Friday, September 19, 2008 12:00 PM
Henk A.M.J.ten Have, MD, PhD
Director, Division of Ethics of Science and Technology at UNESCO
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Henk ten Have is director of the Division of Ethics of Sciences and Technology at UNESCO, Paris, France, where he is involved in a wide range of international activities in bio-ethics based upon the Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights.
Since 1991, Have has been professor of Medical Ethics and director of the Department of Eth¬ics, Philosophy and History of Medicine in the University Medical Centre Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In 2003, he joined UNESCO and has been involved in many public debates concerning euthanasia, drug addiction, genetics, choices in health care, and resource allocation. His research has focused on ethical issues in palliative care, and he has been coordinator of the European Commission funded project Palliative Care Ethics.
Have serves on numerous editorial boards, is editor-in-chief of the recently established journal, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, and is co-founder and secretary of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care. His most recent books include: Palliative care in Europe. Concepts and Policies; Bioethics in a European perspective; The Ethics of Palliative Care. European Perspectives; Ethics and Alzheimer Disease; and Death and medical power. An ethical analysis of Dutch euthanasia practice. With UNESCO he published Environmental Ethics and International Policy and Nanotechnologies, Ethics and Politic.
Have has studied medicine and philosophy at Leiden Univer¬sity, the Netherlands, receiving his medical degree in 1976 and philosophy degree in 1983. He worked as researcher in the Pathology Laboratory, University of Leiden (1976-77), as practicing physician in the Municipal Health Services, City of Rotterdam (1978-79), and as Professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Limburg, Maastricht (1982-91).
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