
Berge Solberg- Professor
- Professor (Full) at Norwegian University of Technology- and Science
Berge Solberg
- Professor
- Professor (Full) at Norwegian University of Technology- and Science
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Introduction
Berge Solberg is a professor in medical ethics and head of the teaching in medical ethics in the medical school at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He is the deputy leader of the Norwegian National Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics (NEM), and he is the secretary of the Clinical ethics committee at St. Olavs Hospital.
Current institution
Norwegian University of Technology- and Science
Current position
- Professor (Full)
Additional affiliations
September 2002 - December 2003
January 1999 - July 2002
January 2010 - present
Norwegian University of Technology- and Science
Position
- Professor (Full)
Publications
Publications (83)
An increasing number of European research projects return, or plan to return, individual genomic research results (IRR) to participants. While data access is a data subject's right under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and many legal and ethical guidelines allow or require participants to receive personal data generated in research,...
Background
Despite reports on troublesome contents created and shared online by healthcare professionals, a systematic inquiry of this potential problem has been missing. Our objective was to characterize the content of healthcare-associated social media memes in terms of common themes and how patients were portrayed.
Materials and methods
This st...
Apparently, the abortion issue concerns the relationship between the woman's self-determination versus the fetus' legal protection. The abortion boards can be understood as the administrator of the legal framework around this balance. In this article, however, I claim that the life and activities of the Norwegian abortion boards point in a differen...
An increasing number of European research projects return, or plan to return, individual genomic research results (IRR) to participants. While data access is a data subject’s right under the GDPR, and many legal and ethical guidelines allow or require participants to receive personal data generated in research, the practice of returning results is...
Trisomi 21-insidens, diagnostikk og svangerskapsavbrud 2018 ORIGINALARTIKKEL Nasjonal behandlingstjeneste for avansert invasiv fostermedisin St. Olavs hospital og Senter for kvinne-, familie-og barns helse Campus Vestfold Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge Hun har bidra med planlegging av studien, datainnsamling, statistiske analyser og utarbeiding av ma...
Er etikeren bedre egnet enn andre til å gi gode svar på etiske spørsmål? Det er utfordringer forbundet med både å svare ja og nei på dette spørsmålet. Det er derimot enklere å slå fast at andre tenker klarere om etiske spørsmål dersom de får hjelp av en etiker.
Advances in neonatology have led to improved survival for periviable infants. Immaturity still carries a high risk of short- and long-term harms, and uncertainty turns provision of life support into an ethical dilemma. Shared decision-making with parents has gained ground. However, the need to start immediate life support and the ensuing difficulty...
Health promotion is often been associated with altering social arrangement in order to improve the health of citizens—the domain of public health. Ethical aspects of health promotion then is generally discussed in terms of a public health ethics. In this chapter, I start out with some classical ethical and political dilemmas of health promotion in...
A rapidly growing proportion of health research uses ‘secondary data’: data used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected. Do researchers using secondary data have an obligation to disclose individual research findings to participants? While the importance of this question has been duly recognised in the context of primar...
Passive consent meets important ethical concerns and ought to be more applied in certain types of medical and health-related research.
Michael 2020; 17: Supplement 24: 45–55.
Helsepersonell skal trøste, lindre og behandle. Helsepersonell skal gi omsorg. Men i økende grad skal helsepersonell respektere og endog fremme selvbestemmelse og selvstyring. I dag snakkes det mye om samvalg, pasientautonomi og brukermedvirkning i helsetjenesten. I denne artikkelen ser jeg nærmere på det et...
https://www.fhi.no/publ/2020/rad-om-prioriterte-grupper-for-koronavaksinasjon-i-norge/
Folkehelseinstituttet har fått i oppdrag fra Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet å organisere koronavaksinasjonsprogrammet. Som en delleveranse av oppdraget har Folkehelse- instituttet etablert en ekstern ekspertgruppe i etikk og prioritering. Denne etikk- rådgivning...
The Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services has commissioned the Norwegian Institute of Public Health to organise the national coronavirus immunisationation programme. As a partial delivery of the assignment, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health has established an external expert group in ethics and prioritisation (henceforth: the ethics...
Donation of organs from patients with severe brain injury who die after cardiac and respiratory arrest after withdrawal of life sustaining treatment, referred to as controlled Donation after circulatory death (cDCD), has been proposed for use in Norway. The proposed method - cDCD using normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) - is one of several metho...
The interesting article by Beskow and Weinfurt (2019) seems to document biobank researchers’ unclear intuitions and convictions on a basic idea of research ethics: that the legitimacy of informed consent in biobank research depends on a certain level of participant comprehension. According to this idea, if biobank participants fail to meet the requ...
Sammendrag: Denne artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i dagens mer eller mindre eksplisitte krav til forskere om samarbeid med andre fagdisipliner, så vel som med næringsliv og andre deler av samfunnet. Hvordan kan vi identifisere og håndtere interessekonfliktsituasjoner når vi begir oss inn i slike samarbeidsrelasjoner? For å kunne svare på dette spørsmål...
Researchers are increasingly challenged to adjust to interests defined outside their own disciplinary boundaries. This follows from more or less explicit expectations to seek interdisciplinary collaboration and partnership within the private and public sectors. How can researchers identify and handle conflicts of interest in this situation? To answ...
This is an investigation of the process leading up to the new US Common Rule protecting participants in research. It is particularly the field of biobank research that caught our interest, the initial law proposals, the public debate and the Final rule. The Final Rule
published in 2017 differed in important ways from these early ideas. Most signifi...
Background: Norway’s liberal abortion law allows for abortion on social indications, yet access to screening for fetal abnormalities is restricted. Norwegian regulation of, and public discourse about prenatal screening and diagnosis has been exceptional. In this study, we wanted to investigate whether the exceptional regulation is
mirrored in publi...
A new information dilemma has arisen for doctors in public hospitals: Should they inform
cancer patients that costly private treatment options are available? In the public health services, prioritisation is a virtue born of necessity if they are to succeed in fulfilling the ambition of helping people enjoy the greatest possible number of years of l...
Det har oppstått et nytt informasjonsdilemma for leger ved offentlige sykehus: Bør de informere kreftpasienter om at det finnes et kostbart privat behandlingstilbud? Prioritering i den offentlige helsetjenesten er en dyd av nødvendighet om man skal klare å innfri ambisjonen om å bidra til flest mulig leveår, rettferdig fordelt (1). Det kan innebære...
The Scandinavian neighbors, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, are 3 similar countries. Still, the practice and the policy on extreme premature infants are different in each of them. Why is this so? In this article, I will try to show that the differences are not primarily a result of individual disagreement among leading doctors in the 3 countries but h...
Nutrition and genetics is a fast growing field that is challenging dietitians’ competency in both basic knowledge and professional practice. To increase dietitians’ awareness of the ethical questions arising in this new field, the European Federation of Associations of Dietitians’ (EFAD) Professional Practice Committee (PPC) has collaborated with e...
Can you be just a little fraudulent? - On less serious violations on good scientific practice.
The Norwegian act of 2006 on ethics and integrity in research regulates serious breaches of good scientific practice that have been committed willfully or through gross negligence. Serious cases may be reported to the National commission for the investig...
Norge er i dag på alle områder et høyteknologisk samfunn, og nordmenn er kjent for å være
i tet når det gjelder å ta i bruk ny teknologi. Men noen teknologier skapte bekymring og
uro snarere enn optimisme og entusiasme da de traff det norske samfunnet: På områdene
bioteknologi og genteknologi har etikkdebattene stått i kø. En slags eksistensiell re...
Currently, screening for trisomy (21,18 and 13) in Norway is based on a combination of blood tests and ultrasound (CUB) offered to all pregnant women 38 years of age or older. If the combined screening test indicates high risk, genetic verification via an invasive diagnostic test is offered either through chorionic villus sampling or amniocentesis....
Det er ikke til å komme forbi at det er en viktig rettighet i et demokratisk samfunn å kunne velge. Men hva bør man velge? - Bør vi leve som best vi kan og så dø, eller bør vi kjempe for å leve så lenge og så sunt som mulig? Hvor mye skal vi belastes og beheftes med dårlig samvittighet og anger hvis vi ikke velger den «oppskriftsmessige» riktige ve...
Engagement, involvement, and active participation are buzzwords used in today's ethical debate on research biobanking. There are a variety of context-sensitive governance frameworks for research biobanks. However, many biobanks, especially large-scale population-based ones, seem to endorse a framework of broad consent, participation with minimal or...
Mat er så mangt, som David Kaplan påpeker i innledningen til The Philosophy of Food, blant annet næring, natur, kultur, et sosialt gode, åndelighet, begjærsgjenstand og estetisk objekt. Ikke minst er det et politisk tema på så mange måter. Derfor inviterte vi til et temanummer om matens etikk, for det er lite som berører våre liv så sterkt og funda...
Great hope has been placed on biobank research as a strategy to improve diagnostics, therapeutics and prevention. It seems
to be a common opinion that these goals cannot be reached without the participation of commercial actors. However, commercial
use of biobanks is considered morally problematic and the commercialisation of human biological mater...
In the endeavour of biobank research there is dispute concerning what type of consent and which form of donor-biobank relationship meet high ethical standards. Up until now, a 'broad consent' model has been used in many present-day biobank projects. However it has been, by some scholars, deemed as a pragmatic, and not an acceptable ethical solution...
Today, new and powerful sequencing technology is being used in biomedical research. In parallel, an intense ethical debate has arisen regarding the handling of the information which is generated through such comprehensive analyses. The conflict concerns whether any findings made during research, intended or incidental, should be reported back to th...
Da dette tidsskriftet ble etablert for seks år siden, var det ut fra tanken om at det finnes noen felles problemstillinger innen etikk og politikk som får en spesiell karakter i nordiske land. Den velferdsmodellen vi har utviklet innenfor rammene av et deltakende demokrati, gir vilkår for debatten som vi ikke deler fullt ut med de fleste andre demo...
With the introduction of whole genome sequencing in medical research, the debate on how to handle incidental findings is becoming omnipresent. Much of the literature on the topic so far, seems to defend the researcher’s duty to inform, the participant’s right to know combined with a thorough informed consent in order to protect and secure high ethi...
The unknown nature of tomorrow’s research makes informed consent in biobank research a challenge. Whether the consent given
by biobank participants is ‘broad’ or ‘narrow’, the ever present question remains the same: are new activities covered by
the original consent? In this article, we focus on the meaning of, and the relation between, broad conse...
Dette nummeret av Etikk i praksis er i utgangspunktet ikke et temanummer. Profesjonsetiske utfordringer synes likevel å utgjøre et gjennomgangstema i de fleste av artiklene som utgis i dette nummeret. Det er en påminnelse om at en aldri blir ferdig med etiske problemstillinger innenfor et fagfelt, siden fagfeltene og profesjonelle oppgaver samt for...
I dette kapitlet stiller jeg spørsmålet om hva som er til barnets beste når barnet ikke er til. Problemstillingen har blitt sentral i assistert befruktning, ikke minst fordi hensynet til barnets beste er skrevet inn i den norske bioteknologiloven. Er det mulig å gi mening til dette hensynet på denne arenaen? Hvordan har man tatt hensyn til et barns...
Idrettens etiske spørsmål oppleves særdeles engasjerende for svært mange mennesker. Enten man er topp- eller breddeidrettsutøver, TV-titter, foreldre til idrettsaktive barn eller man har en idrettsbarndom bak seg – hvilket til sammen utgjør en stor del av befolkningen – så oppleves idrettens etiske utfordringer så å si på kroppen. Juks og urettferd...
Moderne samfunn synes mer sårbare enn vi synes å like og ta inn over oss. Flere tenkere som Ulrich Beck og Anthony Giddens har påpekt sammenhengen mellom teknologi, kompleksitet og risiko som et særtrekk ved det moderne samfunnet. De teknologier som bidrar til vår velstand og trygghet, er samtidig opphav til nye former for risiko. Vi utsettes derme...
The welfare of the child is the prevailing principle and concern regarding access to assisted reproduction in Western countries today, and there is a wish to avoid harm to future children. New research fields have developed in order to provide scientific evidence on the welfare of children living with different "types" of parents. Assisted reproduc...
Long QT syndrome is an inherited heart-rhythm disorder characterized by an increased risk of ventricular tachycardia and sudden death. Genetic testing is available.
The article is based on an anonymous family with a history of long QT syndrome, the authors experience with this patient group and a Pubmed search for literature from the period 1957 -...
Den dominerende oppfatningen i den politiske og moralfilosofiske tenkningen de siste tiår har vært at religion ikke bør spille noen avgjørende politisk rolle i det moderne sekulariserte demokrati. Religion tilhører privatsfæren, og politiske avgjørelser må fattes på et felles grunnlag, uavhengig av livssyn. De mest sentrale tenkerne i vår tids poli...
Rosamond Rhodes and John Harris have recently argued that we all have a general moral duty to participate in medical research.
However, neither Rhodes’ nor Harris’ arguments in support of this obligation stand up to scrutiny, and severe and convincing
criticism has been levelled against their case. Still, to refute their arguments is not to refute...
Harris have both recently argued that we all have a general moral duty to participate in medical research. However, neither Rhodes' nor Harris' arguments in support of this obligation stand up to scru-tiny, and severe and convincing criticism has been levelled against their case. Still, to refute their arguments is not to refute the conclusion. The...
Dette nummeret av Etikk i praksis fokuserer på et av de største, om ikke det største, satsningsområdet vi har sett innenfor forskningsverdenen. Det handler om nanoteknologi, et felt som forventes å få betydelige positive samfunnsmessige konsekvenser i form av industriutvikling og forbedrede produkter for befolkningen. Nanoteknologien er et omfatten...
Det er muligens ikke lenger et spørsmål om, men når mennesker med Downs syndrom ikke lenger finnes blant oss. Moderne medisinsk teknologi brukt i masseundersøkelser av gravide, tilsier at det nesten ikke behøver å bli født mennesker med Downs syndrom i fremtiden. I den politiske debatten i flere av de nordiske landene er dette kontroversielt. Det h...
I dette nummeret av Etikk i praksis ønsker vi å fokusere på et betent problemområde, nemlig etikken rundt teknologisk fravalg og tilvalg av fremtidige syke og funksjonshemmede barn. Det handler om abort, medisinsk teknologi og valg av barn. Det kan synes som om vi står overfor nye muligheter for fravalg og tilvalg som ikke bare setter en ny debatt,...
Velkommen til Etikk i praksis – Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics. Gjennom dette tidsskriftet ønsker vi å bidra til bedre kontakt mellom forskere innenfor anvendt etikk i Norden. Det finnes et økende antall forskere som arbeider med anvendte etiske problemstillinger, og anvendt etikk har blitt et tverrfaglig forskningsfelt i alle nordiske land. Etik...
In January 2003 the Norwegian Parliament passed the Biobanks Act, regulating biobank research in Norway. There have been strong differences of opinion both in the process of making the law as well as in its first years of implementation. The main controversy relates to what kind of informed consent should be required for biobank research. Central t...
I løpet av 2005 og 2006 ble flere forskningsskandaler trukket frem i offentligheten. Den koreanske stamcelleforskeren Woo-suk Hwang og den norske kreftforskeren Jon Sudbø fikk mye oppmerksomhet etter å ha blitt avslørt i å ha fabrikkert data. Samtidig ble Eva Lundgrens kjønnsforskning utsatt for granskning i Sverige. Rystende anklager mot deler av...