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 assistant 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 a member of the Clinical Ethics Committee of the Evangelisches Krankenhaus Oldenburg.
Lena Stange is a member of the DFG-research group Medicine, Time and the Good Life (FOR 5022), where she works on the sub-project 7: “Between resignation and optimization – The time structure of the good life in the context of geriatric medicine”.
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
Articles (selection)
- Stange, Lena, Stange, Markus: Pflegekräfte zwischen Popstars und Superhelden – Handlungsdimensionen und ihre Medialisierung. In: Görgen, Arno, Eichinger, Tobias, Pfister, Eugen (Ed.): Superspreader: Popkultur und mediale Diskurse im Angesicht der Pandemie. Transcript, Bielefeld: 2024: pp. 291-301.
- Stange, Lena, Buhr, Eike: Henrike Voß (2022) „Was bindet Menschen mit Demenz an das Leben? Eine erweiterte Perspektive auf Advance Care Planning“, book review. Ethik in der Medizin, volume 35: pp. 453-455. DOI: 10.1007/s00481-023-00753-x
- Nebel, Lisa, Stange, Lena: [Commentary on a case example about „Refusal of a Left Ventricular Assist Device] „Ablehnung eines Herzunterstützungssystems“: Behandlungsplanung, das gutes Leben und die Frage nach der rechten Zeit. Ethik in der Medizin, volume 35, issue 1 (2023): pp. 129-132. DOI: 10.1007/s00481-022-00740-8
- Stange, Lena, Schweda, Mark: Gesundheitliche Vorausverfügungen und die Zeitstruktur guten Lebens. Ethik in der Medizin, volume 34, issue 2 (2022): pp. 239-255. DOI: 10.1007/s00481-022-00698-7
Conference contributions (selection)
- Stange, Lena: Professionelles und informelles Handeln in der gesundheitlichen Vorausplanung – über Verantwortungszuschreibungen. Annual Conference of the German Academy for Ethics in Medicine „Medizin als Beruf – Professionelles Handeln und Denken in den Gesundheitsberufen angesichts gesellschaftlicher Transformationen und technischer Innovationen“ in Tübingen (accepted)
- Stange, Lena, Simon, Alfred: Information and templates for creating advance directives on the internet – An analysis of German online service providers. 36th ESPMH Conference „Medicine, healthcare, and the market” in Offenbach (accepted)
- Stange, Lena, Schweda, Mark: Zur Bedeutung von Altersbildern in der Medizinethik – Ein narratives Review des akademischen Fachdiskurses der letzten 20 Jahre. Talk at the Spring conference of the German Academy for Ethics in Medicine „Aktuelle Perspektiven der medizin- und gesundheitsethischen Forschung“, 2024, online.
- Stange, Lena: Ethical and health literacy for a good life? Results of a qualitative study on moral values in advance directives, 2023. Talk at the 11th International Conference on Ethics Education “Ethics education, Interdisciplinarity and Pluriperspectivism” in Zagreb, Croatia.