Therese Neuer-Miebach

Therese Neuer-Miebach (* 1949 ) is a German sociologist and ethics expert . Since 2001 she has also been a member of the National Ethics Council .

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Therese Neuer-Miebach studied sociology , Romance studies and Catholic theology . Her work focuses on urban renewal and social planning, social policy and disability policy. For 14 years she was a full-time employee of the federal association for people with intellectual disabilities. From 1995 to 1999 she was also a member of the federal management board for parenting and family issues and active in the field of further education. There she was responsible for ethical issues and the coordination of international affairs. Since 1999 she has been a professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt am Main in the social work and health department, where she works on the theory and methods of social work, the theory-practice area of ​​disability and health and addiction.

Therese Neuer-Miebach is a member of the Academy of Ethics in Medicine and the German Society for Social Work. In addition, she was a member of the Enquête Commission “Law and Ethics of Modern Medicine” of the German Bundestag from 1999 to 2002. In 2001 she was appointed a member of the National Ethics Council by the Federal Cabinet .

Selected publications

• (1999): What kind of prevention do we buy with the admissibility of pre-implantation diagnostics? Ethics in Medicine 11, 125-131
• (2000) G. Dörr, R. Grimm, Th. Neuer-Miebach (eds.): Appropriation and expropriation. The attack of bioethics on life and human dignity. Self-determined life publishing house, Düsseldorf
• (2001): Ethical Challenges from the Promises of Genetic Engineering. Pedagogy for the disabled, volume 40, issue 1, 6–22
• (2002): The ethics of healing falls short - on the alleged legitimation of genetic discrimination. D. Groß (Hrsg.): Between theory and practice 2: Ethics in medicine. In: teaching, clinic and research. Würzburg, 97-111
• (2002): Current social challenges posed by human genetic research. K. Bundschuh (Ed.): Special and curative education in the modern performance society - crisis or opportunity? 73-90.
• (2002): The Ethics of Healing: Patterns of Justification for Postmodern Bio-Medicine. Annales d'Histoire et de Philosophie du Vivant, Vol 7, Paris, 81–92
• (2003): The therapeutic option and the future of humans: what progress do we want? M. Dederich (ed.): Bioethics and disability. Bad Heilbrunn, 81-103

Web links

• Literature by and about Therese Neuer-Miebach in the catalog of the German National Library