Eike-Henner Kluge
{{Short description|Canadian-German medical ethicist}}
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| alma_mater = University of Calgary University of Michigan
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| awards = Royal Society of Canada, Abbyann Lynch Medal
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Eike-Henner Kluge {{post-nominals|country=CAN|FRSC}} is the first medical ethics expert witness recognized by Canadian courts. Dr. Kluge has acted as an expert witness in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario.{{Cite web |title=Eike-Henner Kluge - University of Victoria |url=https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/philosophy/people/facultymembers/profiles/kluge.php |access-date=2019-09-14 |website=UVic.ca |language=en}} He is known for his work on contentious medical ethics issue such as abortion and the ethics of deliberate death in addition to privacy and medical informatics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/philosophy/home/news/announcements/congratulations-to-professor-eike-kluge.php|title=royal society Eike Kluge - University of Victoria|website=UVic.ca|language=en|access-date=2019-07-30}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45122866|title=The ethics of electronic patient records|last=Kluge, Eike-Henner W.|date=2001|publisher=P. Lang|isbn=0820452599|location=New York|oclc=45122866}} He established and was the first director of the Canadian Medical Association Department of Ethics and Legal Affairs.{{Cite web|url=https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/philosophy/people/facultymembers/profiles/kluge.php|title=Eike-Henner Kluge - University of Victoria|website=UVic.ca|language=en|access-date=2019-07-30}}{{Cite journal|last=Kluge|first=Eike-Henner W.|date=1989|title=The Canadian Scene|url=https://philpapers.org/rec/KLUTCS|journal=Hastings Center Report|volume=19|issue=6|pages=4|doi=10.2307/3561977 |jstor=3561977 }} Dr. Kluge is the author of the International Medical Informatics Association's code of ethics and their ethics handbook.{{Cite web|url=https://imia-medinfo.org/wp/imia-code-of-ethics/|title=IMIA Code of Ethics - Updated Version 2016|last=admin|website=IMIA|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-30}} Additionally, he is a fellow in the Royal Society of Canada.
Abortion
While the director of the Canadian Medical Association ethics and legal affairs, Dr. Kluge in 1991 drafted an analysis for a Senate committee about Bill C-43, which would sentence doctors to two years in jail for performing abortions where a woman's health is not at risk. Kluge viewed that the bill was flawed ethically. His presentation may have swayed two votes to change resulting in an unprecedented tied vote in January 1991 which resulted in the Senate not passing the Bill C-43.{{Cite web |title=royal society Eike Kluge - University of Victoria |url=https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/philosophy/home/news/announcements/congratulations-to-professor-eike-kluge.php |access-date=2019-04-02 |website=UVic.ca |language=en}}
Deliberate Death
He was an expert witness in Rodriguez v British Columbia (AG) which was the first case to challenge section 241(b) of the Criminal Code and Carter v Canada (AG). Dr Kluge acted as ethics advisor to Sue Rodriguez.{{Cite web|url=https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/philosophy/home/news/announcements/congratulations-to-professor-eike-kluge.php|title=royal society Eike Kluge - University of Victoria|website=UVic.ca|language=en|access-date=2019-09-14}} He argues that, "there is no right to die—but there is a right to shape and end our lives in keeping with our competently-held values...It is all a matter of autonomy, beneficence and non-malfeasance."{{Cite web|url=https://choicesindying.wordpress.com/opinions/dr-eike-henner-kluge/|title=Dr. Eike-Henner Kluge: There is no such thing as the right to die|date=2014-11-06|website=Choices In Dying Victoria|language=en|access-date=2019-09-14}} Eike-Henner was also an expert witness in Carter v Canada (AG).
Law School Admission Council Investigation
Dr Kluge's complaint to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada led to the Law School Admission Council's no longer being able to fingerprint LSAT test takers in Canada.{{Cite web|url=http://canlii.ca/t/1xb83|title=Law School Admission Council Investigation, 2008 CanLII 28249 (PCC)|website=CANLII}}
Publications
= Books =
- William of Ockham’s Commentary on Porphyry: Introduction and English Translation (serialised in Franciscan Studies, 1973–74).
- The Practice of Death (1975)
- The Metaphysics of Gottlob Frege: An Essay in Ontological Reconstruction (1980)
- The Ethics of Deliberate Death (1981)
- New human reproductive technologies : a preliminary perspective of the Canadian Medical Association (1991)
- Readings in Biomedical Ethics: A Canadian Focus {1993; 1999; 2004)
- The Ethics of Electronic Patient Records (2001)
- A Handbook of Ethics for Health Informatics Professionals 2003)
- Ethics in Health Care: A Canadian Focus (2013)
- Ethics for Health Informatics Professionals: The IMIA Code, its Meaning and Implications (2016)
- The Electronic Health Record: Ethical Considerations (2020)
- The Right to Healthcare: Ethical Considerations (2022)
- The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (2024)
= Co-author books =
- Withholding Treatment from Defective Newborn Children (1985)
- Home telehealth for chronic disease management (2008)
= Documentaries =
- Shadow Company (2006) - As Self - Professor of Ethics{{Citation|title=Shadow Company|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0762133/|access-date=2020-06-10}}
= Selected academic works =
- {{cite journal |last1=Kluge |first1=Eike-Henner W. |title=Secure e-Health: Managing risks to patient health data |journal=International Journal of Medical Informatics |volume=76 |issue=5–6 |year=1970 |pages=402–406 |doi=10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2006.09.003|pmid=17084665 }}
- Kluge, Eike-Henner W. (2000), "Assisted Suicide, Ethics and the Law: The Implication of Autonomy and Respect for Persons, Equality and Justice, and Beneficence", in Prado, C. G. (ed.), Assisted Suicide: Canadian Perspectives, Ottawa, Canada: University of Ottawa Press, p. 83
- {{cite journal |last1=Kluge |first1=Eike-Henner W. |title=Ethical Considerations on Methods Used in Abortions |journal=Health Care Analysis |volume=23 |issue=1 |year=2015 |pages=1–18 |doi=10.1007/s10728-012-0232-1|pmid=23076345 |s2cid=44776709 }}
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