Project task
Ethical Issues related to the use of digital technologies in ageing
Expertise
Ethics, Medical Ethics, Research Ethics
Biography
Biography:
Hans-Jörg Ehni accomplished his Phd at the Philosophical Seminar of the University of Tübingen in 2006 with a dissertation on the problem of “Moral Evil”.He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Tübingen starting from 2004. He became deputy director of the Institute in 2011 and finished his Habilitation in “Ethics of Medicine” at the medical Faculty, University of Tübingen in 2014, which included a monograph on the “Ethics of Biogerontology”. He is associate Professor since 2016. He has been an advisor to the World Medical Association during the revision of the Declaration of Helsinki from 2011-2013, and since 2015 he is a member of the Ethics Commission of the Federal Board of Physicians of Baden-Württemberg (Ethikkommission der Landesärztekammer).
His main areas of research are issues related to ethics and ageing, in particular in the field of medical ethics, and the ethics of biomedical research.
Relevant publications
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Ehni, H.-J. (2017). Ageism. In H. ten Have (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics (pp. 1-11). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
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Ehni, H.-J. (2018). Altersutopien. Medizinische und gesellschaftliche Zukunftshoffnungen der Lebensphase Alter (1. Auflage ed.). Frankfurt am Main: Campus.
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Ehni, H. J., Kadi, S., Schermer, M., & Venkatapuram, S. (2018). Toward a global geroethics - gerontology and the theory of the good human life. Bioethics, 32(4), 261-268. doi:10.1111/bioe.12445
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Ehni, H. J., & Venkatapuram, S. (2020). Geroethics. In H. LaFollette (Ed.), International Encylopedia of Ethics: Wiley-Blackwell.
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Ehni, H.-J., & Wahl, H.-W. (2020). Six Propositions against Ageism in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 32(4-5), 1-11. doi:10.1080/08959420.2020.1770032