Monika Bobbert

Monika Bobbert (* 1963 in Lingen (Ems) ) is a German social ethicist and university professor .

Life

Bobbert studied psychology and Catholic theology in Tübingen . She completed these studies in 1990 with a diploma in theology and in 1993 with a diploma in psychology. Then she was a lecturer at the Catholic Academy Ludwig-Windthorst-Haus in Lingen until 1995 . From 1996 to 2001 Bobbert held positions at the University of Tübingen, interrupted by a three-month research stay at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Washington, DC , and at the Hastings Center, Garrison, NY. In 2001 she received her doctorate in Catholic theology in Tübingen .

Bobbert then worked at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg as a research assistant at the Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine with Wolfgang U. Eckart , where she qualified as a professor in 2008 . In 2010 she was appointed adjunct professor . From 2013 to 2016 she was a full professor for theological ethics at the University of Lucerne and headed the Institute for Social Ethics of the Theological Faculty, but still taught at the University of Heidelberg to a limited extent. Since February 1, 2016 she has been professor of moral theology and director of the seminar for moral theology at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms-Universität Münster .

Bobbert is a member of numerous ethics committees and a fellow of the Marsilius-Kolleg Heidelberg.

Works (selection)

• Patient autonomy in professional care. Establishment and application of a moral right . Campus-Verlag, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-593-37128-6 (dissertation).
• Medical judgment in the case of seriously ill persons unable to make a decision. History - theory - ethics . Mentis-Verlag, Münster 2013, ISBN 3-89785-796-0 (habilitation).
• together with Gregor Scherzinger: Good assessment? Ethical perspectives of the evaluation of ethics committees for medical research on humans . Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-24758-4 .
• Between partiality and justice: interfaces between hospital pastoral care and medical ethics . (= Clinical Pastoral Care and Medical Ethics, Volume 3. ) Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-643-11263-7 .
• together with Dietmar Mieth: The Christian Proprium of Ethics. On the moral perspective of religion . Lucerne 2015, ISBN 978-3-905-57792-1 .
• Keyword moral psychology / moral development . In: Düwell, Marcus, Hübenthal, Christoph, Werner, Micha H. (eds.): Handbuch Ethik . Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 978-3-476-05192-9 , pp. 428-432 (1st edition), pp. 444-448 (3rd edition).

There are also numerous essays and specialist articles, such as the desire for suicide and the perspective of others: On the problem of implicit assumptions and the helplessness of loved ones, in: EthikJournal 4 (2017) 2, 1-51. Full text ; Religious Education towards Justice: What Kind of Justice Is to Be Taught in a Christian Context ?, in: Education Sciences 7 (2017), 16 p. Full text ; Genetic tests on adults as a new challenge for the concept of disease, in: Ethics & teaching - annual publication Humane Genetik (2002), 36-45.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bobbert, Monika, Prof. Dr. . uni-muenster.de. Retrieved April 8, 2016.

Web links

• Literature by and about Monika Bobbert in the catalog of the German National Library
• CV on the homepage of Heidelberg University
• Publications on the homepage of the University of Münster