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- IBME contributes to new GSPI Policy Brief "Governance in the age of complexity: building resilience to COVID-19 and future pandemics“
- New Publication: Felicitas Holzer, Florencia Luna, Tania Manríquez Roa and Nikola Biller-Andorno published ‘A matter of priority: equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines’
- New Publication by Ning Wang: “As It Is Africa, It Is Ok”? Ethical Considerations of Development Use of Drones for Delivery in Malawi
- New Publication: «AI support for ethical decision-making around resuscitation: proceed with care»
- Event: «The Ethics about the “Good” Drones» – Invited Lecture by Ning Wang
- Event: Invitation to Forum for Global Health Ethics: Equitable Access to Covid-19 Vaccines
- Medien: Nau.ch spricht mit Nikola Biller-Andorno über Impfprivilegien
- Medien: Nau.ch berichtet über die Umfrage-Plattform zum Coronavirus PubliCo
- New Publication: Federico Germani, Sebastian Wäscher and Nikola Biller-Andorno published the article "A CRISPR response to pandemics? Exploring the ethics of genetically engineering the human immune system" in EMBO Reports.
- Medien: Tanja Krones im Artikel der Zeit Online zur Zukunft von Alters- und Pflegeheimen
- Medien: Nikola Biller-Andorno im Interview mit der NZZ zur Verteilung unterschiedlich wirksamer Impfstoffe
- Medien: Tanja Krones äussert sich in der NZZ zur Impfstoffverteilung
- New Grant: grant approved to foster collaboration between IBME and University of Geneva on pandemic resilience.
- Medien: Tanja Krones kommt im Tagesanzeiger zur Moralisierung im Zusammenhang mit COVID-19 Massnahmen zu Wort
- New Publicaton: Mirriam Tyebally Fang and Nikola Biller-Andorno on Human Milk Banking in the Lancet Global Health
- Medien: Nikola Biller-Andorno auf swissinfo.ch zu Bürgerbeteilung und der PubliCo-Plattform während der Corona-Krise
- Medien: Tanja Krones kommt im Artikel der Zeit zu den sozioökonomischen Hintergründen der COVID-19 Pandemie zu Wort
- New Publication: Johannes Katsarov, Nikola Biller-Andorno, Tobias Eichinger, David Schmocker and Markus Christen published "uMed: Your Choice—Conception of a Digital Game to Enhance Medical Ethics Training"
- Medien: Daniel Binswanger interviewt Tanja Krones zur Situation und zum Umgang mit COVID-19
- Medien: Thomas Kapitza und Nikola Biller-Andorno in der NZZ zum Thema Spitalgovernance und Ethik
- Medien: Nikola Biller-Andorno im Interview mit SRF zum Thema: "Lassen wir ältere Menschen aus Bequemlichkeit sterben?"
- New Publication: Tania Manríquez Roa and Nikola Biller-Andorno published "Going first: the ethics of vaccine self-experimentation in coronavirus times"
- Invitation to Forum on Ethics and Self-Experimentation in Times of Covid-19
- New Publication: Susanne Jöbges, Rasita Vinay, Valeria Luyckx and Nikola Biller published «Recommendations on COVID‐19 triage: international comparison and ethical analysis»
- New Publication: Supriya Subramani published Moral habitus: An approach to understanding embedded disrespectful practices in Developing World Bioethics.
- Medien: Tanja Krones äussert sich in der NZZ am Sonntag zur Behandlung von an Demenz erkrankten Menschen
- Neues Projekt: Patientennarrative in der medizinischen Ausbildung
- Conference: Ning Wang presented at the 2020 IEEE ISTAS conference
- Essay-Wettbewerb: Premio Pusterla Senior 2021
- Neues Buch des Lehrbeauftragten Jürg Knessl: «Der Chef oder Der Weg des Chirurgen»
- Covid19: IBME and FLACSO Argentina collaborate on project funded by the World Health Organization
- New Publication: Joelle Robertson-Preidler, Nikola Biller-Andorno published "Mental Health Care Funding Systems and their Impact on Access to Psychotherapy"
- New Project: „With us about us. Patient narratives as co-production – a contribution to research on participation“
- Covid19: Supriya Subramani interviews Dr. Usha Sriram in this Podcast
- Medien: Nikola Biller-Andorno äussert sich im Tagesanzeiger zum Thema Organspende.
- Covid19: New Project Grant from ETH Zurich and the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation
- New Grant: Leading House Grant for cooperation with Russian Universities
- Medien: Tanja Krones in der Republik zum Thema Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Frau und Schutz ungeborenen Lebens
- New Publication: Tobias Eichinger published "Psychotherapy Ethics in Film"
- Die Schweizerische Ärztezeitung hat alle Finaltexte des Premio Pusterla 2020 sowie einen Bericht über die Veranstaltung veröffentlicht
- PhD positions in the fields of Social Anthropology, Science of Religion and History of Medicine in subproject «Ethnography of Human Reproduction and Single Case Studies in Threshold Areas» 60 %
- Ning Wang published: “We Live on Hope…”: Ethical Considerations of Humanitarian Use of Drones in Post-Disaster Nepal
- Ning Wang received the Latin American Leading House Grant
- Stehr Boldt Fellowship: Visiting Scholar Jackline Mwangi
- Pre-Semester Mountain Hike
- Health in a Digital Society: More power to the people?
- Chapter on "Dignity in Psychotherapy" for the Oxford Handbook of Psychotherapy Ethics
- Supriya Subramani interviews Valerie Luyckx on the Subject of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Covid-19
- Settimio Monteverde spricht über den Lockdown in Pflegeeinrichtungen
- Tanja Krones, Gabriele Meyer and Settimio Monteverde published: «Medicine is a social science: COVID-19 and the tragedy of residential care facilities in high-income countries»
- Zoom Workshop: "Reflexity in Bioethical Research" 30.10 & 11.11
- Roberto Andorno was interviewed about bioethics by Zakon legal journal (Russia)
- SRF 4 News aktuell: Interview mit Nikola Biller-Andorno
- COVID-19 and the ethics of quarantine: a lesson from the Eyam plague
- Eleonora Viganò’s paper accepted at the 10th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP 10)
- Vernissage & Podium: «Jedem seinen eigenen Tod»
- Eleonora Viganò got a book contract with Routledge for the monograph «Moral Choices for Our Future Selves: A Moral and Empirical Theory of Prudence»
- Michele Loi, Eleonora Viganò, and Lonneke van der Plas’ conference paper accepted at the «International Conference on Computational Creativity»
- Two seed grants of the Participatory Science Academy (UZH/ETH) awarded to IBME teams
- Shared decision making: patients have a right to be informed about possible treatment options and their risks and benefits
- Making sense in the flood. How to cope with the massive flow of digital information in medical ethics
- Johannes Willi: The Truth About Pain
- DIPEx.ch becomes member of Health Literacy Network Germany – DNGK
- The Passive Patient: Culture of Disrespect in Law and Medicine
- The Ethical Use of Telepsychiatry in the Covid-19 Pandemic
- IBME researcher and clinical ethicist Settimio Monteverde launches call for urgent reflection about ethical isolation policies in nursing homes in the case of a „second wave“ of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Meet the Author: Oliver Bennett, Professor of Cultural Policy at the University of Warwick, UK, and Founding Editor of the International Journal of Cultural Policy
- Manuel Trachsel received the 2020 Mark S. Ehrenreich Global Prize in Healthcare Ethics Research
- «We Live on Hope» – The Ethics of Using Drones in Post-Disaster Nepal
- Little Acts of Disrespect: Why Micro-Inequities Matters to Bioethics?
- Opinion: Science Alone Can’t Solve Covid-19. The Humanities Must Help.
- CfP: Pandemien in der Populärkultur
- IBME receives SNF funding to develop PubliCo, an experimental online platform for COVID-19 related public perception
- Anna Elsner elected as a member of the Swiss Young Academy
- Authorization of animal research projects – a comparison of harm concepts in the Swiss Animal Welfare Act and the European Directive 2010/63/EU
- Ethics guidelines on COVID-19 triage - an emerging international consensus
- The price of hope: expensive drugs for rare diseases
- Ning Wang awarded the GRC Travel Grants
- New book chapter on health research and human rights by Roberto Andorno
- Cybersecurity of critical infrastructure
- Salience of effective public communication and transparency during Covid-19
- Writing and reading in times of Corona
- Leben und Sterben in Zeiten der Seuche. Artikel von Nina Streeck über ethische Fragen der Triage
- Buchpublikation von Nina Streeck: Jedem seinen eigenen Tod. Authentizität als ethisches Ideal am Lebensende
- New paper by Supriya Subramani: The Social Construction of Incompetency: Moving Beyond Embedded Paternalism Toward the Practice of Respect.
- Two PhD positions at IBME
- IBME Team publishes systematic review on web-based patient narratives.
- Postponed: deadline for Premio Pusterla Senior
- Palliative Care and Grief Counseling in Peri- and Neonatology: Recommendations From the German PaluTiN Group
- "Vulnerable Patients in Acute Hospital" - a Clinical Ethics Project at the University Hospital Zurich
- Striving for the ideal human being - film and conversation
- New book chapter on genetics and human rights by Roberto Andorno
- 2nd Annual Meeting of the EU INTEGRITY Project in Vilnius
- New paper by Roberto Andorno, Mirriam Tyebally Fang et al.: “Geneva Statement on Heritable Human Genome Editing: The Need for Course Correction”
- Nikola Biller-Andorno in SRF Puls on conflicts of interest in the development of medical guidelines
- New paper by Matthias Eggel, Carolyn Neuhaus and Herwig Grimm: Reevaluating Benefits in the Moral Justification of Animal Research: A Comment on “Necessary Conditions for Morally Responsible Animal Research”
- New Paper by Ning Wang: “A Successful Story that Can Be Sold”? A Case Study of Humanitarian Use of Drones
- Serious moral games: at the end, the patient wins
- New paper by Gramm J., Trachsel M. and Berthold D.: Psychotherapeutic Work in Palliative Care
- New paper by Manuel Trachsel and Martin Grosse Holtforth: How to Strengthen Patients’ Meaning Response by an Ethical Informed Consent in Psychotherapy
- New paper by Yahel E. Appenzeller, Paul S. Appelbaum and Manuel Trachsel: Ethical and Practical Issues in Video Surveillance of Psychiatric Units
- New paper by Matthias Eggel and Rebecca L. Walker: From Mice to Monkeys? Beyond Orthodox Approaches to the Ethics of Animal Model Choice
- New paper by Anna Magdalena Elsner in Literature and Medicine: Beyond Medical Paternalism: Undoing the Doctor-Patient Relationship in Simone de Beauvoir’s A Very Easy Death
- New paper by Supriya Subramani: The Rhetoric of the ‘Passive Patient’ in Indian Medical Negligence Cases
- Ning Wang presented at the 2019 IEEE ISTAS conference
- Ethical considerations for health policy and systems research
- Course on Humanitarian Health Ethics & Expert Group Discussion at IBME
- DIPEx International Meeting 2019
- Stehr Boldt Fellowship Award in Biomedical Ethics - Call for applications
- Moral and Vocational Dilemmas Meet the Common Currency Hypothesis: a Contribution to Value Commensurability
- In AI we trust incrementally. A multi-layer model of trust to analyze human-artificial intelligence interactions
- Ning Wang invited to speak at the World Economic Forum
- Nikola Biller-Andorno publishes in the New England Journal of Medicine on the ethics of using AI to predict patient preferences
- Nikola Biller-Andorno elected as member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
- IBME affiliate Dr. Susanne Brauer takes up the position of curator of the «Old Anatomy – Forum for Medicine & Society»
- IBME organizes the WHO co-sponsored "International Expert Consultation on the Donation and Use of Human Milk", Zurich July 8-9, 2019.
- Prof. Nikola Biller-Andorno Comment on Healthdata, NZZ 5.9.2019
- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - Empowerment and Decision-Making at the End of Life. An interdisciplinary workshop for doctoral candidates
- No Pain, No Gain? In Defence of Genetically Disenhancing (Most) Research Animals
- Professionals in Food Chains
- Replacement or Reduction of Gene-Edited Animals in Biomedical Research: A Comparative Ethics and Policy Analysis
- How to Strengthen Patients’ Meaning Response by an Ethical Informed Consent in Psychotherapy
- "Ethical tensions of virtual reality treatment in vulnerable patients". A new paper in Nature Medicine by Philipp Kellmeyer, Nikola Biller-Andorno & Gerben Meynen
- "I would find it charming if a robot would tell me a joke while putting on my stockings".
- Ning Wang invited to be a visiting scholar at the Hastings/Yale joint program in fall 2019
- Text Analytics Workshop by the DSI Challenge Area Health
- Giovanni Spitale received a grant from Krebsforschung Schweiz for a research project on adolescents and young adults with a hemato-oncological disease
- Ensuring ethical conduct of implementation research: new WHO training course on implementation research co-authored by Valerie Luyckx
- Humanitarian ethics framework by Clarinval and Biller-Andorno used for Johns Hopkins report
- Ning Wang invited to hold a seminar at University of Tokyo
- Attitudes toward assisted suicide requests in the context of severe and persistent mental illness: A survey of psychiatrists in Switzerland
- The official website of the DIPEx Switzerland research group is online and publicly accessible
- The notion of free will and its ethical relevance for decision-making capacity
- Acceptability of palliative care approaches for patients with severe and persistent mental illness: a survey of psychiatrists in Switzerland
- Ning Wang invited to give a talk at Medair headquarters in Lausanne
- Premio Pusterla 2019
- Artists in Labs and The Persistence of Memory. Dementia and Digital Aid Tools for Decision-making in Health-Care
- Kick-Off Meeting of the EU INTEGRITY Project in Utrecht
- Enhancing Toward the Last Universal Common Descendant
- IBME researcher to investigate clinical ethics support services and their effects on coercive measures in psychiatry
- “Engineering Future Generations?” International Workshop on Germline Gene Editing at the Brocher Foundation
- IBME researchers to investigate coercive measures in intensive care
- What to do if it is unclear whether a patient can decide for himself or herself?
- New publication by Sarah Steinau and Nikola Biller-Andorno in Frontiers in Psychiatry, section Forensic Psychiatry.
- Questioning the Questionnaire: Methodological Challenges in Measuring Subjective Quality of Life in Nursing Homes Using Cognitive Interviewing Techniques
- "Two concepts of group privacy" by Michele Loi and Markus Christen accepted at Computer, Privacy and Data Protection Conference 2019
- The Digital Phenotype: a Philosophical and Ethical Exploration. New paper by Michele Loi
- A Moral Framework for Understanding of Fair ML through Economic Models of Equality of Opportunity
- The Standard Account of Moral Distress and Why We Should Keep It - New paper by Joan McCarthy and Settimio Monteverde
- New publication by Ineichen, Shepherd and Sürücü on "Understanding the Effects and Adverse Reactions of Deep Brain Stimulation: Is It Time for a Paradigm Shift Toward a Focus on Heterogenous Biophysical Tissue Properties Instead of Electrode Design Only?". Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
- IBME DIPEx team attending the Dipex International annual meeting
- Machteld van den Berg wins the SSPH+ ScienceFlashTalk at the Swiss Public Health Conference in Neuchâtel on 7 November 2018
- Ning Wang is awarded the SNF Doc.Mobility Fellowship
- Roberto Andorno as a speaker at a Web Seminar on Gene Editing and Human Rights
- ‘Je souffre donc je suis’: Dolorisme, Morphine and the Medico-Literary Resistance to Palliative Care in France
- Anna Magdalena Elsner presenting a paper at Cultural Crossings of Care Conference, University of Oslo
- Ning Wang invited as a panelist by Swissnex Boston
- DIPEx Training at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine
- New publication on organ donation by Christen and Gloor: Ethical relevance and factual deficiencies in the communication of specifics of DCDD (in German).
- IBME received a grant from the UZH North-South collaboration
- IBME elected as member of the board of EACME
- Research grant approved for the project on integrating ethical values in the humanitarian use of drones
- Project on the teaching of scientific integrity approved by the European Commission (Horizon 2020 Programme)
- Tanja Krones appointed as member of the National Commission on Biomedical Ethics (NEK/CNE)
- Dr Philipp Kellmeyer publishes paper in Science Robotics
- Health governance in the public interest? WHO redefines conflicts of interest and risks undermining public health mandates.
- Assisted dying on the basis of suffering from mental illness
- Registration now open for interdisciplinary workshop (in German): Krankheits- und Gesundheitsnarrative in der Forschung: Ein interdisziplinärer Workshop
- Neuroethics calls for short commentaries or full papers on the latest publication by Gilbert, Viana and Ineichen.
- Lecture series: Contemporary issues in Psychiatric Ethics
- New publication on Neuroethics by Gilbert, Viana and Ineichen: Deflating the "DBS causes personality changes" bubble.
- IBME awarded the DSI Seed Fund
- Anna Elsner and Roberto Andorno visited the Pavlov Medical University of Saint Petersburg
- Sarah Steinau is awarded the Graduate Campus Travel Grant
- Ning Wang awarded the GRC Travel Grants
- Dr Philipp Kellmeyer at re:publica conference 2018
- Giovanni Spitale presenting his works at the International book fair of Turin, Italy
- Roberto Andorno gave a presentation on the right to mental privacy at the University Milano-Bicocca
- On 19 September 2018, the IBME will host the international workshop "Digital Health and Shared Decision Making"
- Yolanda Chacón Gámez attended a ceremony presided over by the King and the Queen of Spain
- New publication by Johann Roduit, Tobias Eichinger, and Walter Glannon: Science fiction and human enhancement: radical life-extension in the movie 'In Time' (2011)
- New publication by Corine Mouton Dorey et al. on "Patient data and patient rights"
- Master-Arbeit zum Spiel-basierten Ethik-Training
- Erste Vergabe des Ethikpreises Premio Pusterla Junior 2018
- Lehrkredit für Entwicklung eines Videospiels zum Medizinethik-Training bewilligt
- Johann Roduit wurde in den Bildungs- und Forschungsrat (BFR) des Kantons Wallis berufen
- New GRC Grant on Human-Machine Interactions awarded to Ning Wang
- Ning Wang awarded the GRC Travel Grants
- Interview by Dr Kellmeyer on the responsible use of brain data
- Master student Driton Gjukaj publishes in Journal of Clinical Ethics, together with Daniel Drewniak and Nikola Biller-Andorno
- Dr Philipp Kellmeyer receives Bioethics Award
- Philipp Kellmeyer and colleagues have recently published an article on ethical priorities for neurotechnologies and AI, in the journal Nature
- Video Interview of Dr. Anna Elsner on Medical Humanities
- 2018 International Exploratory Workshop: From Human to Posthuman? Ethical Inquiry
- Prof. Nikola Biller-Andorno will speak at the International Conference marking the 20th anniversary of the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (Oviedo Convention)
- Machteld van den Berg contributes a piece to the EACME newsletter
- New publication by Christian Ineichen, Nikola Biller-Andorno and Anna Deplazes-Zemp on "Image of Synthetic Biology and Nanotechnology: A Survey among University Students"
- Three questions to Dr. Anna Elsner about Medical Humanities
- New publication: White paper and colourful language: Toward a realistic view of animal research
- New publication: The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions: Why Harm-Benefit Analysis and Its Emphasis on Practical Benefit Jeopardizes the Credibility of Research.
- Welcome to our new IBME International Fellow: Giovanni Spitale
- Values in Psychiatry - Public lectures and interdisciplinary workshop
- Manuel Trachsel als Redner an der Konferenz "Advance Care Planning (ACP) - Pflicht oder Kür?" am Universitätsspital Bern
- New research focus on normativity and autonomous intelligent systems 2018/19
- New published work: "Digital Dust" by Johann Roduit
- New publication “You Can Only Give Warmth to Your Baby When It’s Too Late” on parental bonding with an extremely premature and dying child
- Nikola Biller-Andorno im SRF zu forschungsethischen Fragen
- New published book: "Future-Human.Life". Edited by Vincent Menuz, Johann Roduit, Daniel Roiz, Alexandre Erler, Natalia Stepanova (2017)
- Martina Hodel hielt einen Vortrag an der LVR-Klinik in Köln zum Thema "Palliative Ansätze in der Psychiatrie: Antithetisch oder komplementär in der Behandlung von schweren chronischen psychischen Störungen".
- A Workshop proposal on genome editing submitted by Roberto Andorno and Marcy Darnovsky has been selected by the Brocher Foundation
- New publication by Christian Ineichen and Markus Christen on "Hypo-and Hyperagentic Psychiatric States, Next-Generation Closed-Loop DBS, and the Question of Agency"
- Registration Open! Medical Humanities Workshop at the University of Basel
- New paper by Valerie A. Luyckx et. al.: Ethical Challenges in the Provision of Dialysis in Resource-Constrained Environments
- Manuel Trachsel as speaker at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Assoiciation APA in San Diego
- Registration for the 2017 Emerging-World Symposium (Nov 23, 2017) is now open!
- Review of John Harris' book "How to be Good: The Possibility of Moral Enhancement" by Johann Roduit
- Neuer Artikel: „Das Lebensende gestalten“ von Nina Streeck
- Joelle Robertson-Preidler started a position as an adjunct philosophy professor teaching health care ethics at Saginaw Valley State University in Saginaw, USA.
- Anna Magdalena Elsner as invited speaker at the Sherwin B. Nuland Summer Institute in Bioethics at Yale University
- Anna Magdalena Elsner is awarded a SNF Marie Heim-Vögtlin grant held at the Romanische Seminar and the IBME
- New article by Joelle Robertson-Preidler, Nikola Biller-Andorno, Matthew Anstey, and Alexandra Norrish on approaches to appropriate care policy in Australia, England, and Switzerland
- Anna Magdalena Elsner publishes monograph Mourning and Creativity in Proust (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
- New Publication: "Methodological Reflections on the Contribution of Qualitative Research to the Evaluation of Clinical Ethics Support Services" by Sebastian Wäscher et. al.
- New article by Roberto Andorno and Marcello Ienca: “Towards new human rights in the age of neuroscience and neurotechnology”
- Anna Magdalena Elsner gives keynote lecture at Oxford University TORCH Conference
- Nikola Biller-Adorno as invited panelists at the"Trendtage Gesundheit" in Luzern
- New article: „Alt werden im Paradies“ – Die ethischen Aspekte der Migration von pflegebedürftigen Menschen by Ch. Bally-Zenger, L. Eckenwiler and V. Wild
- Johann Roduit selected Visiting Fellow of the Brocher Foundation for 2018
- New publication: Der Umgang mit "second victims" als organisationsethische Aufgabe / The support for second victims as an issue of organizational ethics
- Artikel von Manuel Trachsel und Daniel Hürlimann im Swiss Medical Forum
- New publication: “Exploring societal solidarity in the context of extreme prematurity” in Switzerland
- New publication: "Do attitudes and behavior of health care professionals exacerbate health care disparities among immigrant and ethnic minority groups? An integrative literature review"
- Valerie Luyckx et al. published a systematic review highlighting the outcomes of patients with end0stage kidney disease in sub-Sahara Africa
- "Sport as part of the medical humanities – why not?" New Op-ed by Tobias Eichinger and Johann Roduit
- Special issue of Nursing Ethics on ethical issues in end of life care
- Anti-doping and the physician’s role: how do we overcome the challenges in elite sport? New entry on the BMJ Blog by Roman Gaehwiler
- PhD student Machteld van den Berg is selected as the recipience of the Swiss National Science Foundation doctoral research grant (Doc.CH)
- New publication by Christian Ineichen, Markus Christen and Carmen Tanner on "Measuring value sensitivity in medicine"
- Neues Buch von Manuel Trachsel und Alexander Noyon
- New publication by Valerie Luyckx and Nikola Biller-Andorno: Developing the ethics of implementation research in health
- New publication by Johann Roduit and Roman Gaehwiler: Ethics and enhancement in sport: becoming the fastest (human?) being
- 'Eloge de la fragilité à l'ère de l'Homme augmenté', new Op-ed by Johann Roduit, published in Le Temps
- Tobias Eichinger has published two chapters in the edited volume: Seelenkenner Psychoschurken: Psychotherapeuten und Psychiater in Film und Serie
- Machteld van den Berg receives Canadian Development Research Award
- New publication 'Sterben, wie man gelebt hat. Die Optimierung des Lebensende' by Nina Streeck
- New article by Manya Hendriks et al. on the different societal attitudes and values in Switzerland toward shared decision-making for extreme preterm infants
- 'Précision sur l'immortalité', New Letter to the Editor published in Le Temps by Johann Roduit
- New research project: does the expectation of finding practical benefits erode the notion of trustworthiness, when doing research?
- New Letter to Editor in JAMA by Martina Andrea Hodel and Manuel Trachsel
- Anna Elsner as invited speaker at the 'Images of Care and Dying' seminar at Cambridge University
- Interview of Vincent Menuz in Migros Magazine: «Mourir est devenu aujourd’hui une faute morale»
- Medical Humanities in Switzerland: moving forward, new publication by Nikola Biller-Andorno and Johann Roduit
- New publication by Markus Christen, Christian Ineichen and Carmen Tanner on "Moral Intelligence" in Clinical Practice
- The TEDx Talk of Vincent Menuz is online
- New Peer Commentary in The American Journal of Bioethics by Manuel Trachsel
- Bioethics and Cinema: Nikola Biller-Andorno lectured on the ethics of reproductive medicine during the Zurich Film Festival
- New book chapter by Walter Glannon and Christian Ineichen on Philosophical Aspects of Closed-Loop-Neuroscience
- Nikola Biller-Andorno presented on the Ethics of Genetic Engineering at stars Switzerland
- Roberto Andorno as invited speaker at Kiel University workshop on “New Human Rights for the 21st Century”
- New publication by Nikola Biller-Andorno et al.: The Effects of Closed-Loop Medical Devices on the Autonomy and Accountability of Persons and Systems
- Flesh & Foil: new poem on the ethics of human enhancement by Johann Roduit
- Article on palliative care in psychiatry in BMC Psychiatry by Manuel Trachsel, Scott A. Irwin, Nikola Biller-Andorno, Paul Hoff, and Florian Riese
- New article by Christian Ineichen, Heide Baumann-Vogel and Markus Christen published in Brain Sciences: Deep Brain Stimulation: In Search of Reliable Instruments for Assessing Complex Personality-Related Changes.
- Vincent Menuz to give a TEDx talk Sept 9 in Martigny
- Welcome to our new Scientific PhD Coordinator Anna Magdalena Elsner
- Interview of Prof. Nikola Biller-Andorno in Echo der Zeit (SRF)
- Nikola Biller-Andorno appointed Collegium Helveticum Fellow
- New article on psychiatric advance directives in Ethik in der Medizin by Manuel Trachsel and Nikola Biller-Andorno
- New publication: "Rethinking the ethical approach to health information management through narration: pertinence of Ricœur’s ‘little ethics’"
- Outcomes of acute kidney injury in children and adults in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review
- New publication: Towards a broader understanding of agency in biomedical ethics
- New paper: 'The influence of patients’ immigration background and residence permit status on treatment decisions in health care'
- New article: 'Emotion and Value in the Evaluation of Medical Decision-Making Capacity: A Narrative Review of Arguments'
- A new casebook on bioethics and law coedited by Roberto Andorno
- New article in The Journal of Hospital Administration by Corine Mouton Dorey, Milo Alan Puhan and Nikola Biller-Andorno
- New article in the Journal of Medical Ethics by Manuel Trachsel and Jens Gaab
- Neuer Artikel „Nicht für immer. Ars moriendi nova – Sterbekunst ohne Jenseitsperspektive“ von Nina Streeck, in: Hermeneutische Blätter
- New paper: “Ethical Considerations Concerning the Inclusion of Women with Epilepsy in Pregnancy Registries”, by Corine Mouton Dorey
- Roberto Andorno as invited speaker at the US National Academies meeting on human gene editing
- Johann Roduit was elected board member of the Swiss Society of Biomedical Ethics
- New paper: Reconsidering Kantian arguments against organ selling by Zümrüt Alpinar-Şencan
- New Paper: Ethical Challenges of Simulation-Driven Big Neuroscience
- Roberto Andorno has received his habilitation in bioethics and medical law
- New article on ethical challenges of genetic testing and risk prediction by Tobias Eichinger
- New article in The Lancet Psychiatry by Manuel Trachsel and Nikola Biller-Andorno
- Neues Buch von Dr. Manuel Trachsel mit dem Titel "Lebensende, Sterben und Tod"
- New book by Johann Roduit, 'The Case for Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Human Enhancement'
- Registration for the 2016 Zurich Workshop on Medical Humanities is open
- Commentary by Roberto Andorno: The right not to know does not apply to HIV testing
- New Publication: the Promising Revolution of Participant-Led Research in Rare Neurological Diseases
- Revolution der Rechner: Wie Big Data unser Leben verändert
- New article on the challenge of ethical disclosure in psychotherapy by Manuel Trachsel
- Markus Christen has received his habilitation in biomedical ethics
- Mensch nach Mass: Ein Blick ins Gehirn
- Review of Nicholas Agar's book 'Truly Human Enhancement: A Philosophical Defense of Limits'
- 'Individual Responsibility and Community Solidarity: The Swiss Health Care System', new article by Nikola Biller-Andorno and Thomas Zeltner
- Prof. Biller-Andorno as Keynote speaker for Designing Provider Incentives event
- CfP: Ethical aspects of assisted dying and the implications for care practices.
- Neuer Artikel von Nina Streeck: 'Leben machen, sterben lassen'. Palliative Care und Biomacht, in: Ethik in der Medizin
- Colombian decoration awarded to Dr. Roberto Andorno
- Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences grant for Manuel Trachsel
- New paper: Hymen reconstruction as pragmatic empowerment? Results of a qualitative study from Tunisia
- SNSF grant for the project 'Science Fiction and the Ethics of Human Enhancement'
- New article by Christian Ineichen and Markus Christen published in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience: Analyzing 7000 texts on deep brain stimulation: what do they tell us?
- Workshop: Was ist Medizin? Perspektiven aus den Medical Humanities
- TV interview of the 'superhumains.ch' team regarding life-extension
- New article published in 'Bioethics'. Ideas of Perfection and the Ethics of Human Enhancement. By Johann A R Roduit, Jan-Christoph Heilinger, Holger Baumann
- Interview of Johann Roduit in NZZ am Sonntag: «Human Enhancement» – auf dem Weg zum Supermenschen
- New publication by Jürg Streuli and Eva Bergsträsser
- Neue Publikation von Nina Streeck: „Sterbewünsche – medizinethisch-empirische Zugänge“
- New Opinion Paper in The Lancet Psychiatry by Manuel Trachsel, Martin grosse Holtforth, Nikola Biller-Andorno, and Paul S. Appelbaum
- New publication by Nikola Biller-Andorno: Professionalism and ethics in animal research
- Save the date! Tag der Lehre (Open day) 4.11.2015 at the IBME
- Registration for the 2015 Zurich Intensive Bioethics Course is still open
- Vortrag von Nina Streeck über die „Grenzen der Professionalisierung in der Palliative Care“
- 'The augmented human: a dream coming true. 'Interview of Johann Roduit in H+ Magazine
- Joint WHO Meeting on Ethics Guidance for Health Systems and Policy Research in collaboration with the University of Zurich
- New special symposium in Public Health Ethics edited by Verina Wild, Deborah Zion and Richard Ashcroft
- New Paper in The American Journal of Bioethics by Manuel Trachsel, Verina Wild, Tanja Krones, and Nikola Biller-Andorno
- Registration for the 2015 Zurich Intensive Bioethics Course (13-15.11.15) is open!
- Neue Publikation: Was bezeichnet Einwilligungsfähigkeit / Urteilsfähigkeit?
- Gespräch zu Biotechnologie und Artenschutz in der Zeitschrift HOTSPOT
- "Superhumains.ch: offrir des outils réflexifs aux jeunes adultes": New article by Vincent Menuz and Johann Roduit published in Valais Valeur Ajoutée
- New column by Johann Roduit published in l'Hebdo: "L’humain augmenté: entre amélioration et déshumanisation"
- Prof. Nikola Biller-Andorno im Gastkommentar zum Thema „Fortpflanzungsmedizin“ in der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung NZZ
- Interview „Wir fragen, was Menschen denken“ mit Nikola Biller-Andorno und Markus Huppenbauer zu Aufgabe und Funktionsweise von Ethik im UZH Magazin
- Prof. Biller-Andorno im Radiobetrag „Der Tag“ im Hessischen Rundfunk zum Thema „Korrekturen? Das Unbehagen in der Biomedizin“
- Dr. Vincent Menuz will present the project superhumains.ch in a Scientific Café
- Dr Johann Roduit to take up position at the new Center for Medical Humanities, University of Zurich
- New Publication: Different Understandings of Life as an Opportunity to Enrich the Debate About Synthetic Biology
- "Double Trouble? Towards an Epistemology of Co-infection" - New article on TB/HIV co-infection by Janina Kehr featured in Medicine, Anthropology, Theory
- New book by Niklaus Ingold on sunlight and health in medicine and beyond
- Soon immortality?
- Neuer Artikel „Will ich 100 werden?“ von Prof. Biller-Andorno im Tages Anzeiger Magazin
- Johann Roduit was invited to give a response to Prof. Nicholas Agar regarding his latest book: Truly Human Enhancement. Slides are available online.
- New article published and illustrated: “Modifier l’espèce humaine ou l’environnement? Les transhumanistes face à la crise écologique”, by Gabriel Dorthe and Johann Roduit. Published in Bioethica Forum. Illustrated by N. Stepanova (Arts-form association).
- New article: Personal biases in decision-making capacity evaluations
- Beitrag von Prof. Nikola Biller-Andorno im Radio Top zum Thema „Fallpauschalen“
- Interview mit Prof. Nikola Biller-Andorno in der "Schweizerischen Ärztezeitung"
- Artikel zur IBME Studie „Einführung Fallpauschalen“ im Tages Anzeiger
- Birth weight, malnutrition and kidney-assocaited outcomes - a global concern
- "Der bessere Mensch und die Angst" - Article in the Zürcher Studierendenzeitung (ZS) about the 2015 Winter School on Human Enhancement
- New article published in the Monash Bioethics Review. Evaluating human enhancements: the importance of ideals. By Johann A R Roduit, Holger Baumann, Jan-Christoph Heilinger.
- Nikola Biller-Andorno appointed as member of working group on the ethics of implementation research.
- Dr Carina Fourie to take up position at the University of Washington
- Participants of the Superhumains.ch project were interviewed by the Radio télévision suisse (RTS)
- New article: Impact of the DRG-based reimbursement system on patient care and professional practise: perspectives of Swiss hospital physicians
- New article by Zümrüt Alpinar-Sencan: Reconsidering Kantian Arguments Against Organ Selling
- Vers l'homme augmenté - interview of Johann Roduit in la Tribune de Genève
- A Social Understanding of Dignity: A Promising Approach in the Organ Selling Debate, by Zümrüt Alpinar-Sencan
- Prof. Nikola Biller-Andorno zum Thema "Steigende Medikamentenpreise" im SRF Wirtschaftsmagazin "Trend"
- Prof. Nikola Biller-Andorno beim Deutschen Ethikrat zum Thema "Medizin und Ökonomie"
- Program Research Colloquium on Biomedical Ethics Spring Semester 2015
- PD Dr. Rouven Porz wurde an der Universität Bern im Fach Medizinethik habilitiert
- Neuer Artikel von Tobias Eichinger "Die Inszenierung unserer reproduktiven Zukunft – Dokumentarfilmische Narrative im bioethischen Diskurs" in Ethik in der Medizin (online first)
- Neuer Beitrag von Prof. Nikola Biller-Andorno im Roadmap-Blog „Nachhaltiges Gesundheitssystem“ der Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz
- L’humain face aux technologies - interview of Johann Roduit in La Liberté
- Kommentar von Manuel Trachsel in der SRF-Tagesschau vom 03.01.2015 zu psychiatrischen Patientenverfügungen
- Artikel von Nina Streeck im Bioethica Forum
- Johann Roduit was an invited speaker at the PI Symposium in Monthey
- Registration is now open for the 2015 Zurich Winter School on the ethics of human enhancement
- SNSF press release on the "Assessment of decision-making capacity"
- Interview mit Nikola Biller-Andorno in der Zürcher Studierendenzeitung zum Thema "Schmerzmittel sind keine Heilsbringer"
- Interview mit Nikola Biller-Andorno auf Radio SRF2 zum Thema "Die Mittel gegen Ebola auf dem Prüfstand"
- Effy Vayena's research on participant-led research was discussed in a Wall Street Journal article
- New publication on physicians' knowledge, attitudes, and assessment practices concerning medical decision-making capacity
- Ethik-Café am IBME
- Effy Vayena has published a new paper in "The Lancet"
- New article by Christian Ineichen et al. published in "Frontiers in Human Neuroscience": A critical reflection on the technological development of deep brain stimulation (DBS)
- Effy Vayena is an invited speaker at the European Health Forum Gastein 2014
- New book review of "The Ethics of the New Eugenics" by Johann Roduit, published in Med Health Care and Philos
- Invitation to conference December 19th/20th, 2014: "The ethics of health incentive programs"
- SNSF funding for project on wishes to die
- Assessing mental capacity: How much and what kind of standardization is appropriate?
- Superhumains.ch est lancé!
- Effy Vayena has published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on the ethics of the Facebook experiment
- Ethics project in the NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering
- Nikola Biller-Andorno im SRF zur Ebola-Epidemie und dem Einsatz noch nicht ausreichend getesteter Medikamente
- Effy Vayena's e-letter on "Asking the right autonomy question in direct to consumer genomics" in the Journal of Medical Ethics
- Nikola Biller-Andorno on Screening for Breast Cancer at BBC Radio 4 (Podcast)
- New Publication by Johann Roduit, Vincent Menuz and Holger Baumann. Book Chapter: Human Enhancement: Living Up to the Ideal Human
- New article by Manuel Trachsel, Helena Hermann, and Nikola Biller-Andorno in American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias
- Effy Vayena was awarded a grant from the Brocher Foundation
- New paper by Nikola Biller-Andorno and Caroline Clarinval on "Disaster Bioethics"
- Effy Vayena's Rapid Response on enabling patient partnerships in the British Medical Journal
- The Huffington Post interviewed Johann Roduit regarding the movie "Transcendence"
- Nikola Biller-Andorno in einem Beitrag zur Übertherapie in der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung
- Op-ed by Johann Roduit published in Le Temps: "Quand la technologie investit le foot"
- Three Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS) Project Fundings
- Nikola Biller-Andorno delivers welcome address at Jewish Medical Ethics Conference in Stein am Rhein, May 8, 2014
- Registration Summer School 2014 in Public Health Policy, Economics and Management in Lugano is now open.
- New article by Effy Vayena in the Journal of Medical Ethics
- New article by Judith Richter in the British Medical Journal (BMJ)
- Neu erschienenes Buch von Nikola Biller-Andorno "Ethik und Recht in Medizin und Biowissenschaften"
- Nikola Biller-Andorno in Tele Top on Breast Screening
- New article by Nikola Biller-Andorno in the New England Journal of Medicine on Mammography Screening
- New article by Effy Vayena and Christian Ineichen in Public Health Genomics
- Effy Vayena's article in EMBO Reports
- Effy Vayena's interview at the Swiss Re Center for Global Dialogue event
- Urteilsfähigkeit: Ethische Relevanz, konzeptuelle Herausforderung und ärztliche Beurteilung
- Nikola Biller-Andorno und Markus Christen im ELSA-Komitee des Human Brain Project
- Effy Vayena's article on responsible innovation and science diplomacy
- Interview Weltwoche mit Markus Christen über Chancen und Gefahren der Neurowissenschaft
- SNFS-Agora Project Funding: Superhumains.ch
- Johann Roduit, Op-ed published in "Le Temps", "Snowden et la Singularité: L’ère du super-ordinateur qui sait tout n’est peut-être plus très loin"
- Johann Roduit's blog post, selected to be published in the 2014 Anthology of the best science blogs
- Prof. Nikola Biller-Andorno im SRF zum "social freezing"
- Prof. Nikola Biller-Andorno in a Harvard Business Review Blog
- Neuroenhancement among Swiss Students - A Comparison of Users and Non-Users
- Editorial in Bioethics Special Issue by Prof. Nikola Biller-Andorno
- Neuer Artikel "Tumoren verschwinden lassen" von Effy Vayena
- New article by Effy Vayena in Nature Biotechnology
- Fall Semester's Ringvorlesung Program
- New Publication by Johann Roduit in "Bulletin des médecins suisses"
- Editorial by Effy Vayena and Barbara Prainsack
- New article by Effy Vayena
- AFE & IBME: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Project Funding
- New Publication by Regula Ott
- Neue Studie zur Suizidhilfe
- New KZS support from the SAMS
- New Publication
- SAMS supports NFP67 research project
- Interview Judy Illes
- SNSF Mobility grants in projects
- New Publication by Manuel Trachsel
- SNSF Professorship
- New Interview and Publication
- New Publication
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- Graduate Campus funded project
- New Publication
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- New Grant
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- Contribution panel discussion
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- Pharmacogenomics
- New Publication
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- Prof. Biller-Andorno für weitere Amtsperiode als Mitglied der Zentralen Ethikkommission der SAMW wiedergewählt
- New Publication
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- 2012 Mark S. Ehrenreich Prize: Runner-up awarded to Annette Rid
- Intersexualität kontrovers
- New Publication
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- Call for Papers for Workshop "Meeting the Authors: Ruth Faden and Madison Powers"
- Global harmonization through public-private partnership: The case of pharmaceuticals
- Starbuck ou l'ébranlement du don de sperme
- New Publication