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Hille Haker
Biographical Sketch
Hille Haker is Professor of Moral Theology/Social Ethics at the Catholic Faculty of Frankfurt, and a member of the European Group on Ethics in Sciences and New Technologies (EGE). From 2003-2005, she was Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Harvard University, Cambridge (USA). She studied Catholic Theology, German Literature and Philosophy at the Universities of Tübingen, Munich and Nijmegen (NL). From 1989-2003 she was staff member of the Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, and lecturer at the department of Ethics/Social Ethics at the Catholic Theological Faculty, both University of Tübingen. Her books include Moralische Identität (1999), Ethik der genetischen Frühdiagnostik (2002 ) and several co-edited volumes, among them: The Ethics of Genetics in Human Procreation (2000), Ethik-Geschlecht-Wissenschaften (2006), and Medical Ethics in Health Care Chaplaincy (2009). She is director of “Concilium”, an international journal of theology, and co-editor of several issues, most recently: Other Voices – Women in World Religions, Concilium 3-2006, and HIV/AIDS (4-2007).
Keynote presentation: Moral Conflicts Reconsidered: Respect for the Patient as Individual and the Duty to Care for All
This conference is arranged by Cesagen at the universities of Lancaster and Cardiff and the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics at Uppsala University.