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Title: Dr. Job Title: Egenis Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director Tel: 01392 269129 Fax: 01392 264676 Email: c.hauskeller@exeter.ac.uk Building: Byrne House, Streatham Campus, University of Exeter Room Number: FF13
Having a grounding in Critical Theory I tend to call my area of research and expertise 'Critical Philosophy of the Life Sciences', which covers both my areas of research in conventional terms, philosophy of science and bioethics. I studied Philosophy, Sociology, and Psychoanalysis at the University of Frankfurt on Main (MA in all three disciplines). In 1998 I finished my PhD in philosophy with a book on contemporary modes of conceptualizing the subject (focusing on Michel Foucault and Judith Butler - monograph published 2000, in German).
Engaged in a project on the ethics of stem cell research since, my area of interest shifted toward the philosophy of biomedical science and technology. In collaboration with Professor Wolfgang Bender I completed several ethical and sociological research projects on stem cell science in various interdisciplinary groups in Germany before coming to the UK in 2002.
My current post in Egenis allows linking the different strands of my training, curiosity and professional experience. Presently I concentrate on the mutual interaction between science development, regulation and social and ethical attitudes, with respect in particular to genomics and stem cell research.
I have published broadly in this field and give many talks to discuss my findings with academic and wider public audiences. I also engage with government institutions and advisory activities when possible. Young in terms of the length of my second language career, I achieved theYoung Scholar Award 2006 by the Interdisciplinary Program 'Ethics & Public Life' at Cornell University (NY) for my contributions to debates on stem cell research and the implications of genomic knowledge.
My research investigates the social and epistemic functioning of the life sciences, in particular genomics, stem cell research and artificial life creation. The motivation for the empirically informed research projects I conduct and lead arises principally from the idea that biology and medicine are deeply socially embedded humanities, not natural sciences. The reason is that humans can neither think nor engineer the human mind or body without operating in a circle of self-reference. I am very interested in contributing to a critical theory of the biosciences that is philosophically and politically relevant and empirically informed.
Before I engaged in the philosophy of science and bioethics, I worked on epistemology, postmodernism and feminist theory. My doctoral thesis in Philosophy was on the paradoxical structure of the subject. The respective book (in progress) focuses on Michel Foucault’s and Judith Butler’s work and presents the subtleties required for an adequate understanding of the interaction between the reality and materiality of bodies, of language, and of practices.
In the project Semantic Drift in the Dissemination of Genomics (2002-2007) I have been analyzing the different viewpoints on key concepts in genomics, and have been leading the ESRC-CBAR the project Stem Cell Research in Context. A Comparative Study on the Dynamic Relationship Between Science, Medicine, and Society (funded 2006-2009) where the interplay between governance and science practice is analyzed.
I also work on a project systematization of the social practices evolving around the use of genetic and genomic knowledge and planned and organized the EGN workstream on Genomics and Identity Politics 2008-2009. My paper Human Genomics as Identity Politics (opens as pdf), first presented at the Young Scholars Conference at Cornell University in 2006 and presented here in a revised and updated version, explores some of these themes.
Currently I work on a monograph on genomics and its role in the various politics around human identity. I am also working on projects on fraud in biomedical research, on the biomedical research praxis, and on transgenic organisms and models.
I am supervising the research of the following PhDs: Ayesha Ahmad, Jean Harrington, Maren Klotz, Marco Liverani, Ekiyor Wilson, and (until her recent graduation) Hristina Petkova.
Books and Journal Issues
Hauskeller, C., Bender, W. and Manzei, A., (eds.), Crossing Borders. Grenzüberschreitungen, Münster: Agenda Verlag, 2005.
Hauskeller, C., and Calvert, J., (eds), The Meanings of Genomics, A Special Issue of New Genetics and Society: Vol 23, 3, 2004.
Hauskeller, C., ed., Humane Stammzellen - therapeutische Optionen, ökonomische Perspektiven, mediale Vermittlung, Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers, 2002.
Hauskeller, C., Liebert, W. and Ludwig, H., (eds.) Wissenschaft verantworten. Soziale und ethische Orientierung in der technischen Zivilisation, Münster: Agenda Verlag, 2001.
Hauskeller, C., Das paradoxe Subjekt. Unterwerfung und Widerstand bei Judith Butler und Michel Foucault, Tübingen: edition diskord, 2000.
Hauskeller, C., and Hauskeller, M., (eds.), Was die Welt im Innersten zusammenhält.“ 34 Wege zur Philosophie, Hamburg: Junius, 1996.
Book Chapters
Hauskeller, C. ‘Regulierung der Stammzellforschung – Wie Großbritannien in Verfahren zur Ethischen Urteilsfindung investiert’. In Joerden J. C. (Ed), ‘Stammzellforschung in Europa’ in der Reihe ‘Studien zu Ostmitteleuropa’ Peter Lang Publishers, 2009, pp115-141.
Hauskeller, C., 'Toward a critical evaluation of protocell research', in Bedau, M. and Parke, E. (eds), The Ethics of Protocells: Moral and social implications of creating life in the laboratory, Boston, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009, pp. 307-332.
Hauskeller, C., 'The genetic re-making of human identity and why it should not be trusted', in Photo-ID: Photographers and Scientists explore identity, Norwich: Norfolk Contemporary Art Society, 2009, pp. 37-49.
Hauskeller C., 'Menschenwürde, Freiheit der Forschung und Missbrauchsgefahr', in Berlin-Brandenburgische Academie of the Sciences (eds), Stem Cell Supplement to the Gentechnology Report, 2006, pp.141-164.
Hauskeller, C., 'Verteidigung des abhängigen Subjekts oder Warum es gewaltlose Ethik nicht gibt', in Haker, H. and Konnertz, U. (eds), Ethik, Geschlecht, Wissenschaft, Paderborn: mentis Verlag, 2005, pp. 43-61.
Hauskeller, C., 'Introduction', in Bender/Hauskeller/Manzei (eds.), Crossing Borders. Grenzüberschreitungen, Münster: Agenda Verlag, 2005, pp. 9-24.
Hauskeller, C., 'The language of stem cell science', in Bender/Hauskeller/Manzei (eds.), Crossing Borders. Grenzüberschreitungen, Münster: Agenda Verlag, 2005, pp. 39-60.
Hauskeller, C., 'Stammzellforschung und Menschenwürde', in Kettner, M. (ed), Politik und Menschenwürde, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2004.
Hauskeller, C., 'Das Forschungsfeld Humane Stammzellen', in Bender, W. and Schmidt, J. (eds), Zukunftsorientierte Wissenschaft. Prospektive Wissenschafts- und Technikbewertung, Münster: Agenda Verlag, 2004, 173-184.
Hauskeller, C., 'Natur als Grenzbegriff kultureller Machbarkeit', in Höll, O. and Maurer, M. (eds), Natur als Politikum, Wien: RLI-Verlag, 2003, pp.175-194.
Hauskeller, C., with Bender, W., 'Der Stammzelldiskurs - Kriterien der Technikbewertung', in Mensch, K. and Schmidt, J. (eds), Elfenbeinturm oder Stimmzettel. Zur Demokratiefähigkeit von Zukunftstechnologien, Opladen: Leske und Budrich, 2003, pp. 179-196.
Hauskeller, C., 'Bedeutung erzeugen und neutralisieren. Die Macht der Sprache', in Hauskeller, C. (ed), Humane Stammzellen. Therapeutische Optionen. ökonomische Perspektiven, mediale Vermittlung, Lengerich: Pabst Sience Publishers, 2002, pp. 230-238.
Hauskeller, C., 'Wissenschaftliche Konstruktionen, ärztliches Selbstverständnis und ethische Bewertung', in Nacke, B. and Ernst, S. (eds), Das Ungeteiltsein des Menschen, Mainz: Grünewald, 2002, pp. 55-70.
Hauskeller, C., 'Subjekt, BioMacht und Widerstand - Butler und Foucault. Eine Skizze', in Kollek, R. and Kuhlmann, E. (eds), Konfigurationen des Menschen. Biowissenschaften als Arena der Geschlechterpolitik, Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 2002, pp. 155-168.
Hauskeller, C., 'Sprache und Diskursstruktur. Ethische Implikationen und gesellschaftliche Kontexte der Stammzellforschung', in Oduncu, F., Schroth, U. and Vossenkuhl, W. (eds.), Stammzellenforschung und therapeutisches Klonen, Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Rupprecht, 2002, pp. 103-118.
Articles
Wilson-Kovacs, D., Weber, S., Hauskeller, C. ’Autologous Stem Cell Clinical Trials in Heart Repair: Regulation as Interactional Accomplishment’, Sociology of Health and Illness 32(1), 2010.
Samusch, T., Budiner, I., Weber, S., Busch, A., Knappertsbusch, F., Schlüter, E., Hauskeller, C. and Krones T., ‘Ansichten von in Deutschland arbeitenden Wissenschaftlern in der Stammzellforschung zur Lage der Stammzellforschung in Deutschland’, Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Ethik, vol 13, 2009, pp 237-262.
Krones, T., Samusch, T., Weber, S., Budiner, I., Busch, A., Knappertsbusch, F., Schlüter, E. and Hauskeller, C. 'Brain Drain in der Stammzellforschung? Erste Ergebnisse einer Befragung von Wissenschaftlern zur Lage der Stammzellforschung in Deutschland', Invited expert paper for Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Special Issue on Stem Cell Research, 51, 2008, pp. 1039-1049.
Hauskeller, C. and Harrington, J. ‘The death of the Frankenbunny?’ Reply to the Response of the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics. The Newsletter of the ESRC Genomics Network, Issue 8, 2008, pp: 28 – 30.
Harrington, J. and Hauskeller, C., ‘The death of the Frankenbunny?’ The Newsletter of the ESRC Genomics Network, Issue 7, 2008, pp: 15-17.
Hescheler, J. and Hauskeller C. 'Von der Grundlagenforschung in die Klinik: Probleme und Möglichkeiten der Stammzelltherapie', Invited expert paper for Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Special Issue on Stem Cell Research, Summer 2008, pp. 1014-1021.
Hauskeller, C., ‘ Human Genomics as Identity Politics ’, Young Scholar Award Paper, Cornell University Center for Ethics & Public life, 2006, peer reviewed online publication
Hauskeller, C., 'Science in Touch. Functions of biomedical terminology', Biology and Philosophy, 20(4), 2005, pp. 815-835.
Hauskeller, C., 'Überlegungen zur Institutionalisierung moralischer Entscheidungsprozesse in der Klinik', Erwägen Wissen Ethik, 16(1), 2005, pp. 33-35.
Hauskeller, C., 'Genes, Genomes and Identity. Projections on Matter', New Genetics and Society, 23(3), 2004, pp. 285-299.
Hauskeller, C., 'How traditions of ethical reasoning and institutional processes shape stem cell research in the UK', Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 29(5), 2004, pp. 509-532.
Hauskeller, C., 'Subjekt und Folter', Scheidewege. Jahresschrift für skeptisches Denken, 31, 2002, pp. 212-231.
Hauskeller, C., 'Menschenwürde und Biotechnologie', Jahrbuch für Arbeit und Menschenwürde. Bis hierher und noch weiter?, 3, 2002, pp. 89-102.
Hauskeller, C., 'Die Stammzellforschung. Sachstand und ethische Problemstellungen', Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, B 27, 29.6., 2001, pp. 7-16.
Hauskeller, C., 'Die Stammzellforschung und das ärztliche Selbstverständnis', ETHICA. Wissenschaft und Verantwortung, 8(4), 2000, pp. 367-384.
Reviews
Hauskeller, C., 'Performativer Widerstand oder mehr?', review of Isabell Lorey, Theoretische und politische Konsequenzen eines juridischen Machtmodells. Judith Butler, edition diskord, in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophy, 45, (6) 1997: pp. 994-997.
Hauskeller, C., Review of Sybille Tönnies, Der Westliche Universalismus. Eine Verteidigung klassischer Positionen, Westdeutscher Verlag, in Rechtstheorie, 27, (2) 1996: pp. 264-270.
Hauskeller, C., 'Hedonistischer Feminismus', review of Karin Ludewig, Die Wiederkehr der Lust. Körperpolitik nach Foucault und Butler, Campus Verlag, in GESNERUS Swiss Journal of the History of Medicine and Science, : pp. 126-127.
Conference Papers
Wilson-Kovacs, D. and Hauskeller, C. ' The (re)production of regulation: The clinical implementation of adult stem cell treatments in the UK and Germany, EGN conference, Cardiff 7-9 October 2009.
Wilson-Kovacs, D. and Hauskeller, C. ' Professional roles and self understanding in stem cell research for heart repair: The challenges of collaborative enterprise', BSA Medical conference, University of Manchester, 4 September 2009) Hauskeller, C. ‘Regulating populations: access to ART?’ Negotiating Identity: Objects and Methods of Reproduction in 20th Century Life Sciences Workshop, Egenis/Max Plank Institute, Exeter, 3 April 2009.
Weber, S., Wilson-Kovacs, D, and Hauskeller, C. ‘Regulatory Landscapes: Comparing the Regulation of Novel Cell Therapies in Germany and the UK’, Invited talk at the Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham, 27 November 2008.
Hauskeller, C. ‘Genome knowledge and species identity’, EGN Conference London, 27 October 2008
Hauskeller, C. ‘Bioscience, Regulation, and the Borders of Humanity’, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie Congress, Düsseldorf, 18 September 2008.
Wilson-Kovacs, D., Harrington, J., Weber, S., and Hauskeller, C. ‘Making Sense of Clinical Trials Using Autologous Stem Cells for Heart Repair’, BSA Medical Sociology Annual Conference, Sussex, 5 September 2008.
Wilson-Kovacs, D., Weber, S., and Hauskeller, C. ‘Recycling Cells and Making Cakes in Britain and Germany: The Regulatory Shaping of Stem Cell Applications in Cardiac Repair’ Acting with Science, Technology and Medicine, 4S/EASST Annual Meeting, Rotterdam, 23 August 2008
Weber, S., Wilson-Kovacs, D., and Hauskeller, C. ‘The Regulation of Autologous Stem Cell Therapies: Comparing the UK and Germany’, First International Conference of the Tiss.EU Project, Goettingen, 27 July 2008.
Hauskeller, C. ‘Molecular ultimacy? Changing understandings of pluripotency’ Cellular Spaces: A CBAR Workshop on Cells, Egenis, Exeter, 1 July 2008.
Hauskeller, C., 'The inherent normativity of Biosciences, Commentary on Adam Bostanci', Egenis Human Nature and Variation Workshop, 22 April 2008.
Wilson-Kovacs, D., Weber S., and Hauskeller, C. ‘Stem Cell Research Agendas: Regulation as Culture in Practice’, Genomics and Society: Setting the Agenda International Conference, Centre for Society and Genomics and EGN-Network, Amsterdam, 18 April 2008.
Hauskeller, C., 'Science policy effects on scientific creativity: German and Japanese innovations in pluripotency', Genomics and Society: Setting the Agenda, Centre for Society and Genomics and EGN-Network, Amsterdam, 17-18 April 2008.
Hauskeller, C., 'Knowledge Criteria in Stem Cell Science', Plenary Speech at Launch Conference UK Stem Cell Network, Edinburgh, 10 April 2008. Hauskeller, C., 'Identity depends on recognition. Judith Butler’s theory of the subject', Commentary on Jenny Reardon at Policing Genes Workshop, 14 March 2008.
Hauskeller, C. ‘The Battle over Ethics and Regulation’, Battle of Ideas, Podium Discussion, London, 26 October 2007
Wilson-Kovacs, D., Weber, S. and Hauskeller, C. (2007) ‘In and beyond the Laboratory: A Comparative Perspective on the Regulation of Stem Cell Research Practices in a Trans-National Context’ Genomics and Society: Today's Answers, Tomorrow's Questions, EGN Conference, 25 October 2007.
Hauskeller, C., 'Genomforschung und die Formierung von Identitäten', University Talk Series: Current Problems of Medical Ethics, University of Münster, 17 April 2007.
Hauskeller, C., 'Ethics on the Lab Floor', Stem Cell Festival, University of Cardiff, 22 March 2007.
Hauskeller, C., 'Ethical Foundations, Plenary Comment', Conference 'Governing Genomics', University of Exeter, Egenis, 27 January 2007.
Hauskeller, C., 'Umbilical Cord Blood and Fetal Stem Cells - Politics', ESRC CBAR Workshop: The Regulation of SC Research, University of Exeter, Egenis, 24 January 2007.
Hauskeller, C., 'The Special Status of the Human Embryo', ESRC CBAR Workshop: The Regulation of SC Research, University of Exeter, Egenis, 23 January 2007.
Hauskeller, C., 'Values and Social Change: Evaluation of SC Science. Germany and the UK', ELSA Conference European Cultural Perspectives, University of Basel, 19-21 November 2006.
Hauskeller, C., 'Moral Imperialism - the policing of gobal stem cell science', PROPEUR Final Conference, Centre for Global Ethics, University of Birmingham, 22 September 2006.
Hauskeller, C., 'Genomics as a border construction tool', Vital Politics II, London School of Economics, BIOS, 9 September 2006.
Hauskeller, C., 'Moral Imperialism - scientific and ethical norms in global stem cell science', Stem Cells on the Global Assembly Line, Wellcome Trust Centre, London, 18 May 2006.
Hauskeller, C., 'The Language of Stem Cell Science and genomics and the politics of human identity', Award Conference of the Programme for Ethics & Public Life, Cornell University, Ithaca, 21 April 2006.
Hauskeller, C., 'Human genomics as identity politics', British Academy Brighton, Institute for the History of Science, 11 April 2006.
Hauskeller, C., 'Genomics and identity politics', PEALS Seminar, Newcastle Centre for Life, 8 March 2006.
Hauskeller, C., 'The meaning of cloning or negotiating biomedical terminology', BA Network on Cross-Cultural Metaphor Research, Nottingham, IGBIS, 9 December 2005.
Hauskeller, C., 'International Structures of Stem Cell Science and Politics', Genomics in Context, University of Exeter, Egenis, 28-30 October 2005.
Hauskeller, C., 'Benefits from and Problems with Interdisciplinarity', Wie funktioniert Bioethik?, Interdepartmental Centre for Ethics in the Sciences, Tübingen, 6-8 October 2005.
Hauskeller, C., 'Genosemantics Research in Egenis', Interdisciplinary Working Group on Science, Technology and Security, Darmstadt, 5 October 2005.
Hauskeller, C., 'Critical Reflections on the Biomedical Creation of Life', Social and Ethical Issues in Protocell Research, European Centre for Living Technology Workshop, Venice, 2 October 2005.
Hauskeller, C., 'Genomic Technologies and Identity Politics', ISHPSSB Biennial Conference, Guelph,Canada, 14 July 2005.
Hauskeller, C., 'On International Stem Cell Politics', Global Ecological Integrity Network Annual Meeting, Venice, 30 June 2005.
Hauskeller, C., 'Stem Cell Science and Policies Globally', IGBIS Seminar, Nottingham, 2 June 2005.
Hauskeller, C., 'The scientific and public debate on stem cell medicine in Germany and the', History & Ethics of Human Reproduction & Embryo Research, Durham Centre for Medical History, 10 December 2004.
Hauskeller, C., 'Stem Cell Science and its Regulation Internationally', New York Consortium on Science and Society, New York University, 26 October 2004.
Hauskeller, C., 'Can genomics reassure human identity?', Ethics in the Life Sciences, APA, University of Delaware, Newark, 22-24 October 2004.
'Human self-understanding and ethics: obstacles for progress in medical technology?', Eucomed General Assembly, Workshop: Medical Technology, Radisson Hotel, Prague, 7-8 October 2004.
Hauskeller, C., 'Language of biomedicine and the social meaning of the science', Language, Culture, and Mind. Metaphors Workshop, University of Portsmouth, 21 July 2004.
Hauskeller, C., 'The influence of different traditions of ethical reasoning on policy making', Human Good: Dignity, Equality and Diversity, 11th Symposium of the IAPh, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 16-19 June 2004.
Hauskeller, C., 'Everything you always wanted to know about stem cells', Egenis Seminar, University of Exeter, 16 March 2004.
Hauskeller, C., 'Projections on Matter and Genetic Exceptionalism. 2 Egenis Projects', Representing Genes Workshop II, Pittsburgh, 20-22 February 2004.
Hauskeller, C., 'Stem cell research in Germany. The umbilical cord blood case', Genetics and Society Day, Cardiff, 11 February 2004.
Hauskeller, C., 'Genes, Genomes and Identity. Experiences and the Meaning of Matter', Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, Berlin, 21 January 2004.
Hauskeller, C., 'Regulatory policies and ethical cultures. Stem cell research and medicine', Lectures on Stem Cell Medicine, International University Bremen, 4 December 2003.
Hauskeller, C., 'Genes and personal identity. Projections on matter', Conference “The Meanings of Genomics”, Egenis, Exeter, 20 November 2003.
Hauskeller, C., 'Konzeptionen von Subjekt. Die Frage nach dem Körper in der Ethik', Conference “Gender, Science, and Ethics”, Centre for Science and Ethics, Tübingen, 2-4 October 2003.
Hauskeller, C., 'A Pool of Humanoid Materials. Stem Cell Research and Therapy Re-Considered', SLSA Conference “All about Eve”, Nottingham, 2 September 2003.
Hauskeller, C., 'Facts and values. Biological language moving the boundaries', International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Vienna, 17-20 August 2003.
Hauskeller, C., 'Ethische Probleme einer Stammzellmedizin', Deine Zellen für Dich, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Munich, 28 March 2003.
Dissemination
Policy reports and proceedings
Grießler E., Hauskeller C., Lehner D., Metzler I., Pichelstorfer A. and Szyma A., Stammzellen und Embryonenschutz: Status quo, Rechtsvergleich und öffentliche Debatte am Beispiel ausgewählter europäischer Staaten, for Austrian Bioethics Commission, Vienna: Institute for Advanced Studies, September 2008.
Hauskeller, C., Stem cell and embryo research in the United Kingdom: Scientific, legal and public policy developments, for Austrian Bioethics Commission, Bundesregierung, June 2008.
Educational Activities
‘Human Embryos or Hybrids?’ Christine Hauskeller and Jean Harrington have developed an educational role-play, used for teaching ethics in the Peninsula Medical School. The role-play involves students in ethical decision-making processes and provides a practical introduction to the ethical implications of current stem cell science.
Forthcoming publications
Hauskeller, C., ‘Moral Imperialism - stem cell regulation as test case for the rule of global ethics over local values’, in Campbell, A.V. and Capps, B. (eds), Bioethics and the Global Politics of Stem Cell Science: Medical Applications in a Pluralisatic World, Imperial College Press and World Scientific Publishing, London, 2010.
Weber, S., Wilson-Kovacs, D., and Hauskeller, C., ‘The Regulation of Autologous Stem Cell Therapies: Comparing the UK and Germany’ Ethical and Legal Aspects of Research with Human Tissue in Europe, Conference Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Tiss.EU Project, 2009.
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