Projektnummer

N001011

Zusammenfassung

The scientistis reconstruct the impact of Nazi Medicine on institutionalized mental health ethics and its expressions mainly from 1990 until 2020 by analysing the 'evolution' of bioethical expert discourses via documents and interviews in Germany and Israel. They focus hereby on three research areas: 1. To what extent individuals with mental illness are seen as able to give informed consent and if so, which ethical safeguards are implemented; 2. How research with mentally incompetent patients is seen as justified or its justification is balanced with other values; 3. What are the compe...