Teaching

Dr. Marcel Mertz

Regular teaching commitments - medical/research ethics

History, Theory & Ethics of Medicine (GTE), Hanover/Cologne

Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine, Hannover Medical School:

2014-2025
Dilemmas in Medical Practice (42×)
(internship, 180 minutes)

2014-2025
Research ethics (16×)
(internship, 180 minutes)

2017-2020
Healthcare system and justice (14×)
(Internship, 180 minutes)

2018-2020
Ethics in medical research (5×)
(Lecture, 45 minutes)

2018-2019
Limitation of resources, overuse and just rationing (3×)
(Lecture, 45 minutes)

2018-2019; 2024
Clinical Terminology II (Focus: "Evidence") (6×)
(Lecture, 90 minutes)

2013-2014
Images of physicians in the past and present in film documents (2×)
(internship, 180 minutes)

Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne:

2014 and 2016
"I would, if only I knew how ..." - Clinical-ethical decision-making aids, guidelines and counseling (2×)
(internship, 2 appointments of 180 minutes each)

Master's program Infectious Diseases and One Health (IDOH), Hanover

Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine, Hannover Medical School:

2021-2024
Research Ethics and the Ethos of Science III: Ethics of Translational Research (4x)
(seminar, 90 minutes)

2021-2022
Research Ethics and the Ethos of Science I: The Good Scientist (2x)
(seminar, 90 minutes)

2021
(with Katzer M) Research Ethics and the Ethos of Science II: The Well-ordered Science (1x)
(Seminar, 90 minutes)

Master's degree program Public Health - Population and Professions, Hanover

Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine, Hannover Medical School:

2024
(with Selter F) Public Health Ethics (1×)
(seminar, 4 appointments of 180 minutes each, 3 of which were taken over)

2018-2023
(with Kahrass H) Public Health Ethics (6×)
(seminar, 4 appointments of 180 minutes each, 2 of which are taken over)

2018
Research Ethics (1×)
(seminar, 180 minutes)

TRAIN Academy "Translational Research & Medicine: From the Idea to the Product", Translationsallianz Niedersachsen, Hanover

Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine, Hannover Medical School:

2018-2024
Ethics of Translational Research. Principles and Problems (6x)
(Lecture, 90 minutes)

Graduate School of Human Medicine and Dentistry (GSHZ), Cologne

Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne:

2014 and 2016
Ethical research - What does that mean? A brief introduction to selected aspects of (clinical) research ethics (3×)
(Lecture, 60 minutes)

Interdisciplinary Program Health Sciences (PhD Health Sciences) (IPHS), Cologne

Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne:

2015 and 2016
(with Genske A) Ethics, theories of sciences and legislation in research (2×)
(workshop, 2 sessions of 180 minutes each)

Regular teaching commitments - Philosophy

Chair of Philosophy III / Business Ethics, University of Mannheim:

FS 2013
Grundprobleme der Analytischen Ontologie
(Proseminar, 13 appointments of 90 minutes each)

HS 2012
Survival of the fittest meme? Philosophical use and abuse of the theory of evolution
(proseminar, 13 sessions of 90 minutes each)

FS 2012
Between war crimes, collateral damage and humanitarian interventions. On the philosophy of (just) war
(proseminar, 13 sessions of 90 minutes each)

HS 2011
Principles of Biomedical Ethics - The Bible of (Anglo-Saxon) Medical Ethics
(proseminar, 12 sessions of 90 minutes each)

FS 2011
Informal Logic and Critical Thinking in Ethics. Introduction to selected foundations and their application (with tutorial)
(Proseminar, 14 sessions of 90 minutes each)

FS 2011
(S)CAM? Complementary, alternative or simply metaphysical - philosophical aspects of so-called complementary and alternative medicine
(proseminar, 14 sessions of 90 minutes each)

FS 2010
Ethical argumentation and reasoning. Introduction to selected basics of informal logic and its application in ethics
(proseminar, 14 sessions of 90 minutes each)

FS 2010
"Good ethics begins with good facts" - Empirical (medical) ethics or the relevance and function of empiricism in ethics
(proseminar, 14 sessions of 90 minutes each)

Teaching assignments

Master's program in Education in Healthcare, Münster

Department of Health, Münster University of Applied Sciences:

2018
Introduction to (philosophical) ethics (1×)
(seminar, 180 minutes)

Part-time Bachelor's degree course in speech therapy/physiotherapy/occupational therapy, Brühl

Department of Applied Health Sciences, European University of Applied Sciences (EUFH), Brühl site:

2017-2018
Introduction to Healthcare Ethics (2×)
(seminar, 5 sessions of 90 minutes each)

2016-2018
Medical and Therapeutic Ethics (3×)
(seminar, 5 sessions of 90 minutes each)

2016-2019
Research Ethics (3×)
(seminar, 5 sessions of 90 minutes each)