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87Can artificial parthenogenesis sidestep ethical pitfalls in human therapeutic cloning? An historical perspectiveJournal of Medical Ethics 31 (12): 733-735. 2005.The aim of regenerative medicine is to reconstruct tissue that has been lost or pathologically altered. Therapeutic cloning seems to offer a method of achieving this aim; however, the ethical debate surrounding human therapeutic cloning is highly controversial. Artificial parthenogenesis—obtaining embryos from unfertilised eggs—seems to offer a way to sidestep these ethical pitfalls. Jacques Loeb , the founding father of artificial parthogenesis, faced negative public opinion when he published h…Read more
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78Diskurse 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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69Medical 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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64Scientific exchange: Jacques Loeb (1859–1924) and Emil Godlewski (1875–1944) as representatives of a transatlantic developmental biology (review)Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 38 (3): 608-617. 2007.The German–American physiologist Jacques Loeb (1859–1924) and the Polish embryologist Emil Godlewski, jr. (1875–1944) contributed many valuable works to the body of developmental biology. Jacques Loeb was world famous at the beginning of the twentieth century for his development and demonstration of artificial parthenogenesis in 1899 and his experiments on regeneration. He served as a role model for the younger Polish experimenter Emil Godlewski, who began his career as a researcher like Loeb at…Read more
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50Medical Imaging: Pictures, “as if” and the Power of Evidence (review)Medicine Studies 2 (3): 151-160. 2010.
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49The ‘Global Phylogeny’ and its Historical Legacy: A Critical Review of a Unified Theory of Human Biological and Linguistic Co-Evolution (review)Medicine 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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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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30Finding European bioethical literature: an evaluation of the leading abstracting and indexing servicesJournal of Medical Ethics 30 (3): 299-303. 2004.Objectives: In this study the author aimed to provide information for researchers to help them with the selection of suitable databases for finding medical ethics literature. The quantity of medical ethical literature that is indexed in different existing electronic bibliographies was ascertained. Method: Using the international journal index Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, journals on medical ethics were identified. The electronic bibliographies indexing these journals were analysed. In an addi…Read more
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22Ärztliche 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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22Machine 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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21Alterskulturen Und Potentiale des Alters (edited book)Akademie Verlag. 2007.Das Altern ist nicht nur eine biologische, sondern auch eine kulturelle Tatsache. Als Objekt der Verhandlungen zwischen Wissensdiskursen erscheint Alter als ein ebenso heterogenes wie problematisches Phanomen, das von Werturteilen und Weltanschauungen bestimmt wird. Des Weiteren sind Alter und Medizin in der offentlichen Meinung moderner Gesellschaften eng miteinander verbunden. Das interdisziplinare Forschungsprojekt "Kulturelle Variationen und Reprasentationen des Alters" geht von einem erweit…Read more
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21Genetics and the Value of Life: Historical Dimensions (review)Medicine Studies 1 (2): 105-112. 2009.The value of life can be viewed from moral, biologic, and economic perspectives. In connection with the development of genetics, each of these perspectives has gained importance throughout history. Whereas agricultural genetics has always been directed towards having an economic impact, from the beginning genetics research in humans has focused on all dimensions of the value of life. Today, health insurance, employers, politicians, and public health scientists view genetics research as one of th…Read more
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19Fünfter Gentechnologiebericht: Sachstand und Perspektiven für Forschung und Anwendung (edited book). 2021.
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18‚Gehirndoping‘ als legitimes Mittel zur Perfektionierung?Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft Und Ethik 17 (1): 71-88. 2012.Im diachronen Vergleich kann über die Epochen hinweg eine Verschiebung der Gewichtung einzelner Aspekte von Optimierung, Selbstverbesserung oder der Idee eines ‚guten Lebens‘ identifiziert werden. Die analytischen Überlegungen zum Neuro- Enhancement machen deutlich, dass aufklärerische Ideale heute noch wirkmächtig bleiben. Vor allem zum Neuro-Enhancement analoge Leitmotive lassen sich - so die These des Beitrags - in den philanthropischen Theorien der Spätaufklärung finden. Und auch die dort an…Read more
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18Taking Patient Privacy and Autonomy More Seriously: Why an Orwellian Account Is Not SufficientAmerican Journal of Bioethics 12 (9): 51-53. 2012.The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 12, Issue 9, Page 51-53, September 2012
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17Human–Animal Chimeras: Not Only Cell Origin MattersAmerican Journal of Bioethics 14 (2): 21-22. 2014.No abstract
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17Einsatz von Medizintechnik und Technisierung der Medizin – Reflexionen im Vorfeld der Jahrestagung der AEM 2014Ethik in der Medizin 26 (3): 177-179. 2014.
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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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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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16Spannungen 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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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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15Die Repräsentation medizinethischer Literatur in bibliographischen Datenbanken und IndizesEthik in der Medizin 15 (2): 122-127. 2003.
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13Scientific exchange: Jacques Loeb and Emil Godlewski as representatives of a transatlantic developmental biologyStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 38 (3): 608-617. 2007.
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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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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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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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10Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History - by Katherine D. WatsonCentaurus 54 (2): 200-201. 2012.
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9Jane Maienschein, Whose View of Life?: Embryos, Cloning, and Stem Cells (review)Medicine Studies 1 (1): 83-84. 2009.
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Applied Ethics |
Philosophy of Biology |