Academic Activities

Research in medical and health care ethics addresses substantive and value-related questions that arise in relation to medicine and our contemporary health care system. It addresses these questions using a variety of methods (conceptual and normative analyses, qualitative and quantitative socio-empirical methods, document and media analyses, clinical studies).

Examples:

• Philosophy and ethics of care
• Decision making in clinical medicine and at the end of life
• Approaches of ethics support at different levels of the health care system
• Ethical and anthropological issues of new (digital) technologies
• Ethical and anthropological issues in neuroscience and its application (neuroethics).

Research in this area is coordinated by the Institute for Humanities in Medecine.