Claudia Wiesemann Explained

Claudia Wiesemann
Nationality:German
Fields:Medical ethics and history
Workplaces:University of Göttingen
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Alma Mater:University of Münster

Claudia Wiesemann is a German medical ethicist and medical historian. She is full professor and head of the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at Göttingen University Medical Center. Being a member of the German Ethics Council since 2012, she was elected Deputy Chair in 2016.

Education and professional work

Claudia Wiesemann studied Medicine, Philosophy, and Medical History at Münster University, Germany. In 1990, she finished her thesis on the history of therapeutic nihilism in the 19th century. From 1990 to 1998, she worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 1998, she was appointed Full Professor and head of the Department for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University of Göttingen. She completed all medical exams at Münster University, Germany, in 1985 and worked as resident from 1986 to 1988.

Claudia Wiesemann is vice chair of the German National Ethics Council. From 2002 to 2012, she was President of the (AEM), the academic society for medical ethics in the German speaking countries. Since 2011, she is member of the Central Ethics Committee at the Federal Board of Physicians. From 2002 to 2011, she was member of the Central Ethics Committee for Stem Cell Research at Robert-Koch-Institut. In 2010 and 2014, she was appointed Associate Fellow at the Göttingen Institute for Advanced Studies "Lichtenberg-Kolleg". Other board memberships include: from 2008 to 2010 Member of the Committee for Ethics in Research with Children of the Deutsche Akademie für Kinderheilkunde und Jugendmedizin, 2012–2015 Member of the I-DSD Steering Committee, 2008–2012 Member of the Ethics Advisory Board, EuroDSD, 7th Framework Programme (Speaker: O. Hiort, Lübeck), since 1998 Member of the Research Ethics Committee, Göttingen University Medical Center, and 1998–2007 Secretary, Scientific Board of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health. From 1978 to 1984, she received a student fellowship of the prestigious Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. She is serving as an editorial board member of several international journals.

Wiesemann's research interests include autonomy and trust in medicine, the ethics of reproductive medicine and family, child rights and the moral status of the child, the ethics of intersex, the history and ethics of organ transplantation and the determination of death.

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