Anne Kveim Lie

• Lie, Anne Kveim & Skonnord, Trygve (2026). Helse for alle eller bare nesten alle? Erfaringer med helsehjelp til papirløse migranter. Michael. ISSN 1893-9651. 23(2), p. 125–125. doi: 10.5617/michael.13327. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  .Papirløse migranter utgjør en liten gruppe som lever marginaliserte liv, med spesielle behov i møte med helsetjenesten. De navigerer i en kompleks hverdag preget av uformelt arbeid og midlertidige boforhold samtidig som de forsøker å ivareta egen og andres helse. Mange har sammensatte helseutfordringer og behov for langvarig oppfølging. Rettighetsbegrensninger, språkproblemer, manglende personnummer og frykt for utsendelse påvirker behandlingsforløp og gir praktiske hindringer i klinisk arbeid. I denne kronikken belyser vi konkrete kliniske og organisatoriske utfordringer med utgangspunkt i en kasuistikk og egne erfaringer fra Helsesenter for papirløse migranter, og vi peker på løsninger som kan bidra til tryggere og mer likeverdige møter mellom leger og denne pasientgruppen.

• Grude, Sine; Mwita, Winfrida C.; Lie, Anne Helene Kveim & Fjeld, Heidi E (2026). Producing antibiotic practices from guidelines, clinical assessment and health insurance in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Social Science and Medicine. ISSN 0277-9536. 405, p. 119602–119602. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119602. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Antibiotics are crucial medications for healthcare delivery. The regulatory frameworks that govern the prescription and consumption of antibiotics vary widely. In Tanzania, over-the-counter sales of antibiotics are illegal, yet widespread. In contrast, prescription of antibiotics in Tanzanian hospitals is constrained through regulatory tools, such as Standard Treatment Guidelines (STG). This paper examines what moves, limits and accelerates antibiotic prescription and use in rural hospitals of the Kilimanjaro region. The study draws on four months of ethnographic fieldwork, including participant observation and semi-structured interviews, between January and July 2022. We demonstrate that antibiotic prescription is influenced by drug availability, resource constraints, and linkages between guidelines and insurance systems. Doctors aim to create paper trails to adhere to the STGs which are closely linked to reimbursements from the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF), thereby balancing adherence to guidelines with their efforts to make antibiotic treatment work for their patients. Furthermore, resource constraints contribute to use of broad-spectrum antibiotics, such as Ceftriaxone. Through the theoretical frameworks of tinkering and standards in medicine, we argue that tinkering occurs at the individual, institutional and state levels. The STGs are not simply followed or violated but absorbed into broader repertoires of practice shaped by procurement systems, insurance logics, and clinical uncertainty. While concerning from an antimicrobial resistance perspective, it is analytically revealing from an ethnographic perspective, as antibiotic guidelines are reworked in practice rather than simply enacted. The findings of this study can inform policy on the effects of guidelines coupled with health insurance on antibiotic use.

• Lie, Anne Kveim (2026). The Timing of Milk. In Jordheim, Helge & Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik (Ed.), Lifetimes: A Theory of Timescales and Life Forms. Punctum Books. ISSN 9781685712433. p. 209–230. doi: https:/books.punctumbooks.com/10.53288/0484.1.00.pdf. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This chapter studies an intimate form of time and synchronization: the multiple times of breastfeeding. Kveim Lie takes as her starting point an ignored dimension in the medical history of this practice, namely, the importance of time and timing in the breastfeeding process. The empirical case studied by Lie is the coming into being of a very successful campaign by second-wave feminists in 1970s Norway to reclaim women’s expertise in breastfeeding and develop self-help groups and teaching material, forming an organization that still exists today. Lie argues that this collective uprising was an event where practices, technologies, institutions, and even linguistic structures to a large extent hinged on questions of time, timing, and temporality

• Street, Alice; Lie, Anne Kveim; Strasser, Bruno J & Greene, Jeremy A (2025). Plastics in health care: rethinking medical device innovation, use, and disposal for sustainability. The Lancet. ISSN 0140-6736. 406(10505), p. 792–792. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(25)01099-2. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Around the world, some 16 billion plastic syringes and 15 billion face masks are thrown away each year.1,2 Unknown in the first half of the 20th century, the global production, circulation, and disposal of single-use medical plastics is now taken for granted as a feature of modern medicine. But the virtues of medical plastics have a dark side: where do all the discarded things go?3

• Wiik, Anne Margrethe Aalborg; Hem, Erlend & Lie, Anne Kveim (2025). Da penicillin kom til Norge. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet). ISSN 0029-2001. 145(15). doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.25.0360. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Kveim & Haave, Per (2025). Social Medicine in Social Democracy (Chapter 6), Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781009428514. p. 122–142. doi: 10.1017/9781009428514.007. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Medicine on a Larger Scale - May 2025

• Spjeldnæs, Amanda Hylland; Wick, Livia; Fjeld, Heidi E & Lie, Anne Kveim (2025). “We use it a lot for everything”: Antibioticalization and everyday life in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Social Science and Medicine. ISSN 0277-9536. 366. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117652. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Kveim; Gebremariam, Mekdes; Lichtwarck, Hanne Ochieng; Mmbaga, Elia & Miltenburg, Andrea Solnes (2024). Kortvarig hospitering må planlegges nøye. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet). ISSN 0029-2001. 144(15). doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.24.0376. Full text in Research Archive
• Sentamilvannan, Madhumitha; Al-Dekany, Abir; Eide, Helena Niemi & Lie, Anne Kveim (2024). Vaksinenøling under koronapandemien blant unge med etnisk minoritetsbakgrunn i Oslo øst – en kvalitativ studie. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet). ISSN 0029-2001. 144(5). doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.23.0690. Full text in Research Archive
• AASHEIM, ERLEND T.; Bhopal, Anand; O’Brien, Karen; Lie, Anne Kveim; Nakstad, Espen Rostrup & Andersen, Lene Frost [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2023). Climate change and health: a 2-week course for medical students to inspire change. The Lancet Planetary Health. 7. doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00304-7. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar; Azak, Nalan; Eskild, Ingrid; Jordheim, Helge; Lie, Anne Helene Kveim & Yerlioglu, Akif Ercihan [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2022). Temporal technologies of epidemics. Medical Humanities. ISSN 1468-215X. 48(4). doi: 10.1136/medhum-2021-012253. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim; Johnsen, Lars Gunnarsønn Bagøien; Jordheim, Helge & Ytreberg, Espen (2022). The Rise of Health: A Collocation Analysis of Conceptual Changes in News Discourse, 1950–2010. Contributions to the History of Concepts. ISSN 1807-9326. 17(2), p. 18–40. doi: 10.3167/choc.2022.170202. Full text in Research Archive
• Sjåfjell, Tommy Lunde; Lie, Anne Helene Kveim; Sørlie, Eva Kristin & Havnes, Ingrid Amalia (2022). Brukermedvirkning i undervisning – erfaringer fra et utviklingsprosjekt. Tidsskrift for psykisk helsearbeid. ISSN 1503-6707. 19(2-3), p. 180–194. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim; Hansen, Helena; Herzberg, David; Mold, Alex; Jauffret-Roustide, Marie & Dussauge, Isabelle [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2022). The Harms of Constructing Addiction as a Chronic, Relapsing Brain Disease. American Journal of Public Health. ISSN 0090-0036. 112, p. 104–108. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306645. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  As an international network of historians and social scientists who study approaches to the management of drugs across time and place, we have noticed the effort to redefine addiction as a chronic, relapsing brain disease (CRBD). The CRBD model is promoted as a route to destigmatize addiction and to empower individuals to access treatment that works within that model’s terms.1 CRBD usefully recognizes that brain-based neural adaptations place individual brains in chronic states of readiness to relapse. But brains are housed inside of people. Substance use is biological, social, and political; our concepts and approaches to complex questions surrounding substance use must be, too.2,3 By overlooking the sociopolitical dynamics and inequalities bound up with substance use, the CRBD model can paradoxically further marginalize people who use drugs by positing them as neurobiologically incapable of agency or choice. We are concerned that the CRBD model paints drug users as individuals whose exclusion from social, economic, and political participation is justified by their biological flaws and damaged brains.

• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2022). Mødre, Aktivister Og Feminister. In Pape, Sidsel (Eds.), Ammerevolusjonen 1968-1975: Fortalt Av Ammepionerer. Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 9788245038941. p. 179–197. Full text in Research Archive
• Haugstvedt, Åse & Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2022). Smittesporing ved seksuelt overførbare infeksjoner i Norge gjennom 120 år. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet). ISSN 0029-2001. 142(18), p. 1–11. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.21.0875. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  BAKGRUNN Smittesporing har fått ny aktualitet grunnet covid-19, men har lenge vært viktig i bekjempelsen av seksuelt overførbare infeksjoner. I denne artikkelen vil vi belyse hvordan smittesporingen ved seksuelt overførbare infeksjoner i Norge har endret seg de siste 120 årene. MATERIALE OG METODE Kildegrunnlaget er årsberetninger fra Kristiania Sundhetskommission og Oslo Helseråd, årsrapporter fra Meldingssystem for smittsomme sykdommer ved Folkehelseinstituttet (MSIS), skjema for innkalling av pasienter, et originalt maskinskrevet manuskript av helseinspektør Harald Christian Gjessing (1896–1988) samt personlige meddelelser fra Øivind Jul Nilsen, seniorrådgiver ved Folkehelseinstituttet. RESULTATER OG FORTOLKNING Smittesporing er i varierende grad dokumentert i årsberetningene fra Kristiania Sundhetskommission fra slutten av 1800-tallet og fram til dagens MSIS-rapporter. Politiet var sterkt involvert i kontrollen av kjønnssykdommene på slutten av 1800-tallet, men legene overtok mer av ansvaret ut over 1900-tallet. Under den annen verdenskrig ble igjen politiet mer involvert i kontroll og smittesporing. I 1947 kom lov om åtgjerder mot kjønnssykdommer, som stadfestet behandlende leges plikt til å utføre smittesporing. Denne loven ble erstattet av smittevernloven i 1995. Kvaliteten på smittesporingen over tid er noe vanskelig å vurdere, da datagrunnlaget for statistikken har endret seg. Fra å være et moralsk anliggende, med sterke elementer av tvang og hjelp fra sedelighetspolitiet, ble smittesporing etter hvert basert på frivillighet og samarbeid mellom lege og pasient.

• Jordheim, Helge; Beke, Laura Op de; Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik; Borgesius, Leonoor Zuiderveen; Brenna, Brita & Flatø, Emil Henrik [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2022). Fossilization, or the matter of historical futures. History and Theory. ISSN 0018-2656. 61(1), p. 4–26. doi: 10.1111/hith.12250. Full text in Research Archive
• Slagstad, Ketil & Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2022). Selling sex in the age of hiv/AIDS. In Weston, Janet & Hannah, Elizabeth J (Ed.), Histories of hiv/AIDS in Western Europe. Manchester University Press. ISSN 9781526151223. p. 27–58. doi: 10.7765/9781526151223.00010. Full text in Research Archive
• Valeur, Hanne Støre; Lie, Anne Helene Kveim & Moen, Kåre (2021). Patient Rationales Against the Use of Patient-Accessible Electronic Health Records: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR). ISSN 1439-4456. 23(5), p. e24090–e24090. doi: 10.2196/24090. Full text in Research Archive
• Tobiassen, Marte Midttun; Lie, Anne Helene Kveim & Aavitsland, Preben (2021). Hvorfor innreisekarantene. Michael. ISSN 1893-9651. 18, p. 325–337. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Innreisekarantene er blitt brukt som smittevernstiltak i over 600 år. Da covid-19 rammet vinteren 2020 hadde verdens stater ulik tilnærming til innreise­karantene. I Norge var vi tilbakeholdne med et slikt tiltak, mens man i Kina raskt tok det i bruk. Forskjellen kan forklares med historiske og politiske ulikheter. I Vesten har innreisekarantene siden 1800-tallet blitt sett på som antitesen til globalisering, liberalisme og individets rettigheter, og var derfor i konflikt med rådende ideologi. I tillegg kom forskjeller i nyere erfaringer med epidemiske sykdommer. I Kina brukte man erfaringene med SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), mens man i Norge vendte seg til pandemiplaner for influensa. Det internasjonale helsereglementet (IHR) og Verdens helseorganisasjon (WHO) la også føringer for medlemstatene og frarådet dem å ta i bruk innreisekarantene. Vi argumenterer for at disse historiske erfaringene ledet til en blindhet mot å ta i bruk innreisekarantene ved opptakten til pandemien i Norge. Siden mars 2020 har likevel innreisekarantene og andre innreisetiltak spilt en viktig rolle i pandemihåndteringen. Koronapandemien har skapt en historisk sett ny begrunnelse for innreisekarantene, nemlig avlastning av helsevesenet.

• Holmes, Seth; Castaneda, Ernesto; Geeraert, Jeremy; Castaneda, Heide; Probst, Ursula & Zeldes, Nina [Show all 12 contributors for this article] (2021). Deservingness: migration and health in social context. BMJ Global Health. ;6:e005107.. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005107. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim & Greene, Jeremy (2021). Psychiatry as social medicine. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. ISSN 0165-005X. 45(3), p. 333–342. doi: 10.1007/s11013-021-09740-7. Full text in Research Archive
• Fjeld, Heidi E; Grude, Sine; Spjeldnæs, Amanda Hylland; Patel, Davina Kaur; Lie, Anne Helene Kveim & Bjerke, Lise (2021). Fra Asia til Afrika: antibiotikas reiser over det indiske havet. Michael. ISSN 1893-9651. 18. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim & Greene, Jeremy (2020). From Ariadne’s Thread to the Labyrinth Itself — Nosology and the Infrastructure of Modern Medicine. New England Journal of Medicine. ISSN 0028-4793. 382, p. 1273–1277. doi: 10.1056/NEJMms1913140. Full text in Research Archive
• Øvregard, Marie-Therese & Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2020). Kriterier for tvangsinnleggelse – endringer fra 1848 til i dag. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet). ISSN 0029-2001. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.19.0057. Full text in Research Archive
• Tønne, Brita & Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2019). Fra sykdom til kriminalitet - Endringer i synet på rusavhengighet. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet). ISSN 0029-2001. 139(15). doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.19.0098. Full text in Research Archive
• Hobæk, Bård & Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2019). Less Is More: Norwegian Drug Regulation, Antibiotic Policy, and the “Need Clause”. Milbank Quarterly. ISSN 0887-378X. 97(3), p. 762–795. doi: 10.1111/1468-0009.12405. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Context Antibiotic resistance is an increasingly serious threat to global health that requires coordinated action. Most current policy efforts address the lack of medicines. There is also a need for new thinking on promoting access to all who are in need of antibiotics, while simultaneously curbing inappropriate use. As the situation calls for new approaches, we examined one drug regulatory system in which antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been on the agenda for a long time. The Norwegian drug regulatory system, and particularly its “need clause,” has been invoked in international debates but not previously studied in detail. Methods We conducted a historical review of the Norwegian drug regulatory system by examining the archives of the Norwegian health authorities, the Norwegian Medicines Agency, and policy debates in the period. Findings The Norwegian drug regulatory system focused on the rational use of drugs, tied closely to public health needs. It was originally written to address unnecessary consumption of drugs, not consumer protection and safety. The most flexible element within this system stated that a drug must be “needed” in order to be registered. When antibiotic resistance became a concern, it limited the market entry of drugs considered to promote resistance, such as combination and broad‐spectrum products. This was a powerful and flexible regulatory device that also influenced drug consumption. Conclusions The need clause has lately been promoted as an alternative to address the current situation. The solutions to the problem of antibiotic resistance cannot be the same everywhere, and we do not argue that this drug regulatory system should be adopted globally. However, the current situation calls for consideration of many different aspects. This historical case demonstrates how regulatory procedures can be used to limit market entrance and promote appropriate use simultaneously.

• Grene, Gudrun Tokle & Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2018). Å synge salmer i visetakt. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet). ISSN 0029-2001. 138(20), p. 1–9. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.18.0129. Full text in Research Archive
• Aarseth, Guri; Natvig, Bård; Engebretsen, Eivind & Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2018). Acting by persuasion— values and rhetoric in medical certificates of work incapacity: A qualitative document analysis. Medical Humanities. ISSN 1468-215X. 0, p. 1–7. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2018-011496. Full text in Research Archive
• Aarseth, Guri; Natvig, Bård; Engebretsen, Eivind & Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2017). ‘Working is out of the question’: a qualitative text analysis of medical certificates of disability. BMC Family Practice. 18(55). doi: 10.1186/s12875-017-0627-z. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Background Medical certificates influence the distribution of economic benefits in welfare states; however, the qualitative aspects of these texts remain largely unexplored. The present study is the first systematic investigation done of these texts. Our aim was to investigate how GPs select and mediate information about their patients’ health and how they support their conclusions about illness, functioning and fitness for work in medical certificates. Methods We performed a textual analysis of thirty-three medical certificates produced by general practitioners (GP) in Norway at the request of the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV).The certificates were subjected to critical reading using the combined analytic methods of narratology and linguistics. Results Some of the medical information was unclear, ambiguous, and possibly misleading. Evaluations of functioning related to illness were scarce or absent, regardless of diagnosis, and, hence, the basis of working incapacity was unclear. Voices in the text frequently conflated, obscuring the source of speaker. In some documents, the expert’s subtle use of language implied doubts about the claimant’s credibility, but explicit advocacy also occurred. GPs show little insight into their patients’ working lives, but rather than express uncertainty and incompetence, they may resort to making too absolute and too general statements about patients’ working capacity, and fail to report thorough assessments. Conclusions A number of the texts in our material may not function as sufficient or reliable sources for making decisions regarding social benefits. Certificates as these may be deficient for several reasons, and textual incompetence may be one of them. Physicians in Norway receive no systematic training in professional writing. High-quality medical certificates, we believe, might be economical in the long term: it might increase the efficiency with which NAV processes cases and save costs by eliminating the need for unnecessary and expensive specialist reports. Moreover, correct and coherent medical certificates can strengthen legal protection for claimants. Eventually, reducing advocacy in these documents may contribute to a fairer evaluation of whether claimants are eligible for disability benefits or not. Therefore, we believe that professional writing skills should be validated as an important part of medical practice and should be integrated in medical schools and in further education as a discipline in its own right, preferably involving humanities professors.

• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2016). Naming and Classifying Diseases in the Eighteenth Century. Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore. ISSN 0066-8176. 72, p. 61–84. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandvik, Anniken & Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2016). Ubehandlet syfilis - fra Oslo til Tuskegee. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet). ISSN 0029-2001. 136(23/24), p. 2010–2016. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.16.0543. Full text in Research Archive
• Paulsen, Nadia Shad & Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2016). Forskningsetikk på dagsordenen - debattene bak de etiske komiteene. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet). ISSN 0029-2001. 136(20), p. 1739–1743. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.16.0636. Full text in Research Archive
• Podolsky, Scott H & Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2016). Futures and their uses. Antibiotics and Therapeutic Revolutions. In Greene, Jeremy; watkins, elizabeth siegel & Condrau, Flurin (Ed.), Therapeutic Revolutions. Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century. University of Chicago Press. ISSN 9780226390871. p. 18–42. Full text in Research Archive

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• Lie, Anne Kveim; Greene, Jeremy A. & Anderson, Warwick (2025). Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009428514. 335 p. doi: 10.1017/9781009428514. Full text in Research Archive

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• Eick, Frode; Kurdzielewicz, Marta; Lie, Anne Kveim & Fjeld, Heidi E (2026). Developing a designated general practitioner clinic for and with temporary migrant workers and local stakeholders in Norway: - lessons learned from the BRIDGE project. Full text in Research Archive
• Kogstad, Kari Thori; Getz, Linn Okkenhaug; Vike, Halvard & Lie, Anne Kveim (2026). The General Practice Office as an organisation. An Ethnographic Study of Interaction and Collaboration in Practice. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  An Ongoing Ethnographic Study The GP scheme is a cornerstone of the Norwegian health service, its value base being equal access. The work culture in the country's 1350 doctors' offices has hardly been investigated. The aim of the study is to develop new knowledge about daily interaction and collaboration between GPs and medical secretaries, and the results of this work. Field studies with participant observation are the chosen method.

• Kogstad, Kari Thori; Getz, Linn Okkenhaug; Vike, Halvard & Lie, Anne Kveim (2025). The general practice office as an organization - an ethnographic study of interaction and collaboration in practice. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  THE PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT The GP scheme is a cornerstone of the Norwegian health service, the value base being equal access to good health services. The work culture in the country's 1300 doctors' offices has hardly been investigated. One assumes this factor is important for quality and patient safety. The aim of the study is to develop new knowledge about daily interaction and collaboration between GPs and health secretaries. RESEARCH QUESTIONS 1. What kind of work culture is found at Norwegian GP offices? How do trade-offs, decisions, division of labor and collaboration take place? 2. What characterizes the communication between health secretaries and GPs? What can be said about communicating unexpected but significant information? 3. How do health secretaries and GPs relate in clinical practice to the Nordic core value for general practice: “Give the most to those in greatest need”? MATERIAL, METHOD, ANALYSIS - Ongoing ethnographic main study. Recruitment. From network, six busy offices from cities and rural areas, characterized by frequent prioritizing in terms of urgency and capacity. Data collection - method. Field studies with participant observation will be conducted during a week. Of particular interest are negotiations and priorities, intended and unintended. Then in-depth interviews are conducted. Work tools: Logbook for observations in the common areas, and audio recording of interviews. -Analysis. The data collected is coded according to themes identified on first reading. Then analysis as an iterative process in the light of theoretical understanding, which in turn can provide relevant knowledge.

• Fretheim, Atle; Lie, Anne Kveim & Slagstad, Ketil (2025). Utsetting av puberteten. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet). ISSN 0029-2001. 145(4), p. 1–5. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.25.0079. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Kveim & Lengle, Emma Joanna (2025). Når fagfolk presses til taushet om skeiv helse. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet). ISSN 0029-2001. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.25.0337. Full text in Research Archive
• Patel, Davina Kaur; Spjeldnæs, Amanda Hylland; Almashhadani, Mohammed Taleb Mohammed; Lichtwarck, Hanne Ochieng; Lie, Anne Kveim & Lengle, Emma Joanna (2024). Rasisme som helseproblem. 144(14). doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.24.0377. Full text in Research Archive
• Gateri, Alex Muriithi; Fjeld, Heidi; Prince, Ruth Jane & Lie, Anne Kveim (2024). Understanding antimicrobial use in livestock production to promote food safety and security: Ethnographic insights from rural Moshi, Tanzania. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Background: Livestock production contributes significantly to household income and direct food resources in Tanzania. This contribution is however threatened by food safety concerns occasioned by high use of antimicrobial agents. Consequently, there is a risk of contamination of animal products with antimicrobial residues. There is also a risk of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) circulating in humans, animals, and the environment through food and waste. It is thus imperative to optimize antimicrobial use (AMU) in livestock production. The roadmap to such optimization must bear research-based evidence on conditions of use. Purpose: Behavioral and knowledge deficit models have dominated AMU and AMR studies. This has (in)advertently precluded the influence of collective structures accounting for AMU. Using a One Health approach, we sought to describe the social, economic, and material conditions for AMU in livestock farming in rural Moshi, Tanzania. Methods: Data were collected qualitatively using an ethnographic approach between May 2022 and April 2023. Participant observation and repeated interviews were conducted with people who come into contact with and use antibiotics for animals. We followed veterinarians, smallholder farmers, and agrovet operators in their daily lives, conducting observations and informal interviews on how and why they use antibiotics. Field notes were used to document and organize data while constant comparative method was used to sort and organize data thematically. Findings: Facing existential disease risk, farmers use antibiotics for infection prevention and treatment in commercially driven intensive livestock production. Antibiotics come into use to support return on investment as farmers compensate for poor adoption of biosecurity protocols with antibiotic use. Based on economic interests, farmers find it difficult to adhere to withdrawal periods for animal products. Further, there is crossover use of human antibiotics in poultry as farmers strive for cost-effective production. The circulation and sale of antibiotics for veterinary use are not well regulated as various antimicrobial agents are handled and sold by informal vendors. Most agrovet operators dispensing animal medicines including antibiotics have not met threshold qualifications. Veterinarians report unending client pressure to use antibiotics for rapid production outcomes. Conclusion: Antimicrobial use in animals takes place in an inclusive infrastructural context, with a risk of contamination and resistance. Antimicrobials are seen as protectors of investments in intensive commercial livestock production settings. Available in loosely regulated markets, antimicrobials help compensate for low biosecurity adoption. Antimicrobial use and optimization need to be understood in this wider context to promote food safety and security.

• Lichtwarck, Hanne Ochieng; Patel, Davina Kaur; Almashhadani, Mohammed Taleb Mohammed; Spjeldnæs, Amanda Hylland & Lie, Anne Kveim (2024). Antirasisme og inkluderingsarbeid - to sider av samme sak. Dagens medisin. ISSN 1501-4290. Full text in Research Archive
• Slagstad, Ketil & Lie, Anne Kveim (2024). Et forskningsbasert helsetilbud til unge transpersoner krever tillit. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet). ISSN 0029-2001. 144(8), p. 1–5. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.24.0272. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Kveim (2023). Jon Røyne Kyllingstad Rase. En vitenskapshistorie. Historisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0018-263X. 102(4), p. 339–341. doi: 10.18261/ht.102.4.10. Full text in Research Archive
• Slagstad, Ketil; Malterud, Kirsti; Brekke, Mette & Lie, Anne Kveim (2023). Medisinens biopsykososiale kjønnsbegrep. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet). ISSN 0029-2001. 143(3). doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.23.0001. Full text in Research Archive
• Fjeld, Heidi E & Lie, Anne Kveim (2022). Antibiotics and global and local objects. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2022). Helse for alle - eller bare nesten alle? Åpningsforelesning. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Om barn i velferdsstaten - og sosialmedisinens fall

• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2022). Gratis dop eller livreddende behandling? Noen historiske forutsetninger for dagens debatt. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2022). Infectious diseases in a historical perspective. Full text in Research Archive
• Eriksen, Sara Soraya Aemsangthum & Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2022). En legeutdanning for klimakrisen. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet). ISSN 0029-2001. 142(11), p. 1–3. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.22.0470. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Kveim (2021). The lifetimes of resistant pathogens. doi: https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIMegMdhP40. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Kveim (2021). Medisinhistoriker Anne Kveim Lie - Sommer i P2 - NRK Radio. [Radio]. NRK. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Det fins ikke den pandemi eller epidemi hun ikke kan gi deg de mest fargerike og illeluktende detaljer om, men er vel så opptatt av de sosiale som de medisinske skadene. I Sommer i P2 setter hun koronapandemien inn i en større sammenheng.

• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2021). Sommer i P2. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2021). Nytt gresk alfabet i omtale av muterte koronavirus. [Radio]. NRK P2 Studio 2. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2021). Webinar om kjønn og helse - arrangert av kvinnehelseutvalget. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2021). Brukermedvirkning i undervisning. [Radio]. NOKUTpodden. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim & Sundar, Tom (2021). Rusreformen er et viktig skritt. Full text in Research Archive
• Hansen, Anne Helen; Kvalvik, Liv Grimstvedt; Lie, Anne Helene Kveim; Sandøy, Ingvild Fossgard & Vie, Gunnhild Åberge (2021). Revisjon av de nasjonale læringsutbyttebeskrivelsene for samfunnsmedisin i legestudiet. 18, p. 348–361. Full text in Research Archive
• askjer, john fredrik; Hilden, Per Kristian & Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2021). Irregulære migranters rett og tilgang til behandling i distriktpsykiatriske sentre: Helsepersonells vurderinger. Utposten. ISSN 0800-5680. 50(1), p. 7–11. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  https://www.utposten.no/asset/2021/utposten-2021-1.pdf

• Slagstad, Ketil; Lie, Anne Helene Kveim & Iversen, Bjørn Gunnar (2021). Smittevern for sexarbeidere. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  https://klassekampen.no/utgave/2021-01-23/smittevern-for-sexarbeidere?fbclid=IwAR2tLHkyoH3fQTtAGhcZwNOt4-rBQWPv-CVpcp4AgEbU-P3Nzx09O9HS-bY

• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2021). The future of medicine. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2021). Syfilis i EKKO, Nrk p2. [Radio]. NRK P2. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2021). Studio 2 om penicillinens historie. [Radio]. NRK P2. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2020). Diagnostisere, preparere, reparere – behandling og diagnostikk i historisk perspektiv. Full text in Research Archive
• Slagstad, Ketil & Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2020). Et romsligere samfunn kan gjøre behovet for kroppsjusterende behandling mindre. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim & Slagstad, Ketil (2020). Legers forståelse av kjønn påvirkes av sosiale og kulturelle normer. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116. Full text in Research Archive
• Austad, Ragnhild Helen; Sandbakken, Elisabeth; Sandrib, Hanna; Aavitsland, Preben; Bruun, Johan N & Eick, Frode [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2020). Smittsomme sykdommer blant pasienter ved Helsesenter for papirløse migranter i Oslo. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet). ISSN 0029-2001. 140(4). doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.19.0074. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2020). Innlegg på Innspillsmøte om arbeidet med en offentlig utredning om kvinnehelse og helse i et kjønnsperspektiv. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2020). Memento Mori. UBlogg. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Per Fugelli bød opp til dans med døden, og Norges befolkning gikk mann av huse.

• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2020). Allmennmedisinen i et historisk perspektiv. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim & Sundar, Tom (2020). Koronakrisens usynlige infrastruktur. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2020). «Koronaviruset i Kina: Informasjon, rykter og tillit.». Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2020). Det kom et fly fra St. Anton i 2020. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2020). Desse dagar om Rusreformen. [Radio]. NRK P2. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2020). EKKO 25.mai. [Radio]. NRK P2. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2020). NRK nyhetsmorgen. [Radio]. NRK P2. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Om Semmelweiss og smitteforebygging

• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2019). Barnelegen og barnepasienten: noen glimt fra de siste hundre år. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2019). Sårene som forsvant. [Journal]. Klassekampen. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2019). Resistance awareness – past and present. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim & Slagstad, Ketil (2019). Diagnosers historisitet. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2019). Den norske sjukdomen. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2019). Den ukjente sykdommen skremte hele Norge. [Journal]. Dagbladet. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2019). Studio 2 P2. [Radio]. NRK p2. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2019). Norsk barnemedisin i 100 år: De lange linjene. Paidos: Tidsskrift for Norsk barnelegeforening. ISSN 1503-5360. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2019). Samfunnsmedisiner og favorittforeleser Anne Kveim Lie. [Radio]. Salongen NRK P2. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2019). Allmennmedisinen i et historisk perspektiv. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2019). Å være menneske og lege. 139(16). doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.19.0358. Full text in Research Archive
• Slagstad, Ketil & Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2019). Skal religion definere hvordan medisin skal praktiseres? Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2019). När kroppen slöt sig och blev fast - avhandlingsrecension Annelie Drakman. Lychnos. ISSN 0076-1648. p. 259–256. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2019). Med forebygging på dagsorden - vaksine og barnehelse på 1900-tallet. Full text in Research Archive
• Sandøy, Ingvild Fossgard & Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2018). Felles læringsutbyttebeskrivelser for samfunnsmedisinsk undervisning for medisinstudenter. 15(4), p. 323–327. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim & Slagstad, Ketil (2018). Diagnosens makt. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet). ISSN 0029-2001. 138(11). doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.18.0438. Full text in Research Archive
• Bjørndal, Arild; Borchgrevink, Christian Fredrik; Frich, Jan C; Gulbrandsen, Pål; Lie, Anne Helene Kveim & Malterud, Kirsti [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2017). Per Fugelli. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet). ISSN 0029-2001. 137. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.17.0800. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2017). Se til Amerika? Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening (Tidsskriftet). ISSN 0029-2001. 137(5), p. 341–341. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.17.0075. Full text in Research Archive
• Andersen, Elise Rønnevig; Bratberg, Øivind; Hellum, Mari Kjos; Hjelle, Ole Petter; Hussein, Bassam & Lie, Anne Helene Kveim [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2017). Landets beste forelesere svarer: Slik studerer du mest effektivt. [Journal]. Aftenposten. Full text in Research Archive
• Bjerke, Lise; Lie, Anne Kveim; Fjeld, Heidi E; Gradmann, Christoph; Roalkvam, Sidsel & Kannuri, Nanda Kishore (2026). Antibiotics and India’s pharmaceutical industry: An exploration of drug production and trade in globalised pharmaceutical geographies. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Antibiotics play complex roles in global health. While many still lack access, their massive use has contributed to the rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). In addition, our supply of these life-saving drugs rests on intricate networks of globalised production and trade. This thesis explores the production and trade of antibiotics in India's pharmaceutical industry in the context of globalised pharmaceutical geographies and their histories. Situated within the interdisciplinary field of pharmaceutical studies, the thesis draws on perspectives from medical anthropology, history, and science and technology studies, and is based on document and trade data analysis combined with ethnographic fieldwork in India. The thesis shows how India’s pharmaceutical industry has become a major global supplier of antibiotics, while also grappling with the reliance on China’s industry for the import of antibiotic ingredients, and the environmental challenges accompanying the industrial manufacturing of antibiotics. The thesis demonstrates that, despite major trade tensions, collaboration and competition coexist in the China-India nexus of antibiotic supply chains. The thesis also challenges the often taken-for-granted status of drugs as simply bare chemical molecules, showing how antibiotics take on multiple and sometimes clashing identities depending on the practices, relations and politics in which they are involved. A key contribution of the thesis is its focus on the environmental aspect of antibiotics and AMR. By analysing the science-policy response to industrial antibiotic pollution and AMR in India, it shows how various uncertainties at the molecular level are used to challenge scientific claims and the imposition of discharge limits. As the forces underlying antibiotic pollution extend beyond the molecular and local scale, the thesis emphasises the need to address the broader global dynamics that shape drug manufacturing and the rise of AMR in environments and beyond.

• Slagstad, Ketil & Lie, Anne Helene Kveim (2022). On the boundaries of care: The ephemerality of transgender medicine in the Welfare State. Scandinavia 1951-2001. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This dissertation in the history of medicine analyses how sex reassignment emerged as a clinical, scientific and bureaucratic practice in Scandinavia in the second half of the 20th century. Drawing on a range of sources, particularly from Norway, from public and private archives, medical records, scientific articles, newspaper articles and activist publications to oral history interviews with former patients, activists, doctors and psychologists, the dissertation examines how sex reassignment came into being in the context of the welfare state, in a space between the clinic, the laboratory, the bureaucracy, the press, activist organisations and communities. Using theoretical and methodological tools from science and technology studies and trans studies, the dissertation specifically explores the role of technology and practice: paper technologies, laboratory practices, psychological testing and the therapeutic practices of social medicine. Transgender medicine was not produced in the restricted sphere of the clinic but enrolled a range of actors in addition to doctors and other health professionals: patients, activists, bureaucrats, legal advisors and journalists. The main argument is that the Scandinavian context of the welfare state with a public healthcare system, a short distance between clinicians and authorities, informal networks between activists, communities and doctors and comprehensive epidemiological infrastructures shaped transgender medicine in a very different way than in, for instance, the US, where the market played a greater role and practice was more specialised. In Scandinavia, medical practices were moulded against a notion of “the social”. Doctors cared for the patient and for society – and for the patient in society. The goal was to integrate and readjust patients to society but also to protect the fabric of society. At the heart of a “sex change” was the concept of sex, and in the political project of creating and reforming the welfare state, the medical, legal and bureaucratic boundaries of sex were redrawn.

• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim; Eriksen, Sara Soraya Aemsangthum; Sharma, Ritika; Asdal, Karoline; Tran, Elisabeth & Vereide, Ragnhild [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2022). Klima og bærekraft i helseutdanningene. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim; Natvig, Bård; Engebretsen, Eivind & Aarseth, Guri (2019). The language of work disability. A study of medical certificates written by Norwegian general practitioners. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Background: About 10% of the Norwegian population between 18 and 67 years of age receive disability insurance. Norwegian general practitioners (GPs) are required to act as experts in matters relating to disability insurance and rehabilitation benefits. From 2012 to 2017, GPs provided almost 98% of all medical certificates of work incapacity for the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) (personal e-mail report from the Administration of Health Economy, HELFO). Accordingly, we must assume that GPs have a strong influence on the distribution of welfare benefits in society. Several surveys and interviews have drawn attention to GPs’ experience as experts on behalf of their own patients, and studies of NAV officials’ assessments of medical certificates have been conducted. However, we have very little direct knowledge of the content and quality of these medical certificates. This thesis is based on document analysis of 33 medical certificates related to work incapacity. Aims: First, to investigate how the certifiers present and describe the patient as a person and participant in the social security scheme. Second, how they, in their texts, explain illness and how it relates to reduced function and work capacity. Third, to explore the values and attitudes that GPs emphasise in the certifiers’ texts and what kinds of rhetorical strategies they use when addressing their readers. Methods: Qualitative document analysis using methods of linguistics, literary criticism, and narratology.Purpose: To provide direct knowledge about a selection of medical certificates of work incapacity written by GPs. Main results: In the certificates, the focus is on symptoms and disease and to a lesser degree on the patient as a person. The patient is frequently not discernible as a person in the text, but is predominantly described as a passive carrier of symptoms. Their ability to act is described as low or non-existent, and they are passive objects for the actions of other anonymous actors. In contrast, the symptoms are emphasised as independent and strong actors. The patient’s experience with illness is sometimes reported, but the GP’s perspective is usually doctor-oriented rather than patient-oriented. The medical information is partly unclear/inadequate, sometimes ambiguous, and sometimes inconsistent. The reason for the patient’s work incapacity is unclear in most of the texts. In some medical certificates, a subtle use of language insinuates doubt about the patient’s credibility or real work ability. Detailed assessments of the patient’s working conditions or work ability are rarely reported. The texts use a variety of persuasive strategies. Some emphasise the patient’s positive character and attitude, which we take to mean that the patient “deserves” disability benefit or is a worthy applicant. Others appeal to the reader’s compassion, understanding, and helpfulness and to the reader’s willingness to be realistic or pragmatic and to grant disability payment. The voices in the texts construct authority primarily by marking their subjective stance or, more objectively, by speaking with “the voice of the profession”. All of the medical certificates in our sample, directly or indirectly, support the patient’s disability benefit. The texts can be seen as the “place” where two conflicting considerations meet – on the one hand, there is the physician’s deeply rooted, professionally based patient loyalty, and on the other hand is the physician acting as the gatekeeper who is supposed to ensure that nobody other than the worthy needy are supported by society. It is likely that the often negative experiences of physicians in dealing with this role can be expressed in the form of vague, incomplete, or normative texts.

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