Hans-Jörg Ehni

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Hans-Jörg Ehni (born on May 12, 1969 in Waiblingen ) is a German philosopher and medical ethicist . He is deputy director and adjunct professor at the Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . His main focus areas are ethics and aging as well as research ethics.

Life

Ehni studied philosophy in Stuttgart , Paris (Paris IV, Panthéon-Sorbonne and Parix X, Nanterre) and Tübingen . He received his doctorate in Tübingen with a dissertation on the topic: "The moral evil" (with Otfried Höffe ). Since 2004 he has worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen.

From 2011 to 2013 he was a consultant to the WMA Declaration of Helsinki Workgroup, from 2012 to 2013 he was a member of the European Commission's “Malevolent-Use and Dual-Use in Research” working group .

In 2014 he completed his habilitation in the subject “Ethics in Medicine” at the Medical Faculty of Tübingen with a thesis on “Ethics in Biogerontology”.

He is a member of the Clinical Ethics Committee of the University Hospital Tübingen and the ethics committee of the Baden-Württemberg State Medical Association .

Publications

As an author

  • The morally evil. Considerations based on Kant and Ricoeur , Alber, Freiburg im Breisgau 2006
  • Ethics of Biogerontology , Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2014
  • Longevity. Background Paper , Nuffield Council, London 2015
  • Equity and healthy aging with Sridhar Venkatapuram and Abha Saxena: Bull World Health Organ, 2017.

As editor

  • with Urban Wiesing : The Declaration of Helsinki. Revisions and controversies Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, Cologne 2012.
  • with Mone Spindler and Julia Dietrich: Discourse Biogerontology: Ethical Implications of the New Biology of Aging. Technical introduction and handout for teachers. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Longevity. Longevity. Background paper
  2. ^ Equity and healthy aging
personal data
SURNAME Ehni, Hans-Jörg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehni, H.-J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and medical ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Waiblingen