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Institutt for samfunnsmedisin og sykepleie
NTNU
Han har bidratt med innspill om etiske følger av fostermedisin og utarbeiding av manuskriptet.
Berge Solberg er professor i medisinsk etikk.
Articles by Berge Solberg
Trisomy 21 – incidence, diagnostics and pregnancy terminations 1999–2018
- Hege Merete Aasen,
- Berge Solberg,
- Kristine Marie Stangenes,
- Ellen Aagaard Nøhr,
- Torbjørn Moe Eggebø
14.12.2021:
Since 1986, maternity care in the Norwegian public health service has included an offer of one ultrasound examination in gestational week 17–19, in accordance with international recommendations (1). Most routine ultrasound examinations are performed by midwives with one year of training in...
Passive consent for passive participation?
- Berge Solberg,
- Hilde Eikemo
11.01.2021:
Passive consent meets important ethical concerns and ought to be more applied in certain types of medical and health-related research. The purpose of the Health Research Act is to promote good and ethically sound research (1). A key approach to this effect is to instruct the researchers to obtain...
To inform or not to inform?
- Berge Solberg,
- Torbjørn Dahl
03.09.2018:
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...
Priorities in the borderlands
- Berge Solberg
07.05.2013:
Ethics dialogues across professional groups may bring us closer to good decisions on priorities. But it is far from certain that they will take us all the way. A strident debate on priorities has raged in Norway over this past year. Its main emphasis has been on costly cancer drugs for life...
Should genetic findings from genome research be reported back to the participants?
- Kristin Solum Steinsbekk,
- Berge Solberg
16.10.2012:
Genome research, i.e. the use of exome or whole-genome sequencing technologies, is now entering medical research and diagnostics at full speed. This has given rise to an intense ethical debate in international and national expert forums as to how this technology should be handled. For example, the...