GERMANY
-German National Ethics Council
www.nationalerethikrat.de/
Following the Federal Government's decision of 2 May 2001, the National Ethics Council was inaugurated as a national forum for dialogue on ethical issues in the life sciences. It is intended to be the central organ for interdisciplinary discourse between the natural sciences, medicine, theology and philosophy, and the social and legal sciences, and to express views on ethical issues relating to new developments in the field of the life sciences and on their consequences for the individual and society.
Prof. Spiros Simitis (Chair)
Nationaler Ethikrates Jägerstrasse 22/23 D-10117 Berlin, Germany
Telephone: +49 3020370242
Fax: +49 3020370252
kontakt@ethikrat.org
-Institute of Science and Ethics - University of Bonn
www.iwe.uni-bonn.de/english/index_else.html
The IWE has set itself the objective to carry out research in the field of Ethics of Biomedicine and Science and their applications. In order to support ethical reflection in these fields it also organizes conferences and lectures and promotes young scientists.
Niebuhrstraße 51
53113 Bonn, Germany
Email: iwe@iwe.uni-bonn.de
Phone: 49.228.73.19.20
Fax: 49.228.73.19.50
-Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics - University Erlangen - Nuremberg
www.gesch.med.uni-erlangen.de/ethik.html
Glückstraße 10
D-91054 Erlangen
Germany
Email: sekretariat@ethik.med.uni-erlangen.de
Phone: 49.9131.85.26430
Fax: 49.9131.85.22852
- Gene-ethical Network
www.gen-ethisches-netzwerk.de/
Brunnenstraße 4
10119 Berlin-Mitte
Germany
Email: gen@gen-ethisches-netzwerk.de
Phone: 30.685.70.73
Fax: 30.6841183
-Academy for Ethics in Medicine
www.aem-online.de/
Humboldtallee 36
D-37073 Göttingen
Germany
Email: info@aem-online.de
Phone: 49.551.399.680
Fax: 49.551.393.996
-Bioethik Diskurs
www.bioethik-diskurs.de/documents/English%20version/Home/view
The interdisciplinary working group analyses and develops the societal discourse on biomedicine. Two main aspects form the centerpiece of the work: the ethical questions that arise in the context of biomedical research, and communication of risks and benefits associated with biomedicine. Arguments will take place, recommendations will be evaluated and credible ways forward will be developed within a dialogue between science and society. The target is the systematic development and implementation of dialogical procedures that support and enable an alert way of dealing with biomedicine.
Email: tannert@mdc-berlin.de
Phone: 49.30.9406.2203
-Center for Ethics in the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Tübingen
www.izew.uni-tuebingen.de/
Wilhelmstr. 19
72074 Tubingen
Germany
-Center for Medical Ethics, University of Bochum
www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/zme/zme-e.html
In 1986 faculty members of Ruhr-University founded the Zentrum für Medizinische Ethik. The Center is a non-profit institution and serves as a research, teaching and consulting center in issues of applied ethics, especially in clinical ethics and bioethics. The Center specializes in developing practical instruments for moral assessment of cases and scenarios in biomedical research and patient care.
Building GA, Floor 3 Room 53
D-44780 Bochum
Germany
Email: Med.Ethics@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Phone: 49.234.32.22749 or 22750
Fax: 49.234 / 3214.598
-Ethiknet
www.phen.ab.ca/biocentres/www.ethiknet.de
Marsstraße 19
80335 München
Germany
Email: ttn.institut@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Phone: 89.5595.600
Fax: 89.5595.608
-German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences
www.drze.de/?la=en
The reference centre's role is the central, comprehensive and current collection, documentation, provision and preparation of relevant national and international information, documents and literature on ethics in the life sciences, including relevant material regarding legal, social and scientific issues. The centre aims to enable and facilitate access to such information, and to highlight the German contributions to the international debate.
Niebuhrstraße 53
53113 Bonn
Germany
Email: booms@drze.de
Phone: 228.73.1930
Fax: 228.73.1940
-Rhineland Palatinate Bioethics Commission
www.kritischebioethik.de/Rheinland-Pfalz/rheinland-pfalz_downloads.html
c/o Dr. Ingrid Ackermann-Grüger
Bienengarten 16
55411 Bingen, Germany
Email: rheinland-pfalz-info@kritische-bioethik.de
Phone: 6721.799899
Fax: 6721.185844