Mark Schweda

Schweda (left) at the 2013 Wolf-Erich-Kellner Prize

Mark Schweda (born October 10, 1975 ) is a German philosopher and bioethicist .

Life

Schweda was a research fellow at the Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen and at the Institute for Ethics and History in Medicine at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, as well as a fellow at the Lichtenberg College in Göttingen. He spent research stays at the ESRC Center for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics at Lancaster University (2009), the Department of Philosophy at San Francisco State University (2011) and at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society at the University of California, Berkeley (2012). He received his doctorate from the Humboldt University in Berlin . Since 2018 he has been Professor of Ethics in Medicine at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg .

Schweda's work focuses on philosophical ethics and political philosophy , applied ethics , bioethics and medical ethics . In 2013 he was awarded the Wolf Erich Kellner Prize and in 2014 the Karl Alber Prize .

Mark Schweda: Joachim Ritter and the Ritter School as an introduction . Junius, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-88506-708-5 (224 pages).
Mark Schweda: Divisions and Compensation. Joachim Ritter's philosophical theory of the modern world (= Alber Symposion . No. 135 ). Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-495-48614-6 (496 pages).

Mark Schweda, Larissa Pfaller, Kai Brauer, Frank Adloff and Silke Schicktanz (eds.): Planning Later Life. Bioethics and Public Health in Aging Societies . Routledge, Abingdon 2017, ISBN 978-1-4724-8132-0 (English, 264 pages).
Mark Schweda and Ulrich von Bülow (eds.): Entzweite Moderne. The Current Joachim Ritter and his students (= Marbach writings, new episode . No. 15 ). Wallstein, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3081-8 (385 pages).
Aagje Swinnen and Mark Schweda (eds.): Popularizing Dementia. Public Expressions and Representations of Forgetfulness (= Aging Studies . No. 6 ). Transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-2710-7 (English, 410 pages).
Silke Schicktanz and Mark Schweda (eds.): Pro-Age or Anti-Aging? Aging in the focus of modern medicine (= culture of medicine ). Campus, Frankfurt am Main and New York 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39510-4 (376 pages).

Mark Schweda: Empirical social research in medical ethics. Tasks, methods, application examples . In: Alexander Max Bauer and Malte Ingo Meyerhuber (eds.): Philosophy between being and should. Normative theory and empirical research in the field of tension . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-061377-3 , pp. 73-92 , doi : 10.1515 / 9783110613773 .
Mark Schweda: Iron ladies and aging cowboys in the sunset. Ethical aspects of the depiction of dementia in contemporary feature films . In: Harm-Peer Zimmermann (Ed.): Cultures of Care. How our society can enable a life with dementia . Campus, Frankfurt am Main and New York 2018, ISBN 978-3-593-50894-8 , pp. 403-422 .

Mark Schweda and Karin Jongsma: “Return to Childhood” or “Death While Alive”? Ethical aspects of senile dementia in a life course perspective . In: Journal for Practical Philosophy . tape 5 , no. 1 , 2018, ISSN 2409-9961 , p. 181-206 , doi : 10.22613 / zfpp / 5.1.8 .
Mark Schweda: "Anything has its time". Aging and the Ethics of the Life Course . In: Journal for Practical Philosophy . tape 1 , no. 1 , 2014, ISSN 2409-9961 , p. 185-232 , doi : 10.22613 / zfpp / 1.1.5 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schweda, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German medic and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	October 10, 1975