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Research

The researchers at the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine work on a wide range of topics in the field of ethics in health care, the theory of science, and historical topics in medicine and nursing. The scientific work is often carried out in interdisciplinary co-operation and by using empirical and normative methods. Depending on the research question and methodology, the research projects are carried out in a transdisciplinary or participatory manner.

Main research topics (selection):

  • Ethical aspects of modern technologies in medicine and care
  • Ethical challenges in patient care
  • Medical Humanities and professional competences in education
  • Evaluation of clinical ethical interventions
  • Research ethics
  • History of medicine and dentistry in the 19th and 20th century
  • Methods and methodology of “empirical ethics”
  • Prioritization in health care

November

  • Masel EK, Faihs L, Pleschberger S, Roth J, Podesser BK, Dier H, Widder J, Friesenecker B, Dinges S, Doppler K, Kletečka-Pulker M, Schildmann J, Druml C, Schaden E (2025) Klinische Ethikberatung: Ethik geht uns alle an! Wien Klin Wochenschr. 137(12):S359–S377. doi: 10.1007/s00508-025-02658-9
  • Nowak A, Nadolny S, Jahn F, Schaffrath J, Müller LP, Schildmann J (2025) ‘I had no choice!’ Challenges in the informed consent and decision-making process for allogeneic stem cell transplantation: a qualitative method triangulation. STEM CELL RES THER. 16(1): 623-632.doi: 10.1186/s13287-025-04766-9

Oktober

  • Marckmann G, Hirsch A, Schildmann J (2025) Ethikberatung bei Anfragen nach Assistenz bei der Selbsttötung. Ethik Med. doi.org/10.1007/s00481-025-00890-5

  • Schildmann J, Marckmann G (2025) Ethikberatung in der Patientenversorgung. Ein Handbuch für die Praxis. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart.

  • Klein C, Gahr S, Kauzner S, Schneider M, Schildmann E, Ziegler K, Kramling A, Ostgathe C (2025) Gezielte Sedierung in der Palliativversorgung. Onkologie. 31(10):1068–1073. doi: 10.1007/s00761-025-01798-x

September

  • Schildmann J, Vollmann J (2025) Personalized Medicine: Conceptual, Ethical, and Empirical Challenges. In: Schramme T, Walker MJ: Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine. Springer Nature, Dordrecht, 2. Auflage, S. 1155-1166

August

  • Kremling A, Schildmann J (2025) Defining complementary and alternative medicine : Revisiting the Debate and Plea for a Strategy Based on Plausible Effectiveness. Med Health Care Philos. doi: 10.1007/s11019-025-10291-6
  • Kupsch L (2025) Assistierte Selbsttötung und Freiverantwortlichkeit. Ein Überblick zu aktuellen Entwicklungen und Herausforderungen. ZfMER 14(1): 31–38

JulY

  • Negash, S, Gundlack J, Buch C, Apfelbacher T, Schildmann J, Frese T, Christoph J, Mikolajczyk R (2025) Physicians’ attitudes and acceptance towards artificial intelligence in medical care: a qualitative study in Germany. Front. Digit. Health 7:1616827.
    doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2025.1616827
  • Götze K, Bausewein C, Chernyak N, Feddersen B, Fuchs A, Hummers E, Icks A, Kirchner Ä, Klosterhalfen S, Kranefeld N, Laag S, Lezius S, Meyer G, Montalbo J, Nauck F, Pepić A, Przybylla S, Rosu I, Schildmann J, Schunk M, Stanze H, Stöhr A, Thilo N, Vogel C, Zapf A, Marckmann G, In der Schmitten J; the BEVOR Study Consortium (2025) Care Consistency With Care Preferences in Nursing Homes: A Cluster-Randomized Study of the Effects of an Advance Care Planning Program (BEVOR). Dtsch Arztebl Int 2025; 122: 379-86; DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.m2025.0077
  • Kupsch L, Gather J, Vollmann J, Nadolny S, Schildmann J (2025) Assessment of decisional capacity. A systematic review and analysis of instruments regarding their applicability to requests for assisted suicide. Eur Psychiatry. 68(1): e91. doi: 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2025.10041 

JunE

  • Krauss SH, Rémi C, Bausewein C, Bazata J, Grebe A, Ostgathe C, Schildmann J, Schildmann E; iSedPall study group (2025) "Is this sedation?" - a Group Delphi process to define cut-off doses and dosing intervals for potentially sedating drugs in palliative care. BMC Palliat Care. 24(1): 159. doi: 10.1186/s12904-025-01781-8

  • Herrmann A, Krippl N, Fischer H, Nieder J, Griesel S, Bärnighausen T, Schildmann J, Mikolajczyk R, Danquah I, Mezger NCS, Kantelhardt EJ (2025) Acceptability of health-only versus climate-and-health framings in lifestyle-related climate-sensitive health counselling: results of a randomised survey experiment in Germany. Lancet Planet Health; 9(6): e456-e466. doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(25)00110-X
     
  • Ostgathe C, Bausewein C, Schildmann E, Bazata J, Heckel M, Kauzner S, Klein C, Krauss SH, Kremling A, Schneider M, Seifert A, Ziegler K, Jäger C, Schildmann J (2025) Use of sedative drugs in specialist palliative care (iSedPall): a multi-modal intervention pilot study protocol. Pilot Feasibility Stud. 11(1): 45. doi: 10.1186/s40814-025-01627-3

May

  • Hamza Habib M, Zheng J, Kozlov E, Peng-Keller S, Ciurea A, Schildmann J, Schildmann E, Gaertner J, Hogan J, Vetter M, Tolchin DW, Coyne P, Rosa WE, Chwistek M, Jones CA, Schlogl M (2025) Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Total Pain. J Palliat Med. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2025.0159
  • Negash S, Papon H, Apfelbacher t, Koçman SE, Gundlack J, Manuilova I, Christoph J, Schildmann J, Kantelhardt EJ, Jahn P, Knöchelmann A, Mikolajczyk R (2025) Perceptions of the German General Population Towards Implementing Artificial Intelligence in Medical Care: A Population-Based Survey. Stud Health Technol Inform. 327: 1130–1134. doi: 10.3233/SHTI250566

April

  • Buhtz C, Frese T, Jahn P, Kantelhardt E, Kuhlmann A, Lückmann SL, Meyer G, Meyer-Feil T, Schildmann J, Steckelberg A, Knöchelmann A (2025) Subjektive gesundheitliche Beeinträchtigung und assoziierende Faktoren in der Hitzeperiode des Sommers 2022 – Ein Online-Survey. Gesundheitswesen. 87(3):208–215. doi: 10.1055/a-2332-0059

march

February

  • Bazata J, Meesters S, Bozzaro C, Handtke V, Schildmann J, Heckel M, Ostgathe C, Bausewein C, Schildmann E; SedPall Study Group (2025) An easier way to die?-A qualitative interview study on specialist palliative care team members' views on dying under sedation. Palliat Med. 39(4):517–526 doi: 10.1177/02692163251321320
  • Kremling A, Bausewein C, Klein C, Nadolny S, Ostgathe C, Schildmann E, Ziegler K, Schildmann J (2025) Sedierung in der Palliativversorgung. Ergebnisse einer Onlinebefragung zum Test der Anwendung von Definitionen auf Fallszenarien unter den Mitgliedern der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Palliativmedizin und der Österreichischen Palliativgesellschaft. Z Palliatmed. 26(4):197–203. doi: 10.1055/a-2530-2642
  • Lugnier C, Förster S, Sommerlatte S, Schoffer O, Christmann J, Kraeft AL, Kourti E, Overheu O, Schlageter E, Ekmekciu I, Uhl W, Biermann C, Müller L, Sinn M, Kasper-Virchow S, Modest D, Heinemann V, Schmitt J, Schildmann J, Tannapfel A, Reinacher-Schick A (2025) Significant alterations of colorectal cancer care in the COVID-19 pandemic with high adherence to quality criteria in German cancer centers (CC) – data from the AIO CancerCOVID Consortium (AIO-YMO/KRK 520/ass). Clin Colorectal Cancer. 24(2):218-230. doi: 10.1016/j.clcc.2025.01.001

January

  • Schildmann J (2025) Ethical Competencies in Healthcare. On the Occasion of the Annual Meeting of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine 2023 in Halle (Saale). In: Frewer A (Hrsg.): Ethical Competencies in Medicine. German and Global Perspectives. Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, S. 29-32.
  • Schneider M, Kremling A, Krauss S, Ziegler K, Kauzner S (2025) Gezielte Sedierung zur Leidenslinderung Toolbox zur Unterstützung des Gebrauchs sedierender Medikamente in der spezialisierten Palliativversorgung. Z Palliativmed 26: 13-16.

  • Kremling A, Vaitaityte G, Schildmann J für das iSedPall-Konsortium (2024) Ein Praxisbericht zur Partizipation bei der Erstellung von ethischem Unterstützungsmaterial zu gezielter Sedierung in der spezialisierten Palliativversorgung. Organisatorische und ethisch relevante Aspekte. In: Klingler C, Pichl A, Ranisch R (Hrsg.):  Ethik der Partizipation. Einblicke in gesundheitsbezogene Forschung, Politik und Technologieentwicklung. Transcript, Bielefeld, Reihe: Gesundheit, Kommunikation und Gesellschaft, Band 6, S. 423-434.

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2023

2022

Information on thesis (Dr. med.; Dr. rer. medic) at the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine

Students of medicine and dentistry at the MLU have the opportunity to write a doctoral thesis (Dr. med.) on a topic in medical ethics or the history of medicine at the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine. An individual arrangement is necessary for students from other faculties (Dr. rer medic).

It is our aim to supervise doctoral students of the institute comprehensively and individually. Therefore, we ask for your understanding that we have to reject a considerable number of doctoral applications for capacity reasons alone.

In order to integrate the doctorate into the ongoing research work, it is important that the doctoral candidate is connected to the institute’s current research projects or to the research foci of the staff members. Information about the profile of the institute and the main research areas of the staff can be found on our website. The specific topic is usually determined in close consultation with the supervisor and the institute’s management.

We generally prefer publication-based doctoral theses, although individual agreements on the form are possible after consultation. Furthermore, a realistic time and work schedule is important. Depending on the previous knowledge and the abilities of the doctoral candidates, dissertation projects in the field of medical ethics or history of medicine usually require several years and 1–2 semesters time reserved for the thesis only. Attendance at the institute’s research colloquium or doctoral seminar is expected.

If you are interested in a thesis, please contact Prof. Dr. med. Jan Schildmann (jan.schildmann@medizin.uni-halle.de) by e-mail with your CV and letter of motivation. Please send a copy of your email to the institute secretariat (geschichte.ethik@uk-halle.de).

The Fellowship at the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg is awarded to researchers working in medical ethics and related fields. For more information see here.


Former Fellows:
Dr. Bramwel Wekesa Simiyu/Kenia (2025)
Meta Rus/Slowenien (2025)
Reina Ozeki-Hayashi/Japan (2023)
Elena Montaguti/Italien (2023)
Jackson Juma Coy/Tansania (2018)
Jordan Parsons/England (2020)
Dr. Kiarash Aramesh/USA (2022)

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