Octavian Buda - Curriculum Vitae#

M.D., PhD., MA Phil.

Chair: Professor of History of Medicine at the "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy - Bucharest, Blvd. Eroii Sanitari 8, Bucharest 5, Romania.

Short Vitae: M.D. Graduation at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy ‘Carol Davila’ - Bucharest, 1992.

Master of Arts in Philosophy at the University of Bucharest, 1997. Graduation Thesis: Karl Jaspers’ Philosophical Anthropology and Political Reasoning. Ph.D. Postgraduate (Doctor in medical sciences) at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy ‘Carol Davila’ - Bucharest, 2001. Doctoral Thesis: Forensic and Psychopathological Criteria of Irresponsibility.

Since 1994, Researcher at the Forensic Psychiatry Department of the National Institute of Legal Medicine ‘Mina Minovici’, Bucharest; Since 2005, Senior forensic psychiatrist at the same department.

Since 2009, Leading Chair: Professor in the History of Medicine at the "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, Romania.

Scholarships: Volkswagen Fellow - Konferenz der Deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften at the Institute of Forensic Psychiatry of the Charité - Free University of Berlin, 1998; Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Brookes University, 2008; University of Liverpool, 2011; University of Freiburg, 2012, University of Ulm, 2012, University of Birmingham, 2016.

Affiliations: The European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH), Past-President;

Vice-President Romanian Society of History of Medicine; Scientific Board of the Romanian Society of Legal Medicine; Romanian Association of Psychiatry (APR), society affiliated to the World Psychiatric Association (WPA); the Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM); International Society for the History of Medicine (ISHM); the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS); Affiliate member of the Osteuropaverein Workgroup of the German Society of Legal Medicine, etc.

Editorship: Member of the Editorial Board of 'Medical History' Journal - Cambridge, Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of 'Rechtsmedizin', the official Journal of the German Society of Legal Medicine; Senior Editor of the 'Romanian Journal of Legal Medicine', the official Journal of the Romanian Society of Legal Medicine.

Published Books (selection): The Age of Informed Consent: A European History (co-editor with Sorin Hostiuc), Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2018; Irresponsibility - from the Point of View of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine with Applications in Penal, Civil and Familial Law (Bucharest, Editura Stiintelor Medicale, 2006); Criminality: Its Legal and Medical History in Romania, single editor (Bucharest, Editura Paralela 45, 2007); An Anthropology of Marginality - Forensic Psychiatry in Romania 1860-1940, single editor (Bucharest, Editura Caligraf, 2007); On Regeneration and… Degeneration of a Nation: Medical Discourses in Bucharest, 1872-1912, single editor (Bucharest, Editura Tritonic, 2009), 2nd Edition: 2013, Bucharest, Ed. Vremea; National Identity and Social Medicine: Cultural Anthropology, Psychiatry, and Forensic Medicine in Romania: 1800-1945 (Bucharest, Romanian Academy, 2013, POSDRU/89/1.5/S/59758).

Selected Chapters: Black Death at the Outskirts of the Ottoman and Habsburg Empire: The Epidemics in the Phanariot Bucharest (1711 -1821), in: T. D. Sechel (Ed.): Medicine Within and Between the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires. 18th-19th Centuries, Winkler Verlag, Bochum, 2011; Medical Enlightenment and Variolation from the Balkans to Romanian territories - to Western Europe, 1672-1802, in: C. Barbulescu and A. Ciupala (Eds): Medicine Hygiene and Society from the 18th to the 20th centuries, Ed. Mega, Cluj Napoca, 2011; Historical Aspects of Legal Medicine in Romania (with G.C. Curca and V. Chirica) in: B. Madea (Ed.): History of Forensic Medicine, Lehmanns Media, Berlin 2017; Philosophical Foundations and the Role of Counseling in the Ethics of Informed Consent (co-autor with Laurenţiu Staicu), in: Emilian Mihailov, Tenzin Wangmo, Victoria Federiuc, Bernice Elger (eds.): Contemporary Debates in Bioethics: European Perspectives. Sciendo De Gruyter, Berlin 2018.