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“医学与美好生活的时间结构”研究小组就新的医学可能性探讨了美好生活的时间结构的伦理问题。美好生活的概念与医学、伦理学、社会和文化研究中的许多研究领域有关。研究小组以系统和跨学科的方式处理这些通常很少反映的背景假设。它研究(1)医学概念、技术和实践与关于人类生活时间结构的实用方法和规范思想之间的关系，(2)如何在科学和(大众)文化叙事中呈现和谈判医学与生活时间之间的联系，以及(3)如何从伦理上理解和评估美好生活中涉及的时间方面。对这一创新问题的调查是基于生命过程不同阶段医疗实践的三个示范领域：(A)青年和中年慢性病患者治疗中传记阶段和过渡的问题化，(B)生殖医学背景下的中年时间规划、控制和优化努力，以及(C)老年人保健中关于老龄化的(重新)谈判。实践哲学、医学伦理学、医学、现代德国文学和媒体研究以及社会学/社会心理学之间的密切跨学科合作，审查了关于美好生活的暂时性的相关道德经验、态度和信念。这些成果是从一种经验和解释学上了解及时美好生活的伦理学的角度汇集起来的，该伦理学力求考虑到社会文化条件和在其多样性和可变性中应用的背景。其目的是在具体案例研究的基础上，在医学可能性的范围内，对美好生活的时间条件进行伦理反思的理解。该小组将在三个方面提供创新的研究服务：一方面，它将从社会和文化多样化的行为者的角度分析美好生活的跨学科时间结构。其次，它将历时和共时性地考察到目前为止在医学上分开治疗的生命阶段和年龄组。第三，它是在系统地综合了哲学-伦理学、社会-经验和解释学关于及时美好生活的术语和概念的基础上实现这一点的。

The research group "Medicine and the time structure of the good life" investigates ethical questions of the time structure of the good life with regard to new medical possibilities. Concepts of the good life are relevant for many research fields in medicine, ethics, social and cultural studies. The research group addresses these often little reflected background assumptions in a systematic and interdisciplinary way. It investigates (1) the relationships between medical concepts, technologies and practices on one hand and practical approaches and normative ideas about the temporal structures of human life on the other, (2) how the connection between medicine and life-time is presented and negotiated in scientific and (popular) cultural narratives, and (3) how the involved temporal aspects of the good life are to be understood and evaluated ethically. The investigation of this innovative questions is based on three exemplary fields of medical practice in different phases in the life course: (a) the problematisation of biographical phases and transitions in the treatment of chronically ill people in young and middle adulthood, (b) the temporal planning, control and optimisation efforts in middle age in the context of reproductive medicine, and (c) the (re)negotiation of ageing in the healthcare of older people.The relevant moral experiences, attitudes and convictions regarding the temporality of the good life are examined in close interdisciplinary cooperation between practical philosophy, medical ethics, medicine, modern German literature and media studies, and sociology/social psychology. The results are brought together in the perspective of an empirically and hermeneutically informed ethics of the good life in time, which seeks to take into account the socio-cultural conditions and contexts of application in their diversity and variability. The aim is to develop an ethically reflected understanding of the temporal conditions of the good life in time within the horizon of medical possibilities, based on concrete case studies. The group will provide innovative research services in three respects: On one hand, it will analyse interdisciplinary temporal structures of the good life from the perspective of socially and culturally diverse actors. Secondly, it will diachronically and synoptically examine the phases of life and age groups that have been treated separately in medicine up to now. Thirdly, it accomplishes this on the basis of a methodically innovative synthesis of philosophical-ethical, social-empirical and hermeneutical terms and concepts of the good life in time.