Helga Kuhse

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Helga Kuhse (born March 26, 1940 in Hamburg ) is a German-Australian utilitarian philosopher and bioethicist .

Career

Helga Kuhse was born in Hamburg in 1940. In 1962 she emigrated to Australia .

Since the 1970s she has been concerned with the ethical effects and developments of biotechnology and biomedicine . This made her one of the first women philosophers to take up these issues. In 1980 she founded the Center for Human Bioethics at Monash University in Melbourne together with Peter Singer . This institute, of which Kuhse was director until 1999, is one of the first research centers that deals exclusively with bioethics.

Their ideas about the end of life, the right to die and euthanasia have sparked controversial discussions around the world.

Helga Kuhse is a well-known supporter of the right to euthanasia . Your work was instrumental in the creation of the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act of 1995. Marshall Perron , former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory of Australia, stated in 1996 that Kuhse's writings were the trigger for him, the Rights of the Terminally I'll bring Bill to Parliament. It was the first law in the world to legalize euthanasia, but was withdrawn by the Australian government in 1997.

Kuhse has served on several ethics committees and has served as a parliamentary advisor in Australia on euthanasia jurisdiction.

In 1987, together with Peter Singer, she founded the international academic journal Bioethics . The two also founded the International Association of Bioethics . Kuhse currently holds an associate professorship at Monash University.

Publications

Kuhse has written numerous books on bioethics. Her first major release, Should the Baby Live? (together with Peter Singer ), which she wrote while she was still studying philosophy, she made known to a large audience. Since then, she has authored numerous writings that have had great influence in both academic circles and public debate. The German edition of the book was published in 1991 by Harald Fischer Verlag under the title Must this child stay alive? The problem of severely damaged newborns .

Helga Kuhse's best-known works are:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Helga Kuhse. In: Prabook. Prabook, accessed January 3, 2019 .
  2. ^ Staff of the Center for Human Bioethics, Arts, Monash University
  3. ^ IH Kerridge, KR Mitchell: The legislation of active voluntary euthanasia in Australia: will the slippery slope prove fatal? In: Journal of medical ethics. Volume 22, number 5, October 1996, pp. 273-278, doi : 10.1136 / jme.22.5.273 , PMID 8910778 , PMC 1377058 (free full text).
  4. Select Committee on Euthanasia Submission No. 1086. In: Territory Stories. Northern Territory Government 2015, accessed January 3, 2019 .
  5. ^ Monash Arts Staff Profiles: Associate Professor Helga Kuhse. In: Monash University. Monash University, accessed January 6, 2019 .
  6. ^ Chris Docker: Making ideas reality. In: Voluntary Euthanasia Society Of Scotland Newsletter. January 1998, accessed January 4, 2019 .
  7. Wilfried Sturm: What should one say in God's name? In: Google Books. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, accessed April 1, 2019 .
  8. Books by Helga Kuhse. In: Amazon.com. Amazon.com, Inc., accessed January 6, 2019 .