Department

Philosophy, History and Law

Biography

Thomas Schramme is a philosopher by training and specializes in the philosophy of psychiatry, concepts of health and disease and ethical issues in health care. He is course director of the MA Medical Humanities and teaches philosophy of medicine and medical ethics on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. He is also a visiting lecturer at Zurich University. Before starting his studies at Frankfurt University and Free University Berlin, he worked with people with intellectual disabilities and mental illnesses.

External Activity

Member of the Clinical Ethics Committee Singleton Hospital, Swansea

Editorial Board Membership

• Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
  
• Philosophical Practice
  
• Journal für Philosophie und Psychiatrie

Peer Review

• Member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's (UK) Peer Review College
• Journal of Medical Ethics
• Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy
• Res Publica
  
• Nursing Philosophy
• Swiss National Fund
• de Gruyter (publisher)

Research Grants

2007, Visiting Fellowship, Leverhulme Trust, £26,260

Selected Publications

Books (single-authored)

Gerechtigkeit und soziale Praxis, Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag 2006. 274pp.

Bioethik, Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag 2002. (translation into Japanese.) 160pp.

Patienten und Personen. Zum Begriff der psychischen Krankheit, Fischer Tb-Verlag, Frankfurt 2000. (Reissued under the title Psychische Krankheit aus philosophischer Sicht, Gießen: Psychosozial Verlag 2003.) 256pp.

Editions

Lennart Nordenfelt's theory of health (Thematic section), Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy: A European Journal 10 (1), 2007

Ecological Goals and Liberal Ideals: Harmony or Conflict, Analyse & Kritik 28 (2), 2006

Philosophy and Psychiatry (eds.: Thomas Schramme and Johannes Thome), deGruyter 2004. 391pp.

Extraordinary Times (eds.: Stephen Dawson, Jyoti Mistry, Thomas Schramme, and Michael Thurman), Junior Fellows Conferences, Vol. XI, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna 2001.

Articles

Should We Prevent Voluntary Mutilation and Extreme Body Modification? Bioethics 22 (1), 2008, 8-15.

Rationaler Suizid, in Jann E. Schlimme (ed.), Unentschiedenheit und Selbsttötung: Vergewissserungen der Suizidalität, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2007, 29-49.

The Significance of the Concept of Disease for Health Care Justice, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 28, 2007, 121-135.

A Qualified Defence of a Naturalist Theory of Health, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 10 (1), 2007, 11-17.

Is Rawlsian Justice Bad For the Environment? Analyse & Kritik 28 (2), 2006, 146-157.

Editorial, Analyse & Kritik 28 (2), 2006, 120-123.

Begründungsmodelle des Sozialstaats, Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 92 (3), 2006, 322-334.

Psychische Krankheit in wissenschaftlicher und lebensweltlicher Perspektive, in: Christoph S. Herrmann, Michael Pauen, Jochem W. Rieger und Silke Schicktanz (eds.), Bewusstsein: Philosophie, Neurowissenschaften, Ethik, München: UTB 2005, 383-406.

Ist eine objektive Beurteilung von Lebensqualität möglich? in: Sigrid Graumann, Katrin Grüber (eds.), Anerkennung, Ethik und Behinderung. Beiträge aus dem Institut Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft Bd. 2, Münster: LIT Verlag 2005, 87-97.

Coercive Threats and Offers in Psychiatry, in: Thomas Schramme and Johannes Thome (eds.), Philosophy and Psychiatry, DeGruyter 2004, 357-369.

The Legacy of Antipsychiatry, in: Thomas Schramme and Johannes Thome (eds.), Philosophy and Psychiatry, DeGruyter 2004, 94-119.
Behinderung. Absolute oder relative Einschränkung des Wohlergehens? Ethik in der Medizin 3/2003.

Die Anmaßung der Gleichheitsvoraussetzung, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 2/2003, 255-273.

Psychische Behinderung: Natürliches Phänomen oder soziales Konstrukt? in: Günther Cloerkes (ed.), Wie man behindert wird, Heidelberg: C. Winter Verlag 2003, 53-81.

Natürlichkeit als Wert, Analyse & Kritik 2/2002, 249-271.

Is it Bad to Have a Disease? in: Antje Gimmler, Christian Lenk, Gerhard Aumüller (eds.), Health and Quality of Life. Philosophical, Medical, and Cultural Aspects, Münster: LIT-Verlag 2002, 61-67.

Tainted Humanity. The Dilemma of Military Interventions, in: Stephen Dawson, Jyoti Mistry, Thomas Schramme and Michael Thurman (eds.), Extraordinary Times, Junior Fellows Conferences, Vol. XI, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna 2001.