Advisory Board

Emanuel Marks, Ph.D.

Education:

1963      University of Manchester: Ph.D. in Social Anthropology
 

1958      Hebrew University, Jerusalem: M.A. in Sociology and Orientalism

 

Positions:

1979-1995           professor, Tel Aviv University, Sociology & Anthropology
 

1992-1995           director of the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo
 

1989-1990           academic advisor to The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), University of Oxford
 

1976-1989           founder and director of The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research,
                            Ben Gurion University of the Negev
 

1964-1979           Lecturer and founder of the department of Sociology & Anthropology, Tel Aviv University

 

 

Mark A. Clarfield, M.D.

Education:

1975                   University of Toronto: M.D. Specializes in Family Medicine, Community Medicine and Public Health and in Geriatrics

 

Positions:

2009-                   Head of  Medical School for International Health, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
 

2001-2009          Head of Geriatrics at the Soroka Hospital, Beer-Sheva
 

1994-2001           Head of the Division of Geriatrics at the Ministry of Health, Israel
 

1978-1992           Professor, McGill University, Faculty of Medicine

 

Prof. Silke Schicktanz, PhD

 

 

Professional Positions

 

Since 2014: Nominated by the faculty as Working Group Leader

Since 2010: Full Professor (W2) for Cultural and Ethical Studies of Biomedicine, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany

Since 2011: Deputy director of the Institute of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine

2011: Adjunct Professor for Philosophy, San Francisco State University

2006–2010 Associate Professor (Junior-Professor) for History, Theory, Ethics in Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen

2004 –2005 Senior Researcher, University of Münster, Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine

2002–2003 Post-Doc-Position / Research Fellow, Max-Delbrück-Centrum for Molecular Medicine, RG Bioethics and Science Communication

2001–2002 Project Leader: First nation-wide citizens conference on genetic testing
at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden

Education

1/2002 Doctor rerum naturalium (PhD) in Ethics of Life Science, University Tübingen, Germany with highest honours (summa cum laude)

 

1991–1997 Studies in Biology and Philosophy at the University Tübingen, Germany. grade: excellent (1.0)

 

Honours/Awards

2001

Award of the German Academy of Medical Ethics

2002

Reinhold-und-Maria-Teufel-Award: best PhD thesis

2010

Invited Research Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advance Studies, Delhi India

2011–12

2015

 

Feodor-Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation

Senior Fellow in Residence at the Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study, Greifswald

 

 

 

Current Publications with project relevance: I have published 2 books, 16 volumes, and currently are more than 75 peer review articles published/accepted. Among them:

 

Leibing A. & S. Schicktanz 2020: Preventing Dementia? Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age, Berghahn N.Y. (in press), 248 pages

Schweda, M., Pfaller L., Bauer, K., Adloff, F., Schicktanz, S. (eds.) (2017). Planning Later Life. Bioethics and Public Health in Ageing Societies, Routledge.

Raz, A. & Schicktanz, S. (2016). Comparative Empirical Bioethics: Dilemmas of Genetic Testing and Euthanasia in Israel and Germany. Springer Brief in ethics.

 

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