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About
The Healthcare Ethics R&E group contributes to ethical healthcare by encouraging critical-constructive, ethical and interdisciplinary reflection on 'good care for illness and health' as well as how to promote it, now and in the future.
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Scope and area of work
We do this by:
- putting on the agenda or identifying questions about what constitutes good care, particularly where that good is not self-evident;
- interpreting and clarifying how the good may or may not take shape;
- stimulating the imagination of what good care can be;
- support those involved in making considerations about good care;
- shaping good care in collaboration with those involved.
We conduct research, teach and provide ethics support services.
Our research focuses on ethical questions around the following (overlapping) themes:
- Technology in healthcare
- Differences, inequalities & justice
- Experiences of and coping with vulnerability and suffering
- Ethical education, deliberation and judgmen.
With our teaching, we contribute to the curricula of the Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes in Medicine, Biomedical Sciences and Dentistry. In addition, we fulfil central teaching roles and are involved in developing new and innovative education, for example in the field of Healthcare Humanities. We also offer various postgraduate programmes and courses, contribute to continuing nursing education and various medical specialist programmes.
Finally, we provide ethics support services, for example by facilitating moral deliberation with healthcare professionals, policymakers or technology developers, through participation in committees and as independent advisers.
Projects
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So-called "biomarker tests" are increasingly being used in the care of brain diseases. What are the broader implications of such tests for the dividing line between health and disease, for patients, care and society, and how desirable are those effects?
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What is the effect of the theatrical performance ‘Lang zal hij leven’ ('May he live long') on the moral education of caregivers around the end of life in dementia? And what regional differences can be found?
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How can we help researchers properly deal with the ethical, legal and societal challenges of data-driven health research?
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What does it mean to care for a seriously ill loved one? In this project, we developed a graphic novel to make informal care more discussable.
More information can be found on the projectwebsite.
Initial education
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Spread across all quarters of the Bachelor curriculum, the R&E group provides introductory ethics and philosophy instruction in which students develop ethical and reflective competencies.
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In a variety of MA modules and in resident teaching, we explore ethical, philosophical, and research methodological themes in a practically relevant way.
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In six teaching modules, students from different faculties learn together to analyze complex health care challenges from different perspectives and collaborate on improvements.
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This minor offers BSc students of Medicine a wide range of humanities perspectives on patients, physicians and care, to deliver better person-centered care.
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Minor Science in action: Philosophy and dynamics of science
More information can be found here. Please search by code B3KOE.
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In this module, students learn to employ ethical concepts and principles in the analysis of contemporary medical-technological developments and to take an argued position in debates about the desirability of new technology.
Post-initial education
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The Ethics in Healthcare training ('Ethiek in de zorgsector') helps higher education healthcare professionals and managers broaden and deepen their expertise and skills in the ethical aspects of their work.
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In the Course on Ethics in General Practice ('Ethiek in de Huisartspraktijk'), we consider the moral dimension of general practice. Together we discuss, clarify and analyze the moral problems that GPs encounter, placing them in a broader ethical context.
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This course deals with ethical questions of palliative care and medically assisted death, and provides philosophical, theological and medical reflections on the concepts of death and suffering.
More information can be found here.
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During this two day mandatory course for all 2nd year PhD students of the Radboudumc Research Institute, participants are challenged to reflect on divers topics related to research integrity.
More information can be found here.
Consultancy/services
If you are interested in consultations or services from an R&E group, please fill out our application form.
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The R&E Group provides ethics support services for all core tasks of the Radboudumc: patient care (e.g. moral deliberation on patient cases), education (e.g. ethics in-service or continuing education for health care personnel), and research (e.g. advice on ethical aspects of research applications, participation in the METC Oost-Nederland). We also advise on organization and governance (e.g. through the Ethics Committee, the Patients Care Institute or direct advice to the BoD, advisory councils or management boards).
