Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine

OE 5450

Hannover Medical School
Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1
D-30625 Hannover
Phone: +49 511-532-4277
Fax: +49 511-532-5650

Email: salloch.sabine@mh-hannover.de

Sabine Salloch is full professor and head of the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine at Hannover Medical School (MHH). She studied medicine and philosophy at the University of Marburg from 1999-2007. She received her medical doctorate in 2006 for a thesis on medical history in the Early Modern Age. In 2015, she received her doctorate in philosophy for a thesis on practical judgement. The habilitation (for ethics, theory and history of medicine) was awarded in 2017. After two years of practice as a physician she worked as a researcher at Ruhr University Bochum from 2009 to 2015. From 2016 to 2020 she headed the Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine at University Medicine Greifswald as an assistant professor (“Juniorprofessorin”). Sabine Salloch is member of the board of the Central Ethics Commission at the Federal Chamber of Physicians and deputy chair of the Central Ethics Commission for Stem Cell Research. Her areas of expertise are professionalism and interprofessionalism in healthcare, ethics of digitization and bioethical methodology.

Publications (selection of 10):

Salloch S, Ursin F (2023):
The birth of the „digital turn” in bioethics? Bioethics 2023, 37(3):285-291.

van Gils-Schmidt HJ, Salloch S (2022):
Taking a moral holiday? Physicians’ practical identities at the margins of professional ethics. Journal of Medical Ethics. doi: 10.1136/jme-2022-108500.

Heyen NB*, Salloch S* (2021):
The Ethics of Machine Learning-Based Clinical Decision Support: An Analysis through the Lens of Professionalisation Theory. BMC Medical Ethics 22:112.

Laacke S*, Müller R*, Schomerus G, Salloch S (2021):
Artificial Intelligence, Social Media and Depression. A New Concept of Health-Related Digital Au-tonomy. American Journal of Bioethics 21(7):4-20.

Müller R, Aghdassi A, Kruse J, Lerch MM, Simon P, Salloch S (2021):
Perceptions of Genetic Testing in Patients with Hereditary Chronic Pancreatitis and Their Families: A Qualitative Triangulation. European Journal of Human Genetics 29(1):29-38.

Seidlein AH*, Hannich A*, Nowak A, Gründling M, Salloch S (2020):
Ethical aspects of time in intensive care decision-making. Journal of Medical Ethics doi: 10.1136/medethics-2019-105752.

Seidlein AH, Buchholz I, Buchholz M, Salloch S (2020):
Concepts of health in long-term home care: empirical exploration and normative-ethical analysis. Nursing Ethics 27(5):1187-1200.

Seidlein AH, Salloch S (2019):
Illness and disease: an empirical-ethical viewpoint. BMC Medical Ethics 20:5.

Salloch S (2018):
The dual use of research ethics committees. Why professional self-governance falls short in preserving biosecurity. BMC Medical Ethics.

Salloch S (2016):
Prinzip, Erfahrung, Reflexion. Urteilskraft in der Angewandten Ethik. Münster, mentis 2016.

An overview of all Medline-listed journal publications can be accessed here.