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Didier Caenepeel is Full Professor and Chair of the Department of Moral Theology and Ethics within the Faculty of Theology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His institutional coordinates include office MIS 05, 5227, Av. de l’Europe 20, 1700 Fribourg, phone +41 26 300 7449, and e-mail didier.caenepeel@unifr.ch.
Research Focus:
- Moral and pastoral theology applied to contemporary health-care dilemmas
- End-of-life ethics, including palliative sedation and medical assistance in dying
- Spirituality in clinical settings, especially palliative and psychiatric care
- Clinical-ethics committee theory and practice
Across more than twenty-five years of scholarly output (1993–2023), Caenepeel’s work has evolved from theoretical physics to sustained ethical and theological reflection on medicine, suffering, and care. His recent publications (2018–2023) concentrate on mercy, truth-telling, and societal debates over assisted dying, evidencing a clear trajectory toward applied ethics at the intersection of faith, medicine, and society.
Selected Books & Edited Contributions:
- Thinking about care in psychiatry. Ethical and theological perspectives (2010)
- Continuous sedation at the end of life. Ethical issues (2005)
- Contributing chapter, Dying today: ethical questions and theological challenges (2018)
- Co-authored chapters on volunteering and spirituality in palliative care (2013)
Advising & Grants: No doctoral students or funded research projects are explicitly listed in the provided material.
Laboratories & Teams: As Chair of the Department of Moral Theology and Ethics, Caenepeel leads curricular and research initiatives within the Faculty of Theology, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue with medical and health-care partners.