Hans-Werner Bothe

Hans -Werner Bothe ( born September 23, 1952 in Langelsheim ) is a German philosopher and neurosurgeon. He founded the research field of Neurobionics.

Life

Bothe studied from 1973 to 1981 in Tübingen and Mainz philosophy and medicine, graduated in 1978 in philosophy to the Master of Arts with the theme "limits of knowledge assets as provisions of subjectivity and objectivity in the principles of science teaching JG Fichte of 1794 ", then the Institute for Neurological Research worked for three years at the Max Planck in Cologne and received his doctorate in 1983 with a dissertation on the topic at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz " The treatment of the artificial brain abscess with glucocorticoids and antibiotics in cats with contributions to pathophysiological basic research, " Dr. med

After training as a neurosurgeon at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, he habilitated with the habilitation thesis " The Cerebral Dekompressionsödem. A clinical and experimental study " at the Medical School in Hanover, where he subsequently also taught and worked with Madjid Samii. He was appointed professor of neurosurgery at the Westfälische Wilhelms- University in Münster ( Westphalia ) in 1993.

He initiated in 1992 with the 1st International Workshop on Neuro Bionics in Goslar, the interdisciplinary research field of Neurobionics, whose goal is the replacement of failed functions of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) with microelectronic implants. The Court noted, collaboration of an international consortium of scientists from the partial fields of mathematics, computer science neuroscience, basic biological sciences, microsystems technology and medicine.

In 1994 he founded together with Daniel Goeudevert, Madjid Samii and other representatives from science, industry and politics Neurobionics Foundation in Hannover and led them as managing director. He developed in cooperation with colleagues from microelectronics and microsystems technology implants for the treatment of patients with damaged retina ( together with M. Bartha and S. Chlebek ), microelectronic systems for the treatment of urinary incontinence ( together with B. von Heyden ) and paraplegia (together with J. Holsheimer ). He also improved the safety and efficacy of neurosurgical procedures in the implantation of pacing systems in brain and spinal cord for Parkinson's disease and dystonia patients and those with chronic pain.

Personality changes that are observed in patients after deep brain stimulation, prompted him to deal with the problem of determinism and free will from a neuroscientific perspective and from the perspective of the philosophy of mind: he could thereby help of scientific methodology and on the basis of neuro- medical knowledge reasons that can be drawn from the knowledge of brain research derived neither a causal dependency even a deterministic relationship between phenomenal, mental states of the first person perspective and empirical, neurophysiological brain functions the 3rd person perspective. He holds the essential premise of the meta-ethical discourse from an empirical approach out to be admissible, stating that the human being as gifted with reason being is free to decide how he acts. With this thesis, it is contrary to beliefs of brain researchers such as Wolf Singer and Gerhard Roth.

Publications

  • Neuro Bionics - an interdisciplinary approach to substitute impaired functions of the human nervous system, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1993 ( with M. Samii and R. Eckmiller ), ISBN 0-444-89958-8
  • The evolution dismisses the spirit of man: Neurobionics - a medical discipline in the making, Look Around, Frankfurt 1994 ( with M. Angel ), ISBN 3-524-69105-6
  • Neurobionics - Future Medical microelectronic implants, Umschau, Frankfurt 1998, ISBN 3-524-69118-8
  • Interdisciplinary pain therapy, Schattauer, Stuttgart 2002 ( with I. Gralow and IW Husstedt ), ISBN 3-7945-2118-8
  • Surgery of the cervical spine and nervous system, Thieme, Stuttgart, 1998 ( with M. Samii ), ISBN 3-13-547002-4
  • The importance of animal experiments in the Neurobionics, Nomos, Baden -Baden 1998, ISBN 3- 7890-5173 -X
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