IWZ MER

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Medicine – Ethics – Law of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg was founded on 18 September 2001. Its board of directors and scientific advisory board are composed of nationally and internationally recognised scholars in the fields of theology, medicine, philosophy and law.

Information on scientific co-operations of the IGEM within the IWZ MER can be found here.

Current research projects:

Onco:cide – “Supporting decision-making capacity in borderline oncological situations. Development and piloting of a multimodal intervention for vulnerable patients” (Funding: German Cancer Aid)


6G-Health – Ethical and legal challenges of the implementation of the 6G mobile communication standard in the clinical context (Funding: BMBF)


Publications:

Nowak A, Schildmann J, Nadolny S et al.: Clinical ethics case consultation in a university department of cardiology and intensive care: a descriptive evaluation of consultation protocols. BMC Med Ethics. 2021 23;22(1):99.doi: 10.1186/s12910-021-00668-6.

Nowak A, Linoh KP, Flöther L, Schildmann J, Nadolny S (2023) Advance Care Planning (ACP) als Element eines klinisch-ethischen Unterstützungsangebotes - Darstellung und Evaluation. Ethik in der Medizin, 35: 469-486

 

Advance care planning (ACP) as an element of “preventive ethics” in hospitals? Empirical and normative challenges
Andre Nowak, Stephan Nadolny, Kim Philipp Linoh, Jan Schildmann
Presentation and discussion at the annual meeting of the Academy of Ethics in Medicine. 29.09.2022–01.10.2022, Frankfurt am Main.

Conference information can be found here.
The short programme can be found here.

Nowak A, Schildmann J, Linoh KP, Rosenau H, Noutsias M: Quality of life in ethics case consultation- evaluation of consultation protocols and interdisciplinary analysis. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine, Münster (online), 25.09.2020.

Nowak A, Schildmann J, Linoh KP, Dutzmann J, Sedding D, Noutsias M: Clinical ethics case consultation in cardiology. A pilot study and descriptive analysis of protocols. ePoster presentation at Heart Failure Association Discoveries and European Society of Cardiology, Barcelona (online), 2020.

Courses of the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine within the IWZ MER and instructions for the supervision of master theses here.

1. Tuesday colloquium medicine – ethics – law – winter term 2023/2024

2. Film series: “eMERgency in cinema” – joint film series of the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine, IWZ MER and meris e.v.