Blar i Institutt for helsevitenskap Gjøvik på tidsskrift "Medicine, Health care and Philosophy"

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    • Temporal uncertainty in disease diagnosis 

      Hofmann, Bjørn Morten (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      There is a profound paradox in modern medical knowledge production: The more we know, the more we know that we (still) do not know. Nowhere is this more visible than in diagnostics and early detection of disease. As we ...

    • The gene-editing of super-ego 

      Hofmann, Bjørn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      New emerging biotechnologies, such as gene editing, vastly extend our ability to alter the human being. This comes together with strong aspirations to improve humans not only physically, but also mentally, morally, and ...

    • The overdiagnosis of what? On the relationship between the concepts of overdiagnosis, disease, and diagnosis 

      Hofmann, Bjørn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Overdiagnosis and disease are related concepts. Widened conceptions of disease increase overdiagnosis and vice versa. This is partly because there is a close and complex relationship between disease and overdiagnosis. In ...