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Medical Philosophy and Clinical Theory Unit

Medical Philosophy and Clinical Theory Unit includes the subject areas medical ethics, medical philosophy, clinical decision theory, and research methodology.

The unit´s research includes theoretical and empirical/experimental studies of ethical issues in medical practice and research, studies from the perspective of sociology and the philosophies of science and technology of the interaction between theory formation and technology in medical practice, and studies of evidence in both conventional and alternative medicine.