Prof. Dr. Dr. Urban Wiesing
The Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine has different research focus areas dealing with ethical and theoretical approaches to medicine issues for ageing and elderly people - such as:
- Concepts of sickness and ageing
- Medical ethics and ageing
- Ageing of society and distributive justice
- Ethical challenges to the welfare system caused by the ageing of society
- Ethical aspects of the so-called anti-ageing-medicine under special consideration of distributive justice