Dr Weronika Chańska

 

weronika.chanska@uj.edu.pl

 

PhD, is a graduate of the Centre for Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities, Warsaw University with a master’s degree in philosophy and a graduate from the Helsinki Foundation School for Human Rights. Since 2008 an assistant professor at the Jagiellonian University Medical College.  She is a member of Bioethics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2011) and a member of executive board of the Polish Unit of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics (since 2013). Snice 2017 the president of the first instance of the Disciplinary Court of Association of the Employers’ Union of Innovative Pharmaceutical Companies INFARMA.  She is the author of ‘Nieszczęsny dar życia’ [The Unfortunate Gift of Life] (Warsaw, 2009) and  “(Nie)poradność systemowa. Praktyka poradnictwa genetycznego towarzyszącego diagnostyce prenatalnej” [Systemic (In)Capacity. On Genetic Counselling Accompanying Prenatal Diagnostics] (2022).  She is a co-editor of ‘Bioethics’ (2013). In 2009 she was a nominee for “The Polish Woman of the Year” (in science).

Main areas of interest:

End of life ethics

Ethical and social aspects of prenatal diagnosis

Sexual ethics

Research ethics

Selected publications:

Books:

  • “(Nie)poradność systemowa. Praktyka poradnictwa genetycznego towarzyszącego diagnostyce prenatalnej”, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 2022.
  • “Bioetyka” pod red. Joanny Różyńskiej i Weroniki Chańskiej, Wolters Kluwer Polska, Warszawa 2013.
  • “Bioetyka w zawodzie lekarza” pod red. Weroniki Chańskiej i Jana Hartmana, Wolters Kluwer Polska, Warszawa 2010.
  • “Nieszczęsny dar życia. Filozofia i etyka jakości życia w medycynie współczesnej”, Monografie FNP: Seria Humanistyczna, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław 2009 – available in Polish in Open Access: >>>

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