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Course Information

3,1
3 ECTS
2026-01-26
Compulsory
English
30
2026

Research Ethics and Philosophy of Science (3 credits)

Course Leader

William Bülow O'Nils

Department

Department of Public Health and Caring Science

Weeks

Week 11

Location

Will be announced later on

Duration

5 days, full time

Description

Requirements:
Registered for graduate studies on the Medicine and Pharmacy disciplinary domain at Uppsala University

Selection procedure

Doctoral students are selected based on admission year.

Exceptions to this selection is given to applicants who are planning their half time- or licentiate seminar for the following semester. A certificate from the examiner is required. Please e-mail the certificate to doktorandadministrationifv@pubcare.uu.se right after you send in your course application. These applicants will be given priority.

Note the importance of specifying planned date for half time- or licentiate seminar 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.

Content

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

Not specified

Examination

Not specified

Literature

Not specified

Teachers

William Bülow O'Nils

Contact

Maria Öhman
Course Administrator
Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences
doktorandadministrationifv@pubcare.uu.se