Intersectionality as a tool to prevent structural discrimination – ethical, legal and social aspects of strategies of anti-discrimination in mental health care
  1. 5 — 9Sep.2022
    Bochum

    Discrimination within mental health care based on structural systems of discrimination, such as ableism, racism, (hetero)sexism, classism and ageism, is a barrier to social and health care justice and, thus, constitutes a pressing ethical, legal and social concern. Intersectionality has emerged as a paradigm to analyse structures of discrimination which centres the simultaneity, complexity, interdependency, and co-constitution of overlapping systems of discrimination. However, numerous challenges to intersectionality as both a theory and a practical tool remain to be solved.

    The aim of this international summer school is to bring together early-career (PhDs and postdocs) and senior researchers from various disciplines to critically examine intersectionality as a tool to identify and prevent discrimination in mental health care.

    There will be four workshops as part of the conference. The main topics are:

    - Philosophy and theory of intersectionality

    - Approaches to understanding and measuring discrimination

    - A human rights perspective on intersectionality

    - Intersectionality as a praxis tool – strategies of anti-discrimination

    Confirmed speakers:

    Prof. Claudia Bernard: Professor of Social Work and Co-head of Department, Goldsmith University London

    Prof. Dr. Theresia Degener: Professor of Law and Disability Studies, Protestant University of Applied Sciences, BODYS Bochum

    Prof. Stephani Hatch: Professor of Sociology and Epidemiology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London

    Prof. Dr. Dr. Andreas Heinz: Clinical Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Charité Mitte, Berlin.

    Dr. Katharine Jenkins: Lecturer in Social Philosophy, University of Glasgow

    Dr. Amma Yeboah: Psychodynamic supervisor and coach, researcher and psychiatrist

    Further information:

    Participants with a background in medicine, health science, philosophy, nursing science, sociology, legal studies, social work, disability studies, gender studies, critical race studies, medical ethics or psychology, preferably from Germany and the UK, are invited to present their research at the workshop.

    Applicants are asked to send an abstract in English on any of the subtopics (300 – 400 words) along with a short CV to mirjam.faissner@rub.de by 15 March, 2022.

    Accepted participants will give a presentation of 25 minutes, followed by a 30-minute discussion. The conference language is English. All participants are invited to prepare a manuscript and submit it for publication in a special issue. Furthermore, all participants are invited to participate in a jointly written policy paper.

    The international Summer School will take place at the Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine, LWL University Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum (Alexandrinenstraße 1-3, 44791 Bochum) from 5 – 9 September, 2022, and is sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

    Reimbursement:

    Travel expenses and costs for accommodation will be reimbursed. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner is included. Participants will receive a remuneration of € 300 for preparing a manuscript that is ready for submission to the special issue.

    Organisers:

    Mirjam Faissner, Jakov Gather, Georg Juckel

    1. 5. Sep. 2022

    Call-for-Abstracts_Summerschool-Intersectionality-d-e.pdf
    RESEARCH ETHICS IN QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH
  1. 21 — 25Mar.2022
    Bochum
    online

    Qualitative health research has gained relevace in recent years. The ethical review of qualitative health research poses various ethical and practical challenges for qualitative researchers and members of ethics committees and this has stirred up a lively international debate.

    Legal regulations, ethical codes and research ethical infrastructures differ from country to country, even if the fundamental ethical questions are the same.The aim of this international spring school is to bring together early-career (PhDs and postdocs) and senior researchers from various disciplines to critically examine ethical issues in qualitative health research. 

    SUBTOPICS:

    principles of research ethics

    international ethical guidelines and national discipline-specific ethical codes

    legal regulation and research ethical ethical infrastructures

    ethical review practices

    procedural ethics and ethics of practice

    informed consent and competence to consent

    risk-benefit assessment

    data protection and anonymization

    relationship between researchers and research participants

    vulnerability

    CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

    Hella von Unger, Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Germany and chairperson of the ethics committee of the faculty of Social Sciences

    Michael Schönhuth, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Trier, Germany

    Kristin Margrete Heggen, Professor of Health Science at the University of Oslo, Norway

    Henrika Jormfeldt, Professor of Nursing at the University of Halmstad, Sweden

    The spring school will take place at the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine of the Ruhr University Bochum from March 21-25, 2022.

    Participants with a background in health science, nursing science, social science, social anthropology, medical ethics or psychology preferably from Germany, Norway and Sweden are invited to present their research at the workshop.

    Applicants are asked to send an abstract in English on any of the subtopics (300-400 words) along with a short CV to sarah.potthoff@rub.de.

    Submit your application by January 9, 2022.

    Accepted participants will give a presentation of 25 minutes, followed by a 30-minutes discussion. The conference language is English. All participants are invited to prepare a manuscript and to submit it for publication in a special issue.

    REIMBURSEMENT

    Travel expenses and costs for accommodation will be reimbursed. Breakfast, lunch and dinner is included. Participants will receive a remuneration of € 300 for preparing a manuscript that is ready for submission to the special issue.

    1. 21. Mar. 2022
      Bochum
    Self-binding directives in mental health care – International perspectives – Midterm Symposium
  1. 30Sep.2021
    Online meeting

    Self-binding directives (or Ulysses contracts) are a special type of psychiatric advance directive by means of which mental health service users can give advance consent to compulsory hospital admission or treatment during a future mental health crisis. There is an ongoing philosophical debate over the ethical opportunities and risks of self-binding directives. This conference focuses on the attitudes of stakeholders (notably service users, informal caregivers and professionals) toward self-binding directives, with a focus on Germany, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom. New qualitative empirical evidence will be presented and discussed from an international perspective.


    Flyer-midterm-symposium-SALUS-English.pdf
    Partizipative Forschung – Digitaler Workshop der BMBF-Forschungsgruppe SALUS
  1. 29 — 30Sep.2021
    online

    Partizipative, kollaborative und betroffenen-kontrollierte Forschung hat in den letzten Jahren insbesondere in den Gesundheitswissenschaften zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen. Trotz der gemeinsamen Zielsetzung, gesellschaftliche Akteur:innen als Co-Forscher:innen an Wissenschaft zu beteiligen und diese individuell und kollektiv zu stärken, existiert eine große Diversität an Ansätzen. Ziel des Workshops ist es, diese Diversität an Forschungsansätzen mit ihren Stärken und Schwächen am Beispiel ausgewählter Forschungsprojekte kennenzulernen und mit den Forscher:innen kritisch zu diskutieren. Darüber hinaus können eigene partizipative Forschungsprojekte entwickelt werden.

    1. 29. Sep. 2021
      1500 — 1830
    2. 30. Sep. 2021
      1530 — 1830

      3. Flyer-SALUS_Workshop-Partizipative-Forschung_öffentlich.pdf
    Zwang im Voraus planen? Risiken und Chancen von Odysseus-Verfügungen in der Psychiatrie – Midterm Symposium
  1. 29 — 30Sep.2021
    online

    Odysseus-Verfügungen stellen eine besondere Form einer Patientenverfügung bzw. Behandlungsvereinbarung dar, in der Betroffene im Voraus festlegen können, dass sie in einem späteren Zustand der Einwilligungsunfähigkeit während einer psychischen Krise gegen ihren Willen in ein psychiatrisches Krankenhaus gebracht und ggf. auch behandelt werden wollen. In der medizinethischen Diskussion wird eine Vielzahl von Risiken und Chancen von Odysseus-Verfügungen diskutiert. Das Midterm Symposium der Bochumer BMBF-Forschungsgruppe SALUS verfolgt das Ziel, diese Risiken und Chancen aus einer interdisziplinären und trialogischen Perspektive zu erörtern.

    1. 29. Sep. 2021
      1000 — 1400
    2. 30. Sep. 2021
      1000 — 1500

      3. Flyer-Midterm-Symposium-SALUS-1.pdf
    Book Symposium and Public Lecture
  1. 27 — 28Jun.2019
    Bochum

    In Men in White Coats (OUP, 2018), George Szmukler discusses a wide array of ethical problems related to involuntary medical treatment in psychiatry, arguing that mental health laws warranting involuntary treatment based on the presence of a ‘mental disorder’ and a ‘risk to self or others’ discriminate against persons with mental disorders. As a solution to this problem, Szmukler develops a ‘Fusion Law Proposal,’ which bases involuntary treatment squarely on a lack of decision-making capability and ensures that involuntary treatment respects the rights, will and preferences of the person under treatment.

    Registration

    Registration for the public lecture is not necessary. To register for the workshop, please send a brief e-mail to bochum-salus-project@rub.de. Having read the chapters is not a requirement for participation in the workshop, but copies of the chapters can be made available upon request.

    Organization

    The lecture and book symposium are organized by the Bochum SALUS project. The Bochum SALUS project is sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

    1. 27. Jun. 2019
      1630 — 1800
      Alexandrinenstraße 1-3
      Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine, LWL University Hospital Ruhr University Bochum
      Seminar Room 3
      Lecture
      George Szmukler, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Society, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosience, King's College London
    2. 28. Jun. 2019
      1000 — 0500
      Malakowturm / Markstraße 258a
      Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
      Seminar Room, 7th floor
      Symposium
      George Szmukler
    Bochum Salus Project Public Lecture
  1. 9May.2019
    Bochum
    1. 1630 — 1800
      Alexandrinenstraße 3
      Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Präventivmedizin, LWL-Universitätsklinikum, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
      Konferenzraum 3
      Lecture
      Andrea zur Nieden
      Psychiatrischer Alltag: Zwang und Reform in den Anstalten des Landschaftsverbandes Rheinland (1970 - 1990)
    Workshop and lecture on decision-making capacity by Louis C. Charland
  1. 5Dec.2018
    Bochum

    On December 5, Louis C. Charland will give a workshop at the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine and a lecture at the LWL University Hospital of the Ruhr University Bochum. Louis Charland is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario and he is author of the Stanford Encyclopedia article on decision-making capacity. Abstracts can be found below.

    Attendance is free. Registration for the lecture is not required. To register for the workshop, please send a short message to bochum-salus-project@rub.de.

    These events are organized by the BMBF research group SALUS (https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/malakow/ethic_psych/projekte/index.html.en#SALUS). The SALUS group is sponsored by the German Ministry of Education and Research.

    1. 1000 — 1200
      Markstraße 258a
      Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr University Bochum
      Seminar room on the 7th floor
      Workshop
      Louis C. Charland
      Decision-Making Capacity and Informed Consent: A Role for Emotions

      Decision-Making Capacity and Informed Consent: A Role for Emotions

      Theories of informed consent, and in particular the element of decision-making capacity in informed consent, tend to be framed in cognitive terms. When emotions are considered, they are only recognized in terms of their negative contribution to consent and capacity: how they interfere, compromise, or impair consent. However, this negative portrayal of emotions as ‘enemies of reason’ and impairments of cognition can be argued to be clinically inaccurate as emotions also figure positively in human decision-making and deliberation. What positive role then could emotions play in consent and could emotion even be necessary for valid consent?

    2. 1600 — 1730
      Lecture
      Louis C. Charland
      Loss of Control and Addiction

      Loss of Control and Addiction

      Loss of control is a defining feature of many leading contemporary theories of addiction. However, on close analysis, the concept proves to be very elusive. Few clinical scientists seem to openly admit that loss of control occurs outside of episodes of intoxication and withdrawal, and to date clinical research on the topic has been virtually nil. On their side, philosophers and social critics often deny that there is ever any true or final loss of control in addiction, arguing it is ultimately a ‘choice’. What role then is there for the concept of loss of control in addiction beyond intoxication and withdrawal? Research on the role of decision-making capacity in informed consent offers some interesting suggestions how to approach this question.

    Bochum Salus Project Public Lecture
  1. 8Nov.2018
    Bochum
    1. 1630 — 1800
      Alexandrinenstraße 3
      Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Präventivmedizin, LWL-Universitätsklinikum, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
      Konferenzraum 3
      Lecture
      Tanja Henking
      Die S3-Leitlinie "Verhinderung von Zwang: Prävention und Therapie Aggressiven Verhaltens bei Erwachsenen" – Rechtliche und Ethische Perspektiven