• Publications

    Selected Publications

    Journal Articles

    • (2024) Mainka, C.: Das Schichtenkonzept kontextabhängiger Vulnerabilität im Gesundheitswesen. Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie, Special Issue: A Feminist Bioethics turn? Aktuelle Entwicklungen feministischer Perspektiven in der deutschsprachigen Medizinethik. doi.org/10.1007/s42048-024-00205-1
    • (2023) Mainka, C., Letsch, A., Schmalz, C., Bozzaro, C.: Soziale Vulnerabilität am Beispiel der Krebstherapie. Ethik in der Medizin 35, 377–387. 
      doi.org/10.1007/s00481-023-00770-w
  • Research

    Research Focus

    • concepts of vulnerability
    • phenomenology of the body
    • feminist medical ethics
    • philosophy of technology
  • Background

    Academic Career

    since 2024
    Research assistant at the Institute for Ethics, History, and Theory of Medicine, University of Münster / Münster University Hospital

    2023−2024
    Research assistant at the Institute for Experimental Medicine, Medical Ethics working group at Christian Albrecht University of Kiel / Schleswig-Holstein University Hospital, Campus Kiel

    since 2021
    PhD candidate in Medical Ethics on the topic of social vulnerabilities in the interdisciplinary project KUSS (“establishment of a culturally and diversity-sensitive screening instrument for social vulnerabilities in joint cancer treatment planning”) at Schleswig-Holstein University Hospital, Campus Kiel

    2013−2021
    Studies of  Philosophy (Master of Arts) and Ancient Greek  (Bachelor of Arts) at Christian Albrecht University (Kiel), Humboldt University (Berlin), and the University of Hamburg with funded study stays at the Universities of Vienna (Austria) and Aarhus (Denmark); recipient of the German public-private scholarship (Deutschlandstipendium).