DigitAs is carried out by members of the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine and their cooperative partners from Sociology, Medicine, Medical Ethics and the Technical Sciences.
Project Management
Dr. phil. Joschka Haltaufderheide, M.A. studied Comparative Literature and Philosophy and graded with distinction. He wrote his phd-thesis on the theoretical foundations of ethics of risk in 2015. Now, he works at the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum. His reserach focus is on questions of ethical expertise and conceptual questions of ethics consultation as well as ethical implications of the use of social assistive technologies in healthcare.
Dr. sc. med. Ina Otte, Dipl. Soz. wrote her phd-thesis at the Institue for Biomedical Ethics, Basel, on the importance of communication in palliative care in elderly care. The project was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. In her recent research, Ina Otte focusses on concepts of reducing coercion in psychiatry as well as implementing concepts of peer-support-work and advanced care planning in patients with dementia. Her research and teaching efforts were awarded the Swiss general practicioners’ research prize and the awad of the Society of Medical Education (GMA).
Dr. phil. Corinna Jung, MA is a Sociologist and Philosopher and studied in Heidelberg and Berlin. She wrote her phd-thesis at the LMU Munich. Corinna Jung was member of TRANSDISS, an interdiscolinary group of young researchers working in the fields of technology impact assessment and practical ethics. TRANSDISS was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education. She is now working at Heidelberg University.
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Jochen Vollmann is Director of the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum since 2005. After his medical education as specialist in psychiatry, Jochen Vollmann worked at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, and habilitated in 1998 with a work on ethical questions of information giving and informed consent in medicine. His research interest lies in ethical questions of patients’ autonomy and informed consent as well as several other issues in clinical and empirical medical ethics. In recent years, three working groups for young researchers and several Young sholars’ conferences were established and organized under his supervision.
Johanna Hovemann, M.A. studied Social Science with a focus on the healthcare sector and health economy and wrote her master thesis about the orientation to living conditions (setting approach) in prevention and health promotion measures and the practical implementation of the Prevention Act by the statutory health insurances in Germany. In her bachelor’s programme she studied in a two subjects design, therefore she also completed in Media Studies. Her bachelor thesis was about the doctor-patient interaction in the Internet Age. Now she works at the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine.
Cooperations
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Michael Decker
Head of institute
Professor of Technology Assessment at the Institute of Philosophy of the KIT
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Michael Hübner
Chair for Embedded Systems in Information Technology
Ruhr-University Bochum
JProf. Dr. rer. medic. Margareta Halek, MScN
German Center for Neurodegenerative Deseases
Helmholtz Association
Dipl.-Ing. Nora Weinberger
Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS)
Karlsruhe Institue of Technology
Prof. Dr. rer. soc. habil. Ulrich Otto
Head of Careum Research
Kalaidos Fachhochschule Gesundheit
Zürich
