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    Early Modern Natural Law Theories: Contexts and Strategies in Early Enlightenment (edited book)
    with T. J. Hochstrasser
    Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2003.
    The study of natural law theories is presently one of the most fruitful areas of research in the studies of early modern intellectual history, and moral and political theory. Likewise the historical significance of the Enlightenment for the development of `modernisation' in many different forms continues to be the subject of controversy. This collection therefore offers a timely opportunity to re-examine both the coherence of the concept of an `early Enlightenment', and the specific contribution…Read more
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    Teaching seven principles for public health ethics: towards a curriculum for a short course on ethics in public health programmes
    with Peter Duncan, William Sherlaw, Caroline Brall, and Katarzyna Czabanowska
    BMC Medical Ethics 15 (1): 73. 2014.
    Teaching ethics in public health programmes is not routine everywhere – at least not in most schools of public health in the European region. Yet empirical evidence shows that schools of public health are more and more interested in the integration of ethics in their curricula, since public health professionals often have to face difficult ethical decisions
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    The agency problem and medical acting: an example of applying economic theory to medical ethics (review)
    with Andreas Langer, Alexander Brink, and Johannes Eurich
    Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 12 (1): 99-108. 2009.
    In this article, the authors attempt to build a bridge between economic theory and medical ethics to offer a new perspective to tackle ethical challenges in the physician–patient encounter. They apply elements of new institutional economics to the ethically relevant dimensions of the physician–patient relationship in a descriptive heuristic sense. The principal–agent theory can be used to analytically grasp existing action problems in the physician–patient relationship and as a basis for shaping…Read more
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    Just choice: a Danielsian analysis of the aims and scope of prenatal screening for fetal abnormalities
    with Greg Stapleton, Wybo Dondorp, and Guido de Wert
    Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 22 (4): 545-555. 2019.
    Developments in Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) and cell-free fetal DNA analysis raise the possibility that antenatal services may soon be able to support couples in non-invasively testing for, and diagnosing, an unprecedented range of genetic disorders and traits coded within their unborn child’s genome. Inevitably, this has prompted debate within the bioethics literature about what screening options should be offered to couples for the purpose of reproductive choice. In relation to this p…Read more
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    Legal and ethical aspects of cross-border healthcare within the European Union
    with Kai Michelsen, Lisette Bongers, Helmut Brand, Katharina Förster, and David Townend
    Ethik in der Medizin 26 (4): 301-315. 2014.
    ZusammenfassungPatientenmobilität und grenzüberschreitende Gesundheitsversorgung sind alltägliche Phänomene in der Europäischen Union. Im Jahr 2011 hat die EU eine Richtlinie erlassen, um in diesem Kontext Rechtssicherheit herzustellen. Bisher gibt es keine umfassenden systematischen Studien über ethische Aspekte grenzübergreifender Gesundheitsversorgung. In dieser Arbeit werden die rechtlichen Entwicklungen der grenzübergreifenden Gesundheitsversorgung dargestellt und die in der Literatur verei…Read more
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    Along the entire course of that seventeenth century, the great principles of representative government and the rights of conscience were passing through the anguish of conflict and fiery trial (De...
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    A Capabilities Approach to Prenatal Screening for Fetal Abnormalities
    with Greg Stapleton, Wybo Dondorp, and Guido de Wert
    Health Care Analysis 27 (4): 309-321. 2019.
    International guidelines recommend that prenatal screening for fetal abnormalities should only be offered within a non-directive framework aimed at enabling women in making meaningful reproductive choices. Whilst this position is widely endorsed, developments in cell-free fetal DNA based Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing are now raising questions about its continued suitability for guiding screening policy and practice. This issue is most apparent within debates on the scope of the screening offer. …Read more
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    Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) appropriated the early modern tradition of political thought to his own juridical and political writings. By examining Schmitt's use of this tradition, it is possible to decipher the structure of his own political philosophy and better understand his polemic. This article therefore discusses the key sources and concepts that informed his understanding of the state and interstate relations. The main focus is on Schmitt's engagement with Hobbes, Bodin and Gentili. It becom…Read more
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    Trust and The Acquisition and Use of Public Health Information
    with Stephen Holland, Jamie Cawthra, and Tamara Schloemer
    Health Care Analysis 30 (1): 1-17. 2021.
    Information is clearly vital to public health, but the acquisition and use of public health data elicit serious privacy concerns. One strategy for navigating this dilemma is to build 'trust' in institutions responsible for health information, thereby reducing privacy concerns and increasing willingness to contribute personal data. This strategy, as currently presented in public health literature, has serious shortcomings. But it can be augmented by appealing to the philosophical analysis of the …Read more
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    The four-principles-approach of Tom Beauchamp and Jim Childress has been very influential in bioethics in the last decades. It has proven well although mid-level principles in general and this approach in particular are highly contested by ethicists who would prefer approaches rather based on rules, virtues or personal relations. The author of this study systematically discusses the origin, method and criticism of the Beauchamp and Childress approach. Finally he argues that the applicability of …Read more
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    A Capabilities Approach to Prenatal Screening for Fetal Abnormalities
    with Guido Wert, Wybo Dondorp, and Greg Stapleton
    Health Care Analysis 27 (4): 309-321. 2019.
    International guidelines recommend that prenatal screening for fetal abnormalities should only be offered within a non-directive framework aimed at enabling women in making meaningful reproductive choices. Whilst this position is widely endorsed, developments in cell-free fetal DNA based Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing are now raising questions about its continued suitability for guiding screening policy and practice. This issue is most apparent within debates on the scope of the screening offer. …Read more
  •  10
    A Heuristic Governance Framework for the Implementation of Child Primary Health Care Interventions in Different Contexts in the European Union
    with Tamara Schloemer, Timo Clemens, Denise Alexander, Helmut Brand, Kyriakos Martakis, Michael Rigby, Ingrid Wolfe, Kinga Zdunek, and Mitch Blair
    Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing 56 004695801983386. 2019.
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    DenkWege - Ethik und Seelsorge in der Polizei: Für Werner Schiewek (edited book)
    with Tobias Trappe
    Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. 2023.
  •  4
    Rezension
    Ethik in der Medizin 14 (1): 49-52. 2002.
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    Concepts and Contexts of Vattel's Political and Legal Thought (edited book)
    Cambridge University Press. 2021.
    Swiss-born Emer de Vattel was one of the last eminent thinkers of natural law. He shaped the later part of early-modern natural jurisprudence. At the time, the subject had become a fashionable academic sub-discipline in both jurisprudence and philosophy. Vattel's considerable impact on statesmen, political thinkers, diplomats and lawyers during his lifetime and after rested primarily on the fact that his The Law of Nations transformed natural law into the basis of a more comprehensive and practi…Read more
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    INTERNATIONALes PHILOSOPHISCHes SYMPOSION(1977) (edited book)
    with Germany) Philosophisch-Politische Akademie Main and Universität Göttingen
    Meiner. 1979.
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    Dieser Beitrag stellt aus ethischer Perspektive Herausforderungen für die polizeiliche Arbeit zur Zeit der „Coronakrise“ in Deutschland dar. Spannungsfelder der konkreten Polizeiarbeit vor dem Hintergrund dieser Pandemie werden ebenso beschrieben wie moralische Normen und Werte sowie ethische Theorien, die berufliches Polizeihandeln und die Setzung staatlicher Rahmenbedingungen für polizeiliches Handeln in dieser Phase leiten können und sollen. Public-health-ethische Ansätze werden dabei mit Per…Read more
  • Principles for Public Health Ethics – A Transcultural Approach
    Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 17 (4): 104-108. 2007.
  • Das Thema „moralischer Stress / moralische Verletzung“ hat als Gegenstand der sozialwisschenschaftlichen, psychologischen und auch ethischen Forschung in den letzten Jahren an Bedeutung gewonnen. Dieses Kapitel stellt dar, was unter diesen Begriffen zu verstehen ist. Anhand ausgewählter Berufsfelder wird die Problematik und die Praxisrelevanz dieses Forschungsbereichs aus ethischer Perspektive dargestellt. Ansatzweise werden zwei Aspekte angesprochen, die bei der Prävention bzw. Heilung von mora…Read more
  • Reviews (review)
    with Susan R. Boettcher, Daniel Andersson, José R. Maia Neto, Katherine Dunlop, Emma Spary, Christopher Godden, Gowan Dawson, and Esther Leslie
    Intellectual History Review 19 (3): 371-387. 2009.