Dr. Fabrice Jotterand is a philosopher and medical ethicist with a secondary appointment as Senior Researcher at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Originally from Switzerland, he moved to the United States in 1995 to pursue his education and academic career. He brings an international, multicultural, and multidisciplinary perspective to issues related to medicine and health care delivery, an essential approach in today’s pluralistic society. Dr. Jotterand has published more than 90 articles, book chapters, and reviews in leading academic journals, as well as nine books including his latest monograph entitled The Unfit Brain and the Limits of Moral Bioenhancement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and the following representative edited books: 

• The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn: A Pellegrino Reader (Notre Dame, 2008);
• Intelligent Assistive Technologies for Dementia: Clinical, Ethical, Social and Regulatory Implications (Oxford University Press, 2019);
• Artificial Intelligence in Brain and Mental Health: Philosophical, Ethical & Policy Issues (Springer, 2022);
• The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Human Enhancement (Routledge, 2023);
• Fostering Humanism in Surgery (Springer, 2025).

He is currently working on another monograph tentatively titled Medicine and the Human Project in a Technological Age (under contract, Anthem). This project continues his exploration regarding professional identity formation in medicine started in his previous book as physicians are often described, and reduced, to technicians, to service providers, or even to “vending machines”. It examines the current anthropological frameworks that shape our understandings of what it means to be human in a technocratic society and their implications for identity formation of physicians as human beings and professionals. In his spare time, Dr. Jotterand enjoys reading, hiking, running, biking, and taking long walks with his wife and their two dogs.

“Ethics in health science education is more than compliance to rules and norms. It is about character development and the acquisition of the intellectual habits that will define one’s path in clinical practice and biomedical research.” - Fabrice Jotterand, Ph.D., M.A.