Teaching Group
Ethics, Health Economics and Philosophy of Science
The teaching in ethics, health economics, and philosophy of science aims to provide medical, dental, and health science students with knowledge and skills in these subjects, and a solid foundation to identify, analyze, and address important issues at various levels within the healthcare system.
Main content
This teaching group falls under the Section for Ethics and Health Economics.
The teaching group leader is Inger Lise Teig.
Topics we teach:
- Medical ethics
- Resource allocation and priority setting
- Population health and ethics
- Global health and ethics
- Biotechnology and ethics
- Health and human rights
- Normative analysis and ethical theories
- Clinical ethical dilemmas and decision-making processes related to:
- Limiting life-prolonging treatment
- Patients with impaired or uncertain decision-making capacity
- Safeguarding confidentiality and consent
- Communication and collaboration across professions
- Euthanasia and assisted suicide
- Genetics and new medical technologies
- Reproductive health and abortion
- Ethical dilemmas you may encounter as a student
- Clinical priority setting
- Research ethics
- Scientific misconduct
- Consent requirements and other key principles
- Vulnerable groups
- Philosphy of science
- Knowledge production
- Scientific methodology
- Economic evaluation
- Cost-effectiveness analysis
- Decision modeling
- Measuring health outcomes and health-related quality of life
- Cost and budget impact
- Estimating severity
11.04.2025