Academic interests
- Clinical ethics and ethics support in healthcare
- End-of-life ethics (inc. assisted dying)
- Priority setting and resource allocation
- Ethics of biotechnology, especially prenatal diagnosis
- Christian perspectives on medical ethics and bioethics
Teaching
- Seminars for healthcare professionals, managers and clinical ethics committee members around the country on topics in clinical ethics
- Teaching in the university medical school and CME's master-level courses
- Main editor of a Norwegian-language textbook in medical ethics
Background
- Head of Centre for Medical Ethics, 2024-2028
- Associate Professor at CME from 2019
- Leader of CME's permanent project on clinical ethics, 2019-2023
- Member of the Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board, 2019-2027
- Researcher, 2014-2019
- PhD, University of Oslo, 2010-2014
- Bachelor of philosophy, 2009
- Resident physician, Lovisenberg Diaconal Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, 2006-2010
- Medical internship, Skien and Porsgrunn, 2005-2006
- Medical doctor (cand. med.), 2004
Tags:
Medisinsk etikk,
bioetikk
Publications
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Fredheim, Olav Magnus Søndenå; Torvund, Solveig Kristine Kolstad; Thoresen, Lisbeth & Magelssen, Morten
(2024).
How should respiratory depression and loss of airway patency be handled during initiation of palliative sedation?
Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica.
ISSN 0001-5172.
doi:
10.1111/aas.14396.
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Aarseth, Svein; Horn, Morten Andreas; Dahlberg, Jørgen & Magelssen, Morten
(2023).
Befolkningens kunnskaper og holdninger om beslutninger ved livets slutt.
Michael.
ISSN 1893-9651.
20(1),
p. 11–22.
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Egeland, Tone; Ruud, Tor K.; Hanevik, Hans Ivar & Magelssen, Morten
(2023).
A study of the experience of Norwegian IVF physicians in evaluating the parenting capacity of patients.
Reproductive Biomedicine Online.
ISSN 1472-6483.
47(6),
p. 1–7.
doi:
10.1016/j.rbmo.2023.103368.
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Research question: How do Norwegian fertility doctors assess the parenting capacity of applicants, and how do they experience and evaluate the assessment practice?
Design: Qualitative interview study with 14 Norwegian fertility doctors. Interviews were analysed with systematic text condensation, a qualitative analysis framework.
Results: Norwegian fertility doctors deem parenting capacity assessments of applicants to be straightforward and simple in most cases. Yet, some cases of doubt pose difficulties. Physicians can then draw on resources such as colleagues, physicians from other specialties who know the patient and patient records. All the participating physicians agreed with the principle of parenting capacity assessment for patients seeking fertility treatment. The assessment enabled physicians to refuse patients whom they thought should definitely not have responsibility for children. The physicians' main argument was their own felt responsibility for the future child. Even though assessments could be challenging, the participants all thought of themselves as competent to perform them. Indeed, some thought that delegating the assessments would imply abdicating a responsibility that was properly theirs. Although national guidelines might aid decision-making, the physicians would not want guidelines to curtail the significant discretion that they exercised.
Conclusions: Whether societies should assess applicants' capacity for parenthood before fertility treatment is an ethical and political question. Although sometimes a difficult task, Norwegian fertility doctors see it as important, and as something they are competent and suited to undertake.
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Aarseth, Svein; Horn, Morten Andreas; Magelssen, Morten & Supphellen, Magne
(2023).
Nordmenns holdninger til legalisering av dødshjelp.
Michael.
ISSN 1893-9651.
23(1),
p. 23–32.
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Perin, Marta; Magelssen, Morten; Ghirotto, Luca & De Panfilis, Ludovica
(2023).
Evaluating a clinical ethics committee (CEC) implementation process in an oncological research hospital: Protocol for a process evaluation study using normalisation process theory (EvaCEC).
BMJ Open.
ISSN 2044-6055.
13(3).
doi:
10.1136/bmjopen-2022-067335.
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Magelssen, Morten & Solberg, Carl Tollef
(2023).
Bør dødshjelp legaliseres i Norge? Fem spor i dødshjelpsdebatten. Intensjon og dobbelteffekt .
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Oftestad, Eivor Andersen; Hofmann, Bjørn Morten & Magelssen, Morten
(2022).
Veivalget er gjort, men hvor går veien.
Intermedicos.
65(2),
p. 10–11.
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Magelssen, Morten; Pahle, Jan Andreas Saxlund; Swensen, Elisabeth & Østborg, Tilde Broch
(2022).
Etisk berøringsangst i fosterdiagnostikken.
Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening.
ISSN 0029-2001.
142(12),
p. 1–4.
doi:
10.4045/tidsskr.22.0466.
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Solberg, Carl Tollef; Tranvåg, Eirik Joakim & Magelssen, Morten
(2022).
Correction to: Attitudes towards priority setting in the Norwegian health care system: a general population survey (BMC Health Services Research, (2022), 22, 1, (444), 10.1186/s12913-022-07806-9).
BMC Health Services Research.
ISSN 1472-6963.
22(1).
doi:
10.1186/s12913-022-07994-4.
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Published
Apr. 13, 2011 2:45 PM
- Last modified
Jan. 6, 2024 2:57 PM
