Anna-Karin Andersson- Doctor of Philosophy
- Professor (Associate) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Anna-Karin Andersson
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Professor (Associate) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
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Introduction
I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Education.
My current and recent research focuses on the normative and conceptual relationships between the sustainable development goals, human rights, and the capability approach, and the application of this theoretical framework to central challenges of biotechnology and ethics. I am particularly interested in the interpretation and application of The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, food security, and health.
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Publications (15)
The Food-Energy-Water nexus approach to resource governance is a paradigm-shifting approach that moves away from “siloed” resource management and pursues integration and holistic planning between food, energy, and water governance. The Food-Energy-Water nexus approach carries the potential to increase synergies and reduce tradeoffs between the Sust...
This article discusses an innovative carbon capture and utilization project from societal, economic, and ethical perspectives. UiT—The Arctic University of Norway and the ferrosilicon producer Finnfjord AS, both located in Northern Norway, collaborate to develop sustainably produced fish feed by cultivating microalgae (diatoms) that feed on CO2 fro...
This article is the first indepth ethical analysis of empirical studies that support the claim that children born without major parts of their cerebral cortex are capable of conscious experiences and have a rudimentary capacity for agency. Congenitally decorticate children have commonly been classified as persistently vegetative, with serious conse...
There are two main ways of understanding the function of surrogate decision making in a legal context: the Best Interests Standard and the Substituted Judgment Standard. First, we will argue that the Best Interests Standard is difficult to apply to unconscious patients. Application is difficult regardless of whether they have ever been conscious. S...
Recent health legislation in Norway significantly increases access to specialist care within a legally binding time frame. The paper describes the contents of the new legislation and introduces some of the challenges with proliferations of rights to health care. The paper describes some of the challenges associated with the proliferation of legal r...
The first objective of this article is to examine one aspect of the principle of proportionality (PP) as advanced by Alan Gewirth in his 1978 book Reason and Morality. Gewirth claims that being capable of exercising agency to some minimal degree is a property that justifies having at least prima facie rights not to get killed. However, according to...
Recent global advances in available technology to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission necessitate a rethinking of contemporary and previous ethical debates on HIV testing as a means to preventing vertical transmission. In this paper, we will provide an ethical analysis of HIV-testing strategies of pregnant women. First, we argue that provider-...
This article contributes to the current debate on human embryonic stem cell researchers’ possible complicity in the destruction
of human embryos and the relevance of such complicity for the issue of commodification of human embryos. I will discuss if,
and to what extent, researchers who destroy human embryos, and researchers who merely use human em...
In this paper, a rights-based argument for the impermissibility of abortion, infanticide and neglect of some pre-natal organisms and infants/children is advanced. I argue, in opposition to most rights-ethicists, that the potentiality for autonomous agency gives individuals negative rights. I also examine the conjecture that potential autonomous age...
SUSAN MOLLER OKIN, IN her 1989 book Justice, Gender, and the Family, puts forth an objection to Nozick's entitlement theory. In short, Nozick's entitlement theory states that unowned material resources can be legitimately acquired by labor in a certain sense. Okin argues that an advocate of Nozick's entitlement theory must, on pain of con- tradicti...
