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Medical Ethics Lab
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A lab that examines ethical issues in medicine and public health.

AboutAbout the lab
Examining ethics in the medical setting.
The Medical Ethics Lab studies a wide range of ethical issues related to medicine and public health, through both normative analysis and empirical research.
Beyond the School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Medicine, the lab has also been responsible for education in bioethics and medical ethics in other faculties and graduate schools.
It offers a special master's course, the "Training Course for Leaders in Medical Ethics and Public Health Ethics," in which students can also experience actual ethics review.
The lab is also engaged in clinical ethics consultation at Tohoku University Hospital.
Key terms
- Empirical research
- A research approach that investigates actual conditions based on data collected through surveys and interviews
- Clinical ethics consultation
- An activity that responds to requests for advice about ethical concerns arising in clinical settings and helps sort out how to think about them
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts normative analysis and empirical research on a wide range of ethical issues related to medicine and public health. It covers clinical ethics, public health ethics, research ethics, and medical humanities.
View More ↗MembersFaculty
The lab's members hold the positions of Professor, Lecturer, and Assistant Professor.
- ProfessorAtsushi Asai
- LecturerReina Ozeki-Ozeki-Hayashi
- Assistant ProfessorMasanori Oikawa
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Hospital corridor in Turkey” Eyluleyel / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Ethical Issues in Medicine and Public Health: “Vaccine Vial (NIH BioArt )” Courtesy of NIAID Ryan Kissinger / Public domain (cropped)
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