• Beyond multimorbidity: What can we learn from complexity science? 

      Sturmberg, Joachim P.; Getz, Linn Okkenhaug; Stange, Kurt C.; Upshur, Ross E.G.; Mercer, S.W. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Multimorbidity - the occurrence of two or more long-term conditions in an individual - is a major global concern, placing a huge burden on healthcare systems, physicians, and patients. It challenges the current biomedical ...
    • The Craft of Generalism clinical skills and attitudes for whole person care 

      Lynch, Johanna M.; van Driel, Mieke; Meredith, Pamela; Stange, Kurt C.; Getz, Linn Okkenhaug; Reeve, Joanne; Miller, William L.; Dowrick, Christopher (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Abstract: Rationale, aims and objectives: Generalists manage a broad range of biomedical and biographical knowledge as part of each clinical encounter, often in multiple encounters over time. The sophistication of this ...
    • Creating chronicity 

      Kirkengen, Anna Luise (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      An authentic sickness history is the vantage point for juxtaposing a biomedical and a biographical-phenomenological reading. What, in a biomedical framework, appears to be a longstanding state of comorbidity of different ...
    • From wholes to fragments to wholes-what gets lost in translation? 

      Kirkengen, Anna Luise (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The highly demanding and, in a certain sense, unique, working conditions of general practitioners (GPs) are characterized by two phenomena: First, they involve an increasing familiarity with individual patients over time, ...