Robert Ranisch

Medical Ethics with a Focus on Digitization

Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg

University of Potsdam

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AOS

biomedical ethics • genetics and ethics • digital ethics • organizational ethics • clinical ethics consultation  • research ethics • neuroethics

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AOC
public health ethics • population ethics • ethics of risk • moral psychology • meta-ethics and moral theory

ABOUT

Hi, I am Robert. I am a Junior Professor of Medical Ethics (tenure track) at the Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, University of Potsdam, and head of the research unit "Ethics of Genome Editing" at the Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Tübingen. Before joining the Faculty of Health Science Brandenburg I worked as Lecturer at the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities at the University of Tübingen and as the Managing Director of the Clinical Ethics Committee at the University Hospital of Tübingen. My areas of interest include biomedical ethics, genetics and ethics, digital ethics (with a focus on medicine), intergenerational justice, organizational ethics, and moral theory.

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

Ranisch, R. (2021): Liberale Eugenik? Kritik der selektiven Reproduktion. J.B. Metzler.

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Ranisch, R. (2021): Consultation with Doctor Twitter: Consent Fatigue, and the Role of Developers in Digital Medical Ethics. In: American Journal of Bioethics.

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Ranisch, R. / Riedel, A. / Bresch, F. / Mayer, H. /  Pape, K. D. / Weise, G. / Renz, P. (2021): Das Tübinger Modell der „Ethikbeauftragten der Station “: Ein Pilotprojekt zum Aufbau dezentraler Strukturen der Ethikberatung an einem Universitätsklinikum. in: Ethik in der Medizin.

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Ehni, H.J. / Ranisch, R. / Schweda, M. /  Wahl, H.-W. (2021):  Older Adults and COVID-19 – Protection from Direct and Indirect Harm. In: Competence Network Public Health on COVID-19

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Dubljević, V. / Trettenbach, K. / Ranisch, R. (2021): The socio-political roles of Neuroethics and the case of Klotho. In: American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience.

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Burmeister, C. / Iller, A. / Ranisch, R. / Brand, C. / Staib, T. / Müller, U. (2021): Jenseits der Klinik: Konzeptionelle Überlegungen zum Ethiktransfer in dezentralen Einrichtungen des Gesundheitswesens am Beispiel der BruderhausDiakonie Reutlingen. Ethik in der Medizin.

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Ehni, H-J / Wiesing, U. / Ranisch, R. (2021):  Saving the most lives—A comparison of European triage guidelines in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic. In: Bioethics 35(2), 125-134.

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Hunger, J. / Kuhn, E. / Stratil, J. / Ranisch, R. [with contributions from Ciruzzi M S, Ehni H-J, Marckmann G, Nijsingh N, Venkatapuram S, West-Oram P] (2021): Ethical Recommendations for Mobile SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Teams in Long-Term Care Homes. In: Competence Network Public Health on COVID-19 Background Paper.

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Ranisch, R. / Nijsingh, N. / Ballantyne, A. / Buyx, A. / Friedrichs, O. / Hendl, T. / Marckmann, G. / Munthe, Chr. / Wild, V: (2020) Digital contact tracing and exposure notification: ethical guidance for trustworthy pandemic management. In: Ethics and Information Technology.

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R. Ranisch / G. Marckmann (2020): Digitalisierung. In: Wiesing, U. (ed.): Ethik in der Medizin. Stuttgart: Reclam, 595-624.

PROJECTS

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2021 - Present
Junior Professor of Medical Ethics with a Focus on Digitization 
Faculty of Health Sciences, joint Faculty of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus – Senftenberg, the Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane and the University of Potsdam
University of Potsdam

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2020 - 2021
Lecturer / Akademischer Rat
International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities
University of Tübingen

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2017 - 2021
Managing Director
Clinical Ethics Committee
University Hospital of Tübingen

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2017 - 2020
Research Associate
Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine
University of Tübingen

EDUCATION

2013 - 2017

University of Düsseldorf

Ph.D. in Philosophy (with distinction)
date of defense: January 2018

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2011 - 2013

University of Tübingen

Postgraduate Training in Bioethics

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2008 - 2010
University of Warwick

M.A. in Continental Philosophy

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2008
University of Oxford

Recognized Student in Philosophy/Practical Ethics

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2003 - 2007
University of Jena

Studies in Philosophy, Applied Ethics, and Political Sciences

MEDIA (SELECTION)

Media and Blog Articles​

• "Die Krux mit der Genschere". In: Tagesspiegel, 2021. 16. July 2021. 

• "Zuerst war es nur Wahnsinn" (Die Menschenversuche des Dr. He Jiankui) In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 8. October 2020

• "Ein Dilemma des Vertrauens" In: Die Tageszeitung, 2. June 2020

• "Per Algorithmus zum Wunschkind?" In: Algorithmenethik / Bertelsmann Stiftung, 19. Feb. 2019

• "Künstliche Befruchtung: Gut, dass es Sie gibt, Frau Brown!" In: ZEIT Online, 25. July 2018

• "CRISPR Craze and CRISPR care". In: Practical Ethics Blog / University of Oxford, 14. Juni 2017

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Interviews​

• "Entscheiden müssen die Eltern", Interview with Salome Berblinger, In: Bild der Wissenschaft, June 2021

• ">>Guerilla-Marketing<< für die Medizinethik", Interview with Maximilian von Platen, Newsletter Uni Tübingen April 2021

• „CRISPR: Debatte ohne Hype“, Interview with Tranja Traxler, Der Standard, 19. Feb. 2020

• „Ethik und Genetik“, Interview with Tim Pritlov. Podcast „Forschergeist“

CONTACT

Address
University of Potsdam 
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25,
Haus 16, Raum 1.04
14476 Potsdam, Golm, Germany

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TEACHING

• Digital and Data Ethics

• Ethics of genome editing and selective reproduction

• Global justice

• Introduction to Applied Ethics

• Introduction to Business Ethics

• Medical Terminology

• Moral Theory and meta ethics

• Organization Ethics

• Population Ethics and the non-identity problem

• Research Ethics

• Theories of sustainability

AWARDS & HONORS