Institute for people, ethics and science
The Institut Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft gGmbH (IMEW) is an institution for biomedical and ethical research with special consideration of the needs of disabled and chronically ill people. With events, specialist publications and research funding, the institute offers a scientific forum for better participation of disabled people.
history
Based on the bioethical debate in 1998, the institute was founded in 2002 by nine disability and social associations and supported financially by Aktion Mensch . It is financed from the contributions of these shareholder associations, Aktion Mensch as well as third-party funds and donations.
Four disability associations had come together in 1998 and, with the support of the Self-Determined Living Initiative and the Federal Association for the Physically and Multiply Disabled, held a congress in Kassel entitled "Human dignity is inviolable" against the "access of bioethics to life" turned.
The IMEW is a member of the Technology Assessment Network (NTA) and the European Association of Centers of Medical Ethics (EACME).
Shareholder
- Bundesverband Evangelische Behindertenhilfe eV
- Representation of interests Self-determined life in Germany eV
- Bundesvereinigung Lebenshilfe for people with intellectual disabilities eV
- Association for Anthroposophical Curative Education, Social Therapy and Social Work eV
- Caritas Disability Aid and Psychiatry eV
- Federal Association for the Physically and Multiple Disabled eV
- Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft SELBSTHILFE of people with disability and chronic illness and their relatives eV
- Working group Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus eV
- Social Association VdK Germany eV
These nine associations each send a representative to the shareholders' meeting of the IMEW and elect the institute's seven-person board of trustees, which in turn elects the scientific advisory board, which is currently chaired by the Catholic theologian Dietmar Mieth . The chairman of the board of trustees is Ute Lindauer, the former federal health ministry Andrea Fischer is deputy chairwoman.
Katrin Grüber has been the director since 2001 .
Goal setting
In elaborately formulated guiding principles, the IMEW emphasizes that it is a matter of aligning the scientific question with the perspective of those affected, because in research the view of an autonomous individual who is in full possession of his mental and physical strength dominates. In order to be able to assess the socio-cultural effects of medical and biological developments, especially with regard to political advice, the perspective of those affected and, here, the insight into the vulnerability and fundamental as well as social need of people is necessary.
activities
The IMEW publishes several series of publications on bioethical topics and maintains a subject-specific reference library in Berlin, whose extensive literature is open to anyone interested.
With the so-called Friedrichshain Talks and Friedrichshain Colloquia , the IMEW is organizing two series of talks on ethical issues, the first of which is aimed at the interested public, while the colloquia are more aimed at a scientific audience.
In addition, the nine shareholder associations maintain an ethics forum which, if necessary, draws up statements from the shareholder associations, with the participation of external experts if necessary. Since 2005, fourteen statements have been written on various ethically relevant current topics, the last one in April 2011 on the controversial legal regulation of pre-implantation diagnostics (PGD).
In addition, since 2006, the institute has been awarding two awards, the IMEW Prize and the IMEW Young Talent Prize, which recognize outstanding scientific work on the requirements and consequences of medical practice in relation to disabled and chronically ill people.
The IMEW u. a. with the Academy for Ethics in Medicine , the Bundesvereinigung Lebenshilfe, the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the German Red Cross . Cooperations have already taken place with over twenty other scientific institutions and initiatives.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.imew.de/de/ueber-uns/geschichte-des-imew/
- ^ Institute for Humans, Ethics and Science. In: imew.de. Archived from the original on July 21, 2011 ; Retrieved July 21, 2011 .
- ↑ http://www.imew.de/de/ueber-uns/gesellschafter/imew-gesellschafter/
- ^ Institute for Humans, Ethics and Science. In: imew.de. Archived from the original on August 22, 2011 ; Retrieved August 22, 2011 .
- ↑ Among other things, annual reports, reports and expert opinions, cf. Institute for people, ethics and science. In: imew.de. Archived from the original on July 25, 2011 ; Retrieved July 25, 2011 .
- ^ Institute for Humans, Ethics and Science. In: imew.de. Archived from the original on July 25, 2011 ; Retrieved July 25, 2011 .
- ^ Institute for Humans, Ethics and Science. In: imew.de. Archived from the original on July 25, 2011 ; Retrieved July 25, 2011 .
- ^ Institute for Humans, Ethics and Science. In: imew.de. Archived from the original on August 23, 2011 ; Retrieved August 23, 2011 .