• Teilprojekt Ethik / Qualitative Analyse
  • Dr. Mark Schweda
  • Prof. Dr. Silke Schicktanz
  • Alexander Urban
• Teilprojekt Psychiatrie / Quantitative Analyse
• Teilprojekt Biostatistik / Molekulare Diagnostik
• Teilprojekt Medizinische Informatik
• Teilprojekt Recht

Prof. Dr. Silke Schicktanz

Biographical Note

Since April 2010, Silke Schicktanz is full-professor at the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University Medical Center Goettingen. Her Research focuses on the cultural and ethical study of biomedicine.In 2011 she hold an Adjunct professorship for Philosophy at the San Francisco State University and was 2011-12 visiting research scholar at the University of California, Berkeley by a grant of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation (see http://bbrg.berkeley.edu/).  She has studied biology and philosophy at the University of Tübingen from 1991-1997. Her PhD thesis on the ethics of xenotransplantation was approved by the University of Tübingen in 2002. She held various research positions at the University of Tübingen (1999-2000), at the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine/Forschungszentrum Jülich (2002-2003) and at the Department for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine at the University of Muenster (2004-2005). Being interested in public dialogue and engagement, she was project leader of the first nation-wide citizen conference on genetic testing, held at Deutsches Hygiene-Museum in Dresden (1/2001-2/2002).  She was reviewer for the  ERC Advanced Review Panel SH4 (2009-2013) and Hear her talk at Brookes University Oxford in March 2014 on:  The Importance of Narratives of the “Affected People” in the Biomedical Sciences - Beyond Experts’ Voices

Current Research

Cultural differences in bioethics (esp. organ donation, genetic testing, ageing and dying, personalized medicine) Role of body and identity in bioethics Normative and lay concepts of autonomy, trust, and responsibility Lay people and patients' perspective in bioethics and health politics Relationship between ethics and empirical studies

Most Recent Publications

NEW BOOK!!!: Genetics as Social Practice. Transdisciplinary Views on Science and Culture http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409455493 (2014), together with Barbara Prainsack & Gabriele Werner-Felmayer, ASHGATE.  

Actual Important Publications

 

• Silke Schicktanz, Mark Schweda, Jesse Ballenger, Patrick Fox, Jodi Halpern, Joel H Kramer, Guy Micco, Stephen G Post, Charis Thompson, Robert T Knight, William J Jagust: Before it is too late: Professional responsibilities in late-onset Alzheimer’s research and pre-symptomatic prediction, in: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00921 http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00921/abstract
• G. Randhawa & S. Schicktanz (eds) (2013): Public engagement in organ donation and transplantation, Pabst Publisher, Lengrich siehe auch  www.pabst-publishers.de/Medizin/buecher/9783899678215.htm&nbsp
• Silke Schicktanz und Mark Schweda (Hrsg.), Pro-Age oder Anti-Aging? Altern im Fokus der modernen Medizin, Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus 2012. Link zum Verlag www.campus.de/b%C3BCcher/wissenschaft/philosophie/pro_age_oder_anti_aging-4044.html
• S. Wöhlke, A. Hessling, S. Schicktanz (2013): Wenn es persönlich wird in der „personalisierten Medizin“: Aufklärung und Kommunikation aus klinischer Forscher- und Patientenperspektive im empirisch-ethischen Vergleich Ethik in der Medizin. link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00481-013-0263-7
• Hoeyer K., Schicktanz S. (shared 1st authorship), Deleuran, Ina (2013) Public attitudes to financial procurement models for organs: A literature review suggests that it is time to shift the focus from ‘financial incentives’ to ‘reciprocity’, Transplantat International onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tri.12060/abstract  

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