•  203
    Dieser Beitrag diskutiert „kulturelle Fragen“ in klinischer Ethik am Beispiel der Hymenrekonstruktion. Zunächst werden drei grundsätzliche Argumente genannt: 1) Wenn „kultur-sensitive“ Themen in klinischer Ethik explizit als solche diskutiert werden, kann das zu einem essentialistischen Verständnis von Kultur beitragen. Stattdessen wird in diesem Beitrag für ein dynamisches Verständnis von Kultur argumentiert und für eine grundsätzlich kontextsensitive, pluralistische klinische Ethik. 2) Klinisc…Read more
  •  152
    Meeting the Authors: A Workshop on Social Justice in Public Health with Ruth Faden and Madison Powers
    with Agomoni Ganguli Mitra
    Public Health Ethics 6 (1): 1-2. 2013.
    In this editorial we introduce the special Public Health Ethics symposium on social justice in public health. We present here a select set of papers arising from an international workshop, organized on 4–5 June 2012 by the Institute of Biomedical Ethics, in collaboration with the University Research Priority Program for Ethics at the University of Zurich. Meeting the Author is a series of international workshops organized by the Ethics Center of the University of Zurich. In this workshop format,…Read more
  •  113
    This article discusses cosmopolitanism as the moral foundation for access to health care for migrants. The focus is on countries with sufficiently adequate universal health care for their citizens. The article argues for equal access to this kind of health care for citizens and migrants alike—including migrants at special risk such as asylum seekers or undocumented migrants. Several objections against equal access are raised, such as the cosmopolitan approach being too restrictive or too permiss…Read more
  •  147
    Kommentar I zum Fall: „Behandlungsabbruch bei Anorexie?“ (review)
    with Tanja Krones
    Ethik in der Medizin 22 (2): 133-134. 2010.
  •  104
    Migration and Health: Discovering New Territory for Bioethics
    American Journal of Bioethics 12 (9): 11-13. 2012.
    The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 12, Issue 9, Page 11-13, September 2012
  •  114
    The ethics of health incentive research—a form of public health research—are not well developed, and concerns of justice have been least examined. In this paper, we explore what potential long term harms in relation to justice may occur as a result of such research and whether they should be considered as part of its ethical evaluation. ‘Long term harms’ are defined as harms that contribute to existing systematic patterns of disadvantage for groups. Their effects are experienced on a long term b…Read more
  •  89
    Case-Based Payment System in the Chinese Healthcare Sector and Its Ethical Tensions
    with Jin Pingyue and Nikola Biller-Andorno
    Asian Bioethics Review 5 (2): 131-146. 2013.
  •  118
    Compulsory Treatment in Chronic Anorexia Nervosa by All Means? Searching for a Middle Ground Between a Curative and a Palliative Approach
    with Manuel Trachsel, Nikola Biller-Andorno, and Tanja Krones
    American Journal of Bioethics 15 (7): 55-56. 2015.
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    How are pregnant women vulnerable research participants?
    International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 5 (2): 82-104. 2012.
    Despite the attempts to promote the inclusion of pregnant women into clinical research, this group is still widely excluded. An analysis of the “vulnerability of pregnant women” that questions deeply internalized stereotypes is necessary for finding the right balance in the protection of pregnant women as research participants. Criticism of the traditional account of vulnerability will lead to an alternative that focuses on situations rather than groups and on the obligations of responsible part…Read more
  •  131
    The Ethics of Evidence
    with Nikola Biller-Andorno
    Hastings Center Report 42 (6): 29-30. 2012.
    Basing normative judgment and policy on a rich empirical account of the issue at hand is usually a good idea. But doing nothing and awaiting further evidence can sometimes itself be bad judgment. This is the case with female genital cutting. We already know what is needed to define the conditions under which female genital cutting is morally unacceptable and that we can legitimately act on this knowledge.
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    Ethical Implications of Case‐Based Payment in China: A Systematic Analysis
    with Pingyue Jin and Nikola Biller-Andorno
    Developing World Bioethics 15 (3): 134-142. 2014.
    How health care providers are paid affects how medicine is practiced. It is thus important to assess provider payment models not only from the economic perspective but also from the ethical perspective. China recently started to reform the provider payment model in the health care system from fee-for-service to case-based payment. This paper aims to examine this transition from an ethical perspective. We collected empirical studies on the impact of case-based payment in the Chinese health care s…Read more
  •  151
    Kommentar I zum Fall: „Heimlicher Transfer von HIV-Medikamenten nach Afrika“
    with Tanja Krones, Christine Angelika Rüegg, Huldrych Fritz Günthard, and Annette Rid
    Ethik in der Medizin 24 (1): 59-61. 2012.
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    „Alt werden im Paradies“ – Die ethischen Aspekte der Migration von pflegebedürftigen Menschen
    with Christine Bally-Zenger and Lisa Eckenwiler
    Ethik in der Medizin 29 (2): 133-148. 2017.
    ZusammenfassungSeit einigen Jahren erscheinen in deutschsprachigen Medien Beiträge, die einen neuen Trend in der Versorgung von langzeitpflegebedürftigen Menschen beschreiben: die Migration in ausländische Pflegeheime, insbesondere nach Thailand oder Ost-Europa. Diese Art der Migration wird kontrovers aufgenommen. Einige Medienbeiträge beschreiben diese Praxis u. a. als „Greisen-Export“, „gerontologischen Kolonialismus“ oder „inhumane Deportation“. Die Begriffe weisen darauf hin, dass diese Migr…Read more