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    Ethics and Inequities in the Context of Urgency
    with Verina Wild, Keren Landsman, Quintus Sleumer, Angus Dawson, and Jan-Christoph Heilinger
    Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 1-19. forthcoming.
    Urgent decision-making during the early COVID-19 pandemic raised complex ethical challenges, in particular concerning how to reach and include marginalized populations. To examine these issues, we conducted a qualitative study based on twenty-three semi-structured interviews with pandemic decision-makers and representatives of marginalized populations in Germany and Israel, focusing on decisions made in 2020 before vaccines were available. Key ethical themes emerged, including decision-making wi…Read more
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    What does it mean to live in asylum? How is health affected by the living conditions in camps and camp-like facilities? And what is unjust about it? Combining philosophical analysis with exploring methods of qualitative research, namely reflexive thematic analysis, this work identifies global pat-terns of the situation in and the space of asylum. Using results of existing empirical public health research as well as a phenomenological approach and the concept of forms of life developed in Social …Read more
  • According to the Asylumseekers Benefit Act health care provision is restricted for refugees in Germany. The article is giving a first overview about the situation with focus on the challenges and questions this restriction poses from an ethical perspective.
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    Ethical aspects of interpreting in multilingual–intercultural physician–patient relationships
    with Ortrun Kliche, Ute Altanis-Protzer, Sabine Eulerich, Corinna Klingler, Gerald Neitzke, Tim Peters, and Michael Coors
    Ethik in der Medizin 30 (3): 205-220. 2018.
    Die Notwendigkeit guter Arzt-Patienten-Kommunikation für eine angemessene Behandlung und für die Ausübung der Patientenselbstbestimmung ist bekannt. In interkulturell-mehrsprachigen Situationen, in denen ein kommunikationsintensiver Aushandlungsprozess besonders notwendig ist, erhält die Qualität der Verständigung besondere Bedeutung, so dass der Einsatz qualifizierter Dolmetschender hier ethisch geboten ist. Er stellt Ärzte und Ärztinnen, aber auch die Dolmetschenden vor besondere, ethisch zu r…Read more