International Health Humanities Network Membership

Teodora Manea

Teodora is a University Honorary Fellow at the Medical School, University of Exeter. Since 2010 she has been teaching medical humanities there, focusing on ethics and philosophy. Her Special Study Unit courses “Medicine between the art of enhancement and the duty of therapy”, “From patient to e-health consumer” familiarise medical students with ethical problems raised by new biotechnologies and promises of human enhancement. E-health is another topic preparing medical students for the challenges of new information technologies and an empowered patient who has online access to medical information, treatment, therapies and drugs.

She studied philosophy in Romania and Germany. In 2002 she finished her PhD with a thesis about the theory of categories at the “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania. A significant part of her PhD research was conducted at the University of Constance under the supervision of professor Jürgen Mittelstrass. Between 2000 and 2009 she was senior lecturer specialising in hermeneutics, rhetoric, and philosophy of culture at the “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi. Following her interest in German philosophy she had various postdoctoral research stays in Germany and gave several talks in German Universities and Research Centres: Constance, Hannover, Freiburg, Bonn, Stuttgart and Tubingen. She was member of the first South-Eastern European Bioethics Forum and pioneered the introduction of bioethics as a teaching subject in Romania. With other colleagues from the Faculty for Medicine she edited the first issues of the Romanian Journal of Bioethics. In 2006 she continued the specialisation in bioethics at the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, Tubingen

Between 2010 and 2013 she collaborated with the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Gr. T. Popa” Iasi, Romania within the grant project POSDRU/89/1.5/S/61879 about Ethics and Healthcare Policies. During this project she worked in an interdisciplinary team about the ethical and socio-cultural aspects of medical migration from Romania into Western Europe. This project opened new perspectives for research about care ethics in connection with medical migration. She has been a member of the care ethics network eSOCSCI since 2012 and continues to work on projects connecting care, migration, patients and physicians.

Teodora Manea has worked for the European Commission since 2011 as an ethic expert in project evaluation (FP7).

For family reasons she moved to Exeter in 2007, where she enjoys a vivid family life with children, pets and the provocation of a new academic and social culture.

Publications (selection): The Revival of Categories in Contemporary PhilosophyKant-Reader, Könighausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2004; Catogeries for Bioethics (German) in , Romanian Journal of Bioethics, Vol. 9, No. 3, 2011;Education through Migration, in Romanian Journal for Multidimensional Education, Vol. 4, Nr 3/2012.