New preprint 🚨 "Who—or what—should predict an incapacitated patient's wishes? Public attitudes towards AI in substituted medical decision-making" - www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Sabine Salloch
@salloch.bsky.social
Bioethicist, Hiker, Salamander activist (private account)
In conversation with @salloch.bsky.social in AJOB on planetary health research ethics: J. Beever & I argue for a conception of health beyond the human-health-centric frame. Ad Planetam per Aspera! 🌍 #researchethics #environmentalbioethics #bioethics #health www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Ad Planetam per Aspera: Beyond Human Health Extensionism
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 26, No. 6, 2026)
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New 🚨 Issue of JME Practical Bioethics (Vol 2 Issue 3), led by a new instalment of our recurring series: 🌍 Global Bioethics Bulletin 📰 dispatches on access to abortion, featuring our dedicated regional editors and helmed this time by Shizuko Takahashi OPEN ACCESS ➡️ jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/2/...
🏥🚑 #KI, die in der Medizin in einem klar definierten Rahmen eigenständig agiert? Das ist kein Zukunftsszenario mehr. In einem Policy Brief der Leopoldina schlagen WissenschaftlerInnen Handlungsansätze für den Einsatz agentischer KI in Klinikalltag und Forschung vor: www.leopoldina.org/agentische-ki
GPs consider climate change as being relevant for their professional role but still attribute main responsibility to the policy level. Some new data from Germany: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #climatechange #bioethics
Climate change and professional responsibility: a cross-sectional survey among German general practitioners - BMC Medical Ethics
Background Climate change increasingly affects population health and healthcare systems. While normative frameworks emphasize physicians’ societal role in climate protection, empirical evidence on how...
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Hi #bioethics fellows! Have you ever been wondering whether to accept a long-distance academic invitation for environmental reasons? Here are some more thoughts in this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Long-distance academic invitations: a case for an air travel bioethics - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Long-distance academic invitations: a case for an air travel bioethics
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Very much a team effort! Outcomes of our DFG-funded network on Digital Bioethics are published now. #bioethics link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Digital bioethics: exploring an emerging field - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
The uptake of social science methods by bioethics significantly expanded its methodological spectrum, raising new theoretical, methodological, and practical questions. Recently, we are witnessing anot...
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❗LIVESTREAM: Pressekonferenz „Planetary Health und ärztliche Verantwortung“ ❗ Freitag, 13. Februar 2026, um 10:00 Uhr 👉 Livestream unter www.bundesaerztekammer.de/presse/aktue... #Klimawandel #Gesundheit #Ethik #Prävention
LLMs perform quite well but user interaction remains a challenge #medicalai #bioethics www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study - Nature Medicine
In a randomized controlled study involving 1,298 participants from a general sample, performance of humans when assisted by a large language model (LLM) was sensibly inferior to that of the LLM alone ...
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Topic Collection: Call for papers - "Doing ethics with AI" (rather than the ethics "of" AI, which is what most recent research has focused on) | JME Practical Bioethics jmepb.bmj.com/pages/doing-...
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New Paper 🚨 Global Bioethics Bulletin: dispatches on climate justice. This is part of a new series at JME Practical Bioethics written by our regional editors, where we take a global look at a pressing ethical issue Link below
Jetzt Abstract einreichen! 📝 Bis 30. März läuft der Call for Abstracts für den gemeinsamen Kongress von DEGAM, DGSMP und DGMS in Göttingen. kongress-gesundheit-gestalten.de #EbM #Gesundheit #Gesundheitssystem
Great to see some content now populating the JME Practical Bioethics website! An editorial, a correspondence ... and our first peer-reviewed article, an inside look at the recent revision of the Declaration of Helsinki ☺️ jmepb.bmj.com
Als einer der AG-Leiter ("Federführender") konnte ich an einer Stellungnahme der Zentralen Ethikkommission bei der Bundesärztekammer (ZEKO) mitwirken, die die Frage diskutiert, wie ÄrztInnen in der Versorgung mit finanziellen Anreizen umgehen sollten. www.zentrale-ethikkommission.de/fileadmin/us...
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Das Erinnerungsprojekt "Das leere Sprechzimmer" gehört inzwischen fest zu den DEGAM-Kongressen, auch #DEGAM2025. In Hannover gibt es eine Ausstellung und ein Symposium zur Frage: Warum sind einige jüdische Ärzte nach 1945 nach Deutschland ins Land der Täter zurückgekehrt? Mehr: tinyurl.com/2avbxd6m
The website is coming together! Should be open for submissions within the next couple of days … About | JME Practical Bioethics jmepb.bmj.com/pages/about
About | JME Practical Bioethics
An international open access, peer-reviewed journal, co-owned by the Institute of Medical Ethics and BMJ Group, dedicated to publishing bioethics research and covering urgent global issues such as…
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Jetzt schon eins der schönsten Fotos des Jahres: König Charles zu Gast bei der Auschwitz-Überlebenden Anita Lasker-Wallfisch anlässlich ihres 100. Geburtstag in ihrem Haus in London. Am 17. Juli 1925 wurde Anita Lasker-Wallfisch in Breslau geboren.
So kann man mit WissenschaftlerInnen nicht umgehen, habe ich mit Susanne Beck und @alexanderthiele.bsky.social gemeint. Der Unmut ist tatsächlich groß, fast 300 Unterschriften in wenigen Stunden... www.lto.de/recht/hinter...
Ex-Verfassungsrichter kritisieren Umgang mit Brosius-Gersdorf
Nach dem Desaster um die Verfassungsrichterwahl kritisieren knapp 300 Rechtswissenschaftler die bisherige Diskussion und das Verfahren als 'unsachlich'.
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Now published 🚨Respecting formerly autonomous persons: clarifying the role of the Personalised Patient Preference Predictor (P4) in substituted judgement | Journal of Medical Ethics jme.bmj.com/content/51/7...
Respecting formerly autonomous persons: clarifying the role of the Personalised Patient Preference Predictor (P4) in substituted judgement
In a recent paper,1 we proposed a Personalised Patient Preference Predictor (P4), building on earlier work by Rid and Wendler.2 The P4 is a hypothetical computer program that would, in the context of…
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Writing papers with medical students ist fun! Here's one more:
Where and How to Address Climate Change in Clinical Consultations? A Challenge for Clinical Medical Ethics
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 25, No. 7, 2025)
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Some new thoughts on the ethical intersection between biomedical research and planetary protection #bioethics #planetaryhealth #researchethics
Planetary Health Research Ethics: Sounding Out the Dimensions
The degradation of natural environments has an enormous impact on human health, which is further specified in the transdisciplinary research paradigm of planetary health. Bioethical debates have so...
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bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Green Decision Making from an ethical perspective: here's some systematic overview:
Should healthcare professionals include aspects of environmental sustainability in clinical decision-making? A systematic review of reasons - BMC Medical Ethics
Healthcare systems worldwide are large emitters of greenhouse gases and contribute to the worsening climate crisis. Attempts to reduce emissions are already being made at various levels of the healthc...
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