Mark Schweda

• Medical Ethics
• Gerontological Ethics
• Ethics of Technology and Science

Contact for Press Enquiries on the Following Topics

• Ageing and demographic change
• Technology and digitalisation in healthcare
• Public participation in the field of medicine and healthcare

Born in 1975

• Since 2018 Professor for Ethics in Medicine and Head of the Department of Ethics in Medicine at the Department of Health Services Research, Faculty VI – Medicine and Health Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
• 2015-2018 Assistant Professor at the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen
• 2015 Habilitation at the Faculty of Medicine, Georg-August University Göttingen (Venia Legendi in Ethics, Theory and History of Medicine)
• 2014-2015 Junior Research Fellow for the Ethics of Living at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg Göttingen / Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study
• 2012 Visiting Scholar at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society, University of California, Berkeley (USA)
• 2012 PhD at the Faculty of Philosophy I, Humboldt University of Berlin
• 2006-2013 Research Assistant at the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen
• Studies of Philosophy and German Philology in Berlin and Nottingham

Memberships

• Since 2022 Member of the German Ethics Council
• Since 2020 Member of the Working Group „The Future of Ageing“ of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics
• Since 2019 Member of the Working Group on Ethics of the Standing Committee on Organ Transplantation of the German Medical Association
• Since 2018 Advisor on Philosophy of the publishing house J. B. Metzler Stuttgart
• 2017 Member of the WHO Working Group „Developing an Ethical Framework in Relation to Ageing and Health“
• 2016 Member of the Alzheimer Europe Expert Working Group on Ethical Issues Linked to the Changing Definitions of Alzheimer’s Disease

Distinctions

• 2016 Habilitation Award of the Faculty of Medicine, Georg-August University Göttingen
• 2014 Karl Alber Prize of the Philosophical Yearbook
• 2013 Wolf Erich Kellner Memorial Prize of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom

• Jordan, W.; Schweda, M. (ed.) (2021): Ethik in der Psychiatrie – Zur Künstlichen Intelligenz! = Psychiatrische Praxis, 48 (S1). https://doi.org/10.1055/s-011-50482
• Schicktanz, S.; Schweda, M. (2021): Aging 4.0? Rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 43, 93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00447-x
• Ellerich-Groppe, N.; Pfaller, L.; Schweda, M. (2021): Young for old – old for young? Ethical perspectives on intergenerational solidarity and responsibility in public discourses on COVID-19. European Journal of Ageing, 18 (2), 159–171. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-021-00623-9
• Schweda, M.; Coors, M.; Bozzaro, C. (ed.) (2020): Aging and Human Nature. Perspectives from Philosophical, Theological, and Historical Anthropology. Cham: Springer. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25097-3
• Pfaller, L.; Schweda, M. (2019): Excluded from the good life? An ethical approach to conceptions of active ageing. Social Inclusion, 7 (3), 44–53. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v7i3.1918
• Beier, K.; Schweda, M.; Schicktanz, S. (2019): Taking patient involvement seriously: A critical ethical analysis of participatory approaches in data-intensive medical research. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 19, 90. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-019-0799-7
• Jongsma, K.; Schweda, M. (2018): Return to childhood? Against the infantilization of people with dementia. Bioethics, 32 (7), 414–420. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12458
• Schweda, M.; Pfaller, L.; Brauer, K.; Adloff, F.; Schicktanz, S. (ed.) (2017): Planning Later Life. Bioethics and Public Health in Ageing Societies. Abingdon: Routledge.