Ole Döring

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Ole Döring (born April 21, 1965 in Karlsruhe ) is a German philosopher , sinologist and writer .

He is known internationally for his contributions to cultural and philosophical questions in medical and bioethics . In Germany he is committed to the recognition of Chinese philosophy one as a regular university subject and mastermind of a global health - ethics .

Life

After completing his Magister Artium in Philosophy with a thesis on the ethics of Immanuel Kant at the Georg-August University in Göttingen (1993), Ole Döring took on research assignments on human genetics and ethics in China and on the constitution of East Asian studies in Germany at the Institute for Asian Studies in Hamburg . In 2003 he received his doctorate in philosophy from the Ruhr University Bochum for a thesis on Chinese bioethics in East Asian studies. He received his habilitation with the license to teach philosophy (specializing in intercultural philosophy ) in 2012 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology . Döring works at home and abroad as a private lecturer , visiting professor , science manager and book author. On this basis, he also works as a founder and consultant.

Since 1995 Döring has been working on a series of research projects on the cultural foundations of European-Chinese cooperation in science , business and society. Döring writes his research as a cultural philosopher and technology ethicist in a transdisciplinary, intercultural and understanding-oriented manner. Around 100 publications have emerged from his work so far.

His most important academic awards include the Outstanding Contributions Award in Medical Ethics from the Chinese journal Yixue yu zhexue (“Medicine and Philosophy”) as the first European and the William Evans Fellowship for Bioethics from the University of Otago , New Zealand .

As a visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin in 2015/16 he laid the foundations for the development of a curriculum for Chinese philosophy within the framework of academic philosophy. Ole Döring publishes the series "Chinese Perspectives: Philosophy" at ibidem-Verlag (Hanover).

In a responsible position, he was active in numerous projects. Including as director of the German-Chinese science platform "Sino-German Network for Public Health and Bioethics" (SIGENET). Since 2009, in German-Chinese cooperation (workshops, research, exchange of scientists) at the Institute for the History, Theory and Ethics of the Chinese Life Sciences at the Charité University Medicine, priority projects have been prepared for further funding, in particular on the topics of "philosophical foundations", "genetic information and genetic information Discrimination "," Establishing a sustainable care infrastructure "," Medical-ethical curriculum "and" Health system comparison ".

In the European-Chinese consortium "Ethical Governance of Biological and Biomedical Research: Chinese - European Co-operation" (BIONET), Döring was responsible for the overall management (Steering Committee), the cultural-scientific conception and ethical specialist expertise (Expert Group) as well responsible as organizer of conferences and academic exchanges. The project dealt with cultural, legal and ethical issues of governance of scientific cooperation between China and Europe, in the focus areas of reproductive medicine (e.g. in vitro fertilization ) and regeneratives, within the framework of funding in the 6th framework program of the EU Medicine (e.g. stem cell research ), clinical research and biobanks . Döring is editor of the BIONET textbook with a selection of original works and documents from this collaboration.

In the research group project "Cross-Cultural Bioethics" (KBE) supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) , Döring supported the spokesperson, Heiner Roetz, in central science management from 2002 to 2006 and was responsible for the sub-project "Images of man in the current bioethical discussion in China".

Before that he worked at the Institute for Asian Studies in Hamburg between 1996 and 2002 a. a. by funding the Dr. Helmut Storz Foundation in the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft carried out a series of interdisciplinary pilot projects following studies on "Human Genetics and Ethics in China" with a variety of topics. In doing so, he developed a hermeneutic methodology of qualitative understanding in contemporary cross-cultural contexts on ethical problems such as eugenics , genetic manipulation , discrimination and governance. (For the resulting publications: see the literature up to 2003 below).

In March 2019, his political-philosophical essay "The Luther Gene" was published, in which he proposes to develop a basis for enlightened social systems through the practical philosophies of Kant and Confucius . Based on the development of the political culture of the Federal Republic of Germany , he examines the question of what Germany has done to gradually earn the advance praise of its Basic Law . He comes to a mixed conclusion, which points to the open future in interaction with the powers of the new world order.

In addition to research, teaching and lecture activities, Döring writes regularly in public forums; British Medical Journal Health Blog and newspapers ( Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Tagesspiegel , Süddeutsche Zeitung , German.China.Org) on ​​topics of the time.

Foundations

Since 2018, Döring has been a founding board member of the Institute for Global Health Berlin (IGGB), a non-profit, registered association, to provide scientific support for the federal government's strategy for “global health” and to further develop the scientific basis of this new research field. The focus is on the formation of coherence both in transdisciplinary scientific cooperation and in the political-administrative organization of measures for global health against the background of the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) .

In 2017 he founded an institute for further education together with Thilo von Trotha : The European Academy for Chinese Thought offers philosophical and practical skills seminars on the history, structure and peculiarities of the Chinese spirit, which are aimed in particular at leading decision-makers.

Publications (selection)

science

  • "At eye level. Festschrift for Heiner Roetz's 65th birthday. " (Editor, with: Wolfgang Behr, Licia Di Giacinto, Christine Moll-Murata); Bochum Yearbook for East Asian Studies (published by the Faculty for East Asian Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum), Volume 38; Iudicium Verlag, Munich, 2015, ISBN 9783862051809 .
  • "Culture and bioethics. Owning one's own body" (editor, with Christian Steineck), Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2nd, revised edition 2009, ISBN 9783832944797 .
  • "Understanding China's bioethics. Results, analyzes and considerations from a research project on culturally enlightened bioethics", Abera Verlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 9783934376588 .
  • "Advances in Chinese Medical Ethics. Chinese and International Perspectives", (editor, with CHEN Renbiao), Curzon Press / Institute for Asian Studies, Hamburg (MIA 355), 2003, ISBN 9780700717095 .
  • "Chinese Scientists and Responsibility: Ethical issues of Human Genetics in Chinese and International Contexts", Institute for Asian Studies, Hamburg (MIA 314), ISBN 3889102271 .
  • "On the modernization of East Asian research: concepts, structures, recommendations", (with Anja Osiander), Institute for Asian Studies, Hamburg (MIA 305), ISBN 9783889102164 .
  • "Technical progress and cultural values ​​in China: Human genetics and ethics in Taiwan, Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China", Institute for Asian Studies, Hamburg (MIA 280), 1997, ISBN 9783889101860 .

Poetry

essay

  • "The Luther gene. On the position of integrity in the world", ibidem-Verlag, Hanover, 2019, ISBN 3838212975 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Peetz: High Chinese honor for GIGA scientist Ole Döring. January 19, 2010, accessed February 26, 2019 .
  2. ^ University of Otago: Bioethics Center: Cross-cultural and global bioethics. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  3. ^ Ole Döring: Bioethics Seminar; Whose justice for whom and how? May 8, 2017, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  4. ^ Ole Döring: Global Humanities Senior Research and Teaching Stay at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. September 2016, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Liu Liqun: Being, Signs and Knowledge; Volume 1 of the series "Chinese Perspectives: Philosophy". September 28, 2018, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  6. ↑ DLR : Successful projects China: SIGENET Health; Sino-German Research Network on Public Health and Bioethics. 2009, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  7. ^ Charité: Institute for Theory, History, Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Ole Döring: BIONET; Ethical Governance of Biological and Biomedical Research: Chinese-European Co-operation. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  9. ^ Ole Döring et al .: BIONET-Textbook "Life Sciences in Translation - A Sino-European Dialogue on Ethical Governance of the Life Sciences" (online publication). December 2009, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  10. ↑ DFG: Cross-cultural bioethics. 2002, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Ole Döring: Images of man in the current bioethical discussion in China. 2002, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Culture database: Dr. Helmut Storz Foundation. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Ole Döring: Tagesspiegel / Causa: For a sensible way of dealing with China; Wrong thought is bad acted. March 12, 2018, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Ole Döring: Beyond profit and convenience: towards humanitarian dedication and conceptual coherence in Global Health. November 7, 2018, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  15. ↑ China Internet Information Center: German.China.Org (official website of the Chinese government; German). Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  16. ↑ BMG: New priorities for global health policy. September 5, 2018, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Homepage: Institute for Global Health Berlin (IGGB). 2018, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  18. ↑ State Secretary Committee for Sustainable Development: Global Health Policy . October 29, 2018, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  19. ^ Ole Döring: European Academy for Chinese Thought (homepage). 2018, accessed March 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Döring, Ole
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Doering, Ole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sinologist and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe