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“医学与美好生活的时间结构”研究小组研究了美好生活的时间结构与新的医学可能性之间的伦理问题。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解决了这些往往很少反映的背景假设。它调查（1）医学概念，技术和实践之间的关系，一方面和实践的方法和规范的想法，对人类生活的时间结构，另一方面，（2）如何医学和生命之间的联系，并在科学和（流行）文化叙事协商，以及（3）如何从道德上理解和评价美好生活所涉及的时间方面。对这一创新问题的调查是基于生命过程中不同阶段的三个典型医疗实践领域：（a）在青年和中年慢性病患者的治疗过程中，生物学阶段和过渡的问题化，（B）在生殖医学背景下中年的时间规划、控制和优化努力，和（c）（重新）谈判的老龄化在老年人的医疗保健。有关的道德经验，态度和信念，关于美好生活的暂时性之间的密切的跨学科合作，实践哲学，医学伦理学，医学，现代德国文学和媒体研究，社会学/社会心理学检查。结果汇集在一起的角度，经验和诠释学知情的道德的美好生活的时间，它试图考虑到社会文化条件和应用的背景下，其多样性和可变性。其目的是根据具体的案例研究，在医疗可能性的范围内，及时发展对美好生活的时间条件的道德反映理解。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性行为者的角度分析美好生活的跨学科时间结构。第二，它将历时性地和概括性地审查生命的各个阶段和迄今为止在医学上被单独对待的年龄组。第三，它是在对哲学-伦理、社会-经验和诠释学术语和关于时间上的美好生活的概念进行系统创新综合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.