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    Was uns der Tod bedeutet (edited book)
    with Emmanuelle Bélanger
    Kulturverlag Kadmos. 2018.
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    6. Views on Disability and Prenatal Testing Among Families with Down Syndrome and Disability Activists
    with Tamar Nov-Klaiman, Marina Frisman, and Aviad E. Raz
    In Christina Schües (ed.), Genetic Responsibility in Germany and Israel: Practices of Prenatal Diagnosis, Transcript Verlag. pp. 163-190. 2022.
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    8. What Does Prenatal Testing Mean for Women Who Have Tested?
    with Tamar Nov-Klaiman, Yael Hashiloni-Dolev, Anika König, Stefan Reinsch, and Aviad Raz
    In Christina Schües (ed.), Genetic Responsibility in Germany and Israel: Practices of Prenatal Diagnosis, Transcript Verlag. pp. 227-252. 2022.
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    Ambivalence: The Patient’s Perspective Counts
    with Kathrin Ohnsorge, Guy Widdershoven, and Heike Gudat
    American Journal of Bioethics 22 (6): 55-57. 2022.
    Patient ambivalence is a little studied phenomenon. Therefore, the contribution of Moore et al. (2022) about patient ambivalence in medical decision-making is welcome. Also, the idea that ambivalen...
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    This volume draws on an expanded field of bioethical, sociological and anthropological research, to set a new agenda for discussing the ethics of disclosing prognostic genetic information.
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    „Selektive“ Fortpflanzung durch pränatale Diagnostik?
    Ethik in der Medizin 34 (1): 7-26. 2021.
    Die breite Einführung nicht-invasiver pränataler Tests sowie die Ausweitung der Testziele über Trisomien hinaus machen es notwendig, Sinn und Ziel der pränatalen Diagnostik als emergente soziale Praxis grundsätzlich zu diskutieren. Wenn, wie angenommen wird, PND nicht zu eugenischen Zwecken, sondern zur Stärkung der Autonomie dienen soll, muss gefragt werden, welche Bedeutung die Entscheidungen haben, ein bestimmtes zukünftiges Kind zu gebären. Stephen Wilkinson hat vorgeschlagen, PND als eine F…Read more
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    Patients’ and professionals’ views related to ethical issues in precision medicine: a mixed research synthesis (review)
    with Claudia Bozzaro and Anke Erdmann
    BMC Medical Ethics 22 (1): 1-18. 2021.
    BackgroundPrecision medicine development is driven by the possibilities of next generation sequencing, information technology and artificial intelligence and thus, raises a number of ethical questions. Empirical studies have investigated such issues from the perspectives of health care professionals, researchers and patients. We synthesize the results from these studies in this review.MethodsWe used a systematic strategy to search, screen and assess the literature for eligibility related to our …Read more
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    Zur ethischen Bedeutung der vorgeburtlichen Diagnostik
    In Olivia Mitscherlich-Schönherr & Reiner Anselm (eds.), Gelingende Geburt: Interdisziplinäre Erkundungen in Umstrittenen Terrains, De Gruyter. pp. 273-298. 2021.
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    Wenn der Tod notwendig kommt. Freiheiten im Sterben
    In Simone Dietz, Hannes Foth & Svenja Wiertz (eds.), Die Freiheit Zu Gehen: Ausstiegsoptionen in Politischen, Sozialen Und Existenziellen Kontexten, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 273-294. 2019.
    Auch wenn der Tod nicht gewählt wird, wenn das Faktum des Todes unabwendbar und endgültig ist, ergeben sich für Menschen, die sich dem Sterben zuwenden, Möglichkeiten. Ausgehend von der Annahme, dass der Tod in ontologischer und ethischer Hinsicht relational verstanden werden muss, legt dieses Kapitel die Bedeutung des Todes – in Anlehnung an Vladimir Jankélévitch – in der Du-Perspektive, in der Ich-Perspektive und in der dritten-Person-Perspektive aus. Für die Zurückbleibenden entsteht die Aufg…Read more
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    Agency at Life’s End
    American Journal of Bioethics 19 (12): 40-41. 2019.
    Volume 19, Issue 12, December 2019, Page 40-41.
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    Ethical Considerations in the Manufacture, Sale, and Distribution of Genome Editing Technologies
    with Jeremy Sugarman, Supriya Shivakumar, Martha Rook, Jeanne F. Loring, Jochen Taupitz, Jutta Reinhard-Rupp, and Steven Hildemann
    American Journal of Bioethics 18 (8): 3-6. 2018.
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    Creating donors: The 2005 swiss law on donation of 'spare' embryos to hESC research (review)
    Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 3 (1-2): 81-93. 2006.
    In November 2004, the Swiss population voted to accept a law on research using human embryonic stem cells. In this paper, we use Switzerland as a case study of the shaping of the ostensibly ethical debate on the use of embryos in embryonic stem cell research by legal, political and social constraints. We describe how the national and international context affected the content and wording of the law. We discuss the consequences of the revised law's separation of stem cell research from other form…Read more
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    Donating Embryos to Stem Cell Research: The “Problem” of Gratitude
    with Jackie Leach Scully, Erica Haimes, Anika Mitzkat, and Rouven Porz
    Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 9 (1): 19-28. 2012.
    This paper is based on linked qualitative studies of the donation of human embryos to stem cell research carried out in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and China. All three studies used semi-structured interview protocols to allow an in-depth examination of donors’ and non-donors’ rationales for their donation decisions, with the aim of gaining information on contextual and other factors that play a role in donor decisions and identifying how these relate to factors that are more usually includ…Read more
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    ABSTRACT The part played by time in ethics is often taken for granted, yet time is essential to moral decision making. This paper looks at time in ethical decisions about having a genetic test. We use a patient‐centred approach, combining empirical research methods with normative ethical analysis to investigate the patients' experience of time in (i) prenatal testing of a foetus for a genetic condition, (ii) predictive or diagnostic testing for breast and colon cancer, or (iii) testing for Hunti…Read more
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    Zum gegenwärtigen Diskussionsstand um die Beihilfe zum Suizid in der Schweiz
    Zeitschrift Für Evangelische Ethik 50 (1): 49-53. 2006.
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    ZusammenfassungZumindest bei bestimmten Gruppen kann die Aneuploidietestung im Rahmen der PID für die Schwangerschaft medizinisch sinnvoll sein. Die gegenwärtige Rechtslage in Deutschland scheint die PID auf eine Chromosomenfehlverteilung im Embryo nicht auszuschließen; diese Testung muss aber im Einzelfall begründet und von der Frau bei einer PID-Ethikkommission beantragt werden. Der Artikel untersucht die Frage aus ethischer und rechtlicher Sicht, ob prinzipielle Gründe dagegen stehen, dass di…Read more
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    There is no consensus about the ethical ideal of genetic counselling and decision making. This paper reviews and discusses some of the most prominent ethical arguments that have been brought forward against the non-directiveness principle (NDP), which has been the ethical gold standard for a long time. These arguments can be classed in four categories: (i) NDP can be against the best interests of the individuals concerned; (ii) NDP has ideological elements that do not adequately represent the co…Read more
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    Response
    Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 7 (1): 135-136. 2010.
  • On the legitimacy of intellectual property claims in biotechnology
    International Journal of Bioethics 7 311-316. 1996.
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    Leben 2.0: Ethische Implikationen synthetischer lebender Systeme
    Zeitschrift Für Evangelische Ethik 57 (2): 113-125. 2013.
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    Leben 2.0: Ethische Implikationen synthetischer lebender Systeme
    Zeitschrift Für Evangelische Ethik 57 (2): 113-125. 2013.
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    Organised Assistance to Suicide in England?
    with Lynn Hagger
    Health Care Analysis 21 (2): 85-104. 2013.
    Guidelines provided by the Director of Public Prosecutions suggest that anyone assisting another to commit suicide in England and Wales, or elsewhere, will not be prosecuted provided there are no self-seeking motives and no active encouragement. This reflects the position in Switzerland. There, however, no difference is made between assistance and inducement. In addition, the Swiss approach makes it possible to establish organisations to assist the suicides of both their citizens and foreign vis…Read more