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2“Total Institutions” as Litmus Test of CivilisationIn Stefania Achella & Chantal Marazia (eds.), Vulnerabilities: Rethinking Medicine Rights and Humanities in Post-pandemic, Springer Verlag. pp. 159-172. 2023.The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated and magnified the vulnerability of convicts, psychiatric patients, elderly and disabled people in need of care, and children in institutional care or custody. Taking the move from the media coverage of “Total Institutions” during the pandemic, this paper explores the ways in which Goffman’s concept was mobilised in the public discourse to raise awareness of the extreme predicament of these vulnerable groups, as well as of the whole locked-down society. Where…Read more
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Selbstbestimmung von Kindern in der MedizinIn Johannes Drerup & Gottfried Schweiger (eds.), Handbuch Philosophie der Kindheit, J.b. Metzler. pp. 274-281. 2019.Die Selbstbestimmung von Patient/innen gehört zu den zentralen ethischen Prinzipien der modernen Medizin. Der Respekt vor der Autonomie wurde im Oktober 2017 als eines von zwölf ärztlichen Versprechen, in das vom Weltärztebund ergänzte Genfer Gelöbnis aufgenommen. Erstmals 1948 als Reaktion auf die Verbrechen der Medizin während des Nationalsozialismus formuliert, wird dieses Dokument ärztlicher Selbstverpflichtung international als ethischer Standard ärztlichen Handelns angesehen.
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11Töne sehen? Zur Visualisierung Akustischer Phänomene in der HerzdiagnostikNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 19 (3): 299-327. 2011.During the nineteenth century physiologists and clinicians developed several graphical recording systems for the mechanical registration of heart sounds. However, none of these replaced traditional methods of auscultation. The paper describes criticism of the aural sense as one of the driving forces behind the development of phonocardiography and analyses its variants from a technological and clinical perspective. Against the background of the physiological “method of curves,” the parameters tha…Read more
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8Zuteilungskriterien im Gesundheitswesen: Grenzen und Alternativen: eine Einführung mit medizinethischen und philosophischen Verortungen (edited book)[Transcript]. 2013.
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7Präventionsentscheidungen: zur Geschichte und Ethik der Gesundheitsvorsorge im 21. Jahrhundert (edited book)Frommann-Holzboog. 2017.Kaum ein Thema scheint im privaten wie gesellschaftlichen Leben so umstritten zu sein wie die gesunde Lebensfuhrung - Pravention ist ein Kampfplatz von politischen Steuerungsinteressen, okonomischem Kalkul und weltanschaulichen Positionen. Durch die Aufarbeitung der soziohistorischen Entwicklung verschiedener Praventionsverstandnisse tragt dieser interdisziplinare Sammelband zu einem umfassenden Verstandnis von Gesundheitsfursorge und -vorsorge bei und lasst die politischen, soziologischen, rech…Read more
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Krankheit/PathologisierungIn Michael Fuchs (ed.), Handbuch Alter Und Altern: Anthropologie – Kultur – Ethik, J.b. Metzler. pp. 12-16. 2021.Alter, Altern, Zeitlichkeit und Geschichte sind eng miteinander verwoben. Nur ein irgendwie geartetes Verständnis der Zeit und ihres Verstreichens erlaubt es überhaupt, Altern als einen Prozess zu beschreiben, der unaufhörlich mit dem Beginn der Existenz eines belebten oder unbelebten Objekts beginnt und chronologisch voranschreitet. Nicht notwendiger Weise ist dieser Prozess von einem Aufeinanderfolgen von Ereignissen begleitet, die positive oder negative Effekte auf das alternde Objekt ausüben…Read more
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2Anerkennung in der MedizinIn Ludwig Siep, Heikki Ikäheimo & Michael Quante (eds.), Handbuch Anerkennung, Springer. pp. 353-360. 2018.Sowohl auf der Ebene der Konzepte von Gesundheit und Krankheit als auch auf der Ebene der Personen, die miteinander in medizinischem Kontext in Kontakt stehen, spielt Anerkennung eine Rolle in der Medizin. Im Beitrag werden drei wesentliche Ebenen der Anerkennung in der Medizin betrachtet: a) Die Anerkennung von Krankheits-/Gesundheits-/Diagnostik- und Therapiekonzepten, b) die Anerkennung des Anderen in der Arzt-Patient-Beziehung, c) die Anerkennung von Kolleginnen und Kollegen innerhalb der me…Read more
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22Fünfter Gentechnologiebericht: Sachstand und Perspektiven für Forschung und Anwendung (edited book). 2021.
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24Machine Learning Healthcare Applications (ML-HCAs) Are No Stand-Alone Systems but Part of an Ecosystem – A Broader Ethical and Health Technology Assessment Approach is NeededAmerican Journal of Bioethics 20 (11): 46-48. 2020.ML-HCAs have the potential to significantly change an entire healthcare system. It is not even necessary to presume that this will be disruptive but sufficient to assume that the mere adaptation of...
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10Is It All About Revising, Correcting, and Transferring Genes?American Journal of Bioethics 20 (8): 30-32. 2020.Volume 20, Issue 8, August 2020, Page 30-32.
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1The Medicalization of Popular Culture: Epistemical, Ethical and Aesthetical Structures of Biomedical Knowledge as Cultural ArtefactIn Arno Görgen, German Alfonso Nunez & Heiner Fangerau (eds.), Handbook of Popular Culture and Biomedicine: Knowledge in the Life Sciences as Cultural Artefact, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-12. 2018.By revisiting some of the main concepts surrounding the rationale of our work, this introduction further explores the topic implicit in our book’s title. In other words, this introduction develops the argument that, given its authoritative voice, biomedical knowledge not only has been influential with cultural producers but that it also plays a major role in creating expectation and meaning for the general public. Video games, TV series, novels and even art: all those products can, in a way, be …Read more
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1Biomedicine and BioethicsIn Arno Görgen, German Alfonso Nunez & Heiner Fangerau (eds.), Handbook of Popular Culture and Biomedicine: Knowledge in the Life Sciences as Cultural Artefact, Springer Verlag. pp. 41-55. 2018.The historical development of so-called ‘biomedicine’ is closely linked to the rise and evolution of new ethical fields, such as bioethics and medical ethics. In this chapter, we explain what is understood by ‘biomedicine’ today, highlight the major steps in the development of biomedicine, and discuss its association with the evolution of basic ethical theories into applied ethical arguments. Both biomedicine and bioethics have left their traces and were transformed in popular cultural products,…Read more
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7Images and Self-EvidenceIn Arno Görgen, German Alfonso Nunez & Heiner Fangerau (eds.), Handbook of Popular Culture and Biomedicine: Knowledge in the Life Sciences as Cultural Artefact, Springer Verlag. pp. 95-113. 2018.Representations of medicine in pop culture often have an iconographic character. Thereby, they set in a double sense of self-evidence. They represent on the one hand, self-evidently a medical context, and on the other hand, they act to transport or at least illustrate self-evident medical pieces of knowledge. In this contribution, we will give an overview of the current research about the visual self-evidence. Different strategies that serve the production of self-evident images in medicine are …Read more
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10Handbook of Popular Culture and Biomedicine: Knowledge in the Life Sciences as Cultural Artefact (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2018.This handbook explores the ways biomedicine and pop culture interact while simultaneously introducing the reader with the tools and ideas behind this new field of enquiry. From comic books to health professionals, from the arts to genetics, from sci-fi to medical education, from TV series to ethics, it offers different entry points to an exciting and central aspect of contemporary culture: how and what we learn about scientific knowledge and its representation in pop culture. Divided into three …Read more
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17The ‘Global Phylogeny’ and its Historical Legacy: A Critical Review of a Unified Theory of Human Biological and Linguistic Co-EvolutionMedicine Studies 4 (1): 15-27. 2014.In a critical review of late twentieth-century gene-culture co-evolutionary models labelled as ‘global phylogeny’, the authors present evidence for the long legacy of co-evolutionary theories in European-based thinking, highlighting that (1) ideas of social and cultural evolution preceded the idea of biological evolution, (2) linguistics played a dominant role in the formation of a unified theory of human co-evolution, and (3) that co-evolutionary thinking was only possible due to perpetuated an…Read more
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16The Obvious in a Nutshell: Science, Medicine, Knowledge, and HistoryBerichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 42 (2-3): 167-185. 2019.The scope and mission of the history of science have been constant objects of reflection and debate within the profession. Recently, Lorraine Daston has called for a shift of focus: from the history of science to the history of knowledge. Such a move is an attempt at broadening the field and ridding it of the contradictions deriving from its modernist myth of origin and principle of demarcation. Taking the move from a pluralistic concept of medicine, the present paper explores the actual and pos…Read more
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71Medical confidentiality and child abuseEthik in der Medizin 22 (1): 33-47. 2010.Die Schweigepflicht, einer der Grundpfeiler medizinischer Ethik, spielt in der aktuellen Diskussion um die Verbesserung des Kinderschutzes eine zentrale Rolle. Unklare und mehrdeutige gesetzliche Regelungen und Handlungsanweisungen, wie mit Anhaltspunkten für eine Kindeswohlgefährdung umzugehen ist, wenn die Sorgeberechtigten eine weitergehende Hilfe ablehnen, werden als Hindernis für einen wirksamen Kinderschutz betrachtet. Aus der schwer durchschaubaren Rechtslage resultieren für Angehörige de…Read more
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10Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History - by Katherine D. WatsonCentaurus 54 (2): 200-201. 2012.
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9National Styles? Jacques Loeb's Analysis of German and American Science Around 1900 in his Correspondence with Ernst MachCentaurus 47 (3): 207-225. 2005.In modern discourse about the history of science, it seems to be widely accepted that at the end of the nineteenth century, Germany was one of the leading countries in the production of science. In the past, historians of science tried to trace back a specific ‘German style’ of science that—in combination with other factors—determined this German dominance around 1900, especially in the life sciences. Considering the theoretical concept of ‘national styles’, it has to be kept in mind that around…Read more
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5Zukunft der Wissenschaftsgeschichte? Ein (wissenschaftspolitischer) Einwurf mit medizinhistorischem FokusBerichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 41 (4): 351-354. 2018.Future for the History of Science? An Interjection Oriented towards Science Policies Inspired by the History of Medicine. The author argues that diversity is the great strength of the history of science. It allows for flexible reactions to intellectual challenges posed by its various reference disciplines. This strength, however, might turn into a weakness, if diversity results in arbitrariness. These claims are illustrated by the example of the history of medicine as a sub‐discipline of the his…Read more
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18Spannungen in der jüngeren Medizingeschichte: Legitimationsstrategien und Zielkonflikte – ein Beitrag zur DiskussionNTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 23 (1): 33-52. 2015.
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11The novel Arrowsmith, Paul de Kruif (1890–1971) and Jacques Loeb (1859–1924): a literary portrait of “medical science”Medical Humanities 32 (2): 82-87. 2006.Shortly after bacteriologist Paul de Kruif had been dismissed from a research position at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, he started contributing to a novel in collaboration with the future Nobel laureate Sinclair Lewis. The novel, Arrowsmith, would become one of the most famous satires on medicine and science. Using de Kruif’s correspondence with his idol Jacques Loeb, this paper describes the many ways in which medical science is depicted in Arrowsmith. This article compares th…Read more
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17„Prisvärdig“ Forschung? Wilhelm Roux und sein Programm der EntwicklungsmechanikBerichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 41 (1): 73-97. 2018.“Prizeworthy Research?” Wilhelm Roux and His Program of Developmental Mechanics. The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine is awarded annually to a maximum of three laureates. Not surprisingly, the number of nominees is much larger. Drawing on Nobel Prize nominations in the Nobel archives in Sweden, the core of this paper deals with the nomination letters for the physiologist Wilhelm Roux to discuss competition and some controversies among German physiologists around 1900 in this particular cont…Read more
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79Diskurse über induzierte pluripotente Stammzellforschung und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Gestaltung sozialkompatibler Lösungen – eine interdisziplinäre BestandsaufnahmeJahrbuch für Wissenschaft Und Ethik 22 (1): 65-86. 2017.Name der Zeitschrift: Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Ethik Jahrgang: 22 Heft: 1 Seiten: 65-86.
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38Improving information systems in Europe: EURETHNETMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 6 (1): 67-69. 2003.The efforts of the European Commission to create a European Research Area in the field of biotechnology are accompanied by a growing demand for an ethical discourse. Cultural differences between the European Union's member states create a vital need to improve bioethical information structures in Europe so as to foster European bioethics discourses and to cope with ethical pluralism. Responding to the need for an increased European contribution to the international discussion on ethics in medici…Read more
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23Ärztliche Schweigepflicht bei Kindeswohlgefährdung: Mehr Handlungssicherheit durch die neuen Kinderschutzgesetze?Ethik in der Medizin 22 (1): 33-47. 2010.ZusammenfassungDie Schweigepflicht, einer der Grundpfeiler medizinischer Ethik, spielt in der aktuellen Diskussion um die Verbesserung des Kinderschutzes eine zentrale Rolle. Unklare und mehrdeutige gesetzliche Regelungen und Handlungsanweisungen, wie mit Anhaltspunkten für eine Kindeswohlgefährdung umzugehen ist, wenn die Sorgeberechtigten eine weitergehende Hilfe ablehnen, werden als Hindernis für einen wirksamen Kinderschutz betrachtet. Aus der schwer durchschaubaren Rechtslage resultieren fü…Read more
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2Biology and War — American Biology and International ScienceHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 29 (4). 2007.The German-born American scientist Jacques Loeb (1859–1924) was one of the most important promoters of experimental biology around 1900. He was best known for his physico-chemical explanations of psychological processes and his biotechnological approach to artificial parthenogenesis. At the start of the First World War, Loeb was deeply troubled by the deterioration of the international scientific community and the growing alienation of his German and American colleagues. The aim of this paper is…Read more
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