Medical ethics and human rights in medicine: reassessing 50 years of the Declaration of Helsinki, 1964-2014

Prof. Dr. Andreas Frewer, M.A. is since 2007 Professor at the Institute for History of Medicine and Medical Ethics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany). He studied medicine, philosophy, and the history of medicine in Munich, Erlangen, Berlin, Vienna, Oxford, and Jerusalem. He wrote his dissertation on medical ethics and history of medicine at the Free University of Berlin (s.c.l.) and holds a European Master in Bioethics from the Universities of Leuven, Nijmegen, Basel, and Padua (s.c.l.). Between 1994 and 1998 he worked as a physician at the Virchow-Hospital and the Charité of Humboldt University (Berlin) in clinical medicine, nephrology, oncology and the intensive care unit. Between 1998 and 2002 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Goettingen. Between 2002 and 2006 he was Professor for Medical Ethics at the Institute for History, Ethics, and Philosophy of Medicine at Hanover Medical School (MHH), and 2004 Managing Director of the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt/M. Prof. Frewer is member of the Institutional Review Board, manager of the Clinical Ethics Committee at the University Hospital Erlangen and founder of the “Forum for Medicine and Human Rights”. Among his publi¬cations are more than 180 articles and several books on Medical Ethics and History of Medicine.

His project at the Brocher Foundation has the title Medical ethics and human rights. Reassessing 50 years of the Declaration of Helsinki, 1964-2014.