Research Ethics and Philosophy of Science (2 credits)
| Course number | 3,1 |
| Year | 2018 |
| Type | Compulsory |
| Track | - |
| Max participants | 30 |
| Application deadline | 2017-12-31 |
| Language | En |
| Course leader | Prof. Kathinka Evers |
| Department | Department of Public Health and Caring Science |
| Visiting address | BMC, Husargatan 3, Uppsala |
| Post address | Box 564, 751 22 Uppsala |
| Dates | Week 10, March 5 to March 8 |
| Location | Wll be announced later on |
| Course length | 4 days, full time |
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| Course plan |
Description
Requirements:
Registered for graduate studies on the Medicine and Pharmacy disciplinary domain at Uppsala University
Selection procedure
If there are more applicants than places on the course, the selection is made on the date of application. Exceptions to this selection is given to applicants who will defend their doctoral thesis within one year from the application deadline. These applicants will be given priority.
Note the importance of specifying planned date for public defence in your application
Learning outcomes
(1) To be informed about:
• different philosophical presuppositions in scientific research
• ethical guidelines for research
• the theoretical basis of these guidelines
• legal regulations of research
• committees of research ethics
(2) To be able to identify and analyse ethical problems raised by different kinds of research.
Contents
Norms of science and ethical norms in theory and practice. Good laboratory and clinical practice, Fraud in scientific research. Animal ethics. Application to Ethics Committee
Instructions
Examination
Literature
Teaching staff
Mats G Hansson, Kathinka Evers
More information
Calle.Martinsson@pubcare.uu.se
Biomedical Ethics
Box 564
751 22 Uppsala
Phone: 018 - 471 66 64
Fax: 018 - 471 66 75