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,
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Philosophy and Philology unit at Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science
(More Information) Box 200
405 30
Göteborg
www.flov.gu.se flov@flov.gu.se
Visiting Address:
Olof Wijksgatan 6
,
412 55
Göteborg
About
Christian Munthe
Christian Munthe conducts research and expert consultation on ethics, value and policy issues arising in the intersection of health, science & technology, the environment and society. He is elected member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg, and 2016-18, he was faculty elected member of the board of the University of Gothenburg.
Munthe has developed a cross-disciplinary approach, collaborating with researchers and practitioners from, e.g., medicine and care, environmental-, natural and technological science, economics, law and politics. He is a frequently commissioned expert by public agencies in Sweden and abroad, and a source and particpant in media reporting and debates within his area of expertise. He also engages with the public through the blog Philosophical Comment and Twitter.
Research Munthe has published 9 academic books and over 60 research articles or book chapters. Some books are:
The Price of Precaution and the Ethics of Risk (2011), where he develops a novel theory of the ethics of environmental and technological risks and applies it to a number of practical areas. Recent applications to biotechnology were published in the 2017 volume Precuation and ethics.
Additionally, he has published a string of works on the ethics of person centered care and shared decision making, forensic psychiatry and related legal systems, reproductive and family ethics, and public health ethics. He has edited special issues and symposia of international journals on the ethics and philosophy of antibiotic resistance, social media, 'big data' and hate crime.
Expert consultation Munthe has been a member of the Swedish government's National Council of Medical Ethics 2000-2006, the National Advisory Board of Gene Technology (2014-2018), and the Delegation for Medical Ethics of the Swedish Society of Medicine (2013-2018). He is currently a member of the Västra Götaland County Government Working Group for Orderly Introduction of New Pharmaceuticals. He has been directly involved in developing specific regulation or policy in areas such as reproductive and genetic medicine, biomedical research, public health policy and social care and welfare. He has performed many commissioned reports and expert services for Swedish public agencies, the Swedish Parliament, and the national and county governments; as well as for the European Commission, and the Swiss federal government.
Teching and supervision
Munthe's teaching in philosophy is focused on thesis supervision, examination and seminar moderation on the M.A. and Ph.D. levels. He is engaged as lecturer for programmes in health, natural or the technological sciences, as well as courses for medical researchers, clinical specialists and health professionals. His supervision interests include normative ethics and political philosophy/theory (including jurisprudence), and their applications to human practices, especially science, technology, health and the environment.
Podcasts and videos with Christian Munthe
Antibiotic Resistance: Ethics and Value Challenges (University of Gothenburg, 2019)
How Drug Resistance Challenges Medical Ethics (Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München, 2019):
Ethics of Allocation in Translational Genomic Medicine (University of Oxford, 2018):
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