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Preben Sørheim

Postdoctoral Fellow - Centre for Medical Ethics
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Visiting address Gaustadalléen 21 Forskningsparken Hus C Plan 1 0349 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1130 Blindern 0318 Oslo

Academic interests

  • Medical ethics (esp. population-level bioethics and public health ethics)
  • Moral and political philosophy (esp. well-being and distributive justice)
  • Philosophy of medicine (esp. summary measures of population health)
  • Philosophy of public policy (esp. the welfare state)

Supervision

  • Project thesis in medicine

Courses taught

I do not currently teach, but I have previously taught the following courses: 

  • Moral philosophy
  • Graduate seminar in medical ethics
  • Bioethics and philosophy of medicine to first-year medical students

Background

  • PhD in philosophy, University of Bergen
  • Researcher, Centre for Medical Ethics, University of Oslo
  • Research Assistant, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen

 

Publications

  • Sørheim, Preben; Barra, Mathias; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Gamlund, Espen & Solberg, Carl Tollef (2024). Premature Death as a Normative Concept. Health Care Analysis. ISSN 1065-3058. 32(2), p. 88–105. doi: 10.1007/s10728-023-00471-x. Full text in Research Archive
  • Solberg, Carl Tollef; Sørheim, Preben; Muller, Karl Erik; Gamlund, Espen; Norheim, Ole Frithjof & Barra, Mathias (2020). The devils in the DALY: Prevailing evaluative assumptions. Public Health Ethics. ISSN 1754-9973. 13(3), p. 259–274. doi: 10.1093/phe/phaa030. Full text in Research Archive
  • Pedersen, Jørgen & Sørheim, Preben (2020). Reform av formuesskatten. Norsk filosofisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0029-1943. 55(02-03), p. 141–156. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-2901-2020-02-03-05. Full text in Research Archive
  • Solberg, Carl Tollef; Sørheim, Preben & Gamlund, Espen (2016). En tapt fremtid : den filosofiske debatten om døden som et onde. Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. 28(2), p. 3–15. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Solberg, Carl Tollef; Sørheim, Preben; Norheim, Ole Frithjof & Barra, Georg Mathias Honore (2020). Helseprioriteringer under en pandemi. Agenda Magasin. Full text in Research Archive
  • Solberg, Carl Tollef; Sørheim, Preben; Norheim, Ole Frithjof & Barra, Georg Mathias Honore (2020). Helseprioriteringer under en pandemi. Full text in Research Archive
  • Solberg, Carl Tollef & Sørheim, Preben (2019). The Devils in the DALY: A Review of Prevailing Evaluative Assumptions. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sørheim, Preben (2019). Er norsk våpeneksport moralsk forsvarleg? Magasinet Motvind. 1(1), p. 45–47. Full text in Research Archive
  • Solberg, Carl Tollef; Sørheim, Preben & Gamlund, Espen (2016). En tapt fremtid (reprint). Salongen – nettidsskrift for filosofi og idéhistorie. ISSN 2703-7053. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sæter, Oline; Sørheim, Preben & Solberg, Carl Tollef (2025). Beskyttelsesmekanismer i regulering av dødshjelp. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sørheim, Preben; Solberg, Carl Tollef; Gamlund, Espen & Norheim, Ole Frithjof (2024). Valuing the Length of Lives in Public Health and Beyond. Universitetet i Bergen. ISSN 9788230866917. Full text in Research Archive
  • Urnes, Nina Julia; Sørheim, Preben; Muller, Karl Erik & Solberg, Carl Tollef (2019). Mitigating antimicrobial resistance: Evaluating high-income countries’ responsibilities through the liability model and the social connection model. Universitetet i Bergen. Full text in Research Archive
  • Sørheim, Preben; Gamlund, Espen & Solberg, Carl Tollef (2015). Antiepikuristiske essays. Ein kritisk undersøking av epikurisme om død, velferd og tid. Universitetet i Bergen. Full text in Research Archive

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