Elling Ulvestad

24.02.2021: Since the mass vaccination against swine flu in 2009, new knowledge has changed the basis for the assessment of injury compensation and for further research on delayed sequelae following vaccination. Vaccination is considered to be a safe medical procedure. Except for reactions around the injection...

20.10.2020: Mathematical models of pandemic trajectories have epistemological challenges and unresolved usefulness. What repeats itself – for example outbreaks of seasonal flu – can be predicted. Such phenomena can therefore be characterized as knowns. What does not repeat itself, and thus cannot be derived...

19.03.2018: Despite long-standing research, many diseases remain without adequate pathophysiological explanations or effective treatment. Most likely, the discrepancy between efforts and results can be ascribed to reluctance on the part of biomedicine to recognise subjective experience as a causal factor. The...

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...

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...