Hans-Martin Sass
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Hans-Martin Sass (born
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1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * ...
), is a
bioethicist Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, med ...
. He is a
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of
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at
Ruhr University The Ruhr University Bochum (, ) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction began in ...
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Bochum, Germany Bochum ( , also , ; wep, Baukem) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 364,920 (2016), is the sixth largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) of the most populous German federal state of North R ...
, and a Senior Research Scholar Emeritus at the
Kennedy Institute of Ethics The Kennedy Institute of Ethics (also known as Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute of Ethics) is one of the most prestigious bioethics institutes in the world. Located at Healy Hall, it was established at Georgetown University in 1971 as a bioethi ...
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Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...
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Life

He holds academic positions at
People's University of China The Renmin University of China (RUC; ) is a national key public research university in Beijing, China. The university is affiliated to the Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry and the Beijing Municipal People's Government. RUC ...
and
Peking Union Medical College Peking Union Medical College (), founded in 1906, is a selective public medical college based in Dongcheng, Beijing, China. It is a Chinese Ministry of Education Double First Class University Plan The World First Class University and First ...
in
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, and at the Bochum Center for Medical Ethics, which he helped found in 1985, in Bochum, Germany. He is editor of the '' Ethik in der Praxis / Practical Ethics'' series at Lit Verlag (Münster, Germany) and the Medizinethische Materialien, Bochum. He is the author of over 250 articles and books. He was a member of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO and is a member of many international and national advisory bodies and to philosophical and bioethical journals. An expert in European continental philosophy, he has published widely on
Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (; ; 27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher. He is one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy. His influence extends a ...
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Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 p ...
, 19th- and 20th-century German philosophy, and liberal
political theory Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, l ...
. During his research, teaching, and consulting in cultural
risk assessment Broadly speaking, a risk assessment is the combined effort of: # identifying and analyzing potential (future) events that may negatively impact individuals, assets, and/or the environment (i.e. hazard analysis); and # making judgments "on the to ...
, research
ethics Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior".''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concerns m ...
, clinical ethics, and public-health ethics, Dr. Sass developed cross-cultural perspectives in the major fields of bioethics (based on concepts of personal and professional responsibility), regulated markets, mutual trust, and partnership ethics. Dr. Sass is a ''Rechtsritter'' ("Knight of Justice") of the ''Johanniterorden'', the
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Focus and interest

His main focus in bioethics is on the transition from paternalistic models of patient care towards partnership models between providers and customers of health care.http://www.eubios.info/EJ115/EJ115B.htm He has developed a widely used and translated ‘ Interactive Post-Hippocratic Action Guide’ and other models for communication-in-trust and cooperation-in-trust interactions of individual, institutional and corporate persons in risk assessment, research and business ethics. His proposed virtues and principles for cross-cultural health care ethics include for the patient the balance between quality of life and length of life, individual self-determination and compliance with expert advice, for the expert the balance between professional responsibility and respect for clients’/patients’ autonomy, do-no-harm and do-good; trust, truthfulness and a prudent mix of solidarity and subsidiarity are important for all parties involved in the care for health, quality and happiness of life. He proposes that most ethical issues should be decided by risk-competent and health-literate citizens rather than bureaucracies and legislation, but that governments and institutions have the responsibility to introduce and to support health information and health competence as an essential part of educating risk-competent citizens for the 21st century.
As to health care reform and health education he defines in criticizing the
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approach: Health is not just a status; rather the balanced result of health-literate and risk-competent care of one's own physical, emotional, and social well-being and well-feeling, achieved in competent understanding, modification and enhancement of individual genetic, social and environmental properties, with the support of health care professionals and through equal access health care services, including information, predictive and preventive medicine. He also is concerned that modern principles of bioethics do not put enough emphasis on professionalism and compassion in expert services and on developing and supporting better communication-in-trust and cooperation-in-trust models of provider-customer interactions. His most recent work include studies in cross-cultural bioethics and fundamentally common issues in different cultures of bioethics.


Written works

*''Health and Happiness of Political Bodies (2020 Lit) *''Cultures in Bioethics'' (2016, Lit: Zuerich) *''Bioethics and Biopolitics. Beijing Lectures by a European Scholar'' (2007, Chin/Engl, Xian:press.fmmu.sn.cn) *''Differentialethik'' (2006, Lit: Muenster, includes Bibliography pp. 247–274) *"Emergency Management in Public Health Ethics". ''Eubios J Asian Intern Bioethics'' 2005;15(5)161-166 *"Ethical Dilemma in Stem Cell Research". ''Formosan J Medical Humanities'' 2005; 6(3&4) *"E-Health: Health Promotion and Wellness Communities". ''Eubios J Asian Intern Bioethics'' 2004;14:170-174 *"Asian and Western Bioethics – Converging, Conflicting, Competing". ''Eubios. J Asian Intern Bioethics'' 2004; 14:13-22. *"Formulating Global Post-Hippocratic Health Care Virtues". ''Europe Phil’s of Medicine & Health Care'' 2(1):6-10; also ''J Intern Bioethique'' 1995;6(1):5-7; Kos 1995; 118:46-51 *"Bochum Working Paper on the Practice of Medical Ethics" (with Herbert Viefhues, transl by Stuart Spicker), Bochum: ''Zentrum fuer Medizinische Ethik'', January 1988


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sass, Hans-Martin 1935 births Bioethicists Book editors Georgetown University faculty German non-fiction writers German political philosophers German philosophers Living people Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts Philosophy academics German male non-fiction writers Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany