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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

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

 
 
 
 
 
about

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

Ethics and digital technologies

Müller, R. / Kuhn, E. / Ranisch, R. et al. (2023) Ethics of sleep tracking: techno-ethical particularities of consumer-led sleep-tracking with a focus on medicalization, vulnerability, and relationality. In: Ethics and Information Technology  25(4) (2023).

 

Müller, R. / Klemmt, M. / Ehni, H. J. / Henking, T. / Kuhnmünch, A. / Preiser, C., ... & Ranisch, R. (2022). Ethical, legal, and social aspects of symptom checker applications: a scoping review. In: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 25, 737–755

 

Ranisch, R. / Nijsingh, N. / Ballantyne, A. / Buyx, A. / Friedrichs, O. / Hendl, T. / Marckmann, G. / Munthe, Chr. / Wild, V: (2021) Digital contact tracing and exposure notification: ethical guidance for trustworthy pandemic management. In: Ethics and Information Technology, 23, 285–294.

Ranisch, R. (2021): Consultation with Doctor Twitter: Consent Fatigue, and the Role of Developers in Digital Medical Ethics. In: American Journal of Bioethics 21(7), 24-25.

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

Ethics and Biotechnologies

Ranisch, R. / Trettenbach, K. & Arnason, G. (2022). Initial heritable genome editing: mapping a responsible pathway from basic research to the clinic. In: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. 

Almeida, M., & Ranisch, R. (2022). Beyond safety: mapping the ethical debate on heritable genome editing interventions. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9(1)

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

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

Clinical Ethics and Ethics Consultation

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.

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.

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 ReutlingenEthik in der Medizin.

Publications
Projects

CURRENT PROJECTS

  • DiMEN: Digital Medical Ethics Network (Dual-PI with Urban Wiesing / Hans-Jörg Ehni, founded by VolkswagenStiftung)

  • E-cARE: Ethics Guidelines for Socially Assistive Robots in Elderly Care  (Dual-PI with Corinna Klingler, founded by Bundesministerium für Gesundheit)

  • E-Part: Ethik der Partizipation in Gesundheitsforschung und Biopolitik (Dual-PI with Corinna Klingler, founded by VolkswagenStiftung)

  • ELSA-ZORG: Ethical, legal and social aspects of human cerebral organoids and governance; a comparison of Germany with the UK and the USA (PI: Gardar Arnason)

  • EGE: Research Unit "Ethics of Genome Editing" (PI, funded by Dr. Kurt and Irmgard Meister Foundation)

  • Check.App: Symptom-Checker auf Basis künstlicher Intelligenz - eine multiperspektivische Analyse ethischer, rechtlicher und sozialer Implikationen (PI: Stefanie Joos, funded by BMBF)

  • ForGE: Foresight Gene Editing (funded by Hans Gottschalk Stiftung)

  • JMED: "Young Medical Ethics", German Academy for Ethics in Medicine (AEM)

 
 

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

 

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

 

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

 
 

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

Positions

EDUCATION

2013 - 2017

University of Düsseldorf

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

2011 - 2013

University of Tübingen

Postgraduate Training in Bioethics

2008 - 2010
University of Warwick

M.A. in Continental Philosophy

2008
University of Oxford

Recognized Student in Philosophy/Practical Ethics

2003 - 2007
University of Jena

Studies in Philosophy, Applied Ethics, and Political Sciences

 
Education

MEDIA (SELECTION)

Media and Blog Articles

Interviews

 
Media
Awards
contact

CONTACT

Address
University of Potsdam 
Am Mühlberg 9 (H-Lab)
14476 Potsdam, Golm, Germany

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Thank you!

TEACHING

  • AI-Ethics

  • 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

Teaching

AWARDS & HONORS

  • ​2021: Tübingen Young Scientists Award for Science Communication

  • 2020: Secundo loco, Tenure Track Professorship (W2) "Responsible Research and Innovation", University of  Hannover

  • 2019: Primo loco, Tenure Track Professorship W1 (to W3)  "Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities", University of Tübingen

  • 2019: Dalberg Award

  • 2019: Department of Medicine Teaching Awards

  • 2018: AeV advancement award "Ethics and Medicine"

 
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