Lena Stange M.Sc.
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Lena Stange M.Sc.
Lena Stange studied cultural studies and French romance philology (B.A.) in Bremen and Avignon (France), and Public Health (M.Sc.) in Oldenburg. From 2012 to 2019, she was a research assistant at the Jade University of Applied Sciences in the section technology and health. Since April 2019, she is a research associate in the Medical Ethics division at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.
Being a culture and health scientist, her research interest is located in the field of cultural and social understandings of health and illness, especially pertaining to individual conceptions of ageing, dying and death, as well as concepts of time, temporality and the good life. Her PhD project is about teleological aspects of life conceptions and advance directives. She is a medical ethics advisor and deputy chair of the Clinical Ethics Committee of the Evangelisches Krankenhaus Oldenburg.
As a member of the “Research Cluster: Future of Care” she is responsible for the theoretical and empirical investigation of the distribution of care responsibilities along complex care pathways.
Lena Stange is an associated member of the DFG-research group Medicine, Time and the Good Life (FOR 5022), and the contact person for the University of the Charter for the Care of the Critically Ill and Dying in Germany (Oldenburg initiative).
Curriculum Vitae
| Since 04/2019 | Research assistant in the division "Ethics in Medicine", Department of Health Services Research, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg |
| 2019/2020 | Research assistant University Medicinal Center Göttingen, Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine (Göttingen) |
| 2018/2019 | Associate lecturer at the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Public Health Services (Wolfsburg) |
| 2012-2019 | Research assistant at the Jade University of Applied Sciences, Section Technology and Health (Oldenburg) |
| Master of Science in Public Health (Jade University of Applied Sciences, Oldenburg) | |
| Bachelor of Arts in cultural studies and French romance studies (University of Bremen and University of Avignon) |
Research Focus
- Cultural and sociological notions of health and disease
- Advance directive, advance care planning
- Time and temporality; life course, ageing, dying, death
- Work related health research, health policy, organisational culture in health care settings
- Qualitative Research
Publications
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- Stange, Lena: Gesundheitliche Vorausverfügungen und das gute Leben. In: Deppe, Sonja, Clausen, Anne, Marcinski-Michel, Isabella, Schweda, Mark, Wiesemann, Claudia (Hrsg.): Handbuch Medizin und Lebenszeit. Gutes Leben im Kontext neuer Chancen und Herausforderungen. Metzler, Berlin/Heidelberg, Living Edition online available at https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-662-68418-4_46-1
- Stange, Lena: Urban Wiesing, 2023, „Zeitenhandel. Über die Kunst der Prävention“, book review. Zeitschrift für medizinische Ethik. Zeitschrift für medizinische Ethik (2025), 71(3): 425-428.DOI: 10.30965/29498570-20250138
- Kleinert, Evelyn, Mohacsi, Laura, Stange, Lena, Broschmann, Daniel, Nebel, Lisa, Hummers, Eva: Promoting well-being in later life - a qualitative analysis of focus groups and individual interviews with older adults in Germany. BMC Primary Care (2025) 26:158. DOI: 10.1186/s12875-025-02767-4
Conference contributions (selection)
- Stange, Lena, Schweda, Mark: Technologieentwicklung und Sorgeverantwortung zusammendenken. 3rd Congress of Care Ethics „Ethik in der Pflege: Verantwortung – Haltung – Dialog“ (25.-27.02.2026), Göttingen (accepted)
- Stange, Lena, Nebowsky Anna-Eva: How to combine care technology and care responsibility? Ethical considerations. Talk at the Annual Conference of the European Association of Centres for Medical Ethics (EACME) 2025 in Zürich, CH.
- Stange, Lena, Nebowsky, Anna-Eva: The use of care technology in cross-sectoral care pathways. Theoretical foundations and empirical insights into ELSA research, 2025. Talk at the 37th European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care (ESPMH) “Bioethics and philosophy of medicine after COVID” in Manchester, UK