Christine Clavien is an ethicist and a philosopher of science. After a thesis on evolutionary ethics conjunctly conducted at the Universities of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and Paris I, and a post-doctoral fellowship at Columbia University (New York), she worked as post-doc, then as junior lecturer at the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Lausanne, before joining Geneva University in 2015. She is faculty member of the Institute for Ethics, History and the Humanities (iEH2), first as senior lecturer, then as Associate Professor since 2022.
She is an active member of the National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics, of the University Commission for Ethical Research in Geneva (CUREG), and of the working group « Planification anticipée concernant la santé ».
RESEARCH
Medical ethics (e.g. assignment of responsibilities, patient-health professional relationship, end-of-life issues)
Descriptive ethics (evolution of moral competencies, moral motivation, moral intuitions and judgment, altruism and helping behavior)
Ethics of the nudges
Research integrity
Head of the "Science and Ethics" research group
Member of the research group "Biomedical Ethics"
TEACHING
- Responsible for the following courses :
- « Bioéthique » (with Samia Hurst)
- « Introduction à l’éthique appliquée »
- « Science and Ethics: Inputs from Neuroscience, Genetics and Evolution », (with Samia Hurst)
- « Trucs et astuces des débats de société – application à des questions de bioéthique »,
- « Zone grise entre science et pseudo-science »
- Teaching duties in
- biomedical ethics program, Medical Faculty
- various post-graduate programs
- Member of the steering committee for the doctoral program “Sciences biomédicales, mention bioéthique”
- Supervision of master students in medicine & in philosophy
- Supervision of PhD students in the Philosophy doctoral program & in the “Sciences biomédicales, mention bioéthique” doctoral program
PUBLICATIONS
Publications since in Geneva: Archive ouverte
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