The series on “Ethics and Psychiatry Meet Palliative Medicine” is edited by Dr. Jan Gärtner from University Hospital Basel (USB), Switzerland and Dr. Manuel Trachsel from University Hospital Basel (USB), Switzerland.
Jan Gärtner
University of Basel, University Hospital Basel (USB), Switzerland
Jan Gärtner graduated from Medical School in Aachen, Germany. He is an anesthetist and specialist in Pain Management and Palliative Care. Clinically, his main interest was the establishment of sustainable interdisciplinary models for the provision of early concurrent specialist palliative care in comprehensive cancer care and other medical fields. In this field, he is also an experienced researcher and contributed numerous journal articles on early palliative care, symptom management and other aspects of palliative care.
Manuel Trachsel
University of Basel, University Hospital Basel (USB), Switzerland
Manuel Trachsel (MD, PhD) is the head of the Clinical Ethics Unit at the University Hospital Basel, the University Psychiatric Clinics Basel, the Geriatric University Hospital Basel, and the University Childrens’ Hospital Basel, Switzerland. Dr. Trachsel has been trained in medicine (MD), psychology (PhD), and philosophy (MA) at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He has been a visiting research fellow at the Bioethics Center of the University of Otago, New Zealand, and a research fellow at the Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA.
Dr. Trachsel has been awarded with the 2020 Mark S. Ehrenreich Global Prize in Healthcare Ethics Research by the Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics, University of Southern California.
Dr. Trachsel’s research areas include the philosophy and ethics of psychiatry and psychotherapy, the intersection of psychiatry and palliative care, ethical challenges with regard to coercive measures in psychiatry, clinical ethics support services in psychiatry, medical decision-making capacity, and informed consent. He is a published author of more than 100 scientific papers, book chapters, and books including articles in JAMA, The Lancet Psychiatry, The American Journal of Bioethics, The Journal of Medical Ethics, The British Journal of Psychiatry, and Frontiers in Psychiatry among others. Furthermore, Dr. Trachsel is the lead editor of the Oxford Handbook of Psychotherapy Ethics.
Series Outline:
- Preface
- Palliative Care, Psychiatry, and You: Ten Years Gone By
- Palliative Psychiatry: Further development of the concept
- Palliative sedation for existential suffering
- Palliative sedation for refractory symtoms in voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED): PRO
- Palliative sedation for refractory symtoms in voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED): CONTRA
- Free topic choice within topic of special issue
- Free topic choice within topic of special issue
- Free topic choice within topic of special issue
- Assisted dying for persons with severe and persistent mental illness? PRO
- Assisted dying for persons with severe and persistent mental illness? CONTRA
- Do patients with dementia need specialized palliative care?
- Palliative Care Training for Psychiatry Fellows
- Palliative Care for patients with servere and persistent anorexia nervosa
Disclosure:
The special series “Ethics and Psychiatry Meet Palliative Medicine” was commissioned by the editorial office, Annals of Palliative Medicine without any funding or sponsorship. Jan Gärtner serves as the unpaid Associate Editor of Annals of Palliative Medicine from February 2022 to January 2024. Jan Gärtner and Manuel Trachsel are serving as the unpaid Guest Editors for the special series.