Jochen Vollmann

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Jochen Vollmann (born September 1, 1963 in Dortmund ) is a German doctor and medical ethicist . He is university professor and director of the Institute for Medical Ethics and the History of Medicine, Medical Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum .

Life

After studying medicine (Dr. med.) And philosophy (Dr. phil. With Odo Marquard) in Germany , Great Britain , Switzerland and the USA , he completed clinical training as a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy . In 1998 he completed his habilitation in the subject “Ethics in Medicine” in the human medicine department at the Free University of Berlin. In 1994/95 Vollmann was a visiting fellow at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and at the Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University in Washington, DC After professorships in Berlin and Erlangen, he followed a call to the Ruhr University in Bochum. He also held visiting professorships in San Francisco, New York, Galveston and Sydney.

Vollmann is an expert on ethical questions in psychiatry, researching in particular the doctor-patient relationship, patient self-determination and the self-determination ability of the mentally ill. He also examined the problem of patient self-determination and self-determination in the physically ill at the end of life (discontinuation of therapy, medical assistance for the patient's suicide). Other work focuses on personalized medicine, doctor-patient relationship, medical ethics (medical professionalism), wills , brain death criterion and transplantation medicine . In the field of reproductive medicine , Vollmann and his team carried out the world's first medical ethics survey of young adults conceived by means of in vitro fertilization . He is one of the few German medical ethicists who used (quantitative and qualitative) empirical research methods for their work at an early stage and systematically implemented this methodological competence. In addition to his book publications (see “Works”) over 300 articles have appeared, including a. in the British Medical Journal , Lancet , American Journal of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Psychological Medicine, Journal of Neurological Sciences, Bioethics, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of Palliative Medicine, Journal of Medical Ethics, American Journal of Bioethics and in the Hastings Center Report, BMC Medical Ethics.

Vollmann is a leader in clinical ethics and a co-founder of the European Clinical Ethics Network. He set up one of the first clinical ethics committees with ethics advice at a German university hospital and has advised many hospitals and other health care institutions on clinical ethics advice and clinical ethics committees. He is also known to a wider audience through his public lectures and contributions in the press, radio and television on terminal care, living wills and patient self-determination. Prof. Vollmann was the conference president of the 2008 annual conference of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine on the subject of "Clinical Ethics" and of the 2013 Annual Conference of the European Association of Centers of Medical Ethics (EACME) on the subject of "Personalized medicine - medicine for the person?" at the Ruhr University Bochum .

Vollmann is a member of numerous international and national scientific societies, various ethics committees and was senator of the Ruhr University Bochum for two legislative periods . As a board member of the Ruhr University Research School (Excellence Initiative, 2006–2010) and as a liaison professor of the German National Academic Foundation in Bochum, he is committed to promoting young scientists.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

As an author:

  • Ethical problems of brain death in transplant medicine. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart 1999
  • Education and consent in psychiatry. A contribution to ethics in medicine. Steinkopff, Darmstadt 2000
  • Terminal care. Federal Health Reporting Issue 01/01. Robert Koch Institute, Berlin 2001 (2nd edition 2003)
  • with M. Molzahn, A. Tuffs: Organ transplantation and organ donation. Federal Health Reporting Issue 17. Robert Koch Institute, Berlin 2003
  • Patient self-determination and self-determination. Contributions to clinical ethics. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2008
  • Free self-determination at the end of life? 25 years Center for Medical Ethics Bochum 1986–2011. Medical ethical materials (No. 189), Bochum 2011
  • The bile in room 7. What medicine do we want? Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, Berlin 2019

As editor:

  • Medicine and ethics. Current ethical problems in therapy and research. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 2003
  • with O. Rauprich, G. Marckmann: Equality and justice in modern medicine. Mentis, Paderborn 2005
  • with J. Schildmann, U. Fahr: Decisions at the end of life in modern medicine: medicine, ethics, law, economics and clinic. Lit, Münster 2006
  • with A. Dörries, G. Neitzke, A. Simon: Clinical Ethics Consulting. A practice book. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2008 (2nd revised edition 2010)
  • with J. Schildmann, A. Simon: Clinical Ethics. Current developments in theory and practice. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2009
  • with J. Schildmann, JS. Gordon: Clinical Ethics Consultation: Theories-Methods-Implementation-Evaluation. Series: Medical Law and Ethics. Ashgate Publishers, Farnham 2010
  • with J. Schildmann: Empirical medical ethics. Concepts, methods and results. Lit, Münster 2011
  • with J. Schildmann, V. Sandow, O. Rauprich: Human Medical Research. Ethical, Legal and Socio-Cultural Aspects. Springer, Basel 2012
  • with O. Rauprich: The cost of having children. Interdisciplinary perspectives on the financing of reproductive medicine treatments. Lit, Münster 2012
  • with J. Schildmann, G. Marckmann: Personalized medicine. Medical, ethical, legal and economic analysis. Special issue of "Ethics in Medicine" No. 3/2013
  • with T. Henking: violence and psyche. Forced treatment on the test bench. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2014
  • with V. Sandow, S. Wäscher, J. Schildmann: The Ethics of Personalized Medicine: Critical Perspectives. Ashgate, Farnham 2015
  • with T. Henking: The forced treatment of mentally ill people. A practical Guide. Springer, Heidelberg 2015
  • with S. Salloch, V. Sandow, J. Schildmann: Ethics and Professionalism in Healthcare: Transition and Challenges . Routledge, London 2016
  • with J. Gather, T. Henking, A. Nossek: Beneficial coercion in psychiatry? Foundations and challenges. Mentis, Paderborn 2017
  • Ethics in Psychiatry. A practice book. Psychiatrie Verlag, Cologne 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Vollmann, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and medical ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund