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• The Significance of Prognosis for a Theory of Medical Practice 

  Wiesemann, Claudia (1998-06)

  A typical problem of modern medicine results from the gap between scientific knowledge and its application in individual cases. Whereas scientific knowledge is generalized and impersonal information, medical practice takes ...
• The moral challenge of natality: towards a post-traditional concept of family and privacy in repro-genetics 

  Wiesemann, Claudia (2010-03)
• Is there a right not to know one's sex? The ethics of 'gender verification' in women's sports competition. 

  Wiesemann, Claudia (2011-04)

  The paper discusses the current medical practice of 'gender verification' in sports from an ethical point of view. It takes the recent public discussion about 800m runner Caster Semenya as a starting point. At the World ...