. To justify morality in its historical condition. (Habilitation thesis, University of Lübeck, 2000) Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2002 (= Medicine and Philosophy , 6), ISBN 3-7728-2196-0 .
  • Focus on people. Ethics in medicine. A textbook. With 39 annotated patient stories. With a foreword by Wilhelm Vossenkuhl . Schattauer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-7945-2448-8 .
  • Farewell to the joyful expectation. Expectant parents under the increasing pressure of prenatal diagnostics. Manuscriptum, Waltrop / Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-937801-93-3 .
  • Medicine without measure? From the dictates of what is feasible to an ethic of prudence. Trias, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-8304-6749-6 .
  • Health business model: How the market is abolishing the healing arts. Edited by Bernd Hontschik . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-46514-1 .

As editor

  • with Volker Roelcke : Medicine and Culture. Medical thinking and acting in a dialogue between the natural sciences and the humanities. Festschrift Dietrich von Engelhardt. Stuttgart / New York 2001.
  • Abolition of Fate? Humanity between the given of life and medical-technical design. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-451-30461-3 .
  • Ethics of gift. Humane medicine between service provision and care for the other. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / Basel / Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-33282-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum vitae , igm.uni-freiburg.de, accessed January 28, 2020
  2. ↑ Sarina Pfauth (interview): Even the sickest life is valuable . In: Süddeutsche.de . July 6, 2010, accessed August 27, 2014.
  3. ↑ Giovanni Maio: Is Aesthetic Surgery Still Medicine? An ethical criticism. In: hand surgery, microsurgery, plastic surgery. ISSN  0722-1819 , Volume 39 (2007), H. 3, pp. 189-194.
  4. ^ Apollonia Prize for Prof. Giovanni Maio. In: Westfälisches Ärzteblatt. 2013, no. 11, p. 48 ( PDF ; 4.4 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Maio, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and bioethicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH San Fele , Italy