Eduardo Diaz-Amado, MA Durham

Durham University, Queen's Campus
Wolfson Research Institute
University Boulevard
Stockton-on-Tees
United Kingdom
TS17 6BH

Email eduardo.diaz-amado@durham.ac.uk

Research Interests

Current research project

Bioethization and Juridification of Medicine in Colombia in the context of the health care reform of 1993

Other research interests

Philosophy of Medicine, Clinical Bioethics, Medical Ethics, Medicine & Society, and Medicine & Literature.

Curriculum Vitae

• Born in Santander, Colombia.
  Medicine. National University of Colombia, Bogotá. 1994.
• Postgraduate studies in Bioethics (Specialization). El Bosque University, Bogotá. 1996.
• BA in Philosophy & Literature. Los Andes University, Bogotá. 2005. Dissertation: The Contemporary Medical Practice: Knowledge, Power and Ethics. An overview based on Foucault (Original in Spanish).
• MA in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. University of Durham, UK, 2007-08. Dissertation: Notions of good doctoring, with special reference to Colombia before and after the health care reform legislation of 1993.
• Between 1994 and 2003 I worked as emergency room doctor in different hospitals in Bogotá.
• Since 2002 I am researcher and lecturer at the Bioethics Institute, Javeriana University, in Bogotá.