Dr. Mirjam Faissner

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Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Thielallee 71
14197 Berlin

Email: mirjam.faissner(at)charite.de
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Mirjam Faissner is a bioethicist with a background in medicine and philosophy. She is a research associate at the Institute of the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine at Charité – University Medicine Berlin. Her research focuses on epistemic and structural injustice in healthcare, taking an intersectional feminist approach. In her research projects, she combines philosophical analysis with qualitative and participatory research, for example in the project INTERSECT on intersectionality and discrimination in psychiatry, which she led at Ruhr University Bochum (2022–2023). She is co-initiator and coordinator of the scientific network “Bioethics and Structural Injustice”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), and co-initiator of the AEM working group “Feminist perspectives in bio- and medical ethics”. 

Publications

Kolandt, A., Michl, S., Faissner, M. (2025): Understanding structural barriers to abortion care under the counselling regulation in Germany: results of a qualitative interview study. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health. 

Faissner, M., Braun, E., Hempeler, C. (2025): Epistemic oppression and the concept of coercion in psychiatry, Synthese. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04853-z.

Quadflieg, N. Q., Batchati, P., Träbert, A., Leidgens, E., Juckel, G., Gather, J., Yeboah, A., Faissner, M. (2025): Discriminatory Practices in the German Mental Healthcare System – an Intersectional Grounded Theory Study, Qualitative Health Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323251325793

Faissner, M., Braun, E. (2024): The ethics of coercion in mental healthcare: the role of structural racism, Journal of Medical Ethics, 50:476-481. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2023-108984. 

Hempeler, C., Philipsen, L., Carlet, J., Windel, A.-S., Gather, J., Juckel, G., Yeboah, A., Faissner, M. (2024): Intersectional Discrimination in Mental Health Care: A Systematic Review With Qualitative Evidence Synthesis, Psychiatric Services, 75(11):1125-1143. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20230252. 

Faissner, M., Brünig, L., Jieman, A.-T., Gaillard, A.-S., Gather, J., Hempeler, C. (2024): Intersectionality as a tool for clinical ethics consultation in mental healthcare, Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 19(6). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13010-024-00156-w. 

Faissner, M., Müller, R., Kuhn, E., Laacke, S. (2024): Detecting your Depression with your Smartphone? – Considerations of Epistemic Injustice, Ethics and Information Technology, 26(28). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-024-09765-7.