Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB)

Research: Culture and Health

Culture is central to medicine,health related research and bioethics. The Centre for Research Ethics and bioethics has received funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation) to initiate research on culture, health and bioethics. The group is a multi disciplinary network consisting of senior and junior researchers from universities and museums in Australia, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

The network (Culture, health and bioethics. Conceptual clusters and cultural theory) will work with conceptual clusters and cultural theory. The aim is to sharpen conceptual and theoretical understandings of culture through interdisciplinary discussions on:

  1. Integrity/privacy and culture
  2. Property and culture
  3. Communication and culture
  4. Organizational culture

Outside the framework of this network, an ongoing LLD project investigates religious beliefs and values of health care professionals' and the impact they have on their work. (Do the beliefs and values of healthcare professionals have an impact on their obligation to provide good healthcare) The project is conducted within the framework of a programme on the impact of religion and its challenges for society, law and democracy at the Department of Law.

Also, Anna Lydia Svalastog is currently looking at bioethical concerns regarding native people, and at the relation between public debate, cultural history and myths, and public opinion. She is a member of the research network Bio-objects and their boundaries, governing matters at the intersection of society, politics and science, and UppSam. She co-ordinates and the ad hoc group Riekkis, a network for initiatives and information about Sami culture and Sami education.

Publicatons from CRB

Svalastog AL, Eriksson S, You can use my name: You don´t have to steal my story - A critique of anonymity in indigenous studies, Developing world bioethics 2010;10(2).

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Research updates

New sub groups in Culture, Health and Bioethics network

[2011-11-30] The Culture, Health and Bioethics network has organized itself into five sub groups: 1: Bioethics and native peoples, 2: The ethics in prospecting biological diversity, 3: Native peoples and quality of life, 4: Cultures of knowledge and organisations and 5: Creativity

Essays on Sami culture

[2011-11-03] Anna Lydia Svalastog runs CRB's international network collaboration on culture, health and bioethics. Together with Eva Forsgren and Jan-Erik Lundström, she has received 100 000 NOK from Fritt Ord to publish the essay collection Visions of Sápmi Cultures: Time, Change, Difference.

Culture, Health and Bioethics network grows

[2011-09-09] Håkan Tunón, Senior Research Officer at the Swedish Biodiversity Centre (CBM), Swedish University of Agricultural Scinces, joins the Culture, Health and Bioethics network.

Research on culture and health

Do the beliefs and values of healthcare professionals have an impact on their obligation to provide good healthcare?

Culture, health and bioethics. Conceptual clusters and cultural theory