Eivind Engebretsen
Video Summary of Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics
Our book, Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandmics, provides a framework for how health officials can develop more effective...
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Eivind Engebretsen
Dec 27, 20231 min read
Poster Presentation: Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics
A concise poster overview of our Open Access book, which presents a narrative framework for comprehending and tackling mistrust during...
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Eivind Engebretsen
May 17, 20232 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20222 min read
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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