Centre for Ethics and Responsibility (ZEV)
Prof. Dr Dirk Lanzerath
Adjunct professor for ethics, in particular scientific ethics
Unit
Centre for Ethics and Responsibility (ZEV)
Location
Sankt Augustin
Room
H008
Address
Grantham-Alle 20
53757, Sankt Augustin
Profile
His work centres on ethical issues in modern science and how scientific activity affects our societies. It is not only the consequences of scientific, technical and economic activity for people and nature that need to be reflected on here, but also the individual responsibility of individual scientists as well as research institutions and scientific organisations. Dirk Lanzerath examines - especially in cooperation with other European research institutions - the possibilities of developing a modern scientific ethos for research and teaching that promotes good scientific practice and increasingly brings research institutions, offices for scientific integrity and ethics committees into dialogue with each other.
Dirk Lanzerath is a member of various advisory boards and ethics committees, including the Central Commission for the Safeguarding of Ethical Principles in Medicine and its Frontier Areas at the German Medical Association (ZEKO), the Ethics Committee of Maastricht University and the Ethics Committee of the North Rhine Medical Association. He is spokesman of the working group "Interdisciplinary Approaches" of the Biodiversity Network Bonn (BION) and Secretary General of the European Network of Ethics Committees (EUREC).
Main research interests:
Ethics, applied ethics, ethics of science, bioethics, environmental ethics, ethics of technology, business ethics, philosophy of biology, natural aesthetics
Curriculum vitae
Dirk Lanzerath teaches philosophy at the University of Bonn and is Managing Director of the German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences (DRZE) in Bonn. The DRZE is a centre of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of North Rhine-Westphalia and a central scientific institution of the University of Bonn. Lanzerath was previously a research assistant at the Institute for Science and Ethics and the Philosophy Department at the University of Bonn until 1998. He has been teaching Global and Business Ethics at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg since 2009. He is a faculty member of the Bioethics Programme (Advanced Certificate Program in Research Ethics: Central and Eastern Europe) of The Graduate College of Union University Schenectady (Schenectady, NY, (since 2016 at Clarkson University) and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York), NY (USA). Since 1996 he has been a visiting professor for Ethics, Ethics and the Arts, Bioethics, Environmental Ethics in the Study Abroad Programme at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, Ca. (USA).
Dirk Lanzerath studied biology, philosophy, Catholic theology and educational science at the University of Bonn. After completing his doctorate in 1998, he spent a summer sabbatical as a visiting scholar at The Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University in Washington DC (USA). With his habilitation in 2013, he was awarded the venia legendi for the subject of philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Bonn.
Projects
The European Network of Research Ethics and Research Integrity (ENERI), funded by the European Commission, brings together the networks of the European Ethics Committees (EUREC) and the Research Integrity Offices (ENRIO) to discuss research ethics issues and problems of scientific integrity. The network cooperates with the projects SIENNA (Stakeholder-Informed Ethics for New technologies with high socio-ecoNomic and human rights impact) and SHERPA (Shaping the ethical dimensions of smart information systems (SIS) Shaping the ethical dimensions of smart information systems impact). The BMBF-funded project BioÖkonTech - Bioökonomie und moderne Biotechnologien: Ethische und rechtliche Aspekte (BioÖkonTech - Bioeconomy and Modern Biotechnologies: Ethical and Legal Aspects) is investigating ethical issues relating to the modern bioeconomy.
Publications
Selection:
- Krankheit und ärztliches Handeln. Zur Funktion des Krankheitsbegriffs in der medizinischen Ethik. Freiburg i.Br. 2000.
- Biodiversität (Ethik in den Biowissenschaften – Sachstandberichte des drze, Bd. 5), Freiburg i.Br. 2008 (zs. mit W. Barthlott, T.M. Spranger et al.).
- Herausforderungen der Bioethik. (Zukunftsforum Politik 103), Berlin 2010.
- Ethics in Business and Human Flourishing.Integrating Economy in Life. In: R. Wolf, T. Issa (eds.): International Business Ethics and Growth Opportunities. (Advances in Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage (ABSCA) Book Series), Hershey, PA 2015, 74-96.
- Philosophy of Medicine. In: Henk ten Have (ed.). Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics, New York 2016, 1864-1871.
- Philosophy of Life Sciences. In: Henk ten Have (ed.). Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics, New York 2016, 1759-1766.
- Concepts and Values in Biodiversity (Routledge Biodiversity Politics and Management Series), Routledge: Abingdon, New York 2014 (ed. zs. mit M. Friele).
- Forschungsethik und klinische Forschung. Zur Debatte um die EU-Verordnung zu klinischen Studien, Münster 2016.
- Logik des Heilens, des Forschens und des Wirtschaftens – Forschungsethische Überlegungen anlässlich der Neuregulierung klinischer Forschung in Europa. In: Forschungsethik und klinische Forschung. Zur Debatte um die EU-Verordnung zu klinischen Studien, Münster 2016, 1-10.
- Advance directives for future dementia can be modified by a brief video presentation on dementia care: An experimental study. PLoS ONE 13(5) 2018: e0197229. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197229 (zs. mit Volhard T, Jessen F, Kleineidam L, Wolfsgruber S, Wagner M, et al.)
- Ethical aspects of animal biotechnology. In: Niemann H, Wrenzycki C (eds.) Animal Biotechnology, in 2 volumes (Reproductive biotechnologies, Emerging breeding technologies) Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN 978-3-319-92326-0 ISBN 978-3-319-92327-7, in press 2018.
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