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 | Kiarash Aramesh
Associate Professor - PennWest University
United States
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03.07.2025-29.07.2025
The Biopolitics of Health Pseudoscience and the Role of Bioethics
I will explore the analytical answers to the following questions:
- What are the characteristics of science, pseudoscience, and anti-science in the realm of health, including clinical medicine, public health, and basic sciences?
- What are the definitions and characteristics of biopolitics, and which definition provides the best conceptual tool to address the role of biopolitics in promoting health disinformation?
- How and why did the religious and political ideologies, powers, and figures promote health pseudoscience (with an emphasis on the experiences of Iran, the United States, China, and Germany)?
- What are the components and structure of a bioethical framework for addressing the problem of politically promoted health pseudoscience?
The outcome of my stay will be a book published by an academic publisher. It will provide a bioethical normative framework to address the politically promoted health pseudoscience.
Kiarash Aramesh, M.D., Ph.D., is an associate professor and director of the James F. Drane Bioethics Institute at Pennsylvania Western University (PennWest). A physician specializing in community medicine, Dr. Aramesh also holds a Ph.D. in Healthcare Ethics. Before joining PennWest, he served as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University (2017-2018) and the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (2013-2014). From 2005 to 2017, he served as a faculty member at the Medical Ethics and History of Medicine Research Center at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Dr. Aramesh has authored numerous books and peer-reviewed articles and has delivered numerous invited lectures on bioethical issues. Additionally, he is an expert in Iranian culture and literature, having conducted numerous courses, lectures, and seminars in this field.
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