Eivind Engebretsen
Teaching sustainable health care through the critical medical humanities
Many medical schools have started to include the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their curricula. Doctors graduate...
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Eivind Engebretsen
- Apr 15
- 2 min
SUSTAINIT Strategy Seminar: Bridging Disciplinary Boundaries for a Sustainable Future
Earlier this week, the SUSTAINIT Strategy Seminar convened a diverse assembly of researchers and educators, fostering collaboration and...
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Eivind Engebretsen
- Feb 10
- 2 min
SDG Conference Bergen 2023
This week’s SDG Conference Bergen 2023 was a major event, bringing together over 1500 participants from 117 countries through online...
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Eivind Engebretsen
- Feb 5
- 5 min
What is the Sustainable Health Unit (SUSTAINIT)?
The Sustainable Health Unit (SUSTAINIT) is a knowledge hub located at the Faculty of Medicine (UiO), established by the Faculty Board on...
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Eivind Engebretsen
- Jan 12
- 2 min
New Sustainable Health Unit
SUSTAINIT will empower sustainable action through education and research This week we launched the new Sustainable Health Unit...
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Eivind Engebretsen
- Dec 25, 2022
- 2 min
How to combat disinformation through narratives?
In our book Mona Baker and I propose a three-step approach to combat disinformation through storytelling. In a recent Lancet report,...
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Eivind Engebretsen
- Dec 21, 2022
- 1 min
How is medical knowledge mobilized in debates about abortion?
I am thrilled that our project “The Medicalisation of Democratic Rights in the Debate about Abortion (MEDRA): The US, Ireland and...
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Eivind Engebretsen
- Sep 4, 2022
- 3 min
Presentation of Trisha Greenhalgh as Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Oslo
On behalf of my colleague Elin Olaug Rosvold and myself, I am delighted to introduce the first of our two fantastic honorary doctors,...
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Eivind Engebretsen
- Jul 28, 2022
- 1 min
Book Flyer: Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics
Please share the flyer for our upcoming book. Available as hardback and Open Access from September 2022.
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Eivind Engebretsen
- Jul 25, 2022
- 1 min
Available from September 2022: 'Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics' (CUP, 2022)
The book interrogates the assumption that evidence means the same thing to different people and in different contexts by exploring the...
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Eivind Engebretsen
- Jun 19, 2022
- 1 min
The science-policy relationship in times of crisis
In a new paper entitled ‘The science-policy relationship in times of crisis: An urgent call for a pragmatist turn’ co-authored with...
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Eivind Engebretsen
- Jun 11, 2022
- 6 min
Narratives and Evidence – Which stories about COVID-19 did we believe and why?
Rigorous empirical evidence is often presumed to be the most persuasive, notably in fields such as healthcare and medicine, where there...
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Eivind Engebretsen
- Jun 11, 2022
- 5 min
Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics: CAS Interview
Alumni Spotlight: Eivind Engebretsen Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science & Letters (CAS) By Julie Ellinor...
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Eivind Engebretsen
- May 1, 2022
- 4 min
A situated epistemological approach to research integration and implementation
Evidence, in the Evidence-based medicine (EBM) sense of the word, is mainly associated with randomized controlled trials (RCTs), which...
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Eivind Engebretsen
- Apr 23, 2022
- 1 min
Chapter 2: Narrative Rationality and the Logic of Good Reasons
This chapter provides a theoretical basis for examining the tension between scientific and lay rationality that continues to undermine...
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Eivind Engebretsen
- Apr 6, 2022
- 1 min
Full pre-publication copy of ‘Chapter 1: Evidence in Times of Crisis’ now available
This chapter outlines the overall aims and rationale for the book and explains how it differs from two established models in the study of...
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Eivind Engebretsen
- Mar 28, 2022
- 5 min
How to make sense of medical evidence? Read about our new book on evidence and COVID-19
In our book, Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics: Scientific vs Narrative Rationality and Medical Knowledge Practices (Cambridge...
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Eivind Engebretsen
- Mar 16, 2022
- 2 min
Our new book “Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics” will soon be out
Below you can read a short excerpt from my new book co-authored with Mona Baker. Introduction and blurbs will be available soon! “The...
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Eivind Engebretsen
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
The Oslo Medical Corpus: An Interdisciplinary Agenda for Rethinking Key Concepts in (Global) Health
Mona Baker and I are invited to speak about our plans for the Oslo Medical Corpus as part of UCL's CenTraS Online Lecture Series 2021-22:...
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Eivind Engebretsen
- Mar 14, 2022
- 2 min
Challenging medical knowledge translation
Our new comment and the article collection it introduces, summarizes some of the insights that grew from our research project, Bodies in...
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