RESEARCH PROFILE

The main research areas of the Institute of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine in the field of medical ethics are:

• Ethics in psychiatry (especially capacity to consent, coercion, advance directives)
• Ethical issues at the end of life and physician-assisted suicide
• Ethics of research

Empirical and theoretical-conceptual methods are used here.

In the field of history of medicine the focus is on

• the history of medical technology in the 19th and 20th centuries

Contact persons:

Director of the institute: Prof. Dr. Dr. Jochen Vollmann

Ethics in psychiatry: Dr. Matthé Scholten, Christin Hempeler
End-of-life ethics and physician-assisted suicide: Dr. Esther Braun
Ethics of research: Dr. Sarah Potthoff
The history of medical technology in the 19th and 20th centuries: PD Dr. Stefan Schulz