From Physicians’ Professional Ethos towards Medical Ethics and Bioethics

Corinna Delkeskamp-Hayes studied Philosophy, German literature, and communication science in Bonn and Tübingen (Germany), received an MA on the interpretation of Hegel by G. Lukacz, and spent a year as teaching assistant at the Philosophy Department of the Pennsylvania State University. After her return to Bonn, she wrote her dissertation on a Hegelian reconstruction of  David Hume’s epistemology and was offered a position as Assistant Professor by Penn State. After two years she decided to return back to Germany in order to raise a family (2 children). Serving as Director of European Programs of the International Studies in Philosophy and Medicine, she has been organizing as well as presenting at international conferences. As editor of the Journal Christian Bioethics – non-ecumenical studies in medical morality, and member of the editorial board of both the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy and the book series Aus orthodoxer Sicht of the Hagia Sophia Edition publishing house (Germany), she continued her work in bioethics, adding a focus on both political philosophy and Orthodox Christian theology. Her essays, written either in German or (mostly) English, have been translated  into Portuguese, Greek, Romanian, Chinese, Russian. In 2016, she received the Engelhardt Award of the Bioethics Center at the Ohio State University.

Part 1: Initial Impediments to Ethical Reflection in Medicine. Chapter 1. The History of Medicine as Inspiration for Medico-Ethical Reflection in Germany: Memories from the Free Zone of Historiography (Richard Toellner).- Chapter 2. Human Genetics Between the Physician's Ethos and Bio-Politics: From Eugenics to Human Gene Technology (Rolf Löther).- Chapter 3. The Development of Doctors' Ethics into Medical Ethics in the German Democratic Republic and its Impact on Medical Education (Ernst Luther).- Part 2: The Culture of Dialogue in Medical and Bio-ethics. Chapter 4. Socialist Social Policy as the Basis of the Physician's Ethos in the German Democratic Republic: Humanist Ideals and Economic Realities (Horst Spaar).- Chapter 5. Bioethics and the Defense of a Culture of Liberalism: Philosophical Rationality in the Spirit of Modesty (Günther Patzig).- Chapter 6. Contributions by Protestant Theology to Medical Ethics and Bio-Ethics in Germany (Jürgen Hübner).- Part 3: The Institutionalization of Expertise in Medical and Bio-ethics. Chapter 7. Legal Duties, the Physician's Ethos, and Ways of Dealing with Damage Resulting from Medical Treatment in the German Democratic Republic (Ernst Günther).- Chapter 8. A German Path toward Bioethics (Hans Bernhard Wuermeling).- Chapter 9. Philosophy and Ethical Advisory Boards in German Medicine (Ludwig Siep).- Chapter 10. The Development of Medical Ethics Institutions in West Berlin (Ruth Mattheis).- Part 4: The Focus on Responsiveness to Patients. Chapter 11. Ethical Challenges of the Dying Patient: Managing Cooperation Between Physicians and Caretakers (Susanne Hahn).- Chapter 12. Ethical Elements in Thure von Uexküll's Psychosomatic Thought (Hans Wedler).