Anna Luise Kirkengen

09.11.2020: Obesity is one of the great health challenges of our time. This development is linked to complex dynamics between dietary habits, physical activity, physiology, genetics and epigenetics in a globalised world, where the access to high-energy foods has become virtually unlimited for many people (1, 2)...

28.01.2019: According to the dictionary, a 'well' can be a wave (from 'wella' in Old High German), a spring of water, a fountain fed by a spring, or an enclosed space in the bottom of a room, building or ship. In this context, the word is conceptualised in a concrete sense as well as symbolically and...

06.08.2013: Diagnoses have unintended effects. In two Norwegian abuse cases it appears that the victims’ diagnoses have served as attention deflectors – abuse and violence may have been overlooked, because it was assumed that the children suffered from a disorder. During recent months, the Norwegian public has...

08.04.2011: Human beings have unique characteristics that distinguish them from all other known organisms – a capacity for self-reflection, for designing sophisticated symbolic structures, for attaching metaphorical concepts to experiences and for building models and categories with the aid of the imagination...

09.10.2008: Clinical guidelines for prevention of cardiovascular disease have been developed and implementation of them attempted since the 1980s. Although the guidelines have been especially tailored to general practice, studies have shown that general practitioners tend not to adhere to them although they...

09.10.2008: A Doctor’s Prayer If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching Or cool one Pain Or help one fainting Robin Unto his Nest again I shall not live in Vain. Emily Dickinson Biomedical knowledge regarding «correct» treatment of human hearts – including...

13.12.2007: Complex chronic diseases require an increasing proportion of society’s resources and represent a growing challenge. Valid biomedical models of aetiology, pathogenesis, treatment and prognosis are inadequate for understanding these diseases. The article discusses current knowledge about the impact of...