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Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB)

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Research Ethics

In short, research ethics involves the application of ethical principles and values to a variety of scientific research topics. It has both a practical and a theoretical side. It aims to create good research, while at the same time studying what good research is.



 

Bioethics

Bioethics includes philosophical, theological, legal and social scientific aspects of medicine and biology. It deals with norms and value conflicts in health care and the biosciences. For example, it looks at ethical questions that arise in connection with priorities in health care, informed consent, palliative care, nerurobiological explanations of human consciousness, animal welfare and the use of biotechnology.



 

Medical Law

Medical Law looks at phenomena such as stem cell research and genetic diagnostics, e-health and migrating EU patients, but also legal aspects of health-care organization, liability and claims issues, priorities, patient safety, and coercion measures. These questions span a wide range of traditional branches of law, and are examined in close contact with ethics, medicine, pharmacy, and caring science.



 

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CRB research news

Debate on the Swedish Data Inspection Board's decision to stop LifeGene

[2011-12-22] The Swedish Data Inspection Board recently stopped LifeGene, a large biobank at Karolinska Institutet. In the Swedish daily paper Svenska Dagbladet, eight professors describe the decision as "controversial and narrow minded". The write that politicians need to take their responsibility and give the Data Inspection Board better guidance through new legislation.  

Follow the debate in Swedish on SvD Brännpunkt >


In Swedish Överdrivet djurskydd försvårar forskning

[2011-11-27] Vi har en stark djurskyddslagstiftning i Sverige och etikprövar all forskning i särskilda djuretiska nämnder. Men balansen mellan djurskyddet och forskningsnyttan fungerar inte, skriver Mats G. Hansson, Anne Carlsson och Rikard Holmdal på SvD Brännpunkt idag. Läs mer >

Läs debattartikeln på SvD Brännpunkt >


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.


More Medical Law at Uppsala University!

[2011-10-31] Medical Law is expanding. The group around professor Elisabeth Rynning at the Department of Law is growing and CRB has recruited two associate professors to our team of biobank researchers, Anna-Sara Lind and Jane Reichel.

This autumn, three LLD students and one research assistant start their work at the Department of Law, thanks to funding from the Söderbergska foundations. On December 9, our first LLD in Medical Law, Ewa Axelsson, will defend her thesis.


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