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Henk ten Have
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Henk A. M. ten Have, MD, PhD,
is Director of the Division of Ethics in Sciences and Technology
at UNESCO, Paris, France. Professor of Medical Ethics and Director
of the Department of Ethics, Philosophy, and History of Medicine
in the University Medical Centre Nijmegen, the Netherlands, since
1991, in September 2003 he also joined UNESCO as Director. His
work involves 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 served as coordinator of the European Commission funded
Project, 'Palliative Care Ethics.' Serving on numerous editorial
boards, Dr. ten Have is editor-in-chief of the recently established
journal, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy; has served as
co-founder and secretary of the European Society for Philosophy
of Medicine and Health Care, and has published Medische Ethiek
(1998; revised edition 2003), a textbook for medical curricula.
His other recent books include Palliative Care in Europe: Concepts
and Policies, Bioethics in a European Perspective, The Ethics
of Palliative Care: A European Perspective, Ethics and Alzheimer
Disease (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2004), and
Death and Medical Power: An Ethical Analysis of Dutch Euthanasia
Practice. In UNESCO he is involved in a wide range of international
activities in bio-ethics, such as capacity building on the basis
of the Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights, particularly
regarding the establishment of national bioethics committees
and the promotion of ethics teaching (with a current priority
for Africa and the Arab Region). With UNESCO he has recently
published Environmental Ethics and International Policy and also
Nanotechnologies, Ethics, and Politics.
Dr. ten Have received his philosophy
and medical degrees from Leiden University, the Netherlands,
and also worked there as a researcher in the Pathology Laboratory.
He also served as a practicing physician in the Municipal Health
Services in the City of Rotterdam and as Professor of Philosophy
in the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Health Sciences, University
of Limburg, Maastricht. |
