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The Ethics Blog is published by Uppsala University’s Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics.
Meet the editor

Pär Segerdahl is the editor of the Ethics Blog and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics.
Recent posts
- Interprofessional collaboration in hospital care of patients who self-harmby Pär Segerdahl
- What is philosophical health and can it be mapped?by Pär Segerdahl
- What does precision medicine and AI mean for the relationship between doctor and patient?by Pär Segerdahl
- Mind the gap between ethics in principle and ethics in practiceby Pär Segerdahl
- What do MS patients consider to be the most important features of treatment?by Pär Segerdahl
- Are you a blissfully unaware author of an article you never wrote?by Pär Segerdahl
- Overweight increases the risk of cancer – but what good does the information do?by Åsa Grauman
- What influences pregnant women’s decisions about prenatal diagnosis?by Pär Segerdahl
- “Consentless measures” in somatic care: how do healthcare staff reason about them?by Pär Segerdahl
- Can consumers contribute to more responsible antibiotic use?by Pär Segerdahl
Keywords on this blog
ape language research (11) apes (13) Artificial Intelligence (35) autonomy (19) biobanks (87) bioethics (99) children (16) consciousness (44) consent (55) data sharing (22) embryos (19) empirical ethics (32) enhancement (11) ethical review (18) ethics (60) future prospects (99) genetic risk information (12) genetics (35) genetic tests (20) health care costs (10) Human Brain Project (75) humanism (10) incidental findings (19) integrity (29) legislation (47) medical ethics (13) neuroethics (89) neuroscience (45) nursing ethics (17) patient-doctor relationship (32) patients (44) personalized medicine (9) philosophy (193) publication ethics (33) qualitative research (10) register-based research (48) research communication (16) research ethics (72) research participant (53) research subject (14) RRI (10) samples (34) SIENNA (13) stem cells (24) trust (12)
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During the last phase of the Human Brain Project, the activities on this blog received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation under the Specific Grant Agreement No. HBP SGA3 - Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 3 (945539). The views and opinions expressed on this blog are the sole responsibility of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.
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