Area of research Bioethics and Medical Ethics
Ethics of Synthetic Biology
Synthetic cells, biohybrid systems, synthetic embryo models, and other current developments pose significant ethical challenges, which are addressed in this project.
It is based at the Max Planck School “Matter to Life” and, in addition to research, includes regular teaching in ethics for the school's international students.
Trust in „Healthcare Technologies“
This interdisciplinary project serves to connect scientists at the postdoctoral level and above who are working in Heidelberg on issues of trust or trustworthiness in the context of emerging bio- and health technologies.
Public Health Ethics
This project focuses on developing a theological ethics approach to issues of public health ethics at the intersection of medical ethics, political ethics, social ethics, and professional ethics.
Illness and health
The project addresses anthropological questions in the context of illness and health and their implications for medical ethics.
GRK LocoAssist
Graduate college on ‘intelligent’ prosthetics and orthotics.
Ethics at the end of life
Euthanasia, voluntary refusal of food and fluids, assisted suicide: at the end of life, important questions arise between anthropology and ethics.
Further reading:
- Moos, Thorsten (forthcoming): Würdepraktiken. Zur ethischen und theologischen Hermeneutik der Debatte um das selbstbestimmte Sterben, in: Philipp Stoellger et al. (Hg.): Grammatiken der Sterbehilfe, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Heidelberg.
Boundaries of Will (completed)
Decision-making and consent in borderline situations in medicine: anthropology, psychology, law, and ethics. Research project on dealing with human will in borderline situations and on ethical problems involved in determining a patient's will.
Further reading:
- Moos, Thorsten/ Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph/ Schües, Christina (Hg.) (2016): Randzonen des Willens. Anthropologische und ethische Probleme von Entscheidungen in Grenzsituationen (Praktische Philosophie kontrovers, Bd. 6), Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, open access, see link.
Clinical pastoral care and ethics (completed)
Interdisciplinary study on how hospital chaplains deal with medical ethics and development of a teaching unit for pastoral care training, continuing education, and further training.
Further reading:
- Moos, Thorsten/ Ehm, Simone/ Kliesch, Fabian/ Thiesbonenkamp-Maag, Julia (2016): Ethik in der Klinikseelsorge. Theorie, Empirie, Ausbildung, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht.
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Secretariat
Lisa Sentiwany
Tel.: +49 (0)6221 54 - 3292
Mail: Sekretariat.Ethik@ts.uni-heidelberg.de
Open hours secretariat:
Mo, Di, Mi, Fr: 08.30 - 12 a.m.
Do: 14 - 16 p.m.