Dominik Gross

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Dominik Gross (born 28 September 1964 in St. Wendel/Saarland, Germany) is a German bioethicist and historian of medicine. He is Professor and Director of the Institute of History, Theory and Ethics in Medicine at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany.[1][2]

Education[edit]

Gross studied dentistry and medicine at Saarland University and the University of Ulm as well as history, philosophy and archaeology at Saarland University. After completing his habilitation thesis in history, theory and ethics of medicine at the University of Würzburg, Bavaria, he worked as a lecturer at the Universities of Würzburg, Ratisbon and Ulm.[2]

Career[edit]

In June 2005, Gross was appointed full professor of History, Theory and Ethics in Medicine at the RWTH Aachen. Since October 2005 he is director of the Institute of History, Theory and Ethics in Medicine of the same university. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Gross’ main fields of research are ethics of medical technologies as well as medicine in the 20th century (with a special focus on the Third Reich).

Gross is a member of the Ethics Group of the IDEA League[3] and editor of a book series at Lit Publishers called “Anthropina”,[4] “Medizin und Nationalsozialismus”[5] and at Campus called “Todesbilder”.[6]

In 2010, he was appointed as a member of the "National AIDS Advisory Council“ ("Nationaler AIDS-Beirat“), an official advisory board of the Federal Ministry of Health. Dominik Groß is also an appointed member of the "European Academy of Sciences and Arts".[7]

Gross is editor-in-chief of “Sudhoffs Archiv – Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftsgeschichte”.[8]

Gross’ work won a research Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (1996–1998), the Joseph Schneider Award of the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg (2002) and the Scultetus Award of the Scultetus Society in Ulm (2004)[8] and the Dental Ethics Award of the German Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine (DGZMK) (2017, 2018, 2019).[9][10][11]

In 2010, he was appointed as a member of the "National AIDS Advisory Council“ ("Nationaler AIDS-Beirat“), an official advisory board of the Federal Ministry of Health.[12]

Bibliography[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Gross, Dominik; Jakobs, Eva-Maria (2007). E-Health und technisierte Medizin. Neue Herausforderungen im Gesundheitswesen. Muenster: Lit. ISBN 978-3-8258-0453-4
  • Gross, Dominik; Grande, Jasmin (2010). Objekt Leiche. Technisierung, Ökonomisierung und Inszenierung toter Körper (= Todesbilder, 1). Frankfurt: Campus. ISBN 978-3-593-39166-3
  • Gross, Dominik; Tag, Brigitte; Schweikardt, Christoph (2011). Who wants to live forever?. Frankfurt: Campus. ISBN 978-3-593-39479-4

Chapters in books[edit]

  • Gross, Dominik; Laryionava, Katsiaryna (2010), "Ethical Boundaries of Medical Bioenineering", Interdisciplinary Forums 1, p. 3
  • Gross, Dominik; Laryionava, Katsiaryna; Kreucher, Sabrina (2010), "Telemedicine Applications in Bodyrelated Technologies: Ethical issues", Med@Tel. Global Telemedicine and eHealth Updates (= Knowledge Resources, 3), Luxembourg, pp. 40–45{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Gross, Dominik (2010), "Traditional vs. Modern Neuroenhancement. Notes from a medico-ethical and societal perspective", in Fangerau, Heiner; Trapp, Thorsten (eds.), Implanted Mind (= Science Studies), Bielefeld, pp. 137–157{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) ISBN 978-3-8376-1433-6
  • Gross, Dominik; Laryionava, Katsiaryna; Kreucher, Sabrina (2011), "Physician Perspectives on Telemedicine in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medical Services", in Brukamp, Kirsten; Laryionava, Katsiaryna; Groß, Dominik (eds.), Technisierte Medizin - Dehumanisierte Medizin? Ethische, rechtliche und soziale Aspekte neuer Medizintechnologien (= Medizin - Technik - Ethik, 1), pp. 27–32 ISBN 978-3-86219-162-8
  • Gross, Dominik; Bzdok, Danilo; Eickhoff, Simon B. (2015), "The Neurobiology of Moral Cognition: Relation to theory of Mind, empathy, and Mind-Wandering", in Clausen, Jens; Levy, Neil (eds.), Handbook of Neuroethics, vol. 1, pp. 127–148 ISBN 978-94-007-4706-7

Journal articles[edit]

  • Gross, Dominik; Laryionava, Katsiaryna (2011). "Public Understanding of Neural Prosthetics in Germany: Ethical, Social, and Cultural Challenges". Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. 20 (3): 434–439. doi:10.1017/s0963180111000119. PMID 21676330.
  • Gross, Dominik; Schweikardt, Christoph (2012). "Mobile phone health risk policy in Germany: The role of the federal government and the Federal Office for Radiation Protection". Global Public Health. 7 (5): 535–549. doi:10.1080/17441692.2011.614626. PMID 21923562. S2CID 44434711.
  • Gross, Dominik; Laryionava, Katsiaryna (2012). "Deus Ex Machina or E-Slave? Public Perception of Healthcare Robotics in the German Print Media". International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. 28 (3): 265–270. doi:10.1017/s0266462312000293. PMID 22980703. S2CID 24197523.
  • Gross, Dominik; Schweikardt, Christoph; Rosentreter, Michael (2012). "Discourse and Policy-Making on Consumer Protection in the Areas of Mobile Telecommunication and Tanning, Communication and Medicine". Communication and Medicine. 9 (1): 25–36. doi:10.1558/cam.v9i1.59.
  • Gross, Dominik; Kaiser, Stephanie; Raschke, Jürgen; Lohmeier, Jens; Rosentreter, Michael (5 February 2014). "Attitudes and Acceptance towards the Technology of Cryonics in Germany". International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. 30: 98–104. doi:10.1017/s0266462313000718. PMID 24499638. S2CID 41185307.
  • Gross, Dominik; Lohmeier, Jens; Raschke, Jürgen; Kaiser, Stephanie; Rosentreter, Michael (2015). "Social Profile and Attitudes of Cryonics Advocates and Deniers in Germany: A Representative Study". Mortality - Promoting the Interdisciplinary Study of Death and Dying. 20 (3): 263–279. doi:10.1080/13576275.2014.996210. S2CID 145115964.
  • Gross, Dominik; Tolba, René (2015). "Ethics in animal-based research". European Surgical Research. 55 (1–2): 43–57. doi:10.1159/000377721. PMID 25871531. S2CID 3147543.
  • Wilhelmy, Saskia; Rolfes, Vasilija; Grözinger, Michael; Chikere, Yvonne; Schöttle, Sabrina; Gross, Dominik (2018). "Knowledge and Attitudes on Electroconvulsive Therapy in Germany: a Web based Survey". Psychiatry Research. 262: 407–412. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2017.09.015. PMID 28923432. S2CID 4245972.
  • Schmitz, Dagmar; Gross, Dominik; Frierson, Charlotte; Kersten, Alexander (2018). "Ethics rounds – affecting ethics quality at all organizational levels". Journal of Medical Ethics. 44 (12): 805–809. doi:10.1136/medethics-2018-104831. PMID 30154217. S2CID 52110584.
  • Gross, Dominik; Gross, Karin; Schmidt, Mathias (2018). "Ethical dilemmas of dental implantology". Quintessence International. 49 (5): 367–375. doi:10.3290/j.qi.a40050. PMID 29532813.
  • Schmidt, Mathias; Westemeier, Jens; Gross, Dominik (2019). "Renowned MS specialist and National Socialist: The two lives of neurologist Helmut J. Bauer". Neurology. 93 (3): 109–113. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000007781. PMID 31308161. S2CID 196813657.
  • Sziranyi, Janina; Kaiser, Stephanie; Wilhelmy, Saskia; Gross, Dominik (2019). "Disfranchisement, expulsion and persecution of pathologists in the Third Reich – A sociodemographic study" Pathology – Research and Practice 215 (9) 152514. DOI 10.1016/j.prp.2019.152514.Dominik Gross; Karin Gross; Saskia Wilhelmy (2019). "Digitalization in Dentistry: Ethical Challenges and Implications"". Quintessence International. 50 (10): 830–838. doi:10.3290/j.qi.a43151. PMID 31538146.
  • Gräf, Christina; Schmidt, Mathias; Gross, Dominik (2020). "The Relationship of Former DGP Board Members to National Socialism. A prosopographic study". Pathology – Research and Practice. 216 (1): 152618. doi:10.1016/j.prp.2019.152618. PMID 31734053. S2CID 202858697.
  • Schmidt, Mathias; Wilhelmy, Saskia; Gross, Dominik (2020). "Retrospective diagnosis of mental illness: past and present". The Lancet Psychiatry. 7 (1): 14–16. doi:10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30287-1. PMID 31473139. S2CID 201718074.

Other[edit]

References[edit]

  • Das Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin an der RWTH Aachen : Personen, Projekte, Perspektiven; Jahresbericht 2009, Aachen 2010.
  • Das Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin der RWTH Aachen: Personen, Projekte, Perspektiven, Jahresbericht 2017/2018, Aachen 2019, ISBN 978-3-8440-6813-9,

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