About us

Goals

The goal of CMHB is to become a locally, and nationally and internationally leading centre within medical humanities and bioethics. CMHB’s tasks include:

• To initiate and engage in research and research seminars in the medical humanities and bioethics, and to initiate and engage in research that centre on questions that arise in the intersection between the humanities, the social sciences, and biomedicine.
• To promote innovation and openness across research areas and faculties, and strengthen collaboration, locally, regionally, nationally and internationally, within and of relevance for the medical humanities and bioethics.
• To strengthen education within the medical humanities and bioethics.

Organisation

CMHB consists of colleagues from all faculties at Linköping University, and of colleagues from Region Östergötland. The director is responsible for the executive and everyday activities, together with CMHB’s co-ordinator.

The board of CMHB comprises the chair Anette Wickström, associate professor at the Department of Thematic Studies: Child Studies, LiU, vice chair Peter Garvin, research strategy officer at Region Östergötland, and the board members Marit Karlsson, adjunct senior lecturer at the Department of Health, Medicine, and the Caring Sciences, LiU, and senior consultant in palliative medicine at Region Östergötland, Klaus Hoeyer, Professor at Copenhagen University, Bjørn Hofmann, Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the University of Oslo, and PhD student representative Rebecka Tiefenbacher, at the Department of Thematic Studies: Child Studies, LiU. The board also comprise Per Gyberg, Head of the Department of Thematic Studies that host CMHB (adjunct board member), the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Lena Jonasson (adjunct board member) and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Ulf Melin (adjunct board member).

The Department of Thematic Studies is CMHB’s host department.