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Stuart McLennan
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Director of Research at the Chair of Ethics in Medicine and Health Technologies, Technical University of Munich. Views own
Max Planck institutes have a reputation in Germany of being toxic places to work at. This DW Documentary gives some credence to that:

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How Germany's elite research institution fails young scientists | DW Documentary
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March 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Partnerships between public and private organizations in digital health can promote more accessible, affordable, and high-quality care, but they also raise ethical and governance challenges.
March 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Congratulations to the wonderful @theresawillem.bsky.social for submitting her PhD yesterday and for her new article "Biases in machine-learning models of human single-cell data" out today in @naturecellbiology.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Biases in machine-learning models of human single-cell data - Nature Cell Biology
This Perspective discusses the various biases that can emerge along the pipeline of machine learning-based single-cell analysis and presents methods to train models on human single-cell data in order ...
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February 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Good to see sensible suggestions around the use of CPR in Aged Residential Care facilities being argued for, and glad to see earlier work on my being cited
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By Their Side, Not on Their Chest: Ethical Arguments to Allow Residential Aged Care Admission Policies to Forego Full Cardiac Resuscitation - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
We argue that Aged Residential Care (ARC) facilities should be allowed to create and adopt an informed “No Chest Compression” (NCC) policy. Potential residents are informed before admission that staff...
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February 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The Embedded Ethics and Social Science Approach: In the past years, our team at @ihemtum.bsky.social @alenabuyx.bsky.social together with colleagues at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, have been developing the Embedded Ethics and Social Science approach.
February 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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📢 🧪 Fresh from journal of Bioethics, written by our research director @stuartmclennan.bsky.social with contributions by Marieke Bak and Kathrin Knochel: "Slow Codes are symptomatic of ethically and legally inappropriate CPR policies".
Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Slow Codes are symptomatic of ethically and legally inappropriate CPR policies
Although cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was initially used very selectively at the discretion of clinicians, the use of CPR rapidly expanded to the point that it was required to be performed on ...
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January 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
New article "Slow Codes are symptomatic of ethically and legally inappropriate CPR policies" has been published in the journal of Bioethics today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Slow Codes are symptomatic of ethically and legally inappropriate CPR policies
Although cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was initially used very selectively at the discretion of clinicians, the use of CPR rapidly expanded to the point that it was required to be performed on ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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🔊🧪New publication by @theresawillem.bsky.social et al. out in JMIR medical informatics: "The social construction of categorical data: A mixed-methods approach to assessing data features in publicly available machine learning datasets"
👉 Full paper, open access: medinform.jmir.org/2025/1/e59452
January 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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🔊🧪 New article out by @stuartmclennan.bsky.social, S., Meyer, L., Wangmo, T. et al. in BMC Public Health: "Psychological stressors of imprisonment and coping of older incarcerated persons: a qualitative interview study" bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
January 31, 2025 at 12:27 PM
New article: "Psychological stressors of imprisonment and coping of older incarcerated persons: a qualitative interview study" was published in BMC Public Health today: bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Psychological stressors of imprisonment and coping of older incarcerated persons: a qualitative interview study - BMC Public Health
Background Imprisonment has a major impact on a person’s psychological well-being. The proportion of older imprisoned persons is dramatically increasing worldwide, and they are likely to have greater ...
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January 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
New article in Science and Engineering Ethics: Embedded Ethics in Practice: A Toolbox for Integrating the Analysis of Ethical and Social Issues into Healthcare AI Research link.springer.com/article/10.1... @alenabuyx.bsky.social
Embedded Ethics in Practice: A Toolbox for Integrating the Analysis of Ethical and Social Issues into Healthcare AI Research - Science and Engineering Ethics
Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into critical domains such as healthcare holds immense promise. Nevertheless, significant challenges must be addressed to avoid harm, promote the well-being of...
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December 26, 2024 at 6:35 PM

Postdoctoral Research Associate Job Alert at our institute at TUM: New cross-cultural research project “Advancing health data justice: A comparative study of health-related data governance in Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom” (ADJUST) get.med.tum.de/postdoctoral...
Postdoctoral Research Associate (m/f/d) - Institut für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin
For the new research project under the supervision of Dr. Amelia Fiske “Advancing health data justice: A comparative study of health-related data governance in Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom”...
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December 11, 2024 at 9:53 AM
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Neu in 'Public Health Ethics': Stephanie Johnson, Stephen Roberts, Sarah Hayes, Amelia Fiske, Federica Lucivero, @stuartmclennan.bsky.social u. a. (2023): "Understanding Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Support During the First COVID-19 Lockdown in the United Kingdom." academic.oup.com/phe/advance-...
Understanding Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Support During the First COVID-19 Lockdown in the United K...
This article investigates how residents in England and Scotland enacted, understood or criticised (the lack of) solidarity during the first national lockdown in
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December 11, 2023 at 9:33 AM