Accessibility

Tuesday, November 28, 2023 from 16:15 to 17:45 in room X-E0-001 and via livestream.

At the next ZAB Forum Barrierefrei, four professors from the fields of medicine and philosophy from Bielefeld University will be guests: Together with moderator Ninia LaGrande, Tanja Sappok, Sabine Steinke, Lara Keuck and Christian Brandt will discuss the changeability and effectiveness of medical diagnostics. Prof. Dr. Claudia Hornberg, Dean of the OWL Faculty of Medicine, will deliver the welcome address.

People with disabilities are particularly affected by the changeability and impact of medical diagnoses. They often receive different diagnoses from doctors over the course of their treatment, which often lasts many years. Sometimes it takes time to find the right diagnosis, sometimes the state of medical knowledge changes and further diagnoses are added or earlier ones are revised. This changeability can have a variety of effects - on the one hand for patients who receive diagnoses and on the other hand for doctors who assign them and ideally also consider the effects of assigning diagnoses on patients.

This time at the ZAB Forum Accessibility, we present the perspective of those who research the changeability and effectiveness of diagnoses and apply medical categories such as diagnoses. How and how do diagnostic categories change? Can the use of diagnoses create or remove barriers to participation, e.g. in connection with the financing conditions of the social insurance system? How do medical professionals deal with blurred boundaries in diagnostics and what contribution can reflexive research make to understanding medical categories?

All information and instructions for barrier-free participation as well as the link to the livestream are available on our website.