Central ethics committee
The Central Ethics Commission ( ZEKO ) - with its full name Central Commission for the protection of ethical principles in medicine and its border areas - is a body of the German Medical Association (BÄK).
The board of directors of the German Medical Association decided on March 18, 1994 to set up an independent and multidisciplinary Central Ethics Commission , which began its work in July 1995. The tasks and composition of the ZEKO are laid down in a statute. Accordingly, ZEKO is independent in its opinion-forming and decision-making and is committed to the values of the Basic Law and medical ethics . One of the main tasks of the commission with up to 16 members is to "issue opinions on ethical questions that are raised by the progress and technological development in medicine and its border areas and which require a common answer for the Federal Republic of Germany", as well as " in questions that are of fundamental importance from an ethical point of view with regard to the duties of the medical profession ”.
The Central Ethics Committee has issued opinions and a. on research with persons unable to consent (1997), on stem cell research (2002), on research on minors (2004) and on research cloning (2006).
literature
- Erwin Deutsch: Ethics Commissions: Subject Protection in Medical Research . In: Medical Law : Medical Law, Pharmaceutical Law and Medical Device Law . 4th edition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1999, ISBN 978-3-662-08643-8 , pp. 415–442 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- Website of the Central Ethics Committee (ZEKO)
- Central Ethics Commission (ZEKO) on the website of the German Reference Center for Ethics in the Biosciences (DRZE)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. DRZE
- ^ Statute of the Central Commission for the Preservation of Ethical Principles in Medicine and its Border Areas. (PDF) German Medical Association, April 20, 2012, accessed on September 28, 2018 .