Mylène Botbol-Baum, Ph.D. in Philosophy

Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics, faculties of Medicine and Philosophical Sciences
Professor at the Biomedical Ethics Unit (EBIM)
UCL (Université Catholique de Louvain), Brussels, Belgium

    Telephones: 02-764.43.32, secretary: 02-764.43.27
    Fax: 02-764.43.25
    Email:  mylene.botbol@uclouvain.be

Domains of Specialization

Biomedical ethics: Ethics of Public Health, development and capabilities, bioethics epistemology, philosophy of techniques, gender studies, bioethics and feminism, biopolitics, narrative ethics.

Socio-ethics, applied ethics, existentialism, 19th and 20th century French and German phenomenologies, politics, epistemology, philosophy and literature, psychoanalysis, feminism, hermeneutics, Hebraic thought, compared religions.

Current Research Subjects

• Narrative ethics
• Philosophy of techniques
• Bioethics epistemology
• Gender and bioethics
• Biopolitics
• Global bioethics. Principal investigator of Fogarty international Center's bioethics education and career Development award, RFA- TW04001, international collaboration with the University of North Carolina (USA) and the Public Health School of Kinshasa (RDC), 2004-2008, renewed 2008-2012
• Conscience and the "mind-body problem"
• Perinatal euthanasia
• Stem cells
• Human experimentation, HIV/AIDS and human rights, human rights and applied ethics (AIDS, health and development)
• Scientific responsible for the seminar on narrative ethics (Espace éthique, Paris)
• Principle of precaution and ethical expertise
• "Comment promouvoir l’intégration of Soins Continus dans l’institution hospitalière ?", Biomed II The Fifth Framework Program 1998-2002, Quality of Life and living resources ".(nr.du contrat :QLG6-CT-2000-00119)

Professionnal Experience

• Member of the Ethics and Deontology Committee, University of Geneva, Switzerland, since April 2009
• Co-responsible for the HELESI Research Group, IRSS, UCL, since April 2009
• Member of the Europè Center of Practical Philosophy, UCL, since June 2008
• Visiting Scholar, Bioethics Center, Stanford University, USA, February 2007
• Co-opted Professor, faculty of Philosophical Sciences, UCL, January 2006-
• Professor of philosophy, faculty of Medicine, UCL, October 1998-
• Expert on ethics and bioethics for the European Commission, FP6, FP7, since 2002
• Elected Member of the Comité consultatif de bioeéhique de Belgique, 1998, 2000, 2004
• Member of the commission of bioethics of the human rights league
• Member of the international research on palliative care commission
• Research assistant at the Biomedial Ethics Unit, UCL, Brussels, 1995-98
• Participant, Biomed 2 European programme : "Basic Ethical Principles in Bioethics and Biolaw", 1994-98
• Seminar, " Patrimoine génétique, fragment philosophique et épistémologique ", invited guests : Prof H. Atlan, Roussel
• Ethics advisor, palliative car unit, Brugmann University Hospital, Brussels, 1995-
• Monthly seminar: "Pensée de Levinas et philosophy appliquée", Brussels, 1995-98
• Researcher, Biomedial Ethics Unit, UCL, Brussels, 1994-96
• Animator of a seminar on Human Dignityin the framework of the course on Palliative Care at the Brugmann University Hospital, Brussels, 1994-
• Course on Ethics, Centre de Perfectionnement en Soins Infirmiers, A.C.N., Brussels, 1994-96
• Reflexion seminars on "Jewish philosophy and biomedical ethics", Association des Soins Palliatifs, Brussels, 1994-95
• Seminar, "Spiritualité et Médecine", Ecole of Soins Infirmiers (CEPSI) of UCL, Brussels, 1993-95
• Editor in chief of Media Concept (communication company), Brussels, Feb-Dec 1993
• Organizer of the international colloquium dedicated to Emmanuel Levinas, Université Libre of Brussels (ULB), March 28, 1993
• Freelance consultant for the Institutions of European Communities Commission, Brussels, 1992
• Language teacher of English, French, and Hebrew, freelance, Grenoble (France) and Brussels, 1990-92
• Research Assistant, Philosophy Department, Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA, 1988-89
• Project Assistant, Center for XXth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), USA, associate editor of the Journal Discourse, 1986-87
• Teaching Assistant, Philosophy Department, UWM, USA, 1986
• Project Assistant, Hebrew Studies Department, UWM, USA, 1985-86
• Teaching Assistant, French Department, UWM, USA, 1985-87
• Professor of philosophy in 'terminales A et C', Lycée Français of Jerusalem, 1983-84
• Professor of French, Ramah American High School, Jerusalem, Israel, 1983-84
• Professor of French, Givat Washington American High School, Ashdod, Israel, 1983
• Collaborator to the Centre d'Etudes Sartriennes, Jussieu University, Paris VII, 1982-83

Teaching

• Titular or co-titular of the following courses at UCL

Teaching Duties in 2008-2009

EBIM2100	QUEST APPR BIOETHIQUE (A)	Cotit.
EBIM2101	SÉMIN. DE BIOÉTH. ET D'ÉTHIQUE BIOMED.	Cotit.
EBIM2101	SÉMIN. DE BIOÉTH. ET D'ÉTHIQUE BIOMED.	Coordinateur
EBIM2200	QUEST APPR BIOETHIQUE (B)	Cotit.
ESP2114	DROIT ET BIOÉTHIQUE	Cotit.
ESP2144	ÉTHIQUE ET RECHERCHE EN SANTÉ	Cotit.
ESP2144	ÉTHIQUE ET RECHERCHE EN SANTÉ	Coordinateur
ESP2254	DROIT ET ÉTHIQUE	Coordinateur
ESP2254	DROIT ET ÉTHIQUE	Cotit.
FARM1160	NOTIONS DE PHILOSOPHIE	Titul.
FILO2200	FONDEMENTS DE L'ETHIQUE BIOMED	Cotit.
MEDI2135	ENJEUX SOCIAUX & ETHIQUES : SANTE & MED	Cotit.
MEDI2221	FORM.RE.,ENJEUX SOCIAUX & ETHIQU 2,MLEG	Cotit.
MEDI2304	ENJEUX SOCIAUX & ETHIQUES	Cotit.
POLS1231	SEM INTERDISC. D'INTRO. ETUDES DE GENRE	Cotit.
POLS1233	SEMINAIRE INTERDISC ETUDES GENRE	Cotit.
SC2001	INTROD. PHILOSOPHIE CONTEMP.	Titul.
SDEV2117	ETHIQUE EN SANTÉ PUBLIQUE	Cotit.
SDEV2117	ETHIQUE EN SANTÉ PUBLIQUE	Coordinateur

• Supervision of more than 30 final year dissertations in Public Health, between 2000 and 2009.
  
• Promotion of DEA in Public Health

• Félicien Mukandu Basua Babintu, mai 2005
  La problématique éthico-sanitaire de l’enfant de la rue à travers les protocoles de prise en charge . Le cas de la zone de santé de Kasavubu à Kinshasa RDC".
  Pr Mylène Botbol-Baum, co-promoteur Pr Annie Robert.
• Lubangi Muteba Malandala, mars 2006
  Pratique des essais cliniques sur le VIH / Sida : perception des enjeux éthiques par les prestataires de soins congolais (Kinshasa, RDC)".
  Pr Mylène Botbol-Baum, co-promoteur Pr Annie Robert.
• Pascal Kunanji, mai 2008
  Droit et santé au Congo"
  Pr Mylène Botbol-Baum.

• Promotion of PhD theses

• Dr Miran Epstein, June 2002
  “The new medical ethics and the ideology of the health care market”
  The Cohn Institute of the History and Philosophy of Sciences and Ideas, the Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University. Reader.
• Dr Stéphane Leyens, September 2004
  "Explicitation conceptuelle et engagement moral. Prolégomènes à une théorie inférentialiste of la justification"
  Department of Philosophy, UCL. Co-promoter with Pr Bernard Feltz.
• Félicien Mukandu Basua Babintu
  "Enfants des rues de Kinshasa. Approche alternative du development par les capabilités."
  Thesis in Public Health and Bioethics, UCL. Promoter.
• Christine Leclerck, 2007-08
  "Technologie de la reproduction: les capabilités comme modalités concrètes de l'application des droits reproductifs des femmes"
  Thesis in Philosophy and Bioethics, UCL. Promoter.
• Christian Léonard, décembre 2009
  "Parcours de la responsabilité individuelle des patients: du souci de soi à la responsabilisation capacitante."
  Thesis in Public Health and Philosophy, UCL. Co-promoter with Pr M.-Ch. Closon.

Grants, assistantships, fellowships

• NIH Fogarty Grant (June 2004 - June 2007, renewed for 2008-2012) for the international program "Strengthening Bioethics Capacity and Justice in Health",
      Pr. Frida Behets, Univ. North Carolina,
      Pr. Mylène Botbol-Baum, UCL,
      Pr. Okito, Univ. Kinshasa
• Research grants (for bioethics), Thomas More Foundation (Belgium), 1994, 1995, 1996.
• Smith Fellow (USA), doctoral international travel fellowship, 1990-91.
• University Fellow et Research Assistant, Marquette University, WI (USA), 1988-90.
• Research, teaching, and project assistant, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, 1984-87.
• University Fellow et Study grant, Hebraic University of Jerusalem, Israel, 1982-84.

Education

• Ph.D. in Philosophy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, January 1993 : "Heteronomy as Condition for Freedom in the Ethics of Levinas and Sartre." (with the congratulations of the jury).
• M.A. in MAFLL Program (Master of Arts in Foreign Languages and Literature), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, May 1987.
• M.A. in Philosophy, Hebraic University of Jerusalem, Israel, 1984.
• Masters work on "Bariona", by Sartre, at the Centre d'Etudes Sartriennes, Université Paris VII, 1981-82.
• Licence en Philosophie et Lettres (specialization in linguistics et psychoanalysis) at Université Jussieu (Paris VII), Département Sciences des Textes et Documents (STD), 1980-81.
• DEUG at Université Jussieu (Paris VII), Département STD, 1979-80.
• Hypokhâgnes in Amiens, France, 1978–79.

Languages

French, English, Hebrew, Italian, Spanish.