Dr. phil. Isabella Jordan studied Social Sciences, German Language and Literature Studies and Educational Science, and majored in Social Sciences at Leibniz University of Hannover in Germany in 1999, rated as “very good”. Supported by scholarships (Graduate College at the University of Hannover, and Heinrich Boell Foundation) she was working at her thesis “Development Conditions of the Hospice Movement in Germany and the Netherlands in 1970-2000”, and, at the same time, as teaching assistant at the Center of Further Education at Leibniz University Hannover with courses in Social Sciences, Politics of Biomedicine and Scientific Methods. After submitting her thesis in September 2005 (“magna cum laude”) at the Institute of Political Sciences in Hannover, she worked from 2006-2010 as research and teaching assistant at the Institute for History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine at Hannover Medical School, in the research project “Contemporary history of medicine and bioethics: Dying, Immortality and the mercy killing debate”. As of October 2010, she works as research and teaching assistant in the sub-project “Autonomy and Trust with Regard to Patient Associations” at the Inst. of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine in Göttingen, Germany.

• History of the Hospice Movement and Palliative Care
• Ethics and History of Medicine and Biomedicine
• Mercy killing debates, "Euthanasia", Eugenics
• Concepts of Autonomy, Trust and Responsibility

• Jordan, Isabella (2007): Die Hospizbewegung in Deutschland und den Niederlanden. Palliativversorgung und Selbstbestimmung am Lebensende, Campus, Frankfurt/New York, in der Reihe „Kultur der Medizin“, Band 22, [ISBN 978-3-593-38362-0].
• Jordan, Isabella/Frewer, Andreas (2009): Menschliches Sterben im Wandel? Debatten um eine präventive Medikalisierung des Todes seit 1970; in: Schäfer, Daniel/ Frewer, Andreas/ Schockenhoff, Eberhard/ Wetzstein, Verena (Hg.): Gesundheitskonzepte im Wandel. Geschichte, Ethik und Gesellschaft, Franz Steiner Verlag [Geschichte und Philosophie der Medizin, Bd. 6], Seite 243 - 276.
• Jordan, Isabella (2010): Von der Naturnotwendigkeit des Ablebens zur präventiven Sterbe-Gestaltung? Zum Wandel sozialer und medizinischer Sterbe-Debatten in den 80er Jahren, Originalarbeit in Kurzfassung mit Zusatznutzung der Langfassung im Internet; in: Das Gesundheitswesen, April 2010, Thieme-Verlag, Seite 205-206.
• Jordan, Isabella/Hilt, Annette/Frewer, Andreas (Hg.) (2010): Endlichkeit, Medizin und Unsterblichkeit, Geschichte – Theorie – Ethik. Franz Steiner Verlag, Medizin-Philosophie [Ars Moriendi Nova – Band 1].
• Jordan, Isabella (2010): Beitrag „Hospizbetreuung“ im interdisziplinären Handbuch „Sterben und Tod“. Geschichte – Theorie – Ethik, herausgegeben von Wittwer, Hector/Schäfer, Daniel/Frewer, Andreas; Metzler-Verlag, Stuttgart.