10.05.2013 Interview Judy Illes

Neuer Artikel in der NZZ am Sonntag mit Interview von Judy Illes. Thema Wir werden uns immer ein Stück weit ein Geheimnis bleiben.

29.04.2013 SNSF Mobility grants in projects

As part of the of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNFS) project Human enhancement and perfection, Johann Roduit has been awarded an SNSF Mobility grant. From October 2013 to April 2014, he will take part in the "Academic Visitor Programme" of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.

29.04.2013 New Publication by Manuel Trachsel

New publication Decision-making incapacity at the end of life: conceptual and ethical challenges By Manuel Trachsel, PhD, Christine Mitchell, RN, MS, MTS, and Nikola Biller-Andorno, MD, PhD

18.04.2013 SNSF Professorship

Stéphanie Dagron has been awarded an SNSF Professorship of the Swiss National Science Foundation for the following project (starting september 2013): Juridification of global health concerns: Implications for health prevention, treatment and health systems. Link

11.04.2013 New Interview and Publication

New Interview and Publication by Nikola Biller-Andorno on Physician Assisted Suicide in the New England Journal of Medicine.

28.03.2013 New Publication

New publication Ethical Physician Incentives — From Carrots and Sticks to Shared Purpose. By Nikola Biller-Andorno, M.D., Ph.D., and Thomas H. Lee, M.D.

25.03.2013 New Publication

Verina Wild and Agomoni Ganguli Mitra have written the editorial for the "Special Symposium on Powers and Faden's Social Justice" in the journal Public Health Ethics. Read an extract.

19.03.2013 Graduate Campus funded project

"Neohumanitas, Writing the future together". Call for participants. All info of the project can be found here

18.03.2013 New Publication

Johann A R Roduit, Op-ed published in "Le Temps", "Jusqu'où peut-on améliorer un être humain" available online here

18.03.2013 New Article

Peer-reviewed article published in the Journal of medical ethics (JME). Human enhancement and perfection in the Journal of medical ethics doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-100920. By Johann A R Roduit, Holger Baumann, Jan-Christoph Heilinger.

18.03.2013 New Publication

Adapting Standards: Ethical Oversight of Participant-Led Health Research. PLoS Med 10(3): e1001402. By Vayena E, Tasioulas J (2013). Link

18.03.2013 New Article

Effy Vayena's Opinion in The Scientist, discussing the recent paper in ethical oversight of participant-led research. Link

11.03.2013 New Grant

As a collaboration partner of three US Universities (University of Notre Dame, University of Oregon, Grand Valley State University) the IBME successfully achieved a grant in “The Science of Intellectual Humility” project (Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Psychology).

11.03.2013 New Publication

In Zusammenarbeit mit Forschern der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste arbeiten Mitarbeiter des IBME an der Entwicklung eines Serious Moral Game, das künftig auch für die Ehtik-Schulung von Medizinstudierenden eingesetzt werden soll.

07.03.2013 Contribution panel discussion

Dr. Margrit Fässler contributed to panel discussion about interim result after one year of introduction of the new DRG based hospital financing.

07.03.2013 New Publication

Journal article in 'Das Magazin' Mathias Plüss talks with Dr. Margrit Fässler about the role of placebo effects in clinical medicine.

05.03.2013 New Publication

Beyond the clinic: 'direct-to-consumer' genomic profiling services and pharmacogenomics. by Barbara Prainsack and Effy Vayena

05.03.2013 New Publication

Caught in the Web: Informed Consent for Online Health Research, in Science Translational Medicine by Effy Vayena, Anna Mastroianni, Jeff Kahn.

27.02.2013 New Publication

Colorful brains. 14 years of display practice in functional neuroimaging. By Christen M, Vitacco DA, Huber L, Harboe J, Fabrikant S, Brugger. NeuroImage 73: 30-39.

09.02.2013 New Article

Regula Ott diskutiert die eben erschiene Studie aus Deutschland, wonach jede/r fünfte Studierende bereits Erfahrungen mit solchen Wirkstoffen gemacht hat; erwähnt erste Resultate ihrer Studie bei Studierenden der Universität Zürich und fordert, dass wir uns vor einer möglichen Legalisierung als Gesellschaft Gedanken dazu machen, was für Ziele wir damit verfolgen möchten.

10.01.2013 New Publication

The challenge of personal genomics in Germanyby Effy Vayena and Barbara Prainsack in Nature Biotechnology

09.01.2013 Pharmacogenomics

From Molecules to Medicine
1st International Meeting for Young Researchers
Engelberg

09.01.2013 New Publication

Neuroenhancement – perspectives of Swiss psychiatrists and general practitioners by Regula Ott, Christian Lenk, Nicole Miller, Rachel Neuhaus Bühler, Nikola Biller-Andorno
Published 27 November 2012, doi:10.4414/smw.2012.13707

17.12.2012 New Publication

Serious Moral Games. Erfassung und Vermittlung moralischer Werte durch Videospiele. Edition ZHdK. By Christen M, Faller F, Götz U, Müller C.

14.12.2012 New Publication

"Anticipons notre immortalité" Newspaper Article published by Johann Roduit and Vincent Menuz in the Huffington Post (France).

20.11.2012 New Publication

New publication by Effy Vayena et al.: Experiences of Early Users of Direct-to-Consumer Genomics in Switzerland: An Exploratory Study.

30.10.2012 New Publication

Anna Deplazes and Nikola Biller-Andorno published an opinion article on different explanations of life and synthetic biology in the science and society section of EMBO Reports.

30.10.2012 New Publication

Vayena E, Mauch F. Personal genomics: are we debating the right Issues? .Praxis (Bern 1994). 2012 Jul 25;101(15):961-4.

30.10.2012 New Publication

Vayena E, Mastroianni A, Kahn J. Ethical Issues in Health Research With Novel Online Sources. Am J Public Health. 2012 Oct 18. [Epub ahead of print]

22.10.2012 New Publication

Moral Development in Early Childhood is the Key for Moral Enhancement. AJOB Neuroscience 3(4), 25-26. A comment to the moral enhancement debate. By Christen M, Narvaez D

22.10.2012 New Publication

The Road towards Ethical ICT. European Physical Journal. Special Topics 214: 153–181. An outline of ethical issues in the „big data“ era. By Van den Hoven J, Helbing D, Pedreschi D, Domingo-Ferrer J, Gianotti F, Christen M: FuturICT.

17.10.2012 Prof. Biller-Andorno für weitere Amtsperiode als Mitglied der Zentralen Ethikkommission der SAMW wiedergewählt

Der Senat der Schweizerischen Akademie der Medizinischen Wissenschaften hat in seiner Sitzung vom 29.5. 2012 Prof. Nikola Biller-Andorno, Einzelmitglied der SAMW, als Mitglied der Zentralen Ethikkommission bestätigt.

24.09.2012 New Publication

The (limited) space for justice in social animals. Social Justice Research 25:298–326. Is there “justice” in animal behavior – a critical analysis. By Christen M, Glock HJ

11.07.2012 New Publication

Jürg Streuli published a qualitative survey about professionalism and its meaning for Disorders or Differences of Sex Development also known as Intersex.

05.07.2012 2012 Mark S. Ehrenreich Prize: Runner-up awarded to Annette Rid

Annette Rid has been awarded the runner-up of the 2012 Mark S. Ehrenreich Prize at the 11th World Congress of Bioethics in Rotterdam.

23.05.2012 Intersexualität kontrovers

Soeben erschienen: Zwei Buchkapitel mit Jürg Streuli

14.05.2012 Ein Chemielabor in der Umkleidekabine

Roman Gähwiler published new article in Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

16.04.2012 New Publication

Tiefe Hirnstimulation bei Bewegungsstörungen. Eine Informationsbroschüre für Patientinnen und Patienten Published by Parkinson Schweiz. Eine Patientenbroschüre zur Entscheidungsfindung bei Tiefer Hirnstimulation

16.04.2012 New Publication

Der „unmoralische Patient“. Eine Analyse der Nutzung hirnverletzter Menschen in der Moralforschung. Nervenheilkunde 31: 209–214. Die Verhaltensauffälligkeiten hirnverletzter Menschen sind komplexer als die Moralforschung beschreibt. By Christen M, Regard M

05.04.2012 New Publication

Current status and future challenges of deep brain stimulation in Switzerland. Swiss Medical Weekly 142: w13570. A review and analysis of deep brain stimulation in Switzerland. By Christen M, Müller S

28.02.2012 New Publication

Effy Vayena has contributed in three chapters of this forthcoming volume on Reproductive Donation by Cambridge University Press

10.02.2012 Call for Papers for Workshop "Meeting the Authors: Ruth Faden and Madison Powers"

Call for Papers for Workshop "Meeting the Authors: Ruth Faden and Madison Powers" in June 4-5, 2012
Deadline: March 15, 2012

06.02.2012 Global harmonization through public-private partnership: The case of pharmaceuticals

New Article published by Dr. Stéphanie Dagron.

01.02.2012 Starbuck ou l'ébranlement du don de sperme

New Article published by Johann Roduit in the Huffington Post.

16.01.2012 New Publication

Dealing with Side Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation: Lessons Learned from Stimulating the STN. AJOB Neuroscience 3(1): 37-43. Why we may underestimate the social complexity of deep brain stimulation. By Christen M, Bittlinger M, Walter H, Brugger P, Müller S.