Markus Rothhaar

Markus Rothhaar (born February 19, 1968 in Dudweiler ) is a German bioethicist.

Life

From 1978 to 1987 he attended the state grammar school in Sulzbach / Saar . From 1987 to 1995 he studied philosophy, history and biology at the Universities of Saarbrücken , Heidelberg and Tübingen . Major fields of study philosophy: German idealism, theory of life sciences, ethics, political philosophy. After completing his master’s degree at the University of Tübingen in November 1995 in the subjects of philosophy (HF), medieval history (NF) and modern history (NF), he worked from 1996 to 1999 on his doctorate in philosophy. From 1997 to 2000 he was a lecturer ( German as a foreign language ) at various private language schools. After completing his doctorate in January 2000 at the University of Tübingen with the thesis «Metaphysics and Negativity. A study on the structure of the Hegelian dialectic according to the science of logic »From 2000 to 2001 he was a research associate in the field of bioethics in Brussels and Strasbourg . From 2002 to 2005 he was an advisor to the SPD parliamentary group for the study commissions “Law and Ethics of Modern Medicine” and “Ethics and Law of Modern Medicine”. At the same time, he was a research assistant (part-time) at René Röspel . In summer 2004 he took part in the staff exchange between the Bundestag / Bundesrat and the Congress of the United States of America. In 2006/2007 he was a lecturer at the Charité (medical ethics) and at the University of Potsdam (philosophy, LER).

From March to September 2007 he was an employee / project manager at the German Hospice Foundation (political relations and fundamental issues). From November 2007 to August 2010 he was a research assistant at the Professorship for Ethics in Medicine at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg . From October 2009 to September 2010 he was a fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld as a member of the research group “Challenges for the image of man and human dignity through new developments in medical technology”. From September 2010 to May 2013 he was a research assistant at the chair of Thomas Sören Hoffmann , Department of Philosophy II (Practical Philosophy) at the Fernuniversität in Hagen . From April 2011 to April 2014 he was a member of the interdisciplinary working group “Healthcare Between Market and State” at the Research Center of the Evangelical Study Community (FEST). From May 2013 to February 2014 he represented the endowed professorship for bioethics at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt . After being awarded the venia legendi in September 2013 for philosophy by the Distance University in Hagen , he accepted the professorship for bioethics at the KU Eichstätt - Ingolstadt in December 2013 . In March 2014 he was appointed holder of the endowed professorship for bioethics, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, which expired on May 31, 2019. In 2020 he became visiting professor of philosophy at the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil.

Fonts (selection)

• as editor with Andreas Frewer : The healthy, the sick and medical ethics. Moral Implications of the Concept of Disease . Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 3-515-09938-7 .
• Human dignity as a principle of law . Tübingen 2015, ISBN 3-16-153558-8 .
• The negativity in the absolute. On the structure of Hegel's dialectical logic . Dresden 2016, ISBN 3-943897-27-3 .
• as editor with Roland Kipke and Martin Hähnel: The manipulable embryo. Arguments of potentiality and species put to the test . Münster 2018, ISBN 3-95743-111-5 .

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