Søren Holm

Professor II - Centre for Medical Ethics
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Visiting address Kirkeveien 166 Stjerneblokka Ullevål 0450 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1130 Blindern 0318 Oslo

Academic interests

  • Bioethics
  • Philosophy of medicine
  • Research ethics
  • Research integrity
  • Empirical studies in research ethics and research integrity

Background

Medical doctor and philosopher

Professor of Medical Ethics II at Centre for Medical Ethics since 1999

Professor of Bioethics, Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, University of Manchester

 

1990 MA Health Care Ethics and Law (Manchester)

1991 Cand.med. (Copenhagen)

1992 Diploma in Health Economics (Danish Hospital Institute)

1996 PhD (Copenhagen)

1996 BA Philosophy and Religious Studies (Copenhagen)

2000 Dr.med. (Copenhagen)

Courses taught

INTHE 4008 Research Ethics - introductory module in research ethics

INTHE 4120 Ethical issues in international health research - advanced module in research ethics

 

Appointments

Editor in Chief – Journal of Medical Ethics – 2004-2011

Editor in Chief – Clinical Ethics – 2011 -

Partners

Professor Thomas Ploug – Aalborg University, Denmark – Research in relation to consent for the use of health data for research, and the ethics of artificial intelligence in health care

 

 

 

 

Tags: Forskningsetikk, bioetikk, Medisinsk etikk

Publications

  • Holm, Søren (2024). Public Reason Requirements in Bioethical Discourse. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. ISSN 0963-1801. doi: 10.1017/S0963180124000094.
  • Holm, Søren & Ploug, Thomas (2023). Population preferences for AI system features across eight different decision-making contexts. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 18(12). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295277. Full text in Research Archive
  • Holm, Søren (2023). Bioethics Without Theory? Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. ISSN 0963-1801. doi: 10.1017/S0963180123000348. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lewis, Jonathan & Holm, Søren (2023). Towards a concept of embodied autonomy: In what ways can a patient’s body contribute to the autonomy of medical decisions? Medicine, Health care and Philosophy. ISSN 1386-7423. doi: 10.1007/s11019-023-10159-7. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dal-Ré, Rafael; Voo, Teck Chuan & Holm, Søren (2023). Adaptive, platform trials assessing therapies for hospitalized COVID-19 patients: Informed consent forms omitted a few important elements of information. Journal of Global Health. ISSN 2047-2978. 13. doi: 10.7189/jogh.13.06019. Full text in Research Archive
  • Neumann, Victoria; Davidge, Gail; Harding, Mike; Cunningham, James; Davies, Nigel & Devaney, Sarah [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2023). Examining public views on decentralised health data sharing. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 18(3). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282257. Full text in Research Archive
  • McNamee, Mike; Anderson, Lynley C.; Borry, Pascal; Camporesi, Silvia; Derman, Wayne & Holm, Søren [Show all 16 contributors for this article] (2023). Sport-related concussion research agenda beyond medical science: Culture, ethics, science, policy. Journal of Medical Ethics. ISSN 0306-6800. doi: 10.1136/jme-2022-108812. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hofmann, Bjørn Morten; Thoresen, Magne & Holm, Søren (2023). Research Integrity Attitudes and Behaviors are Difficult to alter: Results from a ten Year Follow-up Study in Norway. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. ISSN 1556-2646. 18(1/2), p. 50–57. doi: 10.1177/15562646221150032. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hofmann, Bjørn Morten; Zinöcker, Severin; Holm, Søren; Lewis, Jonathan & Kavouras, Panagiotis (2022). Organoids in the Clinic: A Systematic Review of Outcomes. Cells Tissues Organs. ISSN 1422-6405. 212(6), p. 499–511. doi: 10.1159/000527237. Full text in Research Archive
  • Holm, Søren (2022). Personhood across the Lifespan. In Wareham, Christopher (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Ethics of Ageing. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781108495134.
  • Holm, Søren; Lewis, Jonathan & Dal-Ré, Rafael (2022). Equipoise, standard of care and consent: responding to the authorisation of new COVID-19 treatments in randomised controlled trials. Journal of Medical Ethics. ISSN 0306-6800. 49(7), p. 465–470. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2022-108182.
  • Lewis, Jonathan & Holm, Søren (2022). Patient Autonomy, Clinical Decision Making, and the Phenomenological Reduction. Medicine, Health care and Philosophy. ISSN 1386-7423. doi: 10.1007/s11019-022-10102-2.
  • Holm, Søren & Warrington, Daniel (2022). Frailty as a Priority-Setting Criterion for Potentially Lifesaving Treatment-Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Circularity, and Indirect Discrimination? Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. ISSN 0963-1801. 32(1), p. 48–55. doi: 10.1017/S0963180122000494.
  • Holm, Søren (2022). The Stability of Political Compromise-Abortion Legislation in Denmark and Norway. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. ISSN 0963-1801. 32(3), p. 337–343. doi: 10.1017/S0963180122000676.
  • Helgesson, Gert; Holm, Søren; Bredahl, Lone; Hofmann, Bjørn Morten & Juth, Niklas (2022). Misuse of co-authorship in Medical PhD Theses in Scandinavia: A Questionnaire Survey. Journal of Academic Ethics. ISSN 1570-1727. doi: 10.1007/s10805-022-09465-1. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ploug, Thomas & Holm, Søren (2022). The right to a second opinion on Artificial Intelligence diagnosis—Remedying the inadequacy of a risk-based regulation. Bioethics. ISSN 0269-9702. doi: 10.1111/bioe.13124.
  • Lewis, Jonathan & Holm, Søren (2022). Organoid biobanking, autonomy and the limits of consent. Bioethics. ISSN 0269-9702. 36(7), p. 742–756. doi: 10.1111/bioe.13047.
  • März, Julian W; Molnar, Anett; Holm, Søren & Schlander, Michael (2022). The Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation: Don't Forget the Trade-Offs! Public Health Ethics. ISSN 1754-9973. 15(1), p. 41–50. doi: 10.1093/phe/phac001.
  • Holm, Søren (2022). What is the Foundation of Medical Ethics - Common Morality, Professional Norms, or Moral Philosophy? Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. ISSN 0963-1801. 31(2), p. 192–198. doi: 10.1017/S0963180121000591.
  • Lekstutiene, Jurate; Holm, Søren & Gefenas, Eugenijus (2021). Biobanks and Individual Health Related Findings: from an Obstacle to an Incentive. Science and Engineering Ethics. ISSN 1353-3452. 27(4). doi: 10.1007/s11948-021-00330-9.
  • Holm, Søren (2021). Allocating Organs - Fairness, Transparency, and Responsibility . In Hansen, Solveig Lena & Schicktanz, Silke (Ed.), Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation Current Debates and International Perspectives. Transcript Verlag. ISSN 978-3-8376-4643-6. p. 169–186.
  • Ploug, Thomas & Holm, Søren (2021). Right to Contest AI Diagnostics-Defining Transparency and Explainability Requirements from a Patient's Perspective. In Niklas, Lidströmer & Hutan, Ashrafian (Ed.), Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Springer Nature. ISSN 978-3-030-58080-3. doi: https:/doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58080-3_267-1.
  • Matthews, KRW; Iltis, AS; Holm, Søren; Marquez, Nuria Gallego; Wagner, Daniel & Robert, Jason Scott [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2021). Rethinking Human Embryo Research Policies. The Hastings center report. ISSN 0093-0334. 51(1), p. 47–51. doi: 10.1002/hast.1215. Full text in Research Archive
  • Julian, März; Holm, Søren & Michael, Schlander (2021). Resource allocation in the Covid-19 health crisis: are Covid-19 preventive measures consistent with the Rule of Rescue? Medicine, Health care and Philosophy. ISSN 1386-7423. 24(4), p. 487–492. doi: 10.1007/s11019-021-10045-0. Full text in Research Archive
  • Holm, Søren; Kristiansen, Thomas Birk & Ploug, Thomas (2021). Control, trust and the sharing of health information: The limits of trust. Journal of Medical Ethics. ISSN 0306-6800. 47(12). doi: 10.1136/medethics-2019-105887. Full text in Research Archive
  • Xafis, Vicki; Schaefer, G. Owen; Labude, Markus K.; Zhu, Yujia; Holm, Søren & Foo, Roger Sik-Yin [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2021). Germline genome modification through novel political, ethical, and social lenses. PLoS Genetics. ISSN 1553-7390. 17(9). doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009741. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ljubenković, Ana Marija; Borovečki, Ana; Ćurković, Marko; Hofmann, Bjørn & Holm, Søren (2021). Survey on the Research Misconduct and Questionable Research Practices of Medical Students, PhD Students, and Supervisors at the Zagreb School of Medicine in Croatia. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. ISSN 1556-2646. doi: 10.1177/15562646211033727.
  • Ploug, Thomas; Holm, Søren & Brodersen, John (2020). Letter to the editor. Medicine, Health care and Philosophy. ISSN 1386-7423. 23(3), p. 541–542. doi: 10.1007/s11019-020-09955-2.
  • Ploug, Thomas & Holm, Søren (2020). The four dimensions of contestable AI diagnostics- A patient-centric approach to explainable AI. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. ISSN 0933-3657. 107. doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2020.101901.
  • Holm, Søren (2020). The Ethics of Sedation at the End of Life. In emmerich, nathan & Gordijn, Bert (Ed.), Contemporary European Perspectives on the Ethics of End of Life Care. Springer Nature. ISSN 978-3-030-40032-3. p. 245–258. doi: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40033-0_17.
  • Holm, Søren & Ploug, Thomas (2020). Solidarity and Antimicrobial Resistance. In Jamrozik, Euzebiusz & Selgelid, Michael J. (Ed.), Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health. Springer. ISSN 978-3-030-27874-8. p. 345–356. doi: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27874-8_21.
  • Holm, Søren (2020). Er det at blive gammel tilstrækkelig årsag til dødshjælp? In Horn, Morten Andreas; Heggheim Kleiven, Daniel Joachim & Magelssen, Morten (Ed.), Dødshjelp i Norden? Etikk, klinikk og politikk . Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202616571. p. 235–237.
  • Holm, Søren (2020). Belmont in Europe: A Mostly Indirect Influence. Perspectives in biology and medicine. ISSN 0031-5982. 63(2), p. 262–276. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2020.0018. Full text in Research Archive
  • Giordano, Simona & Holm, Søren (2020). Is puberty delaying treatment ‘experimental treatment’? International Journal of Transgenderism. ISSN 2689-5269. 21, p. 113–121. doi: 10.1080/26895269.2020.1747768.
  • Holm, Søren (2020). Controlled human infection with SARS-CoV-2 to study COVID-19 vaccines and treatments: bioethics in Utopia. Journal of Medical Ethics. ISSN 0306-6800. 46, p. 569–573. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2020-106476. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ingwersen, Peter; Holm, Søren; Larsen, Birger & Ploug, Thomas (2020). Do journals and corporate sponsors back certain views in topics where disagreement prevails? Scientometrics. ISSN 0138-9130. p. 1–27. doi: 10.1007/s11192-020-03743-8. Full text in Research Archive
  • Solbakk, Jan Helge; Bentzen, Heidi Beate; Holm, Søren; Heggestad, Anne Kari Tolo; Hofmann, Bjørn Morten & Robertsen, Annette [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2020). Back to WHAT? The role of research ethics in pandemic times. Medicine, Health care and Philosophy. ISSN 1386-7423. p. 1–16. doi: 10.1007/s11019-020-09984-x. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hofmann, Bjørn; Bredahl Jensen, Lone; Eriksen, Mette Brandt; Helgesson, Gert; Juth, Niklas & Holm, Søren (2020). Research Integrity Among PhD Students at the Faculty of Medicine: A Comparison of Three Scandinavian Universities. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. ISSN 1556-2646. 15(4), p. 320–329. doi: 10.1177/1556264620929230. Full text in Research Archive
  • Holm, Søren (2020). A general approach to compensation for losses incurred due to public health interventions in the infectious disease context. Monash Bioethics Review. ISSN 1321-2753. doi: 10.1007/s40592-020-00104-2. Full text in Research Archive
  • Holm, Søren (2019). Let Us Assume That Gene Editing is Safe-The Role of Safety Arguments in the Gene Editing Debate. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. ISSN 0963-1801. doi: 10.1017/s0963180118000439.
  • Hofmann, Bjørn Morten & Holm, Søren (2019). Research integrity: environment, experience, or ethos? Research Ethics. ISSN 1747-0161. 15(3-4), p. 1–13. doi: 10.1177/1747016119880844. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ploug, Thomas & Holm, Søren (2019). The right to refuse diagnostics and treatment planning by artificial intelligence. Medicine, Health care and Philosophy. ISSN 1386-7423. p. 1–8. doi: 10.1007/s11019-019-09912-8. Full text in Research Archive
  • Holm, Søren (2019). Let Us Assume That Gene Editing is Safe — The Role of Safety Arguments in the Gene Editing Debate. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. ISSN 0963-1801. 28(1), p. 100–111. doi: 10.1017/S0963180118000439. Full text in Research Archive
  • devaney, sarah & Holm, Søren (2018). The Transmutation of Deference in Medicine: An Ethico-Legal Perspective . Medical Law Review. ISSN 0967-0742. 26(2), p. 202–224. doi: 10.1093/medlaw/fwy013. Full text in Research Archive
  • Holm, Søren (2018). Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy and Identity: A Comment on an Exchange Between Inmaculada de Melo-Martin and John Harris. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. ISSN 0963-1801. 27(3), p. 487–491. doi: 10.1017/S0963180117000883. Full text in Research Archive
  • Holm, Søren (2018). The Ethics of Death Policies, The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy. Routledge. ISSN 9781315461724. doi: 10.4324/9781315461731-31. Full text in Research Archive
  • Holm, Søren & Hofmann, Bjørn (2018). Associations between attitudes towards scientific misconduct and self-reported behavior. Accountability in Research. ISSN 0898-9621. 25(5), p. 290–300. doi: 10.1080/08989621.2018.1485493. Full text in Research Archive
  • Holm, Søren (2017). Commentary: Modeling the social Dynamics of moral Enhancement while illustrating some basic divergencies in the Enhancement debate. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. ISSN 0963-1801. 26(3), p. 446–448. doi: 10.1017/s0963180116001110. Full text in Research Archive
  • Holm, Søren (2017). The Bioethicist Who Cried "Synthetic Biology": An Analysis of the Function of Bioterrorism Predictions in Bioethics. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. ISSN 0963-1801. 26(2), p. 230–238. doi: 10.1017/S0963180116000827. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ploug, Thomas & Holm, Søren (2017). Eliciting meta consent for future secondary research use of health data using a smartphone application - A proof of concept study in the Danish population. BMC Medical Ethics. ISSN 1472-6939. 18(51), p. 1–8. doi: 10.1186/s12910-017-0209-6. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ploug, Thomas & Holm, Søren (2017). Informed consent and registry-based research - The case of the Danish circumcision registry. BMC Medical Ethics. ISSN 1472-6939. 18(1). doi: 10.1186/s12910-017-0212-y. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ploug, Thomas & Holm, Søren (2017). Clinical genome sequencing and population preferences for information about `incidental' findings-From medically actionable genes (MAGs) to patient actionable genes (PAGs). PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. 12(7), p. 1–13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179935. Full text in Research Archive
  • Holm, Søren & Hofmann, Bjørn (2017). Investigating the Reliability and Factor Structure of Kalichman’s “Survey 2: Research Misconduct” Questionnaire: A Post Hoc Analysis Among Biomedical Doctoral Students in Scandinavia. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. ISSN 1556-2646. 12(4), p. 199–205. doi: 10.1177/1556264617714658. Full text in Research Archive
  • Holm, Søren (2017). Evaluating the posthuman future - Some philosophical problems. European Review. ISSN 1062-7987. 25(1), p. 131–139. doi: 10.1017/S1062798716000375.
  • Holm, Søren & Garcia Oliva, Javier (2016). Religion and Law in Twenty-First Century England: Tradition and Diversity. In bottoni, rosella; Cristofori, Rinaldo & Ferrari, Silvio (Ed.), Religious Rules, State Law, and Normative Pluralism - A Comparative Overview. Springer. ISSN 9783319283357. p. 375–393. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-28335-7_23.
  • Glover-Thomas, Nicola & Holm, Søren (2016). Compulsory vaccination: Going Beyond a civic duty? In Stanton, Catherine; devaney, sarah; farrell, Anne-marie & Mullock, Alexandra (Ed.), Pioneering Healthcare Law - Essays in Honour of Margaret Brazier. Routledge. ISSN 9781138861091. p. 31–42.
  • Hvidt, Elisabeth; Ploug, Thomas & Holm, Søren (2016). The impact of Telephone crisis services on suicidal users: A systematic review of the past 45 years. Mental Health Review Journal. ISSN 1361-9322. doi: 10.1108/MHRJ-07-2015-0019.
  • Ploug, Thomas & Holm, Søren (2016). Meta Consent - A flexible solution to the problem of secondary use of Health data. Bioethics. ISSN 0269-9702. 30(9), p. 721–732. doi: 10.1111/bioe.12286.
  • Hofmann, Bjørn & Holm, Søren (2016). Vitenskapelig uredelighet - kunnskap, handlinger og holdninger hos doktorgradskandidater. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. ISSN 0029-2001. p. 1442–1447. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.16.0149.
  • Holm, Søren (2016). Undignified Arguments: A Critique. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. ISSN 0963-1801. 25(2), p. 228–238. doi: 10.1017/S0963180115000535.
  • Hofmann, Bjørn; Helgesson, Gert; Juth, Niklas & Holm, Søren (2015). Scientific dishonesty: a survey of doctoral students at the major medical faculties in Sweden and Norway. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. ISSN 1556-2646. 10(4), p. 380–388. doi: 10.1177/1556264615599686.
  • Ploug, Thomas; Holm, Søren & Gjerris, Mickey (2015). The stigmatization dilemma in public health policy-the case of MRSA in Denmark. BMC Public Health. ISSN 1471-2458. 15(1). doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-2004-y.
  • Ploug, Thomas & Holm, Søren (2015). Routinisation of informed consent in online health care systems. International Journal of Medical Informatics. ISSN 1386-5056. 84(4), p. 229–236. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2015.01.003.
  • Ploug, Thomas & Holm, Søren (2015). Conflict of interest disclosure and the polarisation of scientific communities. Journal of Medical Ethics. ISSN 0306-6800. 41(4), p. 356–358. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2014-102114.
  • Holm, Søren (2015). The debate about physician assistance in dying: 40 years of unrivalled progress in medical ethics? Journal of Medical Ethics. ISSN 0306-6800. 41(1), p. 40–43. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2014-102288.
  • Holm, Søren & Bennett, Rebecca (2014). The proper scope of the principle of procreative beneficence revisited. Monash Bioethics Review. ISSN 1321-2753. 32(1-2), p. 22–32. doi: 10.1007/s40592-014-0003-x.
  • Schlander, Michael; Garattini, Silvio; Holm, Søren; Kolominsky-Rabas, Peter; Nord, Erik & Persson, Ulf [Show all 12 contributors for this article] (2014). Incremental cost per quality-adjusted life year gained? The need for alternative methods to evaluate medical interventions for ultra-rare disorders. Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research. ISSN 2042-6305. 3(4), p. 399–422. doi: 10.2217/cer.14.34.
  • Ploug, Thomas; Holm, Søren & Brodersen, John (2014). Scientific second-order 'nudging' or lobbying by interest groups: the battle over Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programmes. Medicine, Health care and Philosophy. ISSN 1386-7423. 17(4), p. 641–650. doi: 10.1007/s11019-014-9566-9.
  • Ploug, Thomas & Holm, Søren (2014). Take not a musket to kill a butterfly-ensuring the proportionality of measures used in disease control on the internet. Public Health Ethics. ISSN 1754-9973. 7(1), p. 64–66. doi: 10.1093/phe/pht034.
  • Holm, Søren; Sandberg, Sveinung; Kolind, Torsten & Hesse, Morten (2014). The importance of cannabis culture in young adult cannabis use. Journal of Substance Use. ISSN 1465-9891. 19(3), p. 251–256. doi: 10.3109/14659891.2013.790493.
  • Ploug, Thomas & Holm, Søren (2013). Agreeing in Ignorance: Mapping the Routinisation of Consent in ICT-Services. Science and Engineering Ethics. ISSN 1353-3452. 20(4), p. 1097–1110. doi: 10.1007/s11948-013-9492-x.
  • Hofmann, Bjørn; Myhr, Anne Ingeborg & Holm, Søren (2013). Scientific dishonesty - a nationwide survey of doctoral students in Norway. BMC Medical Ethics. ISSN 1472-6939. 14:3. doi: 10.1186/1472-6939-14-3. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ploug, Thomas & Holm, Søren (2012). Pharmaceutical information systems and possible implementations of informed consent - developing an heuristic. BMC Medical Ethics. ISSN 1472-6939. 13(30). doi: 10.1186/1472-6939-13-30.

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