• Choice is not the issue. The misrepresentation of healthcare in bioethical discourse 

      Agledahl, Kari Milch; Førde, Reidun; Wifstad, Åge (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2011-03-17)
      The principle of respect for autonomy has shaped much of the bioethics' discourse over the last 50 years, and is now most commonly used in the meaning of respecting autonomous choice. This is probably related to the influential concept of informed consent, which originated in research ethics and was soon also applied to the field of clinical medicine. But while available choices in medical research ...
    • Clinical essentialising : a qualitative study of doctors' medical and moral practice 

      Agledahl, Kari Milch; Wifstad, Åge; Førde, Reidun (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2010)
    • Courteous but not curious: how doctors' politeness masks their existential neglect. A qualitative study of video-recorded patient consultations 

      Agledahl, Kari Milch; Gulbrandsen, Pål; Førde, Reidun; Wifstad, Åge (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2011-05-24)
      Objective To study how doctors care for their patients, both medically and as fellow humans, through observing their conduct in patient–doctor encounters.<p> <p>Design Qualitative study in which 101 videotaped consultations were observed and analysed using a Grounded Theory approach, generating explanatory categories through a hermeneutical analysis of the taped consultations. <p>Setting A ...
    • Morally bound medical work. An empirical study exploring moral conditions of doctors’ everyday practice 

      Agledahl, Kari Milch (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2011-09-22)
      All of clinical work also has a moral dimension since the purpose of health care is to help patients. The aim of this project is to understand how doctors deal with these moral dimensions of clinical work. The field of bioethics has largely emerged as a philosophically founded discipline, without taking into account how doctors already handle moral values as a tacit or implicit part of their clinical ...
    • Nord og ned? 

      Agledahl, Kari Milch; Wisborg, Torben (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-03-29)
      I sykehustalen for 2023 ba helseministeren Helse Nord om å sikre «bærekraften» fordi den økonomiske situasjonen er prekær. Dette brukes nå for å legitimere strukturelle endringer som vil endre helsetjenesten i nord dramatisk.