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Causation, Complexity and Evidence in Health Sciences (CauseHealth)

CauseHealth bring together philosophers, medical researchers and practitioners to address a major challenge: how to understand causation in health sciences.

prosjekt

About/Aims
Background

Causation is central to our understanding of human health and illness. Medical explanation, prediction and intervention are all premised on the reality of causation. CauseHealth bring together philosophers, medical researchers and practitioners to address a major challenge: how to understand causation in health sciences.

More about the project

CauseHealth has a network of experts and practitioners, recruited from a variety of areas: philosophy of medicine, epidemiology, qualitative health research, person-centred medicine, public health science, disease ontology, medical humanities, MUS research (CFS/ME, LBP, FM), behavioural science in medicine, nursery, mental health, probability theory and risk, autism, medical sociology, philosophy of psychiatry, pharmacy, medical research ethics, experimental psychology, neuro-biology, physiotherapy, phenomenology, paediatrics and philosophy of causation. 

Prosjekt avsluttet:
Project manager
Rani Lill Anjum
Rani Lill Anjum
Researcher
rani.anjum@nmbu.no

Principal Investigator

Department
  • School of Economics and Business
Time frame
1. April 2015 to 31. March 2019
Funding

FRIHUMSAM, Norges Forskningsråd

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