Mark Schweda studied philosophy at the Humboldt-University at Berlin and the University of Nottingham, UK. Since 2006, he has been research associate at the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen. H
...MoreMark Schweda studied philosophy at the Humboldt-University at Berlin and the University of Nottingham, UK. Since 2006, he has been research associate at the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen. He was a guest researcher at the Center for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGEN), University of Lancaster (2009) and visiting scholar at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society (CSTMS), University of California, Berkeley (2012). Currently, he is junior research fellow for the ethics of living at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg Göttingen. His research employs philosophical analysis, socio-empirical methods, and ethical reflection to understand the role and transformation of conceptions of aging, the life course, and human temporality in the horizon of modern biomedicine and life sciences. This involves an empirical inventory and analysis of existing understandings of aging, as well as the development of a conceptual framework for including the central significance of aging, the life course, and human temporality in (bio-)ethical debates.
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Aging and Social Change
