Michael van Manen

Area of Study / Keywords

ethics childhood qualitative research phenomenology narrative inquiry technology medical complexity pedagogy paediatrics NICU

About

Michael van Manen, MD, PhD, FRCPC(Peds,NICU,CIP) is appointed as Chair in Health Ethics, the Director of the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alberta, Canada. He also has a clinical practice as a physician in neonatal-perinatal medicine with the Stollery Children’s Hospital. His research is primarily concerned with relational ethics, situated within the tradition of phenomenology. He is considered an international expert in qualitative health research. He has made presentations at professional conferences around the world. His research projects relate to ethical decision-making, the experiential life of the fetus/newborn, the use of medical technologies in clinical encounters, and patient-family experiences of hospital care. Michael van Manen has authored articles, book chapters, and books in the fields of phenomenological research methodology, health ethics, neonatal-perinatal medicine, and pedagogy; and has developed and taught numerous workshops and courses on phenomenological research. He is the author of The Birth of Ethics: Phenomenological Reflections on Life’s Beginnings, Phenomenology of the Newborn: Life from Womb to World, and Classic Writings for a Phenomenology of Practice (with Max van Manen).