Dominik Gross

Who is Dominik Gross?

Dominik Gross is a German bioethicist and historian of medicine. He is Professor and Director of the Institute of History, Theory and Ethics in Medicine at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

Gross studied dentistry and medicine at Saarland University and the University of Ulm as well as history, philosophy and archeology at Saarland University. After completing his habilitation thesis in history, theory and ethics of medicine at the University of Wurzburg, Bavaria, he worked as a lecturer at the Universities of Wurzburg, Ratisbon and Ulm. In June 2005 he was appointed full professor of History, Theory and Ethics in Medicine at the RWTH Aachen. Since October 2005 he is director of the Institute of History, Theory and Ethics in Medicine of the same university. Besides, he is visiting professor at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

He is a member of the Ethics Group of the IDEA League and editor of different book series at Lit Publishers, Muenster, London, New York, and at Campus, Frankfurt, New York.