Hans Christof Müller-Busch

Hans Christof Müller-Busch (born June 17, 1943 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) is a German doctor, university professor and author specializing in palliative medicine and pain therapy .

Life

Christof Müller-Busch studied medicine , psychology and sociology at the Universities of Heidelberg , Edinburgh , Hamburg and Berlin. Since 1973, his medical and scientific work has been at the Charlottenburg Clinic, Free University of Berlin , the Rudolf Virchow Clinic in Berlin, the Herdecke Community Hospital and, until 2008, the Havelhöhe Community Hospital in Berlin. In 1980 he was recognized as a specialist in anesthesiology . He completed his habilitation at the University of Witten / Herdecke on the subject of "Pain Reduction through Creativity - Music Therapy for Chronic Pain". Since 1985 he has taught as a university lecturer at the Universities of Witten / Herdecke, the Humboldt University of Berlin and at the Institute Universitaire Kurt Boesch (IUKB), Sion (Switzerland). Since 2008 he has been the Scientific Director of the Palliative Care master’s program at Dresden International University (DIU).

Hans Christof Müller-Busch lives in Berlin and is married to the speech therapist Ricki Nusser-Müller-Busch. They have two daughters.

Focus of scientific projects and activities

His work topics are quality of life, decision criteria and conflicts at the end of life, complementary and artistic therapies for pain and in palliative medicine, euthanasia and ethics, quality development in palliative medicine and hospice care . From 2001 to 2005 Müller-Busch was a member of the Ethics Task Force of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC), 2006 to 2010 President of the German Society for Palliative Medicine (DGP), 2008 to 2010 member of the Central Ethics Commission (ZEKO) at the German Medical Association and from 2011 to 2019 member of the committee for ethical and legal questions of principle of the German Medical Association.

Awards and honors

• 2004: Palliative Medicine Award from the German Society for Palliative Medicine (DGP)
• 2010: DIU Team Award Palliative Care (together with Barbara Schubert, Ulrich Schuler and Ulrich Wedding) from Dresden International University (DIU)
• 2012: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2017: Honorary Award 2016 of the German Hospice and Palliative Association in the area of ​​"Structures and Framework Conditions" (together with Birgit Weihrauch )

Fonts (selection)

As an author:

• Pain and music. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-437-21106-4 .
• Freedom to death and limits to medical assistance. Humanitas, Dortmund 2001, ISBN 3-928366-75-0 .
• Advice: living will and pension planning. Health active, Bad Liebenzell 2009, ISBN 978-3-942192-00-2 .
• Farewell takes time. Palliative medicine and the ethics of dying. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-46368-0 .
• with Joachim Werner: Dead in the middle. Bebra, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8148-0197-1 .

As editor:

• with Daniel Schäfer , Andreas Frewer : Perspectives on dying: On the way to an Ars moriendi nova? Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-515-10189-9 .
• with Roland Berbig , Richard Faber : Illness, Dying and Death in the Life and Writing of European Writers. 2 volumes. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8260-5739-7 , ISBN 978-3-8260-5892-9 .
• with Matthias Kraska: From "Cura palliativa" to "Palliative Care." Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8260-6202-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Christof Müller-Busch in the catalog of the German National Library

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• Hans Christof Müller-Busch in: Questions to the author , SR 2 Kulturradio
• The palliative care specialist H. Christof Müller-Busch in conversation with Sabine Küchler . Broadcast between tones, Deutschlandradio Kultur , November 18, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ^ Advancement award of the DGP , website of the German Society for Palliative Medicine, accessed on December 2, 2013.
2. ↑ Joint summer party of DIU and GWT ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Dresden International University website, September 9, 2010, accessed March 18, 2017.  
3. ^ Order of Merit to Prof. Müller-Busch for his commitment to hospice and palliative care for the seriously ill , press release of the Senate Department for Health and Social Affairs (Berlin), November 28, 2012, accessed on December 2, 2013.
4. ↑ Honorary Awards 2016. German Hospice and Palliative Association, accessed on January 23, 2017 .