Education and work experience
Trainings
Medical training and Doctor of Medicine (MD)
Medical studies at the University of Lausanne, followed by postgraduate training at the Universities of Lausanne, Geneva, Zurich and Basel and obtaining a doctorate in medicine (MD) at the University of Basel in 1986
Postdoctoral Fellowships
Postdoctoral Fellowships in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine at Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities (USA), followed by doctoral training in Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine at Georgetown University (USA) and the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (NL)
Doctorate in Philosophy of Medicine (PhD)
Doctorate in ethics and philosophy of medicine (PhD) from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam in 2004
Work experience
Activities
Professor emeritus of the University of Lausanne
Member of the board of the Interdisciplinary Research Center in Ethics of the University of Lausanne (CIRE)
Member of the editorial board of the collection "Questions de soin" published by Presses Universitaires de France (PUF)
Member of the Institute of Applied Ethics (IDEA) of Laval University (Quebec)
Professor of Ethics and Medical Philosophy at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne (2007-2018)
President of the Interdisciplinary Ethics Platform (ETHOS) of the University of Lausanne (2008-2018)
Visiting Professor at the Faculties of Medicine and Law of Laval University (Quebec) (2017)
Visiting Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris (2012)
Head physician of the Ethics Unit of the University Hospital of Vaud (CHUV) (2007-2018)
Recherches
Research in the field of medical ethics, in particular the study of the foundations of ethical responsibility in medicine, methodological issues in clinical ethics and the pedagogy of medical ethics, as well as in the field of epistemology and philosophy of science, in particular the study of interdisciplinary methods in the human and natural sciences
Publication in 2006 of the book resulting from the doctoral thesis in philosophy of medicine, "Ethique et responsabilité en médecine", published by Médecine et Hygiène in Geneva
Publication in 2010 of the collective work "La philosophie du soin" at the Presses Universitaires de France (PUF), in collaboration with Céline Lefève, Jean-Christophe Mino and Frédéric Worms
Since 2014 research on the relevance of Emmanuel Levinas' thought in the field of care
Since 2021 research on a global ethical perspective in the field of care
Others activities
Professional experience
