Henk Jochemsen

Dr. Henk Jochemsen (1952) studied Molecular Biology at the Agricultural University in Wageningen. The work for his PhD thesis concerned a subject in pre-clinical cancer research at the State University in Leiden (1979). From 1980-1986 he and his family pioneered in studentwork in Paragu­ay with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. In addition to the student work dr. Jochemsen held the chair in Molecular Biology at the National University in Asunción for five years, and taught Christian Ethics at a Bible College in Asunción for two years.

After his return to the Netherlands (1986) he got involved in the Prof.dr. G.A. Linde­boom Institute, a private centre for medical ethics that was being founded at that time. Since 1987 he is the director of this Institute. In this capacity he has written and (co)edited articles, reports and books, mainly in Dutch, but also in English, German and Spanish. He is a member of the ethics commission of the Federation of Associations of Patients with Congenital Diseases, and advisor of a few other organisations in health care in the Nether­lands . As an ethicist he was involved in the national debate on predictive genetics in the mid nineties and in the debate on cloning in the late nineties and he has been consulted on medical ethical matters both nationally and internationally.

Since the beginning of 1996 he is coordinating the research at another private ethical institute, the Institute for Culture Ethics, at Amers­foort , that is involved in research on ICT (in education and the media), sustainable development and business ethics.

Since January 1, 1998 he holds the Lindeboom chair for medical ethics at the Free University in Amsterdam .

Since 1 september 2002 he is part time lector (cf. professor) ethics of care at the Ede Christian College for higher professional education.

Currently he is an Advisory Board member of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity ( Trinity International Universi­ty , Bannockburn , IL ) and a member of the European Editorial Board of `Ethics and Medicine'.

Some publications

H Jochemsen.
Gevaarlijke genen ?? Rede uitgesproken bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van bijzonder hoogleraar vanwege de Stichting Prof.dr. G.A. Lindeboom Instituut opde bij de faculteit der geneeskunde van de Vrije Universiteit gevestigde bijzondere leerstoel voor medische ethiek
op 3 juni 1998. Amsterdam: VU-uitgeverij 1998.

H. Jochemsen.
Bezinning op beelden in biotech en ICT. In: K. Boersema, J. van der Stoep, M. Verkerk, A. Vlot (red.). Aan Babels stromen. Bevrijdend perspectief op ethiek en techniek .
Amsterdam: Buijten & Schipperheijn 2002: 77-90.

H Jochemsen.
Hoe humaan is het humaan genoom project  ?
Radix 26 (2000) nr. 3, p.137-158.

H Jochemsen.
Medical genetics: its presuppositions, possibilities and problems.
In: C. Romano, G. Grassani (red.). Bioetica. Turijn:UTET 1995:291-308.

H Jochemsen.
The fallacy of reducing people to genetics, in: JF Kilner et al. (ed). Genetic ethics: do the ends justify the genes?
Grand Rapids : Eerdmans/Paternoster Press 1997.

H Jochemsen.
Is cloning compatible with human rights and human dignity? In: Wagner T, Carbone L. Fifty years after the declaration. The United Nations' record on human rights.
New York : University of America Press 2001, p.33-43.

H. Jochemsen (ed.) (with contributions of E Garcia, A Meir, R Harris and H Jochemsen).
Human stem cells: source of hope and controversy. A study of the ethics of stem cell research and the patenting of related inventions
Ede/Jerusalem: Prof.dr. G.A. Lindeboom Institute/ Business ethics center of Jerusalem , 2003.

H. Jochemsen.
Biotech and public policy – the European debate. In: Charles Colson, Nigel M. de S. Cameron (eds). Human dignity in the biotech century
Downers Grove , Ill. :Intervarsity Press 2004: 200-220 .