Solveig Lena HansenUniversität Bremen | Uni Bremen · Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research
Solveig Lena Hansen
Lecturer for Ethics
Building a working group on Public Health Ethics and Health Humanities
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Introduction
I am senior lecturer for public health ethics at the Faculty of Human and Health Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany. I am affiliated with the Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research (IPP), leading the group"Public Health Ethics and Health Humanities".
I use participatory, hermeneutic and qualitative socio-empirical approaches. My background is in comparative literature and gender studies; with a PhD in Bioethics and a Habilitation in Medical Ethics/Medical Humanities.
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October 2020 - present
February 2007 - September 2020
Education
October 2004 - March 2010
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Publications (62)
Organ transplantation is a well-established practice in modern medicine. However, many countries, especially those with an opt-in regulation, face the problem of low donation numbers. Respective public campaigns attempt to increase the number of donors by swaying public opinion with the use of carefully selected bits of information. Germany serves...
In the traditions of narrative ethics and casuistry, stories have a well-established role. Specifically, illness narratives provide insight into patients’ perspectives and histories. However, because they tend to see fiction as an aesthetic endeavour, practitioners in these traditions often do not realize that fictional stories are valuable moral s...
Given the need for organs, public organizations use social marketing strategies to increase the number of donors. Their campaigns employ a variety of moral appeals. However, their effects on audiences are unclear. We identified 14 campaigns in Germany from over the last 20 years. Our approach combined a multimodal analysis of categorized posters wi...
With regard to organ donation, Germany is an 'opt-in' country, which requires explicit consent from donors. The relatives are either asked to decide on behalf of the donors' preferences, if these are unknown or if the potential donor has explicitly transferred the decision to them. At the core of this policy lies the sociocultural and moral premise...
The British writer John Wyndham (1903-1969) explored societal effects of surprising or mystical events. A paradigmatic example is The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), which portrays identical-looking children born without sexual intercourse. I propose a reading strategy that focuses on the fictional spatial order and analyses how the construction of the chi...
This is a video about how to use film analysis in public health and health humanities. It might be useful for research and teaching. Open access, so feel free to share (license: CC-BY-NC-SA).
Available at: https://av.tib.eu/media/61087
Persuasion is an intentional act of communication through which a speaker aims at changing a recipient's attitude, belief, or behavior. Different approaches have influenced the understanding of persuasion as well as its normative assessment. Whereas the psychological tradition understands persuasion as effective influencing, ethics and the politica...
Multimodality is the key term denoting that two or more modes are combined for communicative aims. Contributions to multimodal theory have come from gestalt theory, perception research, social semiotics, linguistics, and media research. The current state of research assumes that multimodality constitutes our natural state of face-to-face communicat...
Fragen der medizinischen Ethik haben mit existentiell herausfordernden Situationen am Lebensanfang, in Krankheit und am Lebensende zu tun. Sie sind deshalb ein herausragender Stoff für Filme. Religionen sind hier ebenfalls mit Sinnangeboten, Beratungen, manchmal auch mit starken Wertungen präsent wie in kaum einem anderen Feld der Ethik. Deshalb is...
Fragen der medizinischen Ethik haben mit existentiell herausfordernden Situationen am Lebensanfang, in Krankheit und am Lebensende zu tun. Sie sind deshalb ein herausragender Stoff für Filme. Religionen sind hier ebenfalls mit Sinnangeboten, Beratungen, manchmal auch mit starken Wertungen präsent wie in kaum einem anderen Feld der Ethik. Deshalb is...
Summary
Since the passing of the Transplantation Act (TPG) in 1996, mass media campaigns on organ donation have been disseminated in Germany. Public posters are an important part of these campaigns. I reconstruct historical changes of such psoters through a context analysis, supported by expert interviews and a multimodal content analysis. Thus, ch...
The idea for this special issue arose from years of multidisciplinary
exchange on participation and communication in technology and medicine.
Which epistemological, normative, and empirical questions do arise,
when endeavors of public participation deal with rejection, skepticism,
and critique? This question guides our multidisciplinary perspective...
This is the first digital plattform to find mentors, collaborators, PhD students ... or whatever you need in medical ethics and connected areas. We also announce opportunities for exchange (research visits), jobs, and much more.
This collection features comprehensive overviews of the various ethical challenges in organ transplantation. International readings well-grounded in the latest developments in the life sciences are organized into systematic sections and engage with one another, offering complementary views. All core issues in the global ethical debate are covered:...
This collection features comprehensive overviews of the various ethical challenges in organ transplantation. International readings well-grounded in the latest developments in the life sciences are organized into systematic sections and engage with one another, offering complementary views. All core issues in the global ethical debate are covered:...
Background: The issue of body weight poses a challenge in doctor—patient communication.
Objectives: This study examines the communication preferences of people with obesity. On this basis, we develop practical recommendations for counselling patients. Materials andmethods. Qualitative content analysis of semi-structured, guideline-based
interviews...
Background
The issue of body weight poses a challenge in doctor—patient communication. Objectives
This study examines the communication preferences of people with obesity. On this basis, we develop practical recommendations for counselling patients.Materials and methodsQualitative content analysis of semi-structured, guideline-based interviews with...
In der öffentlichen Debatte wurden humane induzierte pluripotente Stammzellen (hiPS-Zellen) im Vergleich zu humanen embryonalen Stammzellen (hES-Zellen) oft als moralisch unproblematische Alternative zur verbrauchenden Forschung mit Embryonen dargestellt. Doch bei genauerer Betrachtung wird klar, dass insbesondere die klinische Translation der Fors...
Seit mehr als zehn Jahren können differenzierte Körperzellen, wie etwa Hautzellen, im Labor derart verändert („induziert“) werden, dass humane pluripotente Stammzellen entstehen. Diese sogenannten humanen induzierten pluripotenten Stammzellen (hiPS-Zellen) besitzen – ebenso wie humane embryonale Stammzellen (hES-Zellen) – das Potenzial, jeden belie...
Der vorliegende Beitrag befasst sich mit den ethischen Problemen der klinischen Forschung mit humanen induzierten pluripotenten Stammzellen. Wir diskutieren insbesondere solche Aspekte, die über die bei Forschungsprojekten typischerweise auftretenden und in nationalen und internationalen Gesetzen und Richtlinien geregelten ethischen Probleme der Fo...
Experimental therapies with embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and, more recently, human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are steadily gaining ground in clinical practice. The implementation of such novel high-risk/high-potential treatments calls for proper safeguards for the interests of the public and, most importantly, of research participants...
This art-science-interaction article focuses on moral implications of a recent science announcement. Against the background of literary and cultural theories, it compares a YouTube story with narratives employed in fictional stories.
This paper gives an introduction to the interdisciplinary special section. Against the historical and ethical background of reproductive technologies, it explores future scenarios of human reproduction and analyzes ways of mutual engagement between fictional and academic endeavors. The underlying idea is that we can make use of human reproduction s...
Seit 2012 fordern Akteure des deutschen Gesundheitssystems die ergebnisoffene
Aufklärung zur Organtransplantation. Der vorliegende Beitrag identifiziert 63 Websites, die solche Aufklärung bereitstellen, und analysiert an fünf Einzelbeispielen, inwiefern sie der Forderung nachkommen und damit eine autonome Entscheidungsfindung der Nutzer
ermöglichen...
Definition of the Problem
Public health communication is aimed at large groups of populations with a spectrum of communicative techniques. However, current approaches rarely scrutinize the normative implications and the moral threshold with this spectrum. The contribution develops minimum conditions for health communication’s ethical acceptability....
Definition of the problem
Concepts of stakeholder engagement are well established in business ethics and medical ethics. However, current approaches tend to see it as an end in itself. Thereby, two important aspects are often neglected: first, the general normative presuppositions of stakeholder engagement; second, moral implications concerning dif...
In Germany, as well as in other countries, organ shortages are usually explained by a relative unwillingness to donate among a population which is assumed to be caused by a lack of information and mistrust of the system. As we can see in the data of our qualitative research (focus groups and interviews), lack of information or mistrust are not the...
Der vorliegende Beitrag erläutert anhand ausgewählter Beispiele das Potential von Dystopien für die Bioethik. Hierfür werden bestehende Ansätze narrativer Ethik kritisch rekonstruiert und erweitert. Mittels eines Theorieangebots aus der Literaturwissenschaft wird vorgeschlagen, moralische Überzeugungen, die Dystopien motivieren, in kohärentistische...
Background
In Germany, two events regarding organ donation in 2012 happened: media reported about allocation scandals and regulations concerning regular public information were implemented. Public mistrust as a result of the scandals was repeatedly utilized to explain the current decrease in donation rates. Methods
To test for public attitudes towa...
In the film Never Let Me Go (UK/USA 2010), clones are forced to donate their organs anonymously. As a work of fiction, this film can be regarded as a negotiation of limited agency, since the clones are depicted as vulnerable individuals. Thereby, it evokes a confrontation with underprivileged positions in technocratic societies, encouraging the aud...
Im Spielfilm Never Let Me Go werden Klone als vulnerable und heteronome Individuen dargestellt, die zur anonymen Organspende gezwungen werden. In diesem Beitrag wird die Darstellung dieser Figuren in ihrer individuellen Entwicklung und gesellschaftlichen Sozialisation unter der Frage untersucht, welche Bezüge sich zu bioethischen Aspekten ergeben....
Background In the movie Never Let Me Go, clones are depicted as highly vulnerable and heteronomous individuals, forced to donate their organs anonymously. In this paper, we analyze the depiction of the clones’ socialization and personal development, scrutinizing references to bioethical aspects.
Arguments As a symbolic work of fiction, this movie...
Die Verbreitung kommerzieller Leihmutterschaft und ihr wachsender globaler Markt hat zu einer breiten Diskussion sowohl unter Wissenschaftlern als auch unter Aktivisten geführt. In diesem Aufsatz eröffnen wir durch die Auseinandersetzung mit einem Dokumentarfilm ethische Fragen, die mit der transnationalen indischen Leihmutterschaft in Verbindung s...
Gerade unter dem Aspekt der Globalisierung rückt die wechselseitige Prägung von Raum und Geschlecht zunehmend in den Blick einer kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung. Dieser Band versammelt interdisziplinäre Beiträge, die den Konstruktionscharakter von Raum- und Gender-Begriffen analysieren, der für soziale, kulturelle, politische Welten...
Initiiert durch das Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin wurden in einem
Göttinger Kino zwölf Spiel- und Dokumentarfilme zum Verhältnis von
Biomedizin und Gesellschaft gezeigt. Anschließend wurden diese mit Expert_
innen und interessierten Bürger_innen diskutiert. Dabei standen die
(möglichen) Folgen von biomedizinischen Technologien ebens...
