Ruth Horn
Biographic Data
| ID | 6728302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Horn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Horn |
| SIGNATURE | HORN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5714-3905 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reproductive self-determination and regulation of termination of pregnancy in Germany
In Germany, efforts to reform current legislation governing access to termination of pregnancy (TOP) have recently gained momentum. In 2023, the German Federal Government appointed a ‘Commission on Reproductive Self-Determination and Reproductive Medicine’, which released recommendations to revise legislation of TOP in April 2024. Currently, TOP is unlawful under the German Criminal Code, with exemptions from punishment for TOP performed within t…
Preserving women’s reproductive autonomy while promoting the rights of people with disabilities
On July 2021, the UK High Court of Justice heard the Case CO/2066/2020 on the application of Heidi Crowter who lives with Down’s syndrome, and Máire Lea-Wilson whose son Aidan has Down’s syndrome. Crowter and Lea-Wilson, with the support of the disability rights campaign, ‘Don’t Screen Us Out’, have been taking legal action against the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (the UK Government) for a review of the 1967 Abortion Act: the rem…
Solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic
Calls for solidarity have been an ubiquitous feature in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we know little about how people have thought of and practised solidarity in their everyday lives since the beginning of the pandemic. What role does solidarity play in people's lives, how does it relate to COVID-19 public health measures and how has it changed in different phases of the pandemic? Situated within the medical humanities at the in…
Democratic research
The sudden and dramatic advent of the COVID-19 pandemic led to urgent demands for timely, relevant, yet rigorous research. This paper discusses the origin, design, and execution of the SolPan research commons, a large-scale, international, comparative, qualitative research project that sought to respond to the need for knowledge among researchers and policymakers in times of crisis. The form of organization as a research commons is characterized …
Normative positions towards Covid-19 contact-tracing apps
Mobile applications for digital contact tracing have been developed and introduced around the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Proposed as a tool to support 'traditional' forms of contact-tracing carried out to monitor contagion, these apps have triggered an intense debate with respect to their legal and ethical permissibility, social desirability and general feasibility. Based on a large-scale study including qualitative data from 349…
Can there be wrongful life at the end of life? German courts revisit an old problem in a new context
This article discusses a recent ruling by the German Federal Court concerning medical professional liability due to potentially unlawful clinically assisted nutrition and hydration (CANH) at the end of life. This case raises important ethical and legal questions regarding a third person’s right to judge the value of another person’s life and the concept of ‘wrongful life’. In our brief report, we discuss the concepts of the ‘value of life’ and wr…
The right to a self-determined death as expression of the right to freedom of personal development
On 26 February 2020, the German Constitutional Court rejected a law from 2015 that prohibited any form of ‘business-like’ assisted suicide as unconstitutional. The landmark ruling of the highest federal court emphasised the high priority given to the rights of autonomy and free personal development, both of which constitute the principle of human dignity, the first principle of the German constitution. The ruling echoes particularities of post-wa…
Marketisation, Ethics and Healthcare
Weaving together original contributions from law, ethics, theology and economics, this book provides many fresh insights
Protéger les majeurs vulnérables
Le débat sur l’euthanasie et les pratiques en fin de vie en France et en Allemagne. Une étude comparative
Ce travail a pour objectif de comprendre comment la question morale du droit de déterminer le moment de sa mort émerge dans une société et comment elle est abordée, notamment dans deux pays, la France et l’Allemagne, qui interdisent l’euthanasie. En effet, bien que dans les pays occidentaux, les médecins et les patients rencontrent des problèmes semblables face à une situation de maladie grave ou de fin de vie, chaque société a son histoire propr…
Solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic
Calls for solidarity have been an ubiquitous feature in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we know little about how people have thought of and practised solidarity in their everyday lives since the beginning of the pandemic. What role does solidarity play in people's lives, how does it relate to COVID-19 public health measures and how has it changed in different phases of the pandemic? Situated within the medical humanities at the in…
Le débat sur l’euthanasie et les pratiques en fin de vie en France et en Allemagne. Une étude comparative
Ce travail a pour objectif de comprendre comment la question morale du droit de déterminer le moment de sa mort émerge dans une société et comment elle est abordée, notamment dans deux pays, la France et l’Allemagne, qui interdisent l’euthanasie. En effet, bien que dans les pays occidentaux, les médecins et les patients rencontrent des problèmes semblables face à une situation de maladie grave ou de fin de vie, chaque société a son histoire propr…
Protéger les majeurs vulnérables
Marketisation, Ethics and Healthcare
Weaving together original contributions from law, ethics, theology and economics, this book provides many fresh insights
Can there be wrongful life at the end of life? German courts revisit an old problem in a new context
This article discusses a recent ruling by the German Federal Court concerning medical professional liability due to potentially unlawful clinically assisted nutrition and hydration (CANH) at the end of life. This case raises important ethical and legal questions regarding a third person’s right to judge the value of another person’s life and the concept of ‘wrongful life’. In our brief report, we discuss the concepts of the ‘value of life’ and wr…
The right to a self-determined death as expression of the right to freedom of personal development
On 26 February 2020, the German Constitutional Court rejected a law from 2015 that prohibited any form of ‘business-like’ assisted suicide as unconstitutional. The landmark ruling of the highest federal court emphasised the high priority given to the rights of autonomy and free personal development, both of which constitute the principle of human dignity, the first principle of the German constitution. The ruling echoes particularities of post-wa…
Normative positions towards Covid-19 contact-tracing apps
Mobile applications for digital contact tracing have been developed and introduced around the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Proposed as a tool to support 'traditional' forms of contact-tracing carried out to monitor contagion, these apps have triggered an intense debate with respect to their legal and ethical permissibility, social desirability and general feasibility. Based on a large-scale study including qualitative data from 349…
Democratic research
The sudden and dramatic advent of the COVID-19 pandemic led to urgent demands for timely, relevant, yet rigorous research. This paper discusses the origin, design, and execution of the SolPan research commons, a large-scale, international, comparative, qualitative research project that sought to respond to the need for knowledge among researchers and policymakers in times of crisis. The form of organization as a research commons is characterized …
Preserving women’s reproductive autonomy while promoting the rights of people with disabilities
On July 2021, the UK High Court of Justice heard the Case CO/2066/2020 on the application of Heidi Crowter who lives with Down’s syndrome, and Máire Lea-Wilson whose son Aidan has Down’s syndrome. Crowter and Lea-Wilson, with the support of the disability rights campaign, ‘Don’t Screen Us Out’, have been taking legal action against the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (the UK Government) for a review of the 1967 Abortion Act: the rem…
Solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic
Calls for solidarity have been an ubiquitous feature in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we know little about how people have thought of and practised solidarity in their everyday lives since the beginning of the pandemic. What role does solidarity play in people's lives, how does it relate to COVID-19 public health measures and how has it changed in different phases of the pandemic? Situated within the medical humanities at the in…
Reproductive self-determination and regulation of termination of pregnancy in Germany
In Germany, efforts to reform current legislation governing access to termination of pregnancy (TOP) have recently gained momentum. In 2023, the German Federal Government appointed a ‘Commission on Reproductive Self-Determination and Reproductive Medicine’, which released recommendations to revise legislation of TOP in April 2024. Currently, TOP is unlawful under the German Criminal Code, with exemptions from punishment for TOP performed within t…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics (4 works) · German (3 works) · History (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Autonomy (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)