Centre for Medical Ethics
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The Centre for Medical Ethics (CME) is one of Europe's largest centres for medical and healthcare ethics. Our area of study spans from moral challenges in the patient-provider encounter, to research ethics and philosophy of medicine.
Research
CME has three prioritized research areas:
- Foundational issues in medicine and health sciences
- Research ethics and integrity in medical and health sciences
- Ethics and priority setting in healthcare and in public health
Teaching and dissemination
In addition to research, CME staff teach and disseminate within the field of medical and healthcare ethics. CME is responsible for teaching medical ethics to medical students and also has several master modules. At the PhD level, CME staff teach research ethics and philosophy of science. CME is also responsible for national coordination and development of clinical ethics committees in hospitals and municipalities.
CME is one of six departments at the Institute of Health and Society.
Ongoing R&D projects
Larger projects
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AccessAfrica 2 – Strengthening Clinical Trial Regulatory and Ethical Review oversight in East Africa
- Ethics in health services
- ETHIMED - Ethics in Research and Clinical Practice
- Family involvement during severe mental illness
- Embedding a comprehensive ethical dimension to organoid-based research and related technologies (HYBRIDA)
- Moral residue – epistemological ramifications, ethical implications, and didactic opportunities (MORE)
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Responsible Explainable Machine Learning for Sleep-related Respiratory Disorders (RESPIRE)
- The Equitable, Inclusive, and Human-Centered XR Project (XR4Human)
- The Ethics of Mortality Measurement (ETHME)
Smaller projects
- On the concept of disease
- Overdiagnosis
- Medical uncertainty
- Scientific misconduct
- Ethics in HTA
- Ethics in home-based care
- Cardiopulmonary resusicitation in nursing homes - decisions and cooperation
- Professional ethics and healthcare services in light of virtue ethics