Kızılelma Cd. Topçu Emin Bey Çıkmazı Sk. No.30 Fatih

BEŞİKÇİZADE CENTER FOR MEDICAL HUMANITIES
Kızılelma Cd. Topçu Emin Bey Çıkmazı Sk. No. 30 Fatih - İstanbul
Phone. 0212 588 2545 Fax. 0212 632 8579
www.besikcizade.com bilgi@besikcizade.com
Beşikçizade Center For Medical Humanities
Some Activities
Scope
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1 Sept. 2012: Workshop: Prof. Dr. Werner Friedrich Kümmel (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany): Medicine and National Socialism
Knowledge increases and diversifies every day; and although it enables new medical practices, this growth creates new problems as
well. Approaching these problems only from a medical perspective
makes it difficult or even impossible to find solutions that are morally
acceptable. Addressing these medical issues within a comprehensive
• 13-15 Sept. 2012: International Interdisciplinary Congress: Health,
Culture and the Human Body (together with Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Mainz University and Zeytinburnu Municipality)
tate the development of ethically appropriate solutions.
• 1
7 Sept. 2012: Workshop: Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Sass (Washington
USA / Bochum, Germany): Clinical Ethics: Concepts, Problems, and
Difficulties
As scientists and scholars are witnessing the emergence of new
• 29 Dec. 2012: Symposium: Human Nature
disciplines today, they are also more frequently involved in multi-
• 1
4 Sept. 2013: Workshop: Dr. Petra Kutscheid (Maria Hilf Academy
Dernbach, Germany): Palliative Care and Ethical Problems
approach encompassing at the same time scientific and sociocultural
factors involved will improve the conceptual understanding and facili-
disciplinary studies, based on the cooperation of currently existing
disciplines, or in interdisciplinary studies in which the area boundaries gradually disappear. The fact that the subject of medicine is the
human being necessitates cooperation with human sciences to solve
medical problems. The framework and problems thus described represent the point of departure and working work area of the Beşikçizade
• 1
1-14 Sept. 2013: 7th Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History (ISCH): Artefacts, Culture, and Identity
• 2
3 Nov. 2013: Workshop: Prof. Dr. John Harris (Manchester University, UK): How to be Good?
Center for Medical Humanities.
Aims
The Beşikçizade Center for Medical Humanities (BETİM) was founded
in 2012 in order to bring together scholars from various disciplines,
aiming at facilitating a discussion of issues arising out of medical research and practice, analyzing their inherent problems from various
perspectives in a multi- and interdisciplinary understanding. Its shortterm goals include bringing together the medical and social sciences,
providing education, supporting relevant studies, and establishing a
library to support the research projects.
Beşikçizade Tekke
Beşikçizade Tekke was a Naqshbandi lodge established by Beşikçizade
El-Hajj Süleyman Efendi in the late 18th century when the Ottoman
attempts to reform and adapt to the West were making themselves
felt in Istanbul. Towards the end of the same century it became a place
where the Sumbuli rules and customs were practiced. It then joined
the other Naqshbandi lodges and operated until the Republican period. Following the law on the closure of tekkes, it remained unoccupied
again for many years, and in the 2009 fire it fell into ruin except for a
part of the prayer hall.
The photograph of the tekke show the recently restored version of
its later structure, originally completed in the year 1906 (hijri 1324),
as it is seen today. In its initial structure, it had been conceived as a
single continuous building and had long been used as it was, then redesigned by Naqshbandi Hasan Kamil Efendi following his succession
to the position of sheikh. The new structure consists of three sections
set in a large garden. Being reserved for men, women, and prayer, respectively, these parts adjacent to each other constitute a whole in
accordance with the conventional architecture of the tekkes.