Dr. Lorina Buhr
Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
Dr. Lorina Buhr
Georg-August-Universität
University Medical Center Göttingen
Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
Humboldtallee 36
37073 Göttingen
Tel.: +49(0)551 3969309
Mail: lorina.buhr(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
Room: 1.108
Lorina Buhr will represent the professorship for 'Culture and Ethics of Biomedicine' at the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen from April 2025. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Ethics Institute of Utrecht University (NL) and worked as a research assistant at the Universities of Potsdam, Erfurt and Hamburg.
She received her doctorate from the University of Erfurt in 2021 on the natural philosophical implications of the political and social concept of power.
Her current research and teaching focuses on environmental and climate ethics as well as ethics and political theory of the digitalization of healthcare and society. In doing so, it is important to her to think closely about scientific research, technology development and ethics on the one hand, and within the broad spectrum of applied ethics, environmental, bio- and medical ethics and technology and innovation ethics on the other. She is spokesperson of the subgroup Human-Machine Interaction of the AEM AG Digitalization and Health.
CV
Since April 2025 Representation of the professorship for 'Culture and Ethics of Biomedicine' at the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen
04/2024 Research assistant at the Institute for Liberal Arts & Sciences, Department of Philosophy, University of Hamburg (on leave)
03-04/2024 Research Associate at the Chair of Political Theory, University of Potsdam, on an Individual Grant of the PostDoc Network Brandenburg (1.5 years Open Topic PostDoc Position)
09/2022 - 02/2024 Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ethics Institute of Utrecht University (NL) and in the research program Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (esdit), Research Line 'Nature, Life and Human Intervention'
06/2021 - 08/2022 Research assistant at the Chair of Political Theory, University of Erfurt
10/2021 - 08/2022 Scientific coordinator of the interdisciplinary research group and the doctoral program 'Center for Political Practices and Orders' (C2PO), University of Erfurt
03/2019 - 09/2021 Research assistant at the Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Working Group Culture and Ethics of Biomedicine (Prof. Dr. Silke Schicktanz), third-party funded projects: Heidelberg - Göttingen - Hannover Medical Informatics (HiGHmed), Subproject Ethics and Stakeholders; Coordination on mobile pandemic apps best practice
07/2021 PhD, University of Erfurt (summa cum laude), title: 'Macht und Bewegung. On meta-physics in the political concept of power in the starting point of Aristotle's dynamis' (Meiner Verlag, Paradeigmata, Hamburg 2023)
10/2014 - 09/2017 Doctoral program 'Center for Political Practices and Orders' (C2PO), University of Erfurt with Christoph-Martin-Wieland doctoral scholarship
04/2011 - 02/2014 Master of Arts in Philosophy at the University of Bonn
10/2011 - 09/2012 Bachelor of Arts in Art History at the University of Bonn (double degree without graduation)
03/2011 Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Philosophy at the University of Bremen
2010 Erasmus Program (Feb. - June 2010), Les Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis (FUSL), Brussels
Research
- Digitalization of the healthcare system
- Ethics and political theory of technology
- Environmental ethics, climate ethics and anthropocene discourse
- History of concepts and knowledge
Publications (selection)
Essays (peer-reviewed)
Buhr L, Lenzi D, Pols AJK, Brunner CE, Fischer A, Staal A, Hofbauer BP, Bovenkerk B (2025). The concepts of irreversibility and reversibility in research on anthropogenic environmental changes, PNAS Nexus, 4 (1) January 2025, pgae577. doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae577
Buhr L, Kaufmann PLM, Jörß K (2024). Attitudes of Patients With Chronic Heart Failure Toward Digital Device Data for Self-documentation and Research in Germany: Cross-sectional Survey Study, JMIR Cardio 2022;6(2):e34959. 10.2196/34959
Buhr L & Schicktanz S (2022). Individual benefits and collective challenges: Experts’ views on data-driven approaches in medical research and healthcare in the German context, Big Data & Society, April 26, 2022. doi.org/10.1177/20539517221092653
Buhr L & Schicktanz S, Nordmeyer E (2022). Attitudes Toward Mobile Apps for Pandemic Research Among Smartphone Users in Germany: National Survey", JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2022;10(1):e3185. doi.org/10.2196/31857
Essays in anthologies
Buhr L. ‘Nature and the Environment‘, in: Victoria Bates / Rocio Gomez / Amber Abrams (Ed.): Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities, Routledge 2026, 39–49.
Fritz A & Buhr L. Digitales Sehen in der Medizin. Zur Transformation und Normativität des Sehens in der digitalisierten Medizin aus ethischer, ontologischer und politischer Perspektive, in: T. Holischka, C. Henkel, K. Viertbauer (Hg.), Digitalisierung als Transformation? Perspektiven aus Ethik, Philosophie und Theologie, J.B. Metzler: Berlin, 2022, 203–213.
Schicktanz S & Buhr L. Kollektivität, Partizipation und Solidarität in einer zeitgemäßen Bioethik, in: Fehse et al (ed.), Fünfter Gentechnologiebericht. Standpunkte und Perspektiven für Forschung und Anwendung, Forschungsberichte der interdisziplinären Arbeitsgruppen der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 44, Nomos: Baden-Baden, 2021, 401–414.
Fritz, A & Buhr L. Körper – Bilder – Krankheit. Zur Normativität des technologischen Sehens in der modernen Medizin, in: Fritz A / Mandry Ch / Proft I/ Schuster J (Hg.), Digitalisierung im Gesundheitswesen. Anthropologische und ethische Herausforderungen der Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion, Jahrbuch für Moraltheologie (5), Herder: Freiburg i. Br., 2021, 65–88.
Monigraphs
Buhr L (2026). Die Tiefe des Eingriffs. Wie wir Menschen unsere Umwelt unumkehrbar verändern. [Was bedeutet das alles?] Reclam
Buhr L (2023). Macht und Bewegung. Zur Meta-Physik im sozialen und politischen Machtbegriff im Ausgang von Aristoteles’ dynamis, Hamburg: Meiner.
Presentations (selection)
„Six dimensions of sustainability and AI in healthcare”, Deutsch-Niederländischer Workshop, “Rethinking AI in Medical Practice“, 18.–21.01.2026, Völprishausen,
„Too Much of a Good Thing? A Political Limitarian Perspective on the Development of (Digital) Technology”, The Politics of Limits: Sustainability and Democracy in Times of Changing Climates, Universität Duisburg-Essen, 8.12.2025
„Wenn die Maschine spricht: Auftakt zu einer ethischen Exploration (KI-)generierter Stimme und Sprache im Gesundheitswesen“, AEM Tagung 2025, TU München, 11.10.2025
„AI innovation and planetary health. A proposal for setting limits on AI technology and applications“, European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) Conference 2025, Universität Zürich, 11.9.2025
„The concepts of irreversibility and reversibility in research on anthropogenic environmental changes: a systematic literature review”, 10.–15.3.2024, Physics of Complex Systems and Global Change, École de Physique Les Houches, Frankreich
„Tracking aus Solidarität? Pandemie-Apps und ihre ethischen und politischen Implikationen“, Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, Dialogreihe Innovation und Verantwortung, 23.3.2021 (eingeladen; online)
„Pandemie-Apps, Forschungsdaten und ‚adaptive Governance‘ – Zur Relevanz einer Bevölkerungsumfrage“ (mit Prof. Dr. Silke Schicktanz), Onlineworkshop des Projekts ELISA: Krise, Verantwortung und Kontrolle. Praktiken, Technologien und normative Dimensionen des Krisenmanagements in der Coronapandemie, 22.2.2021, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
„Künstliche Intelligenz als mathesis universalis? Eine historisch-diskursive Konfrontation“, Frühjahrstagung des Leopoldina-Zentrums für Wissenschaftsforschung ‘Künstliche Intelligenz und Weltverstehen‘, Halle (Saale), 30.9.–2.10.2020
Public Outreach
Girls* on Ice Austria, Member, Administrative Support, Inspiring Girls* Expeditions, since 6/2023
Impulse Statement ‚Das Verschwinden der Gletscher aus philosophischer Perspektive’, International Mountain Day, ‘Alpentourismus im Zeichen des Klimawandels’, Garmisch-Patenkirchen, Dec. 15 2022
Public panel discussion, International Mountain Day, '‚Alpentourismus im Zeichen des Klimawandels’, Garmisch-Patenkirchen (Bavaria), Dec. 15 2022
Organization and moderation of the interdisciplinary, public panel discussion (in cooperation with the master seminar) ‚Politisch(es) Denken im Anthropozän: Herausforderungen und aktuelle Positionen’, online (Youtube), July 5 2022
Co-moderation of the public panel discussion 'Die große Unbekannte? Zur Rolle von Algorithmen in der digitalen Gesundheitsversorgung’ (together with Prof. Dr. Schicktanz) as part of the project ‚Zukunftsdiskurse. Unser Gesundheitswesen von morgen: Digitalisierung – Künstliche Intelligenz – Diversität’, funded by the MWK (Lower Saxony), online (Youtube), Jan 11 2022
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