Prof. Ilhan IlkilicProf. Ilhan Ilkilic

Chair Department of History of Medicine and Ethics
Istanbul University Istanbul Faculty of Medicine

Istanbul, Turkey

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Biography

Ilhan Ilkilic MD Ph.D has studied medicine, philosophy, Islamic science and oriental philology in Istanbul, Bochum and Tübingen (Germany). He did his philosophical doctoral thesis ‘Medical Ethical Aspects of Muslim understanding of Illness in a multicultural Society’, at the Tübingen University and Ruhr University Bochum. He was guest scholar at the Georgetown University (Kennedy Institute of Ethics) (1999) and at the Duke University, Institute for Genome Science and Policy, Durham (USA 2008). He was coordinator of the project “Public Health Genetics. Development, Conception, Normative Evaluation” supported by the German Ministry of Science and Education (2005-2008). He was lecturer at the Institute for History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine of Mainz Medical Faculty at the Johannes Gutenberg University (2008-2012). He wrote his Habilitation-Thesis ‘Ethical Aspects of Medical Decisions at the End of Life in an Intercultural Context’ at the same University. He was guest Professor at the Frankfurt University.

He is a member on many committees, including German Ethics Council, the Central Ethics Committee at the German Medical Association, the Advisory Group on Cultural Contexts of Health and Well-being WHO, the Bioethics Commission of the Federal State Rhineland-Palatinate (2009-2011); the Clinical Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty of University of Mainz (2005-2012). His special interests include history of medical ethics, genetics and ethics, intercultural medical ethics, Islamic medical ethics and ethical issues at the beginning and end of life.

He was director of Institute for Health Sciences of the Istanbul University (2016-2019) and he is currently professor and chair of the Department of History of Medicine and Ethics at the Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine.

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Medicine & Health

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https://istanbul.academia.edu/ILHANILKILIC

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