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Centre for Medical Ethics

The Centre for Medical Ethics (CME) works with medical and healthcare ethics in teaching, research and dissemination. This entails everything from concrete ethical dilemmas regarding single patients, to research ethics and theoretical ethics and philosophy.

 

  • Responsible for ethics teaching of medical and odontological students.
  • Responsible for teaching and supervising the faculty's PhD-fellows regarding research ethics and philosophy of science.
  • Responsible for national coordination and professional development of clinical ethics committees (CEC) in hospitals and community care, as well as long-term development of ethics competence in community care, through evaluating, research, teaching, and building networks.

Prioritized areas of research

A: Philosophy and ethics of medicine and health care sciences

B: Research ethics of medicine and health care sciences

C: Ethics in health care: clinical ethics and resource allocation

Contact

Postal address Postboks 1130 Blindern 0318 Oslo Visiting address Kirkeveien 166 0450 Oslo Phone: + 47 22 85 05 50 Email:

Head of Centre: Reidar Pedersen

Research projects