Institute for Biomedical Ethics, Geneva University Medical School
Philosophy
PhD position in Bioethics
Within the
project ENABLE – Protecting
Vulnerable Persons in Health Care (supervisor: Samia Hurst), the Institute for Biomedical Ethics at the
University of Geneva Medical School is opening one
PhD position for a philosophy doctoral candidate. This project is
funded by
the Swiss National Science Foundation.
In
collaboration with the project
supervisor and within an interdisciplinary team, the successful
candidate’s
work will explore how vulnerability in health care can be defined
analytically,
as well as sources of claims for protection of the vulnerable, how
convincing
they are, and what effect their validity may have on fairness in
resource
allocation decisions. Projected duration for this position is four
years.
Salary is according to the University of Geneva scale (A2
assistant, 70%, approx. 46’000 CHF per annum the first year). Within
this time
frame, the successful candidate will be expected to complete a PhD
thesis in
philosophy under the (co-)supervision of Bernard Baertschi,
on a
topic broadly within the area of normative ethics and/or applied
ethics.
The ideal
candidate should have a
Master’s degree in philosophy or equivalent, including courses in
bioethics,
normative ethics, applied ethics, and/or political philosophy, and at
least
intermediate mastery of written English.
Please send
your CV, a writing
sample, and letter of motivation to: Samia.hurst@unige.ch
Before: August
15th 2009
Any relevant
publications (max. two)
should be attached to the application and will be considered an asset.
Interviews
will be held in
September.
— Dr Samia Hurst Institut d’éthique biomédicale CMU/1 rue Michel Servet 1211 Genève 4 – Switzerland Tel: +4122-3793479 Fax: +4122-3793472 Blog: http://forumethix-ch.blogspot.com/ Homepage: http://ib.unige.ch/SH_homepage.php SGBE-SSEB: http://www.bioethics.ch/content/default.htm
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