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Sterbehilfe: Rechtliche und ethische Aspekte
(2009)Die Frage nach der Sterbehilfe gehört nicht nur in den fachwissenschaftlichen Kontexten der Medizinethik zu den umstrittensten Problemstellungen. In den vergangenen Jahren haben die Fälle der Patientinnen Terri Schiavo und ... -
Big Data in der Medizin: Konzeptionelle, rechtliche und ethische Aspekte
(2020)Mit der Möglichkeit, Gesundheitsdaten aus vielfältigen Quellen schnell und in großem Umfang auszuwerten - Big Data in der Medizin - sind große Erwartungen verbunden. Informationstechnologien werden dazu eingesetzt, ... -
Synthetische Biologie: Naturwissenschaftliche, rechtliche und ethische Aspekte
(2020)Die Synthetische Biologie ist ein neuer Forschungs- und Anwendungsbereich der Molekularbiologie, der Methoden und Verfahrensweisen mit der Gentechnik teilt. Im Unterschied zur Gentechnik, die einzelne Gene in bereits ... -
Biodiversität
(2008)Der Begriff der Biodiversität, im deutschen Sprachgebrauch häufig zur Artenvielfalt verkürzt, bezeichnet allgemein die Vielfalt von Genen, Arten und Lebensräumen. Ihre Bewahrung ist inzwischen Gegenstand zahlreicher sowohl ... -
Food Security Standard: Principles, Criteria and Indicators
(2020-06)International demand for agricultural commodities is growing due to population growth, changes in consumption patterns and the current shift from petroleum-based to bio-based economies. This can have adverse effects, ... -
Humanbiobanken
(2019)Wie aus „sensiblen Daten“ „Big Data“ wird - Biobanken im Humanbereich sind Sammlungen von Proben menschlicher Körpersubstanzen (etwa Gewebe, Blut, genetisches Material), die mit sensiblen personenbezogenen Daten und ... -
Tiefe Hirnstimulation: Neurologische, psychiatrische und philosophische Aspekte
(2016)Das invasive Verfahren der tiefen Hirnstimulation gehört zu den medizintechnischen Verfahren, die mit neurobiologischen, informationstheoretischen und ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Methoden eine Korrektur oder Verbesserung ... -
Tiere in der Forschung: Naturwissenschaftliche, rechtliche und ethische Aspekte
(2016)Die Ausgestaltung des Mensch-Tier-Verhältnisses gehört zu den großen normativen Herausforderungen von Ethik, Recht und Naturwissenschaften. In den gegenwärtigen Debatten herrscht weitgehend Einvernehmen darüber, dass Tiere ... -
Altern: Biologische, psychologische und ethische Aspekte
(2017)Die Ergebnisse der modernen Altersforschung haben den Blick auf das Altern verändert. Der Gerontopsychologie ist es zu verdanken, wenn bestimmte Altersstereotype, etwa die geistige Flexibilität betreffend, wissenschaftlich ... -
The Label of ‘Religion’: Migration And Ascriptions Of Religious Identities In Contemporary Europe
(2019)This working paper presents three perspectives on the ways in which a labeling of social actors, processes, or conflicts as ‘religion’ or ‘religious’ plays a central role in disputes about migration and identity-formation ... -
Towards a Poststructuralist Approach to Religion: A Response to “The Label of ‘Religion’: Migration and Ascriptions of Religious Identities in Contemporary Europe” and a Critique of “Multiple Religious Identities”
(2019)This working paper presents a poststructuralist approach to religion studies and discusses its usefulness in an exemplary way by engaging with FIW working paper no. 11 on labeling processes of migrants in contemporary ... -
Working for Harmony and Innovation?: Political Inclusion of Diversified Elites via the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference
(2019)This paper describes the fascinating case of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference system (CPPCC) and its evolution since 1949. The CPPCC’s original idea is to allow select members who represent the ... -
A rights-based food security principle for biomass sustainability standards and certification systems
(2015-11)With the shift from petroleum-based to biomass-based economies, global biomass demand and trade is growing. This trend could become a threat to food security. Though rising concerns about sustainability aspects have ... -
Food Security Standard (FSS) National Food Security Assessment (NaFSA) tool 1.1
(2020-04-01)The Food Security Standard (FSS) provides practicable and measurable criteria and tools to ensure the Right to Food on sustainably certified agricultural production sites. The National Food Security Assessment (NaFSA) tool ... -
The bipolarity of democracy and authoritarianism: value patterns, inclusion roles and forms of internal differentiation of political systems
(2017-09)After World War II the political world was shaped by the ideological bipolarity of capitalism and socialism/communism for nearly 50 years. And there was a second bipolarity formulated by the distinction of democracy and ... -
The making of the 'Geisteswissenschaften': a case of boundary work?
(2017-06)The paper is concerned with the making of the German humanities. To address this topic, the boundary work approach is applied to the late 19th century, a historical episode that has been crucial for the formation of an ... -
CSR public policies in India´s democracy: ambiguities in the political regulation of corporate conduct
(2017-03)The rise of public policies in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) suggests a reassertion of state power over a phenomenon initially designed to weaken public authorities. But depending on policy objectives ... -
Beyond the Google ngram viewer: bibliographic databases and journal archives as tools for the quantitative analysis of scientific and meta-scientific concepts
(2017-08)In the last years the Google Ngram Viewer has become a popular tool for quick and dirty analyses of how certain concepts emerge and develop over time. So far most scholars using this tool do not reflect on its methodological ... -
Markets, order and noise: two contributions to a comprehensive understanding of modern markets
(2016-09)Markets are a central feature of modern society. As such, it comes as no surprise that they constitute a popular subject of research in (economic) sociology, where they are observed from various analytical perspectives ... -
The logic of the Soviet organisational society: political control, the Soviet village, and world society
(2016-05)The paper describes and discusses the variant of societal differentiation that evolved under the Soviet regime. My argumentation starts with the assumption of Socialism as a program with a universal, function system-exceeding ...
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